- 03/07/2013
What Pluralism Really Is
When we dismiss pluralism as nothing more than moral relativism, we make a huge mistake. Failing to understand what it is – a forum for debate, influence and decision making – we forgo its ability to influence and lose opportunities for witness.
54 comments - 02/28/2013
Oscar Winning 'Argo': Americans Making the Best Out of Rewriting the Facts
Along comes Hollywood and casts its film-making aura shadowing the facts, insuring the CIA gets the credit. So instead of Ken Taylor and his staff being in the script as those who protected the hostages, the CIA ends up as hero – although Ben Affleck, director and main character, did acknowledge the Canadian role in his Oscar acceptance speech
18 comments - 02/12/2013
Egypt's 'Christian Winter'
Sectarian domination was not what Egyptian protesters and self-described revolutionaries had in mind when they drove President Hosni Mubarak from office during Egypt's Arab Spring in 2011. But to underestimate religious sectarianism in the Middle East is to misunderstand one of its core realities.
6 comments - 02/06/2013
Mideast Conundrum: Jewish Settlements and Jesus' Kingdom
The establishing of the State of Israel, I have and do support. Finding a place for Jews in the 20th Century was the right thing to do. As well, God's covenant with the Jews stands and their place in the eschaton (the days of Christ's return) is assured. There is no equivocation in my mind of their critical place in the economy and agenda of the Lord. However there are conflicting messages I find impossible to ignore.
42 comments - 02/05/2013
Interview: Egyptian Pastor on the Revolution, Coptic-Evangelical Unity, Muslim Relations
To radical Islamists, the church's pastor Dr. Sameh Maurice spoke wise words, and to the bereaved, he spoke words of comfort. Maurice, an evangelical pastor in Cairo, sat down with Brian Stiller, the global ambassador of the World Evangelical Alliance and a senior editorial advisor to The Christian Post, in late January in a conference center outside of Cairo, for a conversation about his church's active role in the recent revolution in Egypt, the improved relationship between the Coptic Church and evangelicals since the revolution, and the respect Muslims now have for the Church.
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01/23/2013Canada's Aboriginal, First Nations and Idle No More Mov't
Our attitudes as Canadians accumulate, fester and harden. I understand that too well in observing the aboriginal and First Nations' Idle No More movement. Fed up with a double standard of aboriginal leaders who want more funds yet seem incompetent and irresponsible in their own management, many simply shut down listening.
2 comments - 01/12/2013
Louie Giglio and How the White House Spells Diversity
The Rev. Louie Giglio was pressured to withdraw because his views on a particular sexual practice were not in line; he was seen not to be "fair-minded," a not surprising comment when pluralism is set aside as the functioning model of public life.
61 comments - 12/24/2012
Christmas Eve – The Misnomer of an Overcrowded Inn
Retold by Christmas pageants, reminded by carols and pictures replenish what we think happened at Jesus' birth. I know it so well I hardly need a sermon, picture, movie or song to remind me of a pregnant Mary riding a donkey, about to deliver; a village with inns filled to capacity; a kindly innkeeper finding a stable for rest; shepherds arriving at a barn to welcome the Christ-child. The overall narrative has it right, but the core assumption is so wrong as to miss an essential part of the story.
7 comments - 12/23/2012
Why Evil?
A framework for discussion (called theodicy – why God allows evil and suffering) matters for those in Newtown and us on the sidelines, as we grieve and wonder. Why doesn't God who is loving and all powerful eliminate evil?
21 comments - 12/20/2012
What Newtown and Bethlehem Have in Common
While the excruciating ache of parents and family in the Connecticut town is beyond words, most come to a breathless, gut-wrenching moment somewhere along the way. What does the Christmas story have to say to us then? Its very beginning was shaped by the massacre of little children.
4 comments - 03/02/2012
Why Islamic Rage Over Burning the Quran?
Months ago, we watched in amazement as Islamic believers killed Christians after "Pastor" Jones in Florida had his own burning of the Qur'an. More recently, explosive-filled trucks, suicide bombers, gun-firing civilians and Afghani soldiers have led murderous charges based on reports that soldiers burned Qur'ans. We are incredulous. Why this intense rage?
- 02/06/2012
Evangelicals and the US Election: A View From the Outside
How is it that Evangelicals figure so prominently in the current Republican race for its presidential candidate? That question both intrigues and troubles Evangelicals outside the United States. In their drive to secure votes, have Republican politicians turned Evangelicals into just another political subgroup, alongside seniors or gun owners?
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