Practice Gratitude

Why Gratitude? Couple of months back we celebrated our daughter’s first birthday in the presence of family, friends and our Church community. Many people helped us in organizing the events for the day and many more gave gifts. We thanked some in person, some through...

Neighbourhood Spirituality

  Pick up any book in the spirituality section of your local bookstore and you’re likely to find the same three or four stock photos on the front cover. There’s the one where the crisp morning mist is hugging the blue-white peak of a single majestic mountain, or...

What If We Remain Connected?

“I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing.” | John 15:5 Today we use technology and social media to stay connected with friends and family and businesses and...

Marriage Is Not The Goal

I sat across from my beautiful, talented friend as she confided in me what someone from her Christian college had said to her. “It is a tragedy that you are graduating and you are still single.” In disbelief, I grabbled with the aspect that a Christ follower would say...

Why Don’t I Understand My Bible?

I think of my life in terms of phases. Consider, for instance, the school phase. High school wasn’t that hard, right? Grade school had its challenges, sure. Junior high wasn’t all that easy. But high school? What’s so hard about facing the pressures of conformity, the...

PARTNER SPOTLIGHT: MUSKOKA WOODS CITY CAMP

CAN’T MAKE IT TO THE LAKE? MUSKOKA WOODS IS COMING TO NEIGHBOURHOODS ACROSS THE GTA This summer, kids can discover endless fun, right in their hometown. CITYCAMP, a mobile day camp powered by Muskoka Woods, is returning to neighbourhoods across the Greater Toronto...