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Wrestling with Freedom

I can still remember the gnawing anxiety, like mice scratching away in the walls of my mind. It was around Christmas, 2021, and our provincial government had announced mandatory vaccine passports for all church attendants. I was a lay leader in my local church, and like most churches ours was filled with people with strongly held views all along the spectrum. Churches, like the broader social fabric, seemed to be stretched to the very breaking point. Indeed, I had every reason to expect this latest government mandate, after a year and a half of government restrictions, might be the last...

Phil Cotnoir

Review: Digital Liturgies

Scott Hurst

About a year ago I realized that much of my thinking about technology would not be categorized as wisdom. Many people in my church work in technology and I didn’t have much to offer them by way of pastoral wisdom. I started looking for good writers and thinkers to help me, and someone recommended Samuel James. I subscribed to his newsletter and he quickly became one of my favourite writers on technology and the Christian faith. When his new book Digital Liturgies: Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age came out, I jumped at the chance to read it. Spoiler Alert: This...

Review: The Air We Breathe

Phil Cotnoir

Christians making their way in the world today are confronted by a dizzying multitude of messages, each with their own baked-in moral assumptions. All humans have equal value. We should care for the poor and marginalized. Sexual activity should always be consensual. People should be kind. Beliefs and policies should be based on evidence-based science. Oppression is wrong; freedom is good. We should work to advance moral progress. If we had to list the values behind these messages, we might come up with something like this: equality, compassion, consent, kindness, science, freedom, and progress. Others could be added, of course, but it’s a...

Review: Providence by John Piper

Jared Harfield

“What’s at risk?” I asked the midwife, as my wife was being rushed down the hall for emergency C-Section. She was in labour and her uterus had begun to rupture. She was silent at first, but then said weakly, “Mom and baby’s life.” There I was, sitting outside the operating room, wondering if my wife and child would survive—and I wept. A tidal wave of fear and sadness came crashing over me. The medical team acted quickly and skillfully. After just a few minutes, I was given the good news that they had caught it just in time. The obstetrician...

Generations by Jean M. Twenge—Review and Reflections

Paul Carter

As the father of 5 children born between the years of 1997 and 2011 I eagerly devoured Jean Twenge’s earlier book called iGen: Why Today’s Super Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Religious, More Tolerant, Less Happy – And Completely Unprepared For Adulthood – And What That Means For The Rest Of Us. I couldn’t put it down and I read large sections of it to my wife and kids during Family Devotions. It helped us understand why our son was not as eager to get his driver’s licence as we had been. It helped us understand why most if...

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