Playing God: Redeeming the Gift of Power
By Andy Crouch
IVP Books, 2013
Reviewed by Janelle Vandergrift
In Playing God, Andy Crouch defines power as the ability to “make something of this world” and the deepest form is creation. He argues that power is not essentially coercive and violent, though […]
From The Catalyst, Summer 2015
Live Justly
By Jason Fileta, Ronald J. Sider, Eugene Cho, Kimberly McOwen Yim, Shayne Moore, Rene Padilla, Nicholas Wolterstorff, and Sunia Gibbs
Micah Challenge USA, 2014
Reviewed by Monique Verhoef
I grew up on a steady diet of the phrase “where the rubber hits the road.” I recall it being used to say “let’s get real” or […]
From the Catalyst, Summer 2015
Canadian Medicare: We Need It and We Can Keep It
By Stephen Duckett and Adrian Peetoom
McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2013
Reviewed by Adrian Helleman
In this book, Stephen Duckett, an expert in public health, and Adrian Peetoom, an author and publisher who is well-known to some CPJ members, describe the current medicare system in Canada and also […]
[…] Cooper Street, #501, Ottawa, ON K2P 0G5. God’s Call to Reconcile God’s focus in the world (or mission, if we use church-y words) is all about reforming and restoring relationships. This work is primarily done through God’s communal life (the Trinity) and through the call to the church. If our primary focus or purpose […]
by Michèle Biss
Action on poverty is long overdue. It’s time for our federal government to step up and put in place a comprehensive, rights-based approach to poverty.
Over the past year, the Dignity for All Campaign has been shouting this message from the rooftops. We’ve been spreading the word wherever and whenever we can – at […]
Momentum for climate action is growing “My heart shall sing of the day you bring. Let the fires of your justice burn. Wipe away all tears, for the dawn draws near, and the world is about to turn!”
[…] by Sally Guy
Better Now will likely find itself preaching to the choir. That is not to say that Martin is ever preachy—in fact, her style is conversational and unpretentious. But those that really need to read this book, sadly, won’t. Many of the ‘big ideas’ would hinge on the participation of all levels of […]
August 2018 Read the Letter CPJ wrote to the Minister of Families, Children and Social Development, Jean-Yves Duclos, to thank his government for following through on their commitment to reduce poverty in Canada, through the release of the first-ever national poverty reduction strategy.
For anyone interested in a window into the messy, complex, beautiful, and hope-filled world of refugee sponsorship in action in church halls and living rooms, this book is for you.
Tim Wichert’s review of Refugee Sandwich: Stories of Exile and Asylum by Peter Showler.
