Since the US Supreme Court overturned Roe vs Wade a few months ago, it’s the abortion conversation in and about the US that has dominated most of our thinking and Canadian information and the concerns here have been largely overshadowed. For that reason, some basic information about abortion in Canada is being included in this issue.

Science is fascinating but how thorough is the process of testing and how trustworthy are the results? What do we do with dissenting voices and scientific claims that don’t agree?

“We’re doing quite well” was the initial response we received most often from pastors, youth leaders and a school principal regarding conflict in their setting.

This pandemic never fails to give us the next dilemma. Just when we begin to sort out mask-wearing, distancing, and size-restrictions, vaccine mandates come along and give us what feels like a more profoundly dividing question.

Stephanie Fast and James Driedger speak with Dr. Lissa Wray Beale about divine sanctioned violence in the Old Testament.

Dr. Layton Friesen and Dr. Don Lewis speak on the roots of Zionism and its importance in western society as well as the middle-east.

I am a student of historic Christian theologies of Israel and Judaism and the ways those theologies have informed and continue to inform views of the land of Israel, Jewish people, and the practices of Judaism in Christian thought.

Christian opinions about the Middle East tend to be polarized.

It was mid-morning when I found Mamadou Traoré at his restaurant, a six-foot-square plywood kiosk painted baby blue, its shutters propped open with sticks, bar stools lined up at the window.

A dozen children pressed their noses against the screen of our porch staring into the white people’s house.

We had lived and worked in a particular country for several years and had learned and adjusted to much of the culture.

Kerry Saner-Harvey is coordinator for MCC Manitoba’s Indigenous Neighbours program and attends the Aberdeen EMC in Winnipeg, Man.

When the discovery of unmarked graves near the Kamloops residential school hit the news, I did not know what to feel, or think, or whether I wanted to process this at all.

My “group” spans the full spectrum on politics, science, social issues, COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccinations.

Erica Fehr, editor for Growing Together, interviews the Mount Salem leadership team regarding safety in the church.

Safety has been a divisive question during this pandemic.

Layton Friesen, EMC Conference Pastor, looking behind Jesus actions to see the tactics He was using to face down the power of the devil and of death in this final stage of His walk to the cross.

In truth, we are all on this particular journey, though it seems she is further along than my family and I anticipated. Or hoped.

A poem

This winter marks the two-year anniversary of Brenda’s initial bout with cancer.