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Parent-free Nation?
If children are doing poorly—parents need to be part of the solution. In September, Children First Canada, an organization dedicated to raising awa [ read more ]
God created people as social beings. It’s how we were wired from the beginning. He designed us to be in relationships that are good, harmonious, and just. Today, our world is filled with conflict–with family members, neighbours, co-workers, and strangers. Competition and suspicion now mark our social interactions. But the good news is, reconciliation with others is possible. Through Jesus, we can overcome relational poverty to restore trust, peace, and justice.
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If children are doing poorly—parents need to be part of the solution. In September, Children First Canada, an organization dedicated to raising awa [ read more ]
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Telecare Crisis & Caring Line of Abbotsford regularly hosts Listen Up! A Supportive Listening Workshop (one day). Participants learn how to lis [ read more ]
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Though seldom sensational, Canada's charitable activities are essential to our civil society. Our charities provide meaning, purpose, and belonging am [ read more ]
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Indwell is an Ontario organization that has worked for many years to establish effective and sustainable approaches to housing support for people suff [ read more ]
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The debate about poverty and its causes rages on. On the one extreme are those who blame all poverty and its attendant ills on an oppressive "system" [ read more ]
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(The views expressed in this paper are those of the author alone. They do not necessarily reflect the views of the US International Trade Commission, [ read more ]
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New poll numbers show more than half of Canadians no longer believe marriage is necessary. But as Cardus Family’s Peter Jon Mitchell and Andrea Mrozek [ read more ]
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In the first scene of the second season of HBO's The Wire, two police officers patrol Baltimore's harbour. The background betrays the fraying of a man [ read more ]
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We need to find different ways to talk about poverty. It's easy to say that community groups are more effective than government in delivering servi [ read more ]
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This past spring, the Hamilton Spectator released Code Red, a study on the health outcomes of the City of Hamilton by census tract. The shocking news [ read more ]
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Fatima's life is not easy. After her husband died of a long illness—which was later discovered to be HIV/AIDS—she learned she was also infected wit [ read more ]
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Ann Voskamp, Jennie Allen, and Esther Havens Mann traveled to Uganda with Food for the Hungry to witness the plight of refugees there. Together, throu [ read more ]