The Faith Today Podcast

Small church Connections helps small churches across Canada develop a greater sense of their potential so that they become more effective in serving their communities.

Preston Pouteaux is pastor of Lake Ridge Community Church, Chestermere Alberta, and part of the Forge Canada National Team and teaches at colleges across the country. His latest book The Bees of Rainbow Falls: Finding Faith, Imagination, and Delight in Your Neighbourhood is an invitation to reorient our imaginations towards our neighbours and our neighbourhoods. Preston spoke to the EFC podcast ab...

We need our minds and imaginations to be renewed – disciplined – because of our tendency to reduce the world into more manageable dimensions.

How the arts can help in spiritual formation

This fall Vancouver pastor and author Ken Shigematsu preached a sermon on reconciliation with First Nations peoples that was honest, painful, inspiring and received an unexpected level of attention. His sermon "Seeking Truth and Reconciliation" is reprinted online at Preaching Today.com (http://www.preachingtoday.com/sermons/sermons/2017/october/seeking-truth-and-reconciliation.html). Ke...

Janet Buckingham directs Trinity Western University’s Laurentian Leadership Centre in Ottawa and is the author of Fighting over God: A Legal and Political History of Religious Freedom in Canada. She is also a lawyer who helped develop the proposal for a law school at Trinity Western and attended both days of the Supreme Court of Canada hearings that happened recently over TWU's law school cas...

Andrew Klavan is an award-winning writer, screenwriter and media commentator who has made the improbable conversion from agnostic Jewish intellectual in New York to baptized Christian in California. Faith Today columnist Jim Beverley interviewed him about his coming-to-faith memoir "The Great Good Thing" (Thomas Nelson, 2016) last year. This podcast is a recording of that interview. Read...

Dispatches from Brian StillerArgentina - An Epic Of Faith"This land, founded mostly by Italian and Spanish conquerors, has had embedded in its culture a European Roman Catholicism, dominant and unrepentant in its use of power. Faith and national identity were inseparable. As Protestant missionaries arrived in the late 1800s, it was not surprising that they faced hostility from their Catholic...

Baroness Caroline Cox is an international humanitarian who works in some of the world’s most difficult places. She spoke to us about her motivation, fears and challenge to us as Christians who care about the world.

A “round up” conversation on some of the issues the EFC is working on this Fall 2017. We will catch up on the latest information on medical assistance in dying, pornography, religious discrimination, Bill C51, and others. Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and hear directly from Julia Beazley, the EFC’s director of public policy.

Ann Voskamp, the wildly successful author of The New York Times bestseller One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are, and most recently The Broken Way: A Daring Path Into the Abundant Life talks to Faith Today editor Karen Stiller in a hotel lobby in Toronto to discuss her latest book, how we can all be more honest about our brokenness and why that’s so important.

Evangelical leaders reflect on the TRC report. The church has a role to play in truth and reconciliation in Canada. Evangelical leaders responded to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s report when it was released.

Faith Today editor Karen Stiller visited Cambodia on a Samaritan’s Purse Water for Kids trip, and reached some conclusions about short term mission trips.

Dispatches from Brian StillerA Land In Need of a Rebirth"A century ago, estimates were that 25 percent of Turkey was Christian. Today it is less than 1 percent. John, in his letters of The Revelation wrote to seven cities in this land. In the last hundred years century, the ancient roots of Christian life have not only been cut off but they’ve been torn up."Listen to the podcast or to re...

Dispatches from Brian StillerAfrican Leaders Taking Hold"Africa, the “dark” continent brought to light by missionary David Livingston, stretches from the Mediterranean in the north to the mixing of the Indian and Atlantic Oceans in the south. Soon to be 1.2 billion, its varied cultures, peoples, religions and economic successes mixed with disasters, is a place of exotic beauty, barren wastela...

Dispatches from Brian StillerAn Answer to Why in Africa"He was the first black person I had ever met. I was a Canadian teenager and it was Sunday night church: time for the sermon. A tall, poised black preacher stood and began to speak. He had a deep, South African accent and flowing rhetoric, rich in vocabulary. I had never heard such preaching. It was evangelist Nicholas Bhengu from South A...

“Like all of us Jaimie was on a journey, but hers had a complexity we hadn’t been aware of in our ministry before. Jaimie was wrestling with her gender identity. Back then, we were just waking up to the idea that students in our midst might have been struggling with sexual orientation – gender identity or gender dysphoria was not even in our vocabulary.”

“It was three separate incidents over a period of as many weeks that persuaded me swearing is no longer the taboo it once was for Evangelicals. Three distinct gatherings of Christians during which casual profanity presented on the lips of fellow believers. By casual I mean no one hit their thumb with a hammer or was venting at injustice, pain or rage. No one erupted with expletives in response to...

The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC) unites Evangelicals to bless Canada in the name of Jesus. The EFC is the national association of evangelical Christians in Canada. It gathers Evangelicals together for impact, influence and identity in ministry and public witness. The EFC also publishes Faith Today, Canada’s Christian magazine. The EFC podcast features some of the best, most provocative a...