Category: Columns

July 8, 2016

Good News to Proclaim!

by Arron Gust Recently the government of Canada passed bill C-384, a bill which allows Canadians the legal right to kill themselves. Interestingly, people on both sides of the issue remain upset. Those in support of physician-assisted suicide are upset because they feel the bill…

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July 5, 2016

The Conjuring 2: A scary religion roller coaster

by Ted Giese Horror films are not for everyone and neither are roller coasters. A “good” horror film is like a good roller coaster—it has twists and turns and loops in just the right spots. With The Conjuring 2, Director James Wan has constructed a…

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June 28, 2016

When I Doubt

by Mathew Block The thought arises unbidden and unwelcome. Maybe it comes on quickly. Maybe it comes on slowly—so slowly, in fact, that you never even suspect it’s coming, until one day you wake up and there it is in the back of your mind….

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June 22, 2016

Confessing the mystery of God

by Paul Zabel Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am” (John 8:58). Almost everybody likes a good mystery, but few of us are comfortable with an unsolved mystery. We get itchy! We want to figure it out…

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June 20, 2016

Ashamed of the Gospel

by Mathew Block It’s easy to become discouraged these days as Christians living in Canada. The legalization of euthanasia, attempts to ban graduates of a certain Christian university from entering the legal profession, and ever increasing hostility to public expressions of faith are all evidence…

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June 17, 2016

X-Men: Apocalypse—A Messy Tangle of Apocalypse and Fatherhood

by Ted Giese During the end credits of X-Men: Days of Future Past, Bryan Singer set the stage for X-Men: Apocalypse. Filmgoers who sat through the last frames of the film were introduced to the character of Apocalypse—a mutant standing on a sand dune in…

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