School was something like four or five miles away. It seemed like a fairly long way to me then – but, with the help of my siblings, getting there was easy. As we walked to school, the older ones carried the little ones on their backs, or held their hands and pulled them along when […]
TWU’s que bueno mission in Dominican Republic
The first time Dinora saw us, she was ecstatic. “The little woman has arrived!” she cried, in excited Spanish. It was May, and the six of us were sitting with Arlene, the American missionary, at a small Dominican preschool. We were waiting to meet our host mothers. Dinora, a single, childless woman who stands no […]
From Romania with faith — and a new song
They focused on only one thing: getting away. The two young men had just finished high school, and were about to be drafted into an army that would deny their need to worship God. Simon Ivascu and Wesley Pop were conscientious Christians, and they prized freedom of worship. If they simply refused to join the army, […]
A graffiti artist’s secret message to his school
“This guy must want to get caught. You can still smell the spray paint!” Lem Saunders, the grey-bearded janitor at Kingsview High, is standing at the side door of the school gymnasium pointing at a basketball backboard dripping with fresh graffiti. A pack of tenth-graders pass by, their ears plugged with iPod earphones. Some of […]
A biblical worldview as the basis of education
Knowledge is not neutral. It exists within a framework of beliefs. All teachers are influenced by their beliefs. Teachers’ worldviews affect what they do in their classrooms. A values-free zone In the 1960s and early 1970s, much of the education taught in schools was supposed to be neutral, values-free, not based on a teacher’s personal […]
Rampant busyness plays havoc with the family plans
As I write this, I have just finished cleaning up kids’ vomit for the nth time over a period of days; my father-in-law is recovering in the hospital from major heart surgery (requiring regular visits on our part); my husband, who is trying to finish his thesis for an end of summer deadline, needs ongoing […]
Okanagan fires bring out the best in local churches
As forest fires threatened a B.C. city late last month, some churches were in the line of the fire, and others were trying to help out. Some were in both categories. Three fires broke out on the west side of Okanagan Lake on the weekend of July 18-19. They quickly became major threats, fanned by […]
Christians disagree over 2010 Games
How should Christians respond to the 2010 Olympics? There are essentially two views, according to the Christian social justice agency Streams of Justice (SOJ). One is to embrace “the spirit of Olympism,” with its emphasis on “peace, human harmony and fair play.” The other is to denounce the games as a project of the rich, […]
Child porn demands more than parental guidance
As another school year descends upon us, and we have education on our minds, I would like to write of another kind of education — that has grave consequences for our children’s souls. Recently I happened upon a TV program spotlighting online child pornography. Instantly I thought of turning it off, to avoid listening to […]
Musicians offer CompassionArt to restore hope
CompassionArt, Sparrow / EMI CompassionArt is described as “a charity that joins the dots between art and poverty… restoring hope and igniting justice.” In January 2008, project founder Martin Smith and various Christian music luminaries crafted songs during a retreat in Scotland. Soon after, at Abbey Road studios in London, the vocals were recorded. The […]
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