Editorial

Although orthodoxy and orthopraxy are both necessary, I think we have overemphasized  them at the expense of orthocardia.

We will always fight over something unless we face and resolve our underlying issues. As far as I can tell, we have collectively ignored them.

Genuine peace requires transformation of hearts and relationships.

Moderates within each party are often the most vulnerable and isolated.

It seems we have a tendency to approach issues mostly as intellectual problems to be solved even when they involve real, complex people who need to be loved.

We cannot cherry-pick one half of that verse and ignore the other half.

How do we know if we have domesticated Scripture to feed our spiritual pride? There are at least three major signs.

These facts are only a few in a long list of social ills, conflicts, and challenges God’s people have faced these past few years.

For me, Christian spirituality is holistic because the biblical truth and worldview is holistic.

Even though that 2013 report named them, I wonder how much these fears have been openly acknowledged and transparently wrestled with by CRC leaders.

An estimated 150,000 children went through the residential school system, most of them traumatized and abused.

If these collective strengths that we pride ourselves on can solve our decline, wouldn’t they have solved it by now?

When through our words we reduce a person made in God’s image into an object of derision in our minds and hearts, we have made them less human.

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.

The “evangelical” label in North America, especially in the United States, has over the years taken on a meaning beyond its historical roots.

True, God shows no partiality or favoritism (Rom. 2:11; Eph. 6:9). But God does not erase our ethnic or racial differences either. We need to avoid two extremes.

In striving to be a fair forum for diverse perspectives in the denomination, I know that not everyone will be happy with some of the views I allow to the table.

I feel that Christians have not reflected deeply enough on the radical significance of the story of the “wise men.”

It’s a time to remember, honor, and pray for persecuted Christians.

This is a danger for people of all political stripes, from conservatives to progressives, from anarchists to conspiracy theorists.

Both harbor simmering resentment at perceived slights and mistreatments. And both, it seems, would love to punish the other by various means.

All the way up the ride, I wondered if I should say something. I was afraid to confront the man.

The God who guides us along the right paths also guides us through the darkest valleys.