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Supreme Court upholds prostitution law
Canada’s highest court has upheld the country’s prostitution laws once again, this time as it relates to a mandatory minimum 6 months imprisonment for obtaining sexual services from a child. In 2018, Mario Denis was found guilty of seeking sexual…
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ContestCan you build it? Yes you can!!!!
Sometimes things go better than we could have hoped, to the point of being overwhelming. Our “Can You Build It?” contest not only proved to…
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Being the ChurchWise and Innocent
My children have often called me gullible and naïve. As a matter of fact, the word “Mom” often had an exclamation mark behind it. Perhaps…
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NewsSaturday Selections – Mar. 8, 2025
5 signs you should consider seminary Is God calling you to be a minister? Here are 5 points worth considering. While this is Westminster making…
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Christian educationHelping students overcome a fear of failure
Among the most common mental attitudes hindering the pursuit of a genuine education by young people is fear of failure. When the focus of the…
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AssortedHow to write
Everyone has at least one article in them – I’m convinced that’s true. It doesn’t matter who I’m talking to, they all have a story,…
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In a NutshellTidbits – March 2025
C.S. Lewis on the danger of indulging in “outrage porn” The term “outrage porn” was coined by a New York Times writer, Tim Kreider to…
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AssortedLife in bloom: The gift of flowers
“Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like…
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NewsSaturday Selections – Mar. 1, 2025
Why we can’t focus (12 min) This fellow is worried that moving from a text-based culture to a video-based one is leaving us all stupider…
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EconomicsTariffs are terrible economics: why Canada shouldn’t hit back
Free trade – free of barriers and restrictions – has, traditionally, been pretty exclusive to the Right side of the political spectrum. But now, with…
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Culture ClashesHow can everyone be wrong about the world?
How well do you know what is going on in the world? Let’s put it to a test. Without consulting the internet or someone else,…
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NewsSaturday Selections – Feb. 22, 2025
My pretty pink tractor Tim Hawkins on a problem that I’m sure has happened to many a farmer. Mark Carney – the man who would…
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People we should knowChang Shen: grace to persevere
Like as the armèd knight Appointed to the field With Thy Word will I fight And faith shall be my shield. Anne Askew (1521-1546) *****…
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Being the ChurchAged saints can tell you what your peers don’t know or won’t say
In late 1785, the 26-year-old British Member of Parliament William Wilberforce secretly met with 61-year-old John Newton. Wilberforce had very recently encountered the grace of…
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Recent ArticlesA serious problem
As a mental health therapist, I once attended a workshop on developing and maintaining healthy attachments between parents and their children. The presenter’s information was…
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DatingA creative approach to boundaries in dating
Several weeks ago, my fiancé and I sat down at a local restaurant with my aunt and uncle, where we enjoyed a good meal and…
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Adult non-fictionNecessary Endings
Why did my dad’s tomatoes and cucumbers always flourish? I used to think it may have something to do with the tobacco smoke from his…
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NewsSaturday Selections – Feb. 15, 2025
Charles Darwin’s birthday was Feb. 12, so for this edition we are marking that event by featuring a collection of very different rebuttals. Click on…
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AssortedThe peculiar blessings of Covid
In the early spring of 2020, Christian pastors from across Alberta sat on a telephone townhall with Alberta Premier Jason Kenney and Chief Medical Officer…
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ParentingHave a child – change the world
In his best-selling book Atomic Habits, James Clear makes the case for committing to tiny changes in your life, for drastic change. “Here’s how the…
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AssortedMore time to pray
Little did Christina Veenstra know, more than six decades ago, that meeting her future husband, Martin Veenstra, at Reformed Bible Institute would help her preparations…
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NewsSaturday Selections – Feb. 8, 2025
Monarch butterflies are freaky cool (7 min) We know that caterpillars become butterflies – two creatures in one! – but did you know that Monarch…
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Christian educationGrowth in independent schools and homeschooling
“The public school has become a counter-church. It is a powerful institution for the purpose of squeezing out of our children the worldview of the…
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Being the ChurchChristians don’t retire
Retirement is unbiblical. Before you think that I’m accusing everyone over the age of 65 of unbiblical behavior, let me lay out the case for…
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PornographyA church response is needed to stop the porn crisis
Over the past several years, I have spoken in dozens of Christian communities to thousands of students and parents on the issue of digital porn…
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In a NutshellTidbits – February 2025
Are there little green men? While there seems no biblical reason to preclude finding simpler life on other planets – plants and even animals –…
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NewsSaturday Selections – Feb. 1, 2025
How people would run if they were dogs (2 min) Should he do one on cats? Does it matter where women work? Some Christians might…
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Pro-life – EuthanasiaEuthanasia changed the abortion battle
In 2016 euthanasia was legalized. That was also the summer I did my first pro-life internship with the Canadian Centre for Bioethical Reform (endthekilling.ca). After…
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EvangelismIt’s necessary: use words!
I hadn’t expected to meet a witch on the bus, what with their alternative form of transportation. Yet there she was, not a wart to…
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AssortedOn the Truth, and the cost of lies
“Remember: one lie does not cost you one truth but the Truth” – Hebbel **** It seems that truth is bendable – it has become elastic during…
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AssortedWhy write?
It’s been said that all that is needed to become a writer is the strong desire to say something. Writing is simply taking your thoughts…
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Economics – Home Finances“Honey I blew the budget!”
A FEW THOUGHTS ON GETTING BACK IN THE BLACK AFTER TAKING A PLUNGE IN THE RED “Honey I blew the budget!” Do those words sound…
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NewsSaturday Selections – Jan. 18, 2025
Click on the titles to go to the linked articles… Motorized machines in your cells? Yes there are! Kinesin are “motorized transport machines” that transport…
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ConferencesStriving to be godly men
I don’t think I can quite grasp the measure of tension that must have seized the hearts of those three young men on the morning…
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NewsSaturday Selections – Jan. 11, 2025
Music as the fingerprints of God (6 min) George Steiner here is lecturing on the wonder of music and is not trying to argue that…
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AssortedHow to be happier
As I pad down the hallway to my home office, sometimes I’ll look down and remember that the laminate planking I’m walking on was laid…
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In a NutshellTidbits – January 2025
Flying Duck Orchid God’s inventiveness is sometimes so shockingly inventive, it might make you laugh out loud. This is a real flower called the “Flying…