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  • Guests on this Land - Part 1

    This is a small story about what happens when we invite others to our table. In the fall of 2017, in the year of Canada 150 celebrations, the CRC's Canadian Aboriginal Ministry Committee invited...
    March 12, 2018
  • Beyond Budget Gimmicks—A Check-up on Canada’s Heart

    There’s a strange little Canadian tradition on budget day: the finance minister’s new shoes. No one seems to know where it comes from, but it’s become a gimmicky little tradition—a minister might wear...
    March 1, 2018
  • Re-focusing for Lent

    From the very beginning of God’s walk with his people, the blessings they enjoyed because of their relationship with God were meant to overflow. “All peoples on earth will be blessed through you,” God...
    February 9, 2018
  • Public Sin and Christ's Cry

    “...there is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry: ‘Mine!’” -Abraham Kuyper My journey with advocacy in the Christian...
    February 5, 2018
  • Indigenous Land Rights are Under Threat (Again)

    Though born and raised in West Michigan, my career over the past six years has taken me to remote areas throughout Southeast Asia. In Cambodia and Myanmar I have seen firsthand how government...
    January 22, 2018
  • Where Justice Dwells

    In keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, where justice dwells. —2 Peter 3:13 In the face of injustice, it can be easy for us as Christians to become so...
    December 7, 2017
  • Remembering the Priesthood of all Believers

    This is the last post in our Justice and the Reformed Confessions series. View the other posts in the series here. “Stay Connected. Discover new Perspectives. Do Justice.” It’s the month in which we...
    October 26, 2017
  • Is She My Sister?

    In September 2016, the Government of Canada launched a ‘National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls’, after decades of advocacy from Indigenous groups. Its mission is defined...
    September 18, 2017
  • Canada 150 Sermon Challenge: Becoming Good Guests

    Hospitality was a big deal in biblical Israel. Abraham hurried to offer “three seahs of the finest flour” and a “choice, tender calf” to three men passing by his tent, even before learning that his...
    August 23, 2017