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The Faith Today Podcast Faith Today
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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. The podcast also features the voice of veteran Christian leader Brian Stiller, global ambassador of the World Evangelical Alliance, and some of the best Faith Today articles we think will interest you.
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How to speak to your kids about pornography
Do you worry about your kids and online pornography? It's a big issue for parents today. We have some help to offer you from Marilyn Evans, the founder of Parents Aware, an organization aimed at helping parents have healthy conversations with their kids about pornography, sex, and intimacy, and host of the Media Savvy Moms podcast. We featured her work in the Nov/Dec issue of Faith Today magazine (www.faithtoday.ca). In this podcast Marilyn shares with Karen Stiller some of her top guidance on having very tough conversations about online pornography and other dangers, with our highly-connected children.
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Funerals. Yes, funerals.
Who wants to sit around and talk about funerals? We do! In this special episode of the Faith Today podcast, EFC's resident theologian David Guretzki dialogues with Tim Perry, author of Funerals: for the Care of Souls, the book that inspired the cover story of the latest Faith Today. If you think this will be a downer, think again. But it might change the way you think about funerals.
Find out about more about Tim's book here: https://blog.lexhampress.com/2021/08/12/funerals-an-interview-with-tim-perry/
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Behind the Scenes and Christmas with the EFC Podcast Team
Join Faith Today podcast host Karen Stiller, tech producer Dave Auyeung, Rick Hiemstra and Lindsay Callaway, hosts of the new EFC podcast Faith Trends, as they go behind the scenes. This is the entire EFC podcast team sharing notes, favourite episodes from the last year, and what they really think and feel about Christmas. A fun and light way to end your podcast listening year!
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How to have weird conversations about vaccination status
Christmas is coming and so are awkward conversations about vaccination status and who is going where when and what we're all going to talk about when we get there.
Psychotherapist and Marriage and Family Therapist Sharon Ramsay -- and all-around good advice giver -- offers practical tools and very kind ways of thinking through the coming days. This conversation is based on Christmas, but the insights are timeless. -
No Cure for Being Human and just being wonderful with Kate Bowler
To read her is to love her, in our opinion. Kate Bowler brings fresh honesty to some of life's toughest questions. In this interview with Karen Stiller, Kate takes us behind the scenes of her latest book, No Cure for Being Human, and also solves a lot of everything. Plus, laughter. Thanks Kate!
Read all about Kate's work and her books here: https://katebowler.com
Read the print version of this interview in the Jan/Feb Faith Today, (where we also fearlessly dig into the topic of funerals). Sign up for free at www.faithtoday.ca -
Darryl Dash on the habits that can help us grow
Do you feel sluggish in your spiritual life? Wonder if you're growing or stalled? Author and pastor Darryl Dash shares good news and good habits in this interview with Karen Stiller. His insights into identifying a "good church" is worth the listen alone.
Darryl's new book is 8 Habits for Growth: A Simple Guide to Becoming More Like Christ. https://gospelforlife.com/8habits/