Articles filed under Canada Today

1. Columns // Canada Today13

   

   The gospel suffers when Christians “play to type”

   By Tim Perry and ChristianWeek on Apr 3, 2014

   The March 24 decision of the American arm of World Vision to broaden its definition of marriage for its hiring policy and its abrupt reversal just two days later continues to reverberate beyond the borders of the United States. What…Read More→

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   Stand strong in the public square

   By Tim Perry and ChristianWeek on Mar 14, 2014

   Recently the Parti Québécois allegedly drew on a widespread fear of Muslims in Quebec to garner support for stringent (one is tempted to use the word ridiculous) measures directed against people of all faiths that would see, among other things,…Read More→

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   Public witness demands a better way

   By Tim Perry and ChristianWeek on Jan 10, 2014

   As the Senate scandal continues to bubble away, the debates in Quebec over the limits of faith in public and euthanasia spill into the rest of the country, and Rob Ford continues, well, being Rob Ford, Christians (and others) enter…Read More→

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   Learning the language

   By Tim Perry on Nov 8, 2013

   How do we think scripturally about contemporary issues facing not only the Canadian Church, but all of Canada? How can Christians make positive contributions to the common good from our relatively new position on the social margins? And how does…Read More→

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   It doesn’t quite work like that

   By Tim Perry on Sep 20, 2013

   Biblicism. It’s a word that historian David Bebbington uses to sum up evangelical conviction that the Bible is a book that is neither locked in the past nor limited to the confines of private spirituality. Biblicism points to the conviction…Read More→

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   Old legislation’s legacy lingers on

   By Jonathan Malloy on Jul 5, 2013

   Why is it so hard to talk about abortion in Canada? Conservative MPs have complained that the Prime Minister’s Office doesn’t allow them to talk about abortion in the House of Commons. An evangelical magazine recently noted that 59 per…Read More→