There are many issues of importance in the realms of human reproduction and genetics: From birth control and abortion to in-vitro fertilization and cloning. Today, though, I would like to talk about a topic that is no less relevant to us; that is, stem cell research and what it means to us as Christians. Let's begin at the beginning. What is a [...]
Pro-life member of Parliament Jason Kenney is expressing hope that church leaders in Canada and the United States take a stronger stand in instructing the faithful as to the suitability of certain politicians to represent pro-life, pro-family views in an increasingly secular society. Kenney, the Progressive Conservative MP for the Calgary Southwest riding, was keynote speaker at the Oct. 28 annual general [...]
After a year's wait, the global Anglican Communion has finally received the Windsor Report, which was commissioned by the Archbishop of Canterbury. Reactions are coming in fast from around the world. The report, published Oct. 18, hopes to prevent a schism in the 75-million-member body in the wake of the Episcopal church's blessing of an actively gay bishop and the approval of [...]
Like a selfish and impudent teenager who detests his elderly mother since he sees her as an embarrassment - a lingering evidence of his one-time dependency - who wishes her a speedy demise and is even tempted to assist in the process, Europe has rejected its Christian patrimony. When lovingly asked to give even mere acknowledgment of the fact that the mother [...]
Legend has it that Canada's first Conservative prime minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, was interrupted on the hustings by a leather-lunged heckler, shouting: "I don't care what you say, John. My father was a Grit, my grandfather was a Grit and by golly, I'm a Grit, too." To which Sir John responded: "I take it that if your father and grandfather were [...]
Every year at about this time, there are reports of stores succumbing to political correctness and a a dangerous notion of multi-culturalism. They instruct employees to eschew wishing customers a "Merry Christmas" or they substitute the terms "holiday" or "seasonal" in their Christmas-time marketing and on their products. Other vestiges of Christmas are also being banished. This year, a Wal-Mart store north [...]
I reluctantly tuned in to the third and last debate between Senator John Kerry and President George W. Bush. I was afraid they might have gotten into a fist fight. Well, nothing exciting like that happened. However, a lot of curious things did happen. There was a subtle attempt by both Bush and Kerry to grab the Catholic and evangelical Protestant vote. [...]
This summer, a humanist interviewed on CBC radio declared that his ideal world would not be based on religion, but on logic and science. In early October, Dr. Stanley Hauerwas (whom Time magazine named America's best theologian) stated, "Science tries to do more than it is qualified to do." "Science is only hypothetical," Rev. Dr. Ian Ker of Oxford University pointed out. [...]
A judge has ordered Ann Arbor Public Schools in Detroit, Mi. to pay over $100,000 in attorney fees and costs to the Thomas More Law Centre, because the school community there refused a student, Betsy Hansen, the right to express her religious views against homosexuality during her school's annual Diversity Week in 2002. Detroit Federal District Judge Gerald E. Rosen ordered the [...]
"But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers … shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone" (Rev. 21:8). It was an unsettling conversation, and quite unlooked for. I brightly greeted the Tim Hortons cashier with a cheery, "Good morning, how are you"? We had many times exchanged such pleasantries, so I was surprised by her response. With sad [...]
Interim Staff Organizers of a one-day conference in Burlington hope to spur Christians to practical action in the culture wars. Equipping Christians for the Public Square will hold its first annual Ignite Our Culture conference at the Crossroads Centre on Nov. 13 from 9 a.m.to 5 p.m. in hopes of motivating people to become more involved in the political realm and in [...]
Two new Anglican structures commissioned In the wake of their national church declaring homosexual relations holy, 700 biblically orthodox Anglicans have met in Ottawa to form two new organizations: the Anglican Federation and the Anglican Network. The two structures were commissioned during The Way Forward, a national conference Aug. 30-Sept. 1 sponsored by Essentials, a coalition of evangelical, charismatic and prayer book [...]
LifeSite Daily News The legal counsel for both the Catholic church in Canada and the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada were asked to be present at a meeting with the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency in early March. Janet Buckingham, legal counsel for the EFC, and Jennifer Leddy, legal counsel for the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, were warned by revenue officials that [...]
Scott Brockie celebrated by friends and supporters Nearly 250 people celebrated the faithful witness of Scott Brockie, a Christian printer persecuted for refusing to violate his Christian conscience when approached by the Gay and Lesbian Archive to do business. On June 26, Equipping Christians for the Public Square Centre (the ECP Centre) held a fundraising dinner for Brockie to help him pay [...]
Monsignor Vincent Foy celebrated by friends and supporters He was honoured not only for a remarkable 65 years of service to the Roman Catholic church and its people, but also for his strong and principled stand against a position taken by Canada's bishops in 1968 that many saw as being at odds with the teachings of the Pope of the time, Paul [...]