Foreign Affairs, Version 2.0?
Robert Joustra
November 25, 2011
Moving Minister John Baird onto the Foreign Affairs file was a clear signal that the Conservative government was going to get more serious about foreign policy ...
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Ireland and Quebec
Brian Dijkema
November 24, 2011
George Weigel has a fascinating article "On the Square" at First Things yesterday which surveys the the situation of the Catholic church in Ireland ...
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Educating Without Families
Ray Pennings
November 23, 2011
In a world where the individual and the government are the two dominant institutions in the social architecture, the contribution of families is unmeasured and ignored ...
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What it means to remember
Peter Stockland
November 22, 2011
In fairness, the reporter did insert a paragraph or so of "balance" where he magnanimously allowed parents and organizers to insist—ha-ha-ha—that the National Bible Bee is about developing Scriptural understanding and raising a generation of good Christian ambassadors, not just a venue for pre-pubes...
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Longing and restraint
Alissa Wilkinson
November 21, 2011
It was only when I became an adult that I recognized that Christians around the world have celebrated Advent for centuries, even when Christmas was not the tinsely affair celebrated by the entire culture that it is today ...
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The Globalization of Graffiti
Robert Joustra
November 18, 2011
In today's Haiti, Egypt, and Libya graffiti is taking on a form of artfulness and substance lost in the markets of America—a message of revolution and revival, of long waiting and long suffering ...
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Money Ain't a Thing
Brian Dijkema
November 17, 2011
We'll either suffer the economic consequences that come as a result of the frugal living (which will keep demand—and growth—low) that is required to slowly emerge from the weight of debt we find ourselves crushed under, or we'll suffer the indignity of policies which will be inherently unjust to tho...
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Pressing against intellectual corruption
Peter Stockland
November 16, 2011
More, Quebec's National Assembly is just concluding an exhaustive two-year public consultation on whether the province should use its powers of the administration of justice and delivery of health care to permit euthanasia and assisted suicide, in defiance of the federal Criminal Code The story in q...
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Brother Calvin
Ray Pennings
November 15, 2011
But beyond the discomfort, for us to champion the freedom to share religious views, as Brother Calvin did with me, is not only the right thing to do, but also valuable for promoting civility and mutual understanding ...
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Not What We Expected
Alissa Wilkinson
November 14, 2011
And most religious homeschoolers of my generation would attest to how profoundly weird we felt whenever we were thrust into "that world," the world of our peers, whether in college or in a job or just when we went to church camp ...
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Feeling Gutless on Remembrance Day
Ray Pennings
November 11, 2011
Ray Pennings reflects on the difficulty of stomaching Remembrance Day and the ugliness of war, commemorating those who have gone before us.
My heart is deeply patriotic and is proud of the historic contributions that Canadian men and women have made militarily ...
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Remember and Believe
Brian Dijkema
November 10, 2011
Remembrance Day—perhaps more than any other day in our national calendar—calls out for remembrance of flesh and blood, and that remembrance is most true in its connection to a God who is flesh and blood, a God who also suffered and died ...
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Is all foreign policy missiology?
Robert Joustra
November 9, 2011
So, then, I beg the question: is all foreign policy, all extension of statehood and state interests, really a kind of missiological projection of liberal moral order? Is liberal state building—schools, roads, markets—a work of conversion? Is, in fact, the work of secular foreign policy really not so...
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The building of Christian skills
Peter Stockland
November 8, 2011
He was flabbergasted both at the realization of the skills he actually possessed—and at the realization of the power of the error of being unaware of what skill actually is ...
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Skills of the Future—Can we read the crystal ball?
Milton Friesen
November 7, 2011
Any one of the ten skills on the tech list could absorb us fully as specialties in their own right ...