The Faith Today Podcast

​One of our favourite departments in Faith Today is called Church in Community, and it's all about showcasing the creative ways churches across Canada are serving their communities, no strings attached. We loved the idea of Eucharist Church in Hamilton, Ont., to open their doors for people to wander in and sit quietly in the sanctuary during the week, with guided prayer prompts if they want t...

​Have you been moved by a piece of art? Or…have you wondered why some Christian art can sometimes feels a little, cringey? John Franklin leads Imago, an organization that supports Christians in the arts in Canada. He has great insight to share on why art matters so much, and how churches, and individuals can help nurture the artists. Find out more about Imago: https://imago-arts.org

​​What is it like to be on the Romanian/Ukraine border as refugees arrive? ​Michael Messenger, president of World Vision Canada, joins us from the Romanian/Ukraine border where World Vision is helping to welcome and meet the needs of hundreds of thousands of refugees forced to flee their country. He shares with host Karen Stiller what he is seeing and experiencing -- including the touching scene o...

​What does it mean to truly care for one another? To really see and hear each other? How do you do with people who are different from you? Keith Dow is our guest and manager of organizational and spiritual life at Christian Horizons, an organization that works together with people who experience disabilities to accomplish their goals and nurture communities where everybody belongs. Keith is also t...

​With this podcast, we step into the warm writing and reading life of Randy Boyagoda, whose two recent novels contain faith, humour and fast moving plots. Boyagoda is a writer, scholar and professor, critic and author of the recently released Dante's Indiana, a sequel to his popular novel Original Prin. He's a deeply Catholic thinker who contributes essays, reviews, and opinions to publi...

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​​Do you worry about your kids and online pornography? It's a big issue for parents today. We have some help to offer you from Marilyn Evans, the founder of Parents Aware, an organization aimed at helping parents have healthy conversations with their kids about pornography, sex, and intimacy, and host of the Media Savvy Moms podcast. We featured her work in the Nov/Dec issue of Faith Today ma...

​​Who wants to sit around and talk about funerals? We do! In this special episode of the Faith Today podcast, EFC's resident theologian David Guretzki dialogues with Tim Perry, author of Funerals: for the Care of Souls, the book that inspired the cover story of the latest Faith Today. If you think this will be a downer, think again. But it might change the way you think about funerals. Find o...

​​Join Faith Today podcast host Karen Stiller, tech producer Dave Auyeung, Rick Hiemstra and Lindsay Callaway, hosts of the new EFC podcast Faith Trends, as they go behind the scenes. This is the entire EFC podcast team sharing notes, favourite episodes from the last year, and what they really think and feel about Christmas. A fun and light way to end your podcast listening year!

​​Christmas is coming and so are awkward conversations about vaccination status and who is going where when and what we're all going to talk about when we get there. Psychotherapist and Marriage and Family Therapist Sharon Ramsay -- and all-around good advice giver -- offers practical tools and very kind ways of thinking through the coming days. This conversation is based on Christmas, but th...

​​To read her is to love her, in our opinion. Kate Bowler brings fresh honesty to some of life's toughest questions. In this interview with Karen Stiller, Kate takes us behind the scenes of her latest book, No Cure for Being Human, and also solves a lot of everything. Plus, laughter. Thanks Kate! Read all about Kate's work and her books here: https://katebowler.comRead the print version...

​​Do you feel sluggish in your spiritual life? Wonder if you're growing or stalled? Author and pastor Darryl Dash shares good news and good habits in this interview with Karen Stiller. His insights into identifying a "good church" is worth the listen alone. Darryl's new book is 8 Habits for Growth: A Simple Guide to Becoming More Like Christ. https://gospelforlife.com/8habits/

​Religious people are not very popular when it comes to politics. Canadian politicians are asked tough questions about how their religious beliefs shape their politics. Is that fair? Should it discourage people of faith from running for office? Our guest John Milloy is Assistant Professor of Public Ethics and the Director of the Centre for Public Ethics at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario. He...

​Philip Yancey is a popular and prolific author, whose honest and searching books over a long writing career have helped Christians grapple with questions like, where is God when it hurts, and come to terms with the reality of feeling disappointment with God. Now, he's released a memoir that takes us back to his fundamentalist upbringing and the pain, trauma and resiliency of his childhood. P...

​​Tim Tang is the director of the Tyndale Intercultural Ministries Centre at Tyndale University in Toronto. The TIM Centre provides intercultural resources for networking, training and research for the Church.

​Joanna la Fleur is a speaker, podcaster, TV host, and communications consultant. With a Business Communications degree and a Masters in Theological Studies, she has been helping the Church communicate the best news in the world for over 15 years. We loved this interview full of insights, learnings and practical tips for churches coming out of the pandemic. Find all things Joanna at: https://joann...

​Dr. Todd Johnson is Professor of Mission and Global Christianity, and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Boston. The Centre, which you will hear about, is an academic research center that monitors worldwide demographic trends in Christianity, including outreach and mission. They publish, among other books and papers, the World...

Holly Fortier is a Cree/Dene leader and educator, and documentary film maker from Ft. McKay First Nation, Alberta. Through her business, Nisto Consulting, Holly has done Indigenous Awareness Training across Canada. She says when she shares the history of indigenous people in Canada, her listeners finally get it. See Holly's website here: http://www.nistoconsulting.com

In May, we held the first ever EFC Virtual Book Club, featuring author Beth Seversen and her book Not Done Yet: Reaching and Keeping Unchurched Emerging Adults. This podcast is in two parts and features author Beth Seversen, the EFC's director of research Rick Hiemstra, and later Sid Koop, a Canadian youth ministry expert and speaker. Part 1: Interview- https://soundcloud.com/faithtoday/not-d...

In May, we held the first ever EFC Virtual Book Club, featuring author Beth Seversen and her book Not Done Yet: Reaching and Keeping Unchurched Emerging Adults. This podcast is in two parts and features author Beth Seversen, the EFC's director of research Rick Hiemstra, and later Sid Koop, a Canadian youth ministry expert and speaker. Part 1: InterviewPart 2: Q&A with Beth Seversen and Si...

​​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.comLearn 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&qu...

​​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.