Growing Together
Growing Together is a newsletter supplement to The Messenger online but with a focus on what is happening in our culture and the issues that are challenging for the church.As a small church conference, we cannot, and will not try to do what larger organizations do. What we will do, is discuss the issues that have an impact on us, with arguments and material to assist us to think through issues intelligently from several angles. As with everything we do, we are committed to the Bible as inspired by God and the truth by which we live.
Editorial: These are our people
Award-winning Canadian author Miriam Toews based her 2018 book Women Talking on these events, and in December 2022 a movie from Sarah Polley based on the book was released in theatres to generally positive reviews but also some frustration from those with first-hand knowledge or experience on the colonies. This story, as foreign as it may seem to most of us, is very connected to EMC.
The Intersection of Faith, Gender and Atrocities
At first, they were told it was ghosts. Or demons. Or the product of an ‘overactive female imagination.’ And while the women knew this was wrong, they lacked the evidence to prove it.
Women Talking: A woman’s thoughts
I watched the movie Women Talking four times in two days.
Trauma in the context of faith
Sometimes a new film comes out and its title alone grabs your interest. In a subtle way the recent film Women Talking does just that. The title doesn’t reveal anything about the setting or the subject matter, and this is key, as we are drawn into the story with no preconceived ideas or opinions.
Truth is more heart-breaking than fiction
It’s easy to pick on the details a movie gets wrong, like how the colony’s village was laid out wrong or how names were mispronounced, but those details were not particularly important to anyone we spoke to about Women Talking.