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The Faith Today Podcast-Conversation inspired by Canada's Christian magazine. The podcast features interviews with Canadian Christians as they sort through the pressing issues of the day and topics like spiritual growth and health, other religions, religious freedom, vocation, and tough questions of faith and living in contemporary society.

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    • Religion & Spirituality
    • 4.6 • 10 Ratings

The Faith Today Podcast-Conversation inspired by Canada's Christian magazine. The podcast features interviews with Canadian Christians as they sort through the pressing issues of the day and topics like spiritual growth and health, other religions, religious freedom, vocation, and tough questions of faith and living in contemporary society.

    Inside investigations into spiritual abuse - Ep 224

    Inside investigations into spiritual abuse - Ep 224

    We've heard about third party investigators into church, seminary or ministry organization abuse scandals, and now we get to hear directly from two investigators about what happens during an investigation, how they carry out their work, and why they feel called to do it.

    Bob Stenhouse is CEO of Veritas Solutions who brings years of policing experience to his role leading Veritas, which conducts approximately 200 workplace and human rights investigations each year. They also train companies on how to prevent abuse and respond well when it does occur.

    Randal Rauser is Director of Faith Based Organization Investigations with Veritas, and has been an associate investigator with Veritas Solutions since 2019. He is an author and systematic and analytic theologian who has served as a seminary professor.

    Stenhouse and Rauser wrote the MarchApril cover story for Faith Today magazine "Disabusing the Church."

    Veritas Solutions: https://veritassolutions.net

    Randal Rauser's website: https://randalrauser.com

    Veritas mission statement: "Our mission statement is our name: Veritas Solutions. We believe that the solutions to the issues faced by our corporate clients will be mitigated on the foundation of truth. Our promise to our clients–We seek the truth and speak the truth–and that makes all the difference."

    • 38 min
    Responding to abuse allegations in seminaries and churches - Ep. 223

    Responding to abuse allegations in seminaries and churches - Ep. 223

    We are all weary of abuse rocking our churches, seminaries and ministry organizations. Offences range from sexual abuse to bullying and harassment. Our guest Lydia Fawcett brings years of experience in social work and more recently in abuse prevention with the Mennonite Central Committee. She helps us understand what abuse looks like and feels like, and what a healthy culture in our faith communities looks like and feels like. Plus, if you grew up believing Bathsheba was the one in the wrong, you're in good company. You won't want to miss this conversation.

    Learn about the Abuse Awareness and Prevention Network: https://www.abuseawareness.net

    Visit the MCC Abuse Response and Prevention page: https://abuseresponseandprevention.ca

    See and download some of the resources Lydia mentions in the interview: https://abuseresponseandprevention.ca/#resources

    A look back in time to the Columbia Bible College situation referenced by Lydia: https://www.themaplist.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Murray_Phillips_story_ChristianWeek.pdf

    • 30 min
    Single in the Church? We have a podcast episode for you - Ep. 222

    Single in the Church? We have a podcast episode for you - Ep. 222

    "What if singleness is a life to be lived, and not a problem to be solved?" writes Karissa Sovdi, in a recent Faith Today article exploring singleness in the Church. In this podcast, Karissa, an author, counsellor and facilitator from Victoria, B.C., is joined by Calgary's Barry Danyluk, executive director of SEE Global, a ministry that equips the Church on issues related to singleness, and author of several books on singleness. Karissa, Barry and Karen Stiller have a wide-ranging conversation about singleness and sexuality -- and offer some varied opinions -- what singles can offer to the traditional family model, and how our spiritual families are so much healthier when everyone is seen, heard and valued.

    Read the Faith Today articles here: https://digital.faithtoday.ca/faithtoday/library/item/11122023/4146295/

    Find out about SEE Global here: https://seeglobal.net

    • 36 min
    What true inclusion looks like - Ep. 221

    What true inclusion looks like - Ep. 221

    What does it mean for the church to truly welcome and include people who live with disabilities? How do we all grow stronger when everyone feels at home and valued? Faith Today's Ilana Reimer, also editor of Love is Moving magazine, interviews Janet Noel-Annable, CEO of Karis Disability Services (formerly Christian Horizons).
    Find out more about Karis: https://christianhorizons.org

    • 39 min
    The Longing of our Soul...and our longing for books - Ep. 220

    The Longing of our Soul...and our longing for books - Ep. 220

    Are you a book lover? Has Christian literature shaped your spiritual life? Jeff Crosby is an author himself, and president and CEO of the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association. He came to the ECPA from his position as publisher at IVP and brought with him years of experience within the Christian publishing industry.
    Jeff speaks to Karen Stiller from the vantage point of an expansive view of the issues facing Christian publishing today, but also as author of the newly released book, The Language of the Soul: Meeting God in the Longings of our Heart, with other books lined up in the near future about music and about the role of spiritual reading in our lives.

    More about The Language of the Soul: https://www.broadleafbooks.com/store/product/9781506480541/The-Language-of-the-Soul

    Learn about the ECPA: https://www.ecpa.org

    • 36 min
    The story behind the new Mohawk translation of the Bible - Ep. 219

    The story behind the new Mohawk translation of the Bible - Ep. 219

    It's been a 200-year journey for a complete Mohawk translation of the Bible to find its way into the world. The first translation in the history of the Bible Society was the translation of the Gospel of John in Mohawk by the British and Foreign Bible Society in 1804. In 1880, the four Gospels were translated by Sosé Onasakenrat of Kanesatake, In 2023, the Mohawk Bible is now complete, thanks to the tireless translation work of Onasakenrat's great grandson Harvey Satewas Gabriel.

    Karen Stiller is joined by Phil Wagler, host of the All Things Reconciled Podcast, to speak with Bible translator Harvey Satewas Gabriel and Jeff Green, vice-president of Scripture translation at the Canadian Bible Society.

    You will enjoy this warm, vulnerable and fascinating discussion that explores the power of language, the beauty of this family history of translation, and what projects like this bring to reconciliation.

    • 40 min

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