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RP is looking for a Managing Editor!
Are you looking for a meaningful and long-term career where you can devote your time to equipping Christians to think, speak, and act like Christ?
With thankfulness to God, the Reformed Perspective Foundation is looking to expand our team and mission with a significant new role:
MANAGING EDITOR (FULL TIME)
This new role will serve as the operational backbone of the editorial team. He or she will keep all of RP’s content moving seamlessly from start to finish. A key function will be to ensure content is published in a timely way and blesses as many people as possible through a variety of mediums. Depending on qualifications and experience, we also welcome assistance with creating content (e.g. journalism or video production).
The goal for the successful candidate is to work towards serving as the “integrator” for the RP team, as modeled in the Entrepreneur Operating System (EOS).
He or she will help enable RP to achieve our long-term goal of expanding our reach to the USA, Australia, and the broader Christian community in Canada.
We are looking for someone who is:
- Excited about devoting their life to advance our core purpose (helping Christians to think, speak, and act in Christ);
- Is fully committed to furthering our core values:
- Biblical: faithful to God’s Word and the Reformed confessions;
- Inspiring: a catalyst for action and a connecting to hearts
- Real: applying God’s Word to the nitty gritty of life
- Celebratory: Christ is LORD and has already won!
- Very organized and efficient;
- Excellent with utilizing technology;
- Comfortable with learning/managing the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS);
- A great communicator, including with people who work remotely;
- Friendly and kind while being able to ensure things get done;
- Self-motivated;
- Humble;
- Available at least four days a week;
- Looking to serve long-term (ideally a minimum of 5 years).
The position will report to the Executive Editor, Mark Penninga. Duties will include:
- Work towards managing the RP team processes/systems, including running meetings and ensuring goals are being tracked and met;
- Ensure content submissions are received, thanked, and followed-up;
- Schedule content deadlines;
- Assigns tasks and deadlines to writers, editors, designers, and fact-checkers and ensure they are kept;
- Develops creative ways to make content go further through new technology and other mediums (electronic, audio, video, etc.);
- Oversee roll-out of contests/presentations/conferences (to fit with organizational schedule);
- Tracks analytics of all content;
- As much as possible, proactively guard the organization from censorship and similar challenges;
- Depending on qualifications there is also a potential to assist with content production.
Hours: Half-time to full-time is possible, depending on the successful applicant’s availability and their skills/qualifications. If not full-time, there would be an expectation of availability most work days of the week.
Salary/wage: Open to negotiation and in-keeping with industry standards.
Location: Our office in Smithers, BC.
Deadline: March 30 (we will keep the position open till it is filled. We reserve the right to not fill the position or to extend the deadline).
Requirements: Must be a member in good standing of a confessional Reformed church in Canada or the US (a church that upholds the Three Forms of Unity or Westminster Standards). Six month trial period required.
Interested? To apply, please send an application to RP’s Executive Director Mark Penninga ([email protected]). Please include a resume, at least two references (including an elder or pastor), and a letter introducing yourself and explaining your qualifications for the position.
News
Court rules that Emergencies Act against “Freedom Convoy” was illegal
Four years ago, in February 2022, Canada’s federal government invoked the Emergencies Act for the first time in our country’s history, granting itself extraordinary power to break up the truckers’ convoy that assembled in Ottawa and elsewhere to protest Covid policies.
By invoking the Act, the government received the power to prohibit citizens from assembling, as well as freeze bank accounts of those involved in the protests, and even ban and freeze crowdfunding, among other measures.
In January of this year, the country’s Federal Court of Appeal made a unanimous decision, agreeing with the lower court ruling from 2024, that the government was not legally justified to make use of the Emergencies Act.
The court ruled that the protests “fell well short of a threat to national security.” The court also found there simply wasn’t sufficient evidence to back up the government’s claim that the convoy posed a threat of serious violence.
“When all these legal and factual considerations are taken into account, we fail to see how the could ‘reasonably believe’ that a threat to national security existed at the time the decision to invoke the Act was made.”
This decision is a good example of why civil governments need checks and balances on themselves, given our sinful human condition. Particularly a check on the age-old thirst for more power. The legislative and executive branches require the accountability and safeguards that are supposed to come from the Constitution, through the oversight of the judicial branch.
For Christians, obeying the Romans 13 command to “be subject to the governing authorities” isn’t as simple as submitting to whatever the Prime Minister or Governor General orders in a given moment. In this case, it was the Prime Minister and Governor General that were acting illegally, and private citizens (the Canadian Civil Liberties Association and the Canadian Constitution Foundation, among others), who successfully challenged them in court.
Today's Devotional
February 4 - Bethel or Beth-aven?
“So Jacob called the name of the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.” - Genesis 35:15
Scripture reading
: 2 Kings 2:23-25; Genesis 28:10-22
The account of Elisha at Bethel seems harsh until you consider the history of Bethel. Bethel means “house of God” and was given that name by Jacob after he had a dream about a ladder ascending into heaven (Genesis >
Today's Manna Podcast
We saw His star
Serving #1108 of Manna, prepared by J. Louwerse, is called "We saw His star".
