Magazine, Past Issue
The May/June 2026 issue is here - with your chance to vote for your favorite Your Turn entry!
Our Your Turn contest had a fantastic result, with more than a hundred entries. This issue we're featuring the six winners and 19 other contenders, and we're asking you to vote for your favorite. The winner of the "Fan Favorite award" will get $1,000, so be sure to click here to vote and let us know who it should be (deadline for voting is May 31).
You can read all the written entries by clicking on the magazine cover below, but for the audio and video entries you'll need to click here:
This month's highlights:
- Your Turn contest results: Check out the top 25 entries for the Your Turn contest.
- Vote for your favorite Your Turn contribution. Pick your favorite and let us know before May 31.
- The bestest picture books: Looking for great reads for your littles? We've got you covered, with a half dozen great recommendations!
- Your kids' favorite section: Come and Explore is all about camels this time.
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INDEX: Your Turn contest winners and finalists / When the church stops singing / Why family businesses still matter (and why the church should care) / Interview with an artist: Sheila Van Delft paints refreshment for the soul / How to plan for your next chapter as a senior / That which bubbles up to the surface / No jail for man who admits to killing his partner / Alberta introduces law to restrict euthanasia / Basil Rathbone's Sherlock Holmes / The very bestest picture books / Health-adjusted life expectancy plummets / Man most responsible for global population collapse has died / Aussie senator shows us how to do it... and how not to do it / US VP thinks UFO accounts involve demons instead / When they went after Barry Neufeld / Perfect planet: It all had to just right for life on earth to survive and thrive / Come and explore: the camel / The limits of the "two-books" metaphor / Executive director update: hold us accountable to our non-negotiables / The next time you're grumpy / Updating a "classic" / On logic / Sola Opus Dei / What is the purpose of your home / Can God make a square circle? / Diversity / On patience / O Canada / Man vs. beast / Simply and truly... / 4 of a kind / The government can't run our lives
News
Teachers lead the way in adopting, and sometimes restraining, tech
In the Spring issue of Redeemer University’s Resound magazine, they featured an article about Dr. Katie Day Good, a Christian professor who has been researching the history of how tech gets adopted, and what sort of impact it has.
“She found that teachers have often been early adopters of technologies including motion pictures, stereographs, records, illustrated magazines and radio to enliven and increase the effectiveness of their teaching…. Teachers around the world were eager to think about how these technologies could help their students think beyond their borders.”
Teachers loved the tech, because it was all about connecting their students to the world around them. But today we’re finding something quite different. As Dr. Good put it in that same article, “Hope beyond the screen”:
“What we're discovering as we grow and age with these technologies is that they can also stand in the way of meaningful connection. They can even lead us to feel estranged from our neighbours, from our environment, from God.”
AI is only going to make that estrangement worse, with reports already of people turning to these super-powered programs for companionship.
So how can we deal with the digital distraction, and the social isolation? There’s no one answer, but Good shared what a couple of groups have chosen to do.
“Something I've seen is parents banding together to create landline pods, using landline phones to encourage friendship and independence among their children without having to rely on smartphones.”
Then there is “The Luddite Club” she learned about – a group of New York students who have chosen to unplug and connect in tech-free ways.
Maybe the most interesting development is what’s happening at Redeemer itself. This past year faculty at the Christian college who are involved with its “Core Curriculum” – 10 courses that all students have to take – have “adopted a tech-wise approach, encouraging students to swap laptops and tablets for pen and paper.” They aren’t going full Amish – this is just a select number of courses, and while pen and paper are encouraged, laptops aren’t banned. But an effort is being made to encourage putting restraints on tech usage. Why? Because, as Dr. Jonathan Juilfs, Redeemer’s associate professor of English, explained, “many studies have shown that students retain more information and learn better with traditional note-taking methods.”
Today's Devotional
May 5 - Guarded by God’s power
“...who by God's power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.” - 1 Peter 1:5
Scripture reading: Psalm 20: 1-9
Peter now shifts his focus on the security of the believer in this living hope. Through faith, God's people are guarded by the power of God. The word guarded is a military term that means >
Today's Manna Podcast
Things revealed belong to us
Serving #1198 of Manna, prepared by Rev. Richard Aasman, is called "Things revealed belong to us".
