In the last weeks, as first news and then fears about the coronavirus have spread, I’ve been concerned about many things: elderly and otherwise vulnerable friends, school cancellations and funerals. I’ve sought to pray for the suffering of people far…Read More→
OTTAWA – The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada and the World Evangelical Alliance are inviting individual Canadians and church congregations to participate in a Global Day of Prayer and Fasting, as part of a worldwide response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The…Read More→
With more than 31,000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus in Italy, and the country essentially on lockdown, Samaritan’s Purse is airlifting a 68-bed emergency field hospital to Milan in an effort to aid Italy’s overwhelmed health care system. “We are always ready…Read More→
For the first time this weekend, Father Paul Goo will celebrate Mass online. The vocations director for the Archdiocese of Vancouver is planning to don his vestments, prepare a camera, and set up for Mass in a small chapel in…Read More→
Shabbat Shalom Here in Winnipeg, on this first full day of spring, with the temperature at -19 degrees, we begin the day, together with most of the world, inside our home by decree of our Governments. In Israel, politicians’ egos…Read More→
The early church was no stranger to plagues, epidemics, and mass hysteria. In fact, according to both Christian and also non-Christian accounts, one of the main catalysts for the church’s explosive growth in its early years was how Christians navigated…Read More→
Friendly fire. Just the term gives me a little shudder. Everyone knows that the most painful wounds come from those who are closest to us. The Bible warns us to be ready for persecution. We are told that since the…Read More→
It is not time to underplay the severity of the scourge of COVID-19. It is also not the time for conspiracy theories about how it started. This virus is as harmful as it’s being reported. It plans to take no…Read More→