By Al Hiebert, PhD and ChristianWeek on
Former TV news reporter David Haskell, now a Wilfred Laurier University journalism professor, documents in this landmark doctoral study how our national TV news reporters, writers and editors view and portray Canada’s evangelicals, and why. This first-ever quantitative and qualitative…Read More→
By Wendy Gritter and ChristianWeek on
In his first book, Love is an Orientation, Andrew Marin seeks to deconstruct many of the typical mindsets with which evangelical Christians have viewed gay and lesbian people and to then reconstruct a new framework for conversations on faith with…Read More→
By Kurt Armstrong and ChristianWeek on
“It’s hard to be a Christian in America,” says Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove. Wilson-Hartgrove is a leader of New Monasticism, a catchy moniker for a growing movement of Christian men and women who feel called to literally leave places of affluence and…Read More→
By Kurt Armstrong and ChristianWeek on
Acedia (pronounced uh-SEE-dee-uh) means the absence of care, bored restlessness, “the noonday demon.” To 4th century monks acedia was the worst of the “Eight Bad Thoughts,” but it got lumped in with “sloth” when those eight bad thoughts became the…Read More→
By David Daniels and ChristianWeek on
One snowy, Winnipeg morning, while walking to the bus, editor Byron Rempel-Burkholder found himself “mulling over the relationship between spirituality and geography.” This raised several questions: Did living in Canada affect his Christian identity? In a land of many physical…Read More→
By Warren Schatz and ChristianWeek on
This book will certainly attract criticism. Critics will shout that “church worship is not directed towards atheists” and others will ask “how can an atheist can tell us how to worship God?” Some might claim that that one person’s perspective…Read More→