Invitations for Conversation & Reflection
I am privileged to call Eden, and her husband Brad, friends and have spent many rich hours in conversation with them in their home in Abbotsford. Eden’s understanding of the church as a place of welcome, as a place where you can always add another leaf to the table of fellowship is striking.
Read MoreLast fall I had the pleasure of teaching a course on Christianity and other religions at the invitation of Ryan Topping, Academic Dean and vice-President of Newman Theological College in Edmonton. In our initial conversation he told me of an initiative at Newman to establish a BA in Catholic Studies using the great books that have been foundational to the Christian culture of the West. In my four decades of teaching in various universities the withering of the humanities has been palpable. In this “late age and outlying province” I was hearing, almost for the first time, a counter-cultural vision.
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