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Taking up my cross means accepting all the pain and injustice and misery life imposes on me as I attempt to be a faithful follower of Jesus.

U.S. law generally allows for the ownership of firearms for purposes of self-defense (much less so in Canada). Whether we as Christians should exercise that right is a harder question.

Some think we have double standards or even some sort of reverse discrimination. The real reason, however, is a lot more innocuous.

Even for us today, the darkness of Christ crucified remains mystifying. In the cross, God no longer makes sense to us.

When my adoptive mother died, the process of mourning was short. In fact, half of the family, including me, didn’t even go to the lunch after the burial.

God is not indifferent or uncaring, but perhaps his silence is there for a reason. Wilderness moments are important spaces that force us to shift our understanding of God and make us more conscious of him.

My siblings and I can’t seem to agree on end-of-life decisions for our parents, and they do not have a living will. How do we find consensus, if not agreement?

I have discovered that in the land of the lonely, one has an immense wardrobe of masks. It makes me wonder what the true face underneath is.

My church expects parents to help in children’s worship once a month. Is that necessary? What do we gain and what do we lose?

In a sense, I had embraced All Lives Matter as a movement many years ago.

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Why have differing expectations recently caused friction in some churches?

When we look at the world today with all its problems, from wars and racism to abortion and climate change, we are tempted to despair.

In Spanish, “armadillo” means “little armored one.”

The time of COVID is challenging, but how we view our existence in it and how to structure our days is a spiritual discipline.

Let me give you three reasons why I think the resurrection of Jesus was not made up by early Christians.

By offering death as an option to those expected to die in the “reasonably foreseeable” future, Bill C-7, many disabled people fear, would provide an incentive for their mistreatment or even unwanted death.

If people have talents in music, writing, hospitality, technology, or some other area that could benefit the church community, do they have an obligation to do so?

Could any of us have guessed, when all this started, that we would still be facing the wrath of the Coronavirus a year later?

지난 해는 힘든 한 해였습니다. 하지만 소망이 있습니다.

To help you decide, ask how this position might allow you to love God and love your neighbor.

Although it’s not considered polite to describe the gory details of childbirth and daily motherhood, this is the way Jesus chose to come to us.

Young people aren’t growing up in the same world their parents did.