The Faith Today Podcast

​​Brian Stiller is the global ambassador for the World Evangelical Alliance and a spokesperson for evangelicalism in Canada. He has led Canadian evangelical institutions, like the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada and Tyndale University College & Seminary. Find out more about Brian and his work: http://www.brianstiller.com Learn more about the World Evangelical Alliance: https://worldea.org/en/

​When Lynda MacGibbon moved from Moncton to a high-rise in Toronto, she asked herself what would happen if she actually tried to Love her neighbor, in person, in deed, and, in a highrise. Lynda shares what she learned from her experiment, which she calls both social and theological, and an experiment that became a way of life. It also became an IVP book, published this spring, called My Vertical N...

​The word evangelical has taken a bit of a beating in recent months, and years. Mark Noll is a leading church historian who recently retired as a Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame, and has served as Professor of History and Theological Studies at Wheaton College, and has also taught at Regent College in Vancouver. Among many other books, Mark Noll wrote 1994’s important The Scan...

​ Brian Doerksen is a songwriter, recording artist, conference speaker and songwriting instructor. Several of his songs can be heard at most churches at some point. "Faithful One" and "Come now is the time to worship" are mainstays of evangelical worship. His latest album is Hymns for Life. He speaks to Karen Stiller about leading worship, being outside the "inner circle" of contemporary Christian...

​​Grace Fox is an author, speaker, and spiritual coach whose latest book is a devotional called Finding Hope in Crisis: Devotions for Calm in Chaos, which seems like a good fit for the reality in which we have all found ourselves in recent months. Find Grace and her work online at https://www.gracefox.com.

A Conversation With the new Secretary General of the WEA by Faith Today

Cindy Bunch is author of Be Kind to Yourself: Releasing Frustrations and Embracing Joy, a book released in 2020 by InterVarsity Publishing, where she also serves as associate publisher and director of editorial, where she acquires and develops books on spiritual formation And now, she’s written one. Cindy’s book is really organized around two key questions, What’s bugging you? And what’s bringing...

​How the mighty fall is more than a cliché. It’s a hard truth the Christian community has had to grapple with a lot lately. When leaders like Ravi Zacharias and Jean Vanier to name two really big, recent ones that have come to light, are revealed as men who abused women, and not the humans we thought they were, it is shocking and just simply horrible. And impossible to imagine what their victims h...

​ Gordon T Smith’s latest book is Wisdom from Babylon: Leadership for the Church in a Secular age, published last year by IVP academic. Gordon is president of Ambrose University and a prolific author. Smith helps us understand what a secular age looks like, and how a deeply hospitable church can respond and just be in a time that feels new and different, but not without its own beautiful possibili...

​​Join us as we sit down with Canadian author Carolyn Weber to discuss her latest book, a moving memoir that explores marriage, desire, holiness and how God uses our relationships to move us closer to Him.

​​We speak to Mike Tapper, professor and chair of Southern Wesleyan University’s Division of Religion and also a researcher who helped perform a lyrical analysis of the 30 most commonly sung hymns and 30 of the most commonly sung contemporary worship songs over the past five years. And then explored some of the theology of what they found. The theological news is not all bad. Read more about the r...

​ Stephen Doucet Campbell, Jennfer Bowen and Jen Watt are counsellors with Shalem mental health network. They very kindly agreed to let us eavesdrop in on three conversations with them about covid-related topics, like isolation, marriage and parenting. What you are about to hear is their conversation on parenting during the high, deep stress of Covid. https://www. FaithToday.ca/podcast https://sha...

​ Jennifer Bowen, Jen Watt and Stephen Doucet Campbell are counsellors with Shalem mental health network, based in Hamilton Here at the Faith Today podcast we had the awesome idea to ask Jen, Stephen and Jennifer talk to each other about how they are doing in their own lives during covid and also share some good counsellor insights into how we can all do better. Our topics are isolation, how we ar...

Jen Watt, Stephen Doucet Campbell and Jennifer Bowen are all counsellors with Shalem mental health network. The Faith Today podcast asked Jen, Stephen and Jennifer to have a conversation and share from their own personal experiences along with their clinical insights into how we can all continue to do well during covid in three key areas, how we cope with isolation, how we are doing marriage right...

​Lennett J. Anderson is pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church in Hammonds Plains, N.S., and the newly appointed lecturer in leadership and racial justice at Acadia Divinity College. He spoke with Faith Today’s Karen Stiller about how the Church can step more fully into being antiracist and regain its prophetic voice.

​​Alastair Sterne has written a book for all of us who might struggle with the typical "one size fits all" ideas around spiritual disciplines. http://alastairsterne.com/ http://www. FaithToday.ca/

​​Author, Crandall University professor and Faith Today columnist John G. Stackhouse Jr. joins Faith Today editors Bill Fledderus and Karen Stiller in conversation about his latest book, and what he thinks the Canadian Church should be focussing in in the next while (among a lot of other great topics). Visit John's site and read his blog: http://www.johnstackhouse.com Read about John's latest book...

​Are Christians really so intolerant? Dr. Sam Reimer is a sociology professor at Crandall University in Moncton and researches political tolerance in Canada. He shares insights (and then some really good advice) on the topic of religion and tolerance in Canada. Here's a video of Sam Reimer speaking at Crandall on this topic: https://www.crandallu.ca/2020/03/26/dr-sam-reimer-speaks-on-tolerance-in-...

The stresses of Covid-19 continue to weigh on Christian leaders. Watch this EFC webinar to see a great time of learning and discussion on how church and ministry leaders are faring. Our guests include Margaret Clarke of Briercrest Seminary; Tim Day of Waybase.com; and Dan Godard of Victory Church, Moose Jaw, Sask. Recorded from webinar on December 2rd, 2020.

​We asked Journey Canada why they are concerned with conversion therapy bans like Bill C-6.

​We’re all in a bit of a Covid slump right now. I’m Karen Stiller and In this podcast I spoke with Tim Day Director of Way Base Network, online platform that enables individuals and Christian organizations to find each other and partner together, and serves the Church in Canada And Rick Himestra, director of research for the EFC. Waybase did some research on the Impact of COVID-19 on Canadian Chri...

​​Jennifer Lau is the new executive director of CBM (Canadian Baptist Ministries), a 150-year-old Canadian mission organization. She spoke with Faith Today’s Karen Stiller about her calling, the weight of words, and what it means to go and learn.

​​Writer and activist Joel Gordon shares his personal awakening and experiences with racism in Canada in this tender and powerful Faith Today piece. You can read this piece online here: https://www.faithtoday.ca/Magazines/2020-Sep-Oct/RACISM-From-the-ground-up. Subscribe to Faith Today, Canada's Christian magazine, for free here: https://www.faithtoday.ca/Subscribe.

​Jen Pollock Michel, author and host of the Englewood Review of Books podcast, joins us to explore lament, how to listen and speak well to each other and other wonderful things. Visit Jen's page here: https://www.jenpollockmichel.com Listen to this great podcast on books and reading: https://englewoodreview.org/podcast/ Read Jen's Faith Today article here: https://www.faithtoday.ca/Magazines/2016-...

​Drew Dyck's latest book Your Future Self Will Thank You: Secrets to Self-Control from the Bible and Brain Science will help you be better at a whole bunch of things, including spiritual disciplines. He takes us inside his research and most recent book in this interview. Visit Drew's website to learn more about this book and his work: https://www.drewdyck.com.