Faith Today

Jan 16, 2025 | faithtoday.ca | Julie Lane-Gay |Molly Thomas |Patricia Paddey |John Longhurst

Jan/Feb 2025 features: Lives well told. Grief lessons. Women of Afghanistan. Searching for Jesus' path of power. Two retiring MPs on faith. On earth as a haven. Communities impacted by an individual's pain. Ending poverty with Angie Peters We select a few articles each issue to appear here – they have blue headlines you can click. Several French translations are also available as noted. Why not sign up for a print subscription? It's free to Canadian addresses since 2020. Cover story Lives well told.

Oct 31, 2024 | faithtoday.ca | Patricia Paddey

Courageous leadership invigorates antislavery work →en français. Photographed for Faith Today par Christopher Wahl Anu George Canjanathoppil, chief executive officer of International Justice Mission (IJM) Canada, is used to making waves. At a podium she exudes confidence empowered by passion for her cause, with a kind of magnetic presence that makes it hard to look away.

Oct 30, 2024 | faithtoday.ca | Molly Thomas

Our call as Christians to support the women of Afghanistan Imagine not being able to pray out loud in public, simply because you were born a female. That’s the reality in Afghanistan right now, arguably the worst country in the world to be a woman or a girl. Taliban rule means dark burqas line the streets of Kabul where every part of a woman’s body is viewed as a vice to society. Even a mesh screen must cover female eyes from being seen.

Oct 29, 2024 | faithtoday.ca | Taylor Murray

Surprising origins and what we can learn There are many phrases with religious roots that have become part of everyday language. My favourite is devil’s advocate. Today when we use that phrase, we usually mean we’re taking the opposite side of an argument. And often we take that side not because we believe it but to make a better argument. It may surprise you to learn the term originated as the colloquial title for a specific office in the Catholic Church.

Oct 24, 2024 | faithtoday.ca | Andrew Barron

Magazines Not only do we live in a world of human difference, but that God wants us to live in this kind of world, for our flourishing, according to a new book by Andrew Barron, a Toronto author who lives with a son who has Down Syndrome. It’s funny how much difference an extra chromosome makes. Rafi’s difference lay in his chromosomal composition – those small bundles of genes have a lot to say about how the body and mind develop.