Mental health issues have become part of the zeitgeist of our culture. We are bombarded with labels, diagnoses, and drugs and therapies to respond to them. Sadly too many Christians are too quick to embrace secular culture and secular brain science without filtering what they are being told through the truth of God’s word. Thankfully there are many very good resources from a Reformed perspective which will help us sort out the ever-present mental health obsession of our Weste

NOTE:  I have invited the contributions of Stu Reimer to write in this space on the issues of marriage and family. If you follow CRC at all you will know Stu to be my frequent substitute in the pulpit and I am looking forward to his work as my substitute from time to time in this space. Expect his blogs to appear every 6 weeks or so. Stu is no expert on the things on which I have asked him to write (Just ask his wife and children), but he is a committed reformed Christian and

I really enjoy writing and podcasting as a part of my ministry at CRC (and beyond). But there are times the well of ideas runs a bit dry and I have trouble coming up with topics about which to write in the blog or talk about on the Here I Sit podcast. So I’m asking for a bit of help. If there is anything you would like me to discuss -- a bible passage, theological topic, social or ecclesiological movement, whatever -- follow the link below to send your idea to me. https://doc

I mentioned in an earlier blog that I spent some time this summer with Canada’s finest philosopher Charles Taylor. To be fair, he was...