John Calvin does not always receive the best press outside of Reformed circles. He is often portrayed as an archconservative and an ideological father of capitalism. Most recently, the topic of...

My friend Stephanie works with the Joy Smith Foundation (JSF), the organization I wrote about in my last article, “ Human Trafficking and the Freedom Challenge”. JSF is a great organization doing...

Welcome to our Advocacy Works series! Want to see other posts? Sign up here to receive them in your inbox or see previous posts in the series. When New Hope was forming as a church plant, we spent our...

Egypt is a country of contrasts and inconsistencies; the uneven application of justice in relation to the Christian minority is one example. Of course, in the Western news media, we hear of the...

Most Thursdays, I spend my afternoons at a local halfway house and healing centre, created to prepare Indigenous men for the transition from federal prison to the street. I walk through two sets of...

I believe that God has a plan for everyone, but sometimes that fact alone doesn’t feel very comforting. I came across the Youth Ambassador of Reconciliation Program when I was struggling with God and...

Welcome to our Advocacy Works series! Want to see other posts? Sign up here to receive them in your inbox. From April 21-24, Hamza was part of a group of people from three different Christian Reformed...

Welcome to our Advocacy Works series! Want to see other posts? Sign up here to receive them in your inbox. Have you ever thought of advocacy as an act of worship or a step of discipleship? I hadn't...

God is not impressed. Why, you ask? Allow me paint an evocative picture. Sing song, sing-a-long. Hands raised to high heaven, Like the branches of red oaks Only inches shy of touching the big blue sky...

In the parable of the Good Samaritan in the Gospel of Luke, a lawyer put Jesus to the test by asking a bold question - “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” The lawyer already knew the...