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Transform your Perspectives

When I warn students that this course will change their lives, they think I'm being melodramatic. But after 14 weeks, they agree that their thinking processes have been transformed. - more

Lausanne missionaries: on the street - but not of the street

Mission Fields publisher Flyn Ritchie attended the Lausanne Committee's 2004 Forum for World Evangelization September 29 - October 6, 2004, in Pattaya, Thailand. - more

A renewed call

The 2004 Forum for World Evangelization held in Thailand last fall was sponsored by the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization. - more

Homeless in Canada

OUT of the Cold began in Toronto in 1988, after the death of a homeless man ­ known simply as George ­ motivated students and a chaplain at the Roman Catholic St. Michael's High School to serve the homeless of their city. - more

Postcard from the edge: Taiwan

The other day, I visited Hung Ling, a Christian fruit-seller. Hung Ling listened to me telling a Bible story, and helped me with parts ­ to make them easier to understand. - more

Postcard from the edge: Uganda

Anglicans Anna and Michael Caines, from Fredericton, New Brunswick, are serving with Volunteers in Mission in Uganda. Here, Anna writes of one of the couple's recent excursions. - more

Postcard from the edge: Middle East

Yes, it's Ramadan. Today was day seven, so only 23 days to go. Then it's the feast of Eid Il Fitir, or the breaking of the fast. Since it's the month of fasting, let me talk about food. - more

Postcard from the edge: Bulgaria

Our destination was a church in Plovdiv, a city of 300,000 about a two hour drive from Sophia. As our driver knew no English and we knew no Bulgarian, the trip was punctuated with humourous attempts at sign language on both of our parts. - more

Christians onstage: a going concern

Ron Reed is artistic director of Vancouver's Pacific Theatre, which celebrated its 20th anniversary last year. As one of the pioneers of contemporary Christian-based theatre, he offers these thoughts on changing attitudes both in and outside the church. - more

Defending the faith: a pagan's christ

• Tom Harpur: The Pagan Christ, Thomas Allen, 2004.

IN 1970, Tom Harpur was a committed Anglican priest. Today, as Canada's best-known religious journalist, his understanding of God, the world and salvation seems to be that of a theosophist or neo-gnostic. - more

Why we're failing Africa's girls

AFRICA is in the death grip of HIV/AIDS and a generation of African girls is standing on the frontline of the carnage . . . - more

Singing for Africa

As Africa's tribulations continue to haunt the headlines, some of its people take a creative approach to raising public awareness of issues such as AIDS and lack of education. - more

Front lines of compassion

An estimated 165,000 people were killed by the huge earthquake and subsequent tsunamis which struck southeast Asia December 26. The disaster sparked an extraordinary surge of generosity worldwide; relief agencies of various religious and philosophical backgrounds have been extensively involved in aid efforts, and Christian-based groups have been among them. - more

Witnessing to Muslims: more than just disputation

MR. NAYEEM is an expert in the ancient art of Arabic calligraphy. His specialty is painting verses from the Qur'an in tight, balanced blocks of curved lines, dots and squiggles. When I first saw his shop in old Jamaal Market in Hyderabad, I knew that an original work from Nayeem Saahib would be the perfect souvenir of our time in India. - more

An ex-Muslim's new perspective

EMIR CANER was reared by a devout Turkish Sunni Muslim father in the United States. After visiting a Baptist church in 1982, he accepted Christ, and was subsequently disowned by his father. - more

Passing the Kwak'wala language torch

THE WRITTEN WORD was unheard of along the Kwakwaka'wakw region of north Vancouver Island and the north central coast of B.C. until 1882. That year, Canadian Missionary Society worker Alfred Hall arrived at Fort Rupert, the home of the Kwagiulth people. - more

Ways & means: resources, initiatives & events

• Celebration 2005
• Empowering leaders
• Gateway to Canada
• Lutherans boldly go
• Micah Challenge
• Student Volunteers
• Engaging globally
• Championing the Dalits
• Musicianaries
• Words to live by - more