On Faith Canada

Reflections by Winnipeg Free Press Faith Page columnist John Longhurst

Saturday, March 30, 2024

In a post-Christian and secular Canada, is the Good Friday holiday discriminatory?

›
Is Good Friday a discriminatory holiday? That was the question raised by the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) last fall when it publi...
Monday, March 18, 2024

Many church leaders in U.S. on wrong side of power, new book asserts

›
  “There’s something desperately wrong with the church in America.”   That’s what David Fitch, author of the new book Reckoning with Power...
Wednesday, March 6, 2024

"The fact is that I am a Christian." Alexei Navalny's faith underreported by media following his death

›
Accolades and tributes have been pouring in for Alexei Navalny, who died Feb. 16 in a Russian penal colony at the age of 47.   The many me...
Monday, February 26, 2024

New documentary shows how a mistranslation by the RSV Bible committee shifted a culture and caused harm to LGBTQ+ people

›
No Bible translation is perfect, but the scholars who created the Revised Standard Version in 1946 got something terribly wrong when—for the...
Sunday, February 11, 2024

Your invitation to fund Canada's only faith beat at the Winnipeg Free Press

›
Winnipeg is known for many great things: The Canadian Museum for Human Rights, the Folk Festival, Folklorama, the Leaf, the art gallery, the...
Monday, February 5, 2024

At play(ground) in the buildings of the Lord

›
Last month, a mother in Chicago sparked a firestorm on X (formerly Twitter) when she asked city officials to create indoor playgrounds at pu...

“It feels like 9/11 all over again.” Manitoba Muslims share how they are coping with the war in Gaza

›
  “It feels like 9/11 all over again.” That’s what Natasha Ali, the Muslim spiritual care provider at the University of Manitoba, said about...
‹
›
Home
View web version
Powered by Blogger.