The Intersection of Faith and Culture
Dear Amanda, Unlike most people my age, I have never been kissed and I’ve never been in a relationship. I have only been on one date my entire life, and it was a complete flop. I know that my value comes from Christ, but it’s hard sometimes. I have had […]
As I close in on 25 and rapidly approach 26, certain emotions and realizations are beginning to take place that I haven’t ever experienced before. I can’t help but be overcome by a surging wave of sentiment and emotion. So here is some of what I’ve realized, as I say […]
Strange dim memories, which will not abide identification, often, through misty windows of the past, look out upon me in the broad daylight, but I never dream now. – George Macdonald, Lilith There is no distinct line that separates childhood from adulthood. The transition is fluid, as our lives flow […]
On Tuesday, three Al Jazeera journalists were sentenced up to 10 years in prison in Egypt. The Egyptian government said the trio had aided the Muslim Brotherhood, a group labelled terrorist by the interim government, and had produced false news reports last December. One of the three, Mohamed Fahmy, is an Egyptian-Canadian and […]
I’m sitting in a room at Westside Church in Vancouver, waiting to interview Kings Kaleidoscope. I can hear their sound check upstairs. They’re headlining a show in about four hours, and a local band called The Wind & The Waves is opening. All of a sudden the muffled music stops, […]
A day ago, the world rejoiced as a Sudanese woman Meriam Yehya Ibrahim — jailed for her faith — was released by the Sudanese government. Sudan is an Islamic state, where conversion from Islam is a crime deserving of execution. Ibrahim’s death sentence was found to be faulty, leading to […]
