Cheryl Mahaffy

May 8, 2024 | christiancourier.ca | Cheryl Mahaffy

From name to business model, New Jubilee in northeast Edmonton exists to share a uniquely situated bit of creation even beyond the 50-year timeframe for redistribution prescribed in the biblical Jubilee. People come to band birds, hold events in the on-site yurt, tour the forest and participate in two thriving U-pick operations: Lady Flower Gardens and Fern’s Flowers. For people living with mental health and substance use challenges, Lady Flower Gardens offers the quiet joy of helping things grow.

May 8, 2024 | christiancourier.ca | Cheryl Mahaffy

Skip to content From name to business model, New Jubilee in northeast Edmonton exists to share a uniquely situated bit of creation even beyond the 50-year timeframe for redistribution prescribed in the biblical Jubilee.

Jun 14, 2023 | christiancourier.ca | Kathy Vandergrift |Cheryl Mahaffy |Emily Wierenga |James Dekker

Thinking about ties that bind usually elicits warm feelings or perhaps sad, nostalgic memories of a loved one. Why did the request to write on this theme bring up feelings of anger and pain for me? Because the ties that bind can also hurt, leaving deep wounds. That seems all too common in my world right now. The unheeded epidemicIntimate partner violence, for example, is a tie that binds and wounds, often with life-long scars.

Mar 24, 2023 | christiancourier.ca | Kathy Vandergrift |Angela Reitsma Bick |Christina Van Starkenburg |Cheryl Mahaffy

Safe space has become a buzzword. It is unfortunate that this important concept has become a slogan with so many different meanings that it is often meaningless. Like the cheapened cries for freedom, calls for safe space raise questions such as: safe for whom? Safe for what? What do you mean by safety? Labelling a place or an event unsafe is sometimes used as a weapon against an opponent to avoid addressing substantive issues. Safe space has become another front line of the culture wars.