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Jan 22, 2025 | 
christiancourier.ca | Jennifer Boone
Chemistry is much more than balancing equations and examining molecules – just ask Dr. Peter Mahaffy. Students in his classes at The King’s University don’t study isolated science reactions; they use a “systems thinking” approach to look for the intrinsic connections between scientific concepts, the earth, social systems and people.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
christiancourier.ca | Jennifer Boone
It begins with a murder, framed in film noir style upon a set of stairs. The silhouette of a man in a fedora leans over a body, peering up the staircase with every thump of his victim on the steps. But before any explanation is provided, the story jumps back six months; the viewer must continue watching the series to learn the context of this mysterious opening scene. So begins Netflix’s Ripley, an eight-part series adapted from Patricia Highsmith’s 1955 book The Talented Mr. Ripley.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
christiancourier.ca | Jennifer Boone
Earlier this year, the United Nations issued a warning that humanity has two years left to take urgent action on addressing climate change. The historic heat waves, ravaging wildfires and surprise floods of Summer 2024 underscored this warning. The Insurance Bureau of Canada reports that Summer 2024 was the costliest on record, with seven billion dollars in insured losses due to severe weather including the wildfires in Jasper, hailstorms in Calgary and flooding in Ontario and Quebec.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
christiancourier.ca | Jennifer Boone
The Paris Summer Olympics will bring together millions of viewers and more than 10,000 athletes from 206 National Olympic Committees. It’s a chance for athletes to vie for the top place in their respective sports, and it’s an occasion to watch the historic event for the millions of attendees who flood the city. But the Olympics also pose a unique opportunity for Christian outreach.
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Jul 19, 2024 | 
christiancourier.ca | Jennifer Boone
Aging – is it a blessing or a burden? A long life is considered a gift; the longer one lives, the more they experience. And yet, paradoxically, society poses it as a problem to fix. Get older, pop culture says, but don’t let the years show on your face. Grow, but don’t allow the hardships of health to display on your physique. Lord willing, we all reach old age. But in a youth-oriented capitalist society, the older generation can feel neglected and pushed to the sidelines as they exit the workforce.
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Jul 5, 2024 | 
christiancourier.ca | Angela Reitsma Bick |Jennifer Boone
In what might have been one of the most dramatic meetings in Canadian Christianschool history, the Annual General Meeting (AGM) for the Edmonton Society for Christian Education (ESCE) began at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, June 4, and didn’t end until nearly 2 a.m. the next morning. When the gym doors opened at 6 p.m., people were already lining up to get in.
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Sep 18, 2023 | 
christiancourier.ca | Bob Bruinsma |Jonathan de Vries |Robert Bruinsma |Jennifer Boone
Jesus said to him [Thomas], “I am the way, and the truth, and the life.” – John 14: 6aMy parents told me this story. It is 1943 in Holland during the height of the Nazi occupation of that country. Everywhere Jews are rounded up for shipping to concentration camps. Able-bodied Dutch men are required to report for labour duty in German war factories or face dire consequences. Jews and young men go “underground” to hide from death or Nazi collaboration.
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Aug 16, 2023 | 
latinamedia.co | Jennifer Boone
Every so often I come across a book, that while reading it, I say, “Damn I could have written this!” And it’s not because the book is terrible or obviously written by ChatGPT, but because I see the stories of our communities, our culture, and our lives being told. It gives me a sense of empowerment. This is why every Latino must read — I mean like right after you get thru this article — the collection of essays and poems beautifully told in Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed, edited by Saraciea J.
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Aug 3, 2023 | 
christiancourier.ca | Jennifer Boone |James Dekker |Sharon Dhavale |Sara Pot
THE HIDING PLACEAdapted for the stage by A. S. PetersonDirected for the stage by Matt LoganDirected for film by Laura Matula2023. It’s a story that’s deeply familiar for those in Dutch Reformed circles, one that has endured the test of time for many decades. First published as a book in 1971 and then adapted into a film in 1975, The Hiding Place is being released this week as a brand new movie.
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Jul 19, 2023 | 
christiancourier.ca | Julia K. Stronks |Jennifer Boone |Kristen Parker |Adam H. Petty
“I paint people at work,” says Karen Bailey. That’s how she came to be rolling sandwiches in a church kitchen in Ottawa one day, alongside the 70- and 80-year-old women whose portraits she was painting. That’s also how, the next day, she was flying to Afghanistan, entering the Kandahar Air Field in a sandstorm to document Canadian military medical personnel at work. For over four decades, Karen Bailey has painted Canadians who serve.
