by Nicolette Beharie | Aug 23, 2019 | News
When historic Cornwallis Street Baptist Church in Halifax, Nova Scotia, decided to change its name last year, it didn’t go unnoticed. Now called New Horizons Baptist Church, images of the iconic clapboard building with arched windows flashed across television screens,...
by Cheryl Bear | Aug 9, 2019 | Opinion
Editor’s note: The following column may contain material that could be disturbing to some readers. The focus of the first three years of Canadian Baptist Ministries’ (CBM) She Matters campaign highlighted global gender inequity for girls and women around the...
by Terry Smith | Nov 13, 2018 | Opinion
In the schoolyard behind my wife’s classroom, her 10-year-old pupils engage in a daily rite of interfaith dialogue. Tenzin is a Tibetan Buddhist. His mom and dad emigrated to Canada four years ago. He is playing with Mousa, an Eritrean Muslim girl who wears her hijab...
by Martin Marty (The Martin Marty Center: Sightings) | Jul 9, 2018 | Opinion
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada has verified reports and testimony by survivors – they do not call themselves “graduates” or “alumni” – of First Nations schools, whose mission had long been announced: “kill the Indian in the child.” Following...
by Ron Csillag | Jul 13, 2011 | News
TORONTO (RNS) A majority-Muslim public school in Toronto is defending its policy of allowing an imam to lead Friday prayers in the cafeteria, saying students who leave school for prayers at a mosque typically don’t return to school. For the past three years, some 300...
