BEHIND THE SCENES
Karen Stiller of Port Perry, Ont., and
Bill Fledderus of Hamilton, Ont., are senior
editors of Faith Today.
As we read through this issue one final time be- fore sending it to our printer, authenticity was
a theme that jumped out at us.
People here are not interested in
pretending it’s easy to be a Christian in today’s world.
Here are a few of our favourite
lines:
“I was shocked. How could my
friend be teaching college kids to
love language, ideas and themselves,
and not think she was doing things
for God?” From Carolyn Arends,
page 19.
“You do feel you are being competed with if . . . a new church moves
into town. I think it’s important . . .
to go the extra mile and give honour
to the people who have been there
all along, trying to serve and putting
in decades of work.” From our interview with Patti Miller, page 24.
“Many of . . . us spend our lives
avoiding the real questions of being,
identity and essence, and fall prey to
the seductive message of both the
culture and our hearts that doing
and having are all that matter.” From
Rod Wilson’s essay, page 30.
And how’s this for transparency:
“But the road is so pitted with frustration – with administration,
courts and the criminal element –
that many officers become cynical,
jaded, burnt out, depressed and
even suicidal.” From Alex Newman’s
interviews with Christian police officers, page 42.
We love that our writers are digging deep. Within the struggles laid
bare are wonderful victories and
moments of hope we can rejoice in.
Like this one: “Ever since our
pizza night, Sally and I have begun
to envision a less abridged version of
God’s story. We worry less about
‘doing things for God.’ We’re far too
busy delighting in the things God is
doing for His creation – even through
us.” Carolyn Arends, page 19.
Such moments are part of why
Christian community is so important, why an exclusively me-and-God relationship is short-sighted.
Faith Today aims to better connect you with the Body of Christ in
all its diversity. We keep trying to
improve that connection, to facilitate more timely interactions.
Since 2013 we have been posting
weekly on our blog, more than 150
posts and 50 reader comments at
last count. And lots more on our
Facebook and Twitter streams.
Now we’ll begin posting more
letters to the editor on Facebook, as
soon as they come in, inviting writers and readers into more timely,
healthy, positive dialogue. (If you’re
not on Facebook, no worries. We’re
not changing the printed letters.)
Thank you for using Faith Today
to participate in the Body. We’re
glad to call you sisters and brothers
in Christ. /FT
Don’t miss
Love Is
Moving,
our sister
magazine
for youth.
Issue 14
is on the
theme
“Tempted?”
Good and complicated
Honest reflection in the Body
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March / April 2016
Volume 34 • Number 2
PUBLISHER
The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada
SENIOR EDITORS
Bill Fledderus, Karen Stiller
ART DIRECTOR
Janice Van Eck
SENIOR WRITERS
Jeff Dewsbury, Debra Fieguth,
Alex Newman, Patricia Paddey
COLUMNISTS
Carolyn Arends, James A. Beverley,
Bruce J. Clemenger, Kevin Flatt,
John G. Stackhouse Jr.,
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Darmanin, Julie Fitz-Gerald, Meagan
Gillmore, Phil Irish, Harold Jantz, Will Lew,
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Matthews, Dorene Meyer, Deanna Smid,
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Wassink, Robert White, Rod Wilson
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