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WINNIPEG, MB – I met Gaylene Dempsey in a cafe instead of at her house. A young refugee was sleeping on her couch and she didn’t want to disturb him. Dempsey is 50 years old, red-haired and high-spirited. She calls…Read More→
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WINNIPEG, MB – This isn’t the first time vandals have targeted Living Bible Explorers’ school buses, but the latest attack is definitely the worst. George Hill, the inner city ministry’s general manager, says he isn’t angry at whoever set fire…Read More→
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WINNIPEG, MB – In a city where available housing is desperately scarce, the begrimed carpets, closet-like bathrooms and narrow, hospital-green hallways of the Madison Memorial Lodge provide at least some semblance of a home to 75 Winnipeggers. Most of them…Read More→
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Brian McLaren believes the Church is transitioning from an era characterized by words about God to an era of encountering the Spirit. So too, McLaren is shifting his own focus from discussions of theology to the practice of cultivating a…Read More→
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WINNIPEG, MB – When Jen and Dallas Kornelsen joined a Christian Peacemaker Teams delegation to Israel/Palestine last fall, they knew they knew they weren’t in for a peaceful tour of the places Jesus walked. The newly married couple, residents of…Read More→
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WINNIPEG, MB–Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) is sending a delegation to the Island Lake communities in northern Manitoba to explore ways the aid agency could help alleviate poor living conditions that include a lack of clean water. Thousands of homes in…Read More→
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper would have us believe that his government’s hard-knuckled approach to crime is making Canada a safer place. His government has new laws on the table that would put more people behind bars by introducing mandatory minimum…Read More→
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Marriage is an act of defiance against consumer culture. So argues Kurt Armstrong in his first book, Why Love Will Always Be a Poor Investment. Yes, it’s another book on Christian marriage. And no, it’s probably not something Focus on…Read More→
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WINNIPEG, MB–At the corner of Main Street and Higgins Avenue a sheer slice of concrete rises 55 feet into the air. Around its base a skeleton of metal girders and concrete footings are rapidly sprouting as bulldozers, cranes and hard-hatted…Read More→
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EDMONTON, AB—During his darkest hours as a prisoner in the notorious Guantanamo Bay detainment camp for suspected terrorists, Omar Khadr found comfort reading and rereading letters written to him by a professor at King’s University College. “Your letters are like…Read More→