More Than a Game
Online gambling is becoming a normalized and harmful temptation, and it’s time to address it.
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Online gambling is becoming a normalized and harmful temptation, and it’s time to address it.
How Worried Should We Be About Bill C-9? Is Bill C-9 intended as a shield or a sword? That’s the question a lot of Canadians are asking in light of the recent legislative partnership between the Liberal party and the Bloc Quebecois. Bill C-9 purports to combat hate crimes by amending the Criminal Code to create new offences and to remove certain exemptions and perceived hindrances to prosecution. The bill was proposed by the governing Liberals, ostensibly to protect the Jewish community in Quebec from harassment by Islamic fundamentalists. The proposed amendments include provisions that would criminalize harassing people attempting...
I was on my way to a baseball game when I heard the news that Charlie Kirk had been shot and killed while debating with students at Utah Valley University. I was aware of Charlie mostly as a political commentator who was popular with many young conservatives, who had openly identified as a Christian. I knew him mostly as the “prove me wrong” guy who went viral for setting up a booth on college campuses and offering to debate all comers. As I looked further into the story of his murder I was horrified to discover that he was 31...
Central Baptist Seminary (CBS) in Toronto, where I began my academic career as a church historian, experienced a deep financial crisis between 1989 and 1991. A three-man management team was put in place to lead the school instead of a president. One of the three men serving on this management team was Roy Lawson, in every way a larger-than-life figure in the Fellowship of Evangelical Baptist Churches in Canada. And to be honest, he frightened me! But not my academic colleague, Stanley K. Fowler. In fact, once when Roy was complaining about hyper-Calvinists within our Fellowship (Calvinism was a controversial...
I grew up around John MacArthur. My brother and brother-in-law attended schools associated with him. We read his books, listened to his sermons, and used his Study Bible. Eventually, I even served on staff as a pastoral intern at Grace Community Church. With the death of Pastor MacArthur, I find myself reflecting on his life and influence—especially his influence on my own life. Reading John MacArthur As a teenager, I remember being unable to sleep one hot night. I moved to a cooler room, but still couldn’t rest. Then I had a curious thought: doesn’t the Bible have something about...
