The Faith Today Podcast

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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.

  1. What's Christian about foreign aid? - Ep 253

    12/20/2025

    What's Christian about foreign aid? - Ep 253

    Global aid is not just charity, but a shared responsibility and strategic investment rooted in the biblical call to stewardship, compassion, and justice, says Laura Solberg, executive director of Kentro Christian Network, the national hub representing 70 Christian relief and development organizations across Canada. She chats from Vancouver with host Bill Fledderus in Hamilton. https://kentronetwork.ca/

    34 min
  2. Suffering, Identity & Hope: Christian Approaches to Caregiving - Ep 252

    12/03/2025

    Suffering, Identity & Hope: Christian Approaches to Caregiving - Ep 252

    Keith Dow is a theologian who focuses on care and community, as he does in his book "Formed Together: Mystery, Narrative, and Virtue in Christian Caregiving" (Baylor, 2021) and in his work with Karis Disability Services. He talks with host David Guretzki about Christian perspectives on disability, the ethics of care and issues like MAiD and euthanasia.

    44 min
  3. Reaching and supporting migrants with the gospel - Ep 251

    11/20/2025

    Reaching and supporting migrants with the gospel - Ep 251

    Guest host David Guretzki chats with Shoaib Ebadi about reaching and supporting migrants with the gospel. Since 2010 Shoaib Ebadi and his wife have, from Canada, been running an evangelical TV program called Secret of Life, which is broadcast in Afghanistan where he grew up as a Muslim. Ebadi directs Square One World Media, an organization producing Christian content in Russian, Arabic, Low German, Spanish and more, including programs for Indigenous audiences in Canada. https://www.squareoneworldmedia.com/our-team https://chvnradio.com/articles/growing-up-muslim-one-mans-life-changing-encounter-with-jesus

    40 min
  4. Pastoral shortages? Calling and training for ministry - Ep 250

    10/31/2025

    Pastoral shortages? Calling and training for ministry - Ep 250

    Rick Hiemstra is a former Wesleyan pastor who now directs the EFC's Centre for Research on Church and Faith. He and host David Guretzki reflect on increasing concerns over upcoming pastor retirements and the shrinking numbers of future pastors. They consider issues around training, educational structures, public reputation around pastoral careers, and the need for Christian communities to be more intentional and explicit in raising conversations about vocation. Rick Hiemstra's 2024 article in Faith Today: Waking up to the pastor shortage https://digital.faithtoday.ca/faithtoday/library/item/05062024/4188073/ A response by Gordon T. Smith from 2025: Rethinking Canada's congregational leadership crisis https://www.faithtoday.ca/CCLC

    42 min
  5. Christians in Montreal today and across history - Ep 249

    10/07/2025

    Christians in Montreal today and across history - Ep 249

    Glenn Smith is the director of the graduate program in practical theology at McGill University. He recently published Christians in the City of Montréal, a book that documents the roots of Christianity in Montréal while focusing on the present experience of Christians among its 4.3 million residents. He speaks with guest host David Guretzki about the Indigenous roots of Montréal, the 1960s "Quiet Revolution,” immigration since the 1960s and the reality today. Christians in the City of Montréal is published by Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

    45 min
  6. Christian living in secular Canadian society - Ep 248

    09/11/2025

    Christian living in secular Canadian society - Ep 248

    Guest host David Guretzki speaks with Dom Ruso, who leads a church called The180 in Laval, Que., that he helped to plant in 2016. Ruso was born and raised in Montreal, holds a PhD in historical theology and has also worked pastoring young adults. The180 church is an interdenominational church under the umbrella of The Alliance Canada. Ruso has a new book coming in September called The Bible in a Shifting Secular Age (Cascade, 2025). https://wipfandstock.com/9781666784909/the-bible-for-a-shifting-secular-age/ https://theoneeighty.ca/ourstory https://www.dashhouse.com/pastor-planter-interview-domenic-ruso/ https://www.eteq.ca/d8/en/node/235 https://biblesociety.ca/scriptureuntangled/podcast-episode-7-domenic-ruso/

    35 min
  7. Jesus and the revolutionary kingdom of peace - Ep 247

    09/08/2025

    Jesus and the revolutionary kingdom of peace - Ep 247

    Jesse Nickel of Columbia Bible College in Abbotsford, B.C., published a compelling book last year about how Jesus' ministry and presentation of the Kingdom of God contrast with human understandings of power (A Revolutionary Jesus: Violence and Peacemaking in the Kingdom of God, Fortress Press, 2024). He talks with host Bill Fledderus about the challenge we face to understand shalom is at the heart of Jesus’ teachings and life. His book is A Revolutionary Jesus: Violence and Peacemaking in the Kingdom of God (Fortress Press, 2024). His page at Columbia Bible College https://columbiabc.edu/instructor/jesse-nickel/ Instagram: @jesse_p_nickel Facebook: @Jesse Nickel

    58 min
  8. Elephants, tigers, rabbits and the Great Commission in Canada - Ep. 246

    06/10/2025

    Elephants, tigers, rabbits and the Great Commission in Canada - Ep. 246

    Lisa Pak serves at Finishing the Task, a Great Commission initiative led by Rick Warren, founder of Saddleback Church. Her title at that “network of networks” is director of partnerships in Asia, for young leaders and women. She talked with guest host David Guretzki about diaspora communities and engaging younger generations with the gospel. Previous to her current position, she has pastored across South Korea, Singapore and Canada and been a regional director for the Canadian Bible Society. A second-generation Korean-Canadian and Toronto native, she is ordained by the Korean Association of Independent Churches and Missions. https://finishingthetask.com/about/ https://missionexus.org/lisa-pak-keynote-at-missio-nexus-conference/ https://lausanne.org/podcast/the-task-set-before-us-breaking-barriers-building-bridges-in-global-missions-with-lisa-pak https://gospelmobilization.org/podcast/2023/9/25/the-mobilizers-role-in-finishing-the-task-with-lisa-pak

    37 min
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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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    Faith Today
  • Years Active
    2016 - 2025
  • Episodes
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