Friday, November 21, 2025

Serving Soup with dignity on the side: People with disabilities find meaningful employment through the Raw Carrot

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  Kieran Schellenberg wasn’t just stirring soup at the launch of the Raw Carrot on Thursday — he was mixing up hope and purpose. “It’s dif...
Tuesday, November 18, 2025

The Comfortable Pew 60 years later, and a chance to support religion journalism at the Winnipeg Free Press

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Sixty years ago, Pierre Berton’s book  The Comfortable Pew: A Critical Look at Christianity and the Religious Establishment in the New Age ,...
Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Chaplains: Unsung heroes during wartime in the Canadian Armed Forces

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Click here to hear my column on CBC Radio Manitoba about chaplains in the Canadian Armed Forces.  On Remembrance Day, we pause to remember t...
Monday, November 10, 2025

Can even Nazis be forgiven? A World War Two story about chaplain Henry Gerecke and some of the world's worst criminals

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  I still feel sorry for Mr. Thiessen, all these years later. It couldn’t have been easy trying to teach Sunday school to a rambunctious...

If government budgets are moral documents, what do various religious traditions have to say about them?

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“Budgets are moral documents.” That quote is attributed to Martin Luther King Jr. In fact, King never said that exact phrase. But it is in k...
Monday, November 3, 2025

Everyone can relax now; the Canadian government is not going to stop churches from issuing tax receipts

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Everyone can relax now; the federal government is not planning to remove the charitable tax status for churches and other religious groups. ...
Tuesday, October 28, 2025

On the Ground: Brian Stewart on his time as a foreign correspondent with the CBC, the important role religion played in his reporting

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  During his time as a foreign correspondent and senior reporter with the CBC from the 1980s to early 2000s, Brian Stewart interviewed world...