Magazine, Past Issue
Mar/Apr 2026 issue
WHAT'S INSIDE:
- We’re excited to share the winners of this year’s brick building contest. Once again, we received hundreds of entries, and once again we hope that what’s featured here in the magazine will motivate you to go online to watch the contestants’ videos, which are a must-see! Check them out at ReformedPerspective.ca/bricks2026.
- Reformed Perspective’s Bucket List Book Club (the RPBLBC for short!) had its first two Zoom call meetings of the year (with 100+ participants) and it is never too late
to join in. Go to ReformedPerspective.ca/BLBC to find out how to join our next Zoom call, and get more information on other books we’ll be reading this year. - We have two feature articles this issue – the cover article on putting sports in its proper place, and "Blessed are the caregivers" on a role most of us will take on at some point in our lives, but, as with the Hoogerdyks, it may come when we aren't expecting.
We have three options for you to read the magazine. First up is the flipbook edition, with its turning pages. Below that, you can click the cover to view the pdf in your browser, or click here to download the PDF (14 mb)
INDEX: A business tithe on sales / Blessed are the caregivers / Can you build it better? Yes, you can! / Retirement: What are you retiring from? What are you retiring to? / The case against the draft / The beauty of 52 Sundays, or why we gave two years to bringing the Heidelberg Catechism to video / Carried / When sports is an idol / Life skills every high school graduate needs to know / Come and Explore: made in God's Image / In a nutshell / Proverbs: a different sort of devotional / Good, great, and gift: RP's 3 levels of best books / Why Reformed theology writes better fantasy / Great books for boys 10-13 / Business success channeled into kingdom growth / Anne deJong is taking a palette knife to the Rockies / When there is smoke... / Crossword / A theology of cleaning / How to catch Ice Age man using digital reindeer / More than the magazine / In Christ
News
Saturday Selections – Mar. 7, 2026
CNN's upcoming hit piece on Christian Nationalism
"Christian Nationalism" is defined all sorts of different ways. Some claim it's just white nationalism wearing a Christian face. Others insist it is a badly mistaken, top-down form of evangelism that wants to use the State to somehow force people to become Christian. And others identifying with the term argue it's about advocating for our nation to submit to the Lord.
These are radically different definitions... so what is it then?
There is more consistency when we listen to the way non-Christians are describing it – Christian Nationalists are those who think God is Sovereign over His people and all people, and His Word is authoritative to Christians but should be so for everyone else too. And if that's the definition then, as Allie Beth Stuckey notes in this video, we're all Christian Nationalists now.
Brace yourself for the AI Tsunami
They're replacing AI programmers with AI – it's writing its own updates! So what kind of work will remain?
“Lean into what’s hardest to replace. . . . Relationships and trust built over years. Work that requires physical presence. Roles with licensed accountability: roles where someone still has to sign off, take legal responsibility, stand in a courtroom.”
This 16-year-old doesn't think Australia's social-media ban for 15 and under will work
He has three reasons and I'll share two:
- The government blew it, banning social media accounts for kids, but that doesn't really limit their access.
- This is a parent's job, not the government's.
The second is an explanation for the first – any government action is going to be a big brute force swing at things, and when you have millions of kids looking for a way around it, they'll find a way, and already have. What's needed here is for parents to take up the very responsibility that God has entrusted to them in raising up their children.
But does that mean there is no role for the government? How can parents stand, as individual pairings, against the pull of the algorithms? Especially when their children's friends are under the influence already? As a fellow who thinks that government is most often arrogantly inserting itself where God never intended for it to go, I have to say I have sympathies here for government involvement. Parents do need help.
But as this article highlights, the Australian government tried, and largely muffed it. Might that be because it is indeed a parenting role, and the government is ill suited for it? So whence comes help? God did also give us the Church, and there is certainly room for more involvement in parenting – in the nurturing of it and accountability for it (Titus 2) – on that front.
The 12 Holocausts of 2025
Abortion, the leading cause of death in 2025, killed 10 million more than all causes of death combined. And the dehumanization of the unborn is built on 4 deadly forms of discrimination we all need to know.
We're drinking a lot less?
In Ps. 104:15, the psalmist speak to how God makes the wine that gladdens the heart. In moderation, a cold beer or a brown cow on ice can be a wonderful thing. But with the general lack of moderation in our culture, it's probably very good news that the world's top alcohol companies have lost almost a trillion dollars in stock valuation over the last 4 years.
A tree becomes a cross
This 12-minute Oscar-nominated short film took 200 volunteers six years to make. Why all that work and devotion? Because they had something to say – this was a specifically Christian effort to tell a story of undeserved love that has more than an echo of the Gospel in it.
John MacArthur picture by IslandsEnd and used under a CC BY 3.0 license.
Today's Devotional
March 10 - God’s covenant with Noah (II)
“But I will establish my covenant with you, and you shall come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you.” - Genesis 6:18
Scripture reading: Genesis 6:9-21
Covenants between God and His people regulate the relationship He has with them and often deal with a problem that causes uncertainty in the relationship. There are two problems that occasion God’s >
Today's Manna Podcast
Use God's name, but not in vain
Serving #1142 of Manna, prepared by C. Bosch, is called "Use God's name, but not in vain".
