The sexual revolution that started in the 1960s is now as pervasive and inescapable as the popup ads on our computer screens. Almost no home or family or person has been unaffected by it.
As I Was Saying
This is The Banner's online opinion column, from a variety of different writers, published Fridays.
If Christians would again lead the way in prioritizing social responsibilities over personal rights, it could serve as a counter to the potential “fall of Christianity” in the global North.
As an Indigenous person who was adopted into a white family and then connected with my birth family and community later on in life, I’ve learned some important lessons.
With the pandemic winding down, we need a few basic godly goals to help us serve.
Jesus demonstrated how eternity could look by taking seriously people’s needs here on earth.
Though our representation may be flawed, Christ can turn our weakness into his strength.
Writer Charles C. Camosy echoes a call to courage for pro-life constituents to stand "clearly and firmly for prenatal justice regardless of the political consequences."
Nature has the power to draw us out of ourselves.
The real work in the church, just as in a family, is staying connected when things get hard, even if it gets painful.
My family and I are choosing to trust that the COVID-19 vaccine is a gift from God and the best way forward.
Giving gifts is a lifestyle to the Indigenous people of Canada.
We know who we are: the Imago Dei. But will that make us humble and free us from offense? Wouldn’t it give us something to be proud of instead?
What is interesting to me is that Jesus still had the wounds from his crucifixion. Why would Jesus keep these wounds?
I was scared, and my fear overwhelmed me.
My hope is that the church will hold onto what is good, true, and beautiful while calling out what is base, false, and ugly.
In light of Mother’s Day, let’s take stock of how women have changed the world.
“For the sake of future siblings and the comfort of your family, place George in an institution and forget you ever had him.”
Even for us today, the darkness of Christ crucified remains mystifying. In the cross, God no longer makes sense to us.
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.
Why have differing expectations recently caused friction in some churches?
The time of COVID is challenging, but how we view our existence in it and how to structure our days is a spiritual discipline.
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.
Could any of us have guessed, when all this started, that we would still be facing the wrath of the Coronavirus a year later?
As details emerge about Robert Aaron Long, 21, the suspect in three Atlanta-area shootings, it seems that the man accused of killing eight people is a committed Christian.