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Interview with an artist
Stephanie Sikma is printing Hamilton
I’ve always thought printmaking was a fascinating form of art – first carving your design into wood or lino, and then pressing that inked design onto paper. It involves thinking about an image in a unique way. So when I…
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Christian educationLearning like an adult
Students sometimes talk of graduation as being set free. We might be able to empathize, even as this prison-break analogy isn’t that complimentary to the…
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EducationReal Talk: Church, Home, and School
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AssortedThe antidote to desecration
A while back the polling company Ipsos Reid asked Canadians if our country was “broken.” 70% said it was, with younger Canadians agreeing the most…
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EconomicsNobody knows how to make a pencil
What is a pencil worth? It’s a simple question, about a simple product, and it highlights just how complicated our economy is, and how very…
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MagazineSeptember/October 2026 issue
This edition is all about celebrating 25 (more or less) issues of Come & Explore! Inside you’ll find 10 pages worth of activities and puzzles…
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AssortedEffective giving
By worldly and historical standards, Canadians are incredibly wealthy, with much more than we need for our daily living. And Canadian Christians are generous givers…
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AssortedWhich bits of the Bible would you walk around with?
The end of the movie Fahrenheit 451 closes with a curious scene. Due to a governmental decision to eliminate all books, the only way any…
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ParentingMatrescence: the process of becoming a mother
I was deeply ashamed. “I just want to go back to before,” I said to my husband, burying my face in his shoulder. I’d been…
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Saturday Selections – Sept 5, 2026
Lost and Found with Running Home Another toe-tapper, this one based on Psalm 51. A quick guide for social media in marriage The opening story here is, hopefully, a little exaggerated, but otherwise relatable to many a spouse…. Norwegians could…
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NewsSaturday Selections – Aug 29, 2026
More unintended consequences We need government because we needs laws, and the administrators of it. But law is a blunt instrument, inflexible, applying to all,…
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NewsSaturday Selections – Aug 22, 2026
Why can Modern Art be so ugly? If you tell me that Johannes Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring is your favorite painting, and I…
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News17 Alberta babies survived an abortion and were left to die
Richard Dur, the Executive Director of Prolife Alberta, writing in The Western Standard, shared this grim statistic: “Seventeen babies were born alive in Alberta following…
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NewsSaturday Selections – Aug 15, 2026
You need to be bored (6 minutes) A psychologist did experiments where people had to sit in a room for 15 minutes with nothing to…
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NewsSaturday Selections – Aug 8, 2026
Lost and Found with Running Home Another toe-tapper, this one based on Psalm 51. In praise of godly mother-in-laws “My mother-in-law is one of my…
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NewsSophie Cunningham is tearing down transgender lies, but only God’s people can offer up His Truth
Indiana Fever’s Sophie Cunningham is a WNBA player – she plays basketball for a living – but it isn’t her skill on the court that’s…
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NewsSaturday Selections – Aug 1, 2026
Here I am Three gents, singing up storm, with lyrics based on Genesis 22:10-13 – this is a foot-stomping hand-clapping delight! The delightful duty of…
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NewsLiberal party support highest among boomers
More than any other age group, boomers overwhelmingly support the Liberal Party. A July 2026 poll conducted by Abacus Data asked 4,200 Canadian adults which…
Movie Reviews
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Drama→Stand by for action
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Animated→Toy Story 5
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Drama→Citizen Kane
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Drama→I Can Only Imagine 2
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Drama→A Great Awakening
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Animated→The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
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Drama→Harlem Globetrotters
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Drama→Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
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Drama→Anastasia
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Documentary→The Homeschool Awakening
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Animated→Up
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Animated→Wall-E
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Drama→Sands of Iwo Jima
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Documentary→Truth Rising
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Family→Ivanhoe
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Animated→Christmas Carol: the movie
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Drama→Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
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Book ReviewsOn the edge of the dark sea of darkness: the graphic novel
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Book ReviewsThe Boxcar Children Graphic Novel
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Book ReviewsRun and Hide: How Jewish youth escaped the Holocaust
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Adult biographiesThe Cost of My Faith
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Adult non-fictionThe Amazing Generation: Your guide to fun and freedom in a screen-filled world
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Book ReviewsThe Plot Chickens
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Book ReviewsThe Little Ships: the Heroic Rescue at Dunkirk in World War II
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Book ReviewsA triune tale of diminutive swine
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The Boxcar Children Graphic Novel
by Gertrude Chandler Warner adapted by Meika Hashimoto 2026 / 176 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Give The Boxcar Children first appeared back in 1924, about Henry, Jessie, Violet,…
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Assorted
Effective giving
By worldly and historical standards, Canadians are incredibly wealthy, with much more than we need for our daily living. And Canadian Christians are generous givers…
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Assorted
Which bits of the Bible would you walk around with?
The end of the movie Fahrenheit 451 closes with a curious scene. Due to a governmental decision to eliminate all books, the only way any…
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Parenting
Matrescence: the process of becoming a mother
I was deeply ashamed. “I just want to go back to before,” I said to my husband, burying my face in his shoulder. I’d been…
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News
Saturday Selections – Aug 29, 2026
More unintended consequences We need government because we needs laws, and the administrators of it. But law is a blunt instrument, inflexible, applying to all,…
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People we should knowJonathan Edwards: The pastor who packed them in the pews while preaching the wrath of God
Much like today, during the early colonial years in America, preachers rarely spoke about the wrath of God – this did not seem the type…
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Recent ArticlesReal Talk: Living as exiles
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Being the ChurchBeloved care
Even today, the Dutch immigrant work ethic and zeal for kingdom-building remains alive in southern Alberta, three generations after a wave of immigrants first settled…