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A few months ago, I reported (here) of a Waterloo Region public school teacher who the WRDSB chair censored at a board meeting. Her offence? She questioned whether school officials should be teaching children that hormone blockers are a good idea. She did so while quoting a public school library book that presented hormone blockers
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The following is adapted from a short sermon I gave at a child-dedication service on Mother’s Day. Introduction Many think that there is a recipe to get your children into the Kingdom of God. “Maybe if I just protect them enough from the world they will be good,” some may reason. The problem is that
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Just over a year ago, the Province of Ontario seized our church building and charged me, along with all our elders, with contempt of court for the second time. The Province, claiming to be acting in the public good, had set limits on church attendance, and we had no regard for them. We, ourselves claiming
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Early in the first COVID lockdown, I had quickly publicly opposed the mandates, and in April 2020 someone criticized a post I made. The individual said that we should be doing our part to save society from COVID just as our ancestors did their part to save society from the Nazis in WWII. I took
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Winds blow trends here and there from time to time, and a recent wind I’ve noted is the discussion on Thomas Aquinas. I suppose it’s been going on for a while, but it’s starting to blow more forcefully because I’m seeing the discussion more frequently. I’ve wondered why the 13th century theologian has suddenly so
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On March 30, state politicians made a presentation at the Ohio House State and Local Government Committee hearing. The presentation pertained to the state of religious freedom in Canada. Representatives Reggie Stoltzfus and Timothy E. Ginter, along with eleven co-sponsors, presented House Resolution 194 (you can read the resolution here and track its progress here).
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Just over a year ago, Trinity Bible Chapel was first bound by a court order forbidding us from gathering as a congregation to worship. Believing that Jesus Christ is Head of His Church and conversely that the Province of Ontario and the Ontario Superior Court of Justice are not head of Christ’s Church, we decided
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On April 1, 2020, less than two weeks after the original emergency orders in Ontario, I produced and published the below video. I published it on my Facebook page, a page which I have since abandoned for various reasons. I remember at the time also posting a sarcastic remark on my Facebook page akin to
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