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Youth for Christ Winnipeg emerged from an uncharacteristically bruising week under public scrutiny with a victory—civic commitments to bolster federal infrastructure funding to build a Centre for Youth Excellence in a desperately needy area of Winnipeg. A ferocious debate erupted…Read More→
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Butterflies in winter? Amazingly, yes. I recently enjoyed a couple of Sunday morning hours in the butterfly conservatory at Niagara Falls. What welcome respite from a January blast. How invigorating to pause in the effervescent presence of hundreds of beautiful…Read More→
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London, Moscow, Munich, Tokyo, Rome…and now Winnipeg (sort of). Each year the much-ballyhooed G8 Summit brings together the world’s major advanced economies,” Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States. A lesser-known fact is that…Read More→
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Lieut-Colonel Maxwell Ryan marched into my life in the early 1990s. I still remember the joke someone was telling when I first met The Salvation Army wordsmith who at the time was editor of the Sally Anne’s War Cry publication….Read More→
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Thank God the flap and furor over American televangelist Pat Robertson’s “pact with the devil” comments have faded into the background and the rebuilding of earthquake stricken Haiti is now front and centre. But the underlying question of spiritual reasons…Read More→
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TORONTO, ON—Henry Blackaby loves to preach about revival. “Re-vive means to bring life back,” he says. “It is a fresh touch of God” for believers who long “to be living today at the highest level of relationship with God.” The…Read More→
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ELMIRA, ON—A press release from the Canadian Council of Christian Charities (CCCC) is the latest salvo in a bid to encourage more donations to charities in Canada. The CCCC has endorsed a proposal that would see the federal government raise…Read More→
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On days like today I have an urge to go completely off the grid, to carve out a sustainable life in the country without being dependent on computers, or telephones, or electricity, or oil, or anything that someone else or…Read More→
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Religion refuses to fade away. Although secular observers continue to be surprised by the persistence of faith, quests for spiritual fulfillment are very much the order of the day. Even in a culture like ours so steeped in materialist values,…Read More→
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The week between Christmas and New Years is not onerous in our office. We show up on just enough days to ensure that we meet our publishing schedules. The break is healthy. Soon enough the regular, fast-paced rhythms and routines…Read More→