In the 1980s a new church was ini­ti­ated in the north-​​​​west Greater Toronto Area. It was devel­oped as an essen­tially white, Anglo-​​​​European back­ground con­gre­ga­tion. Early on, how­ever, peo­ple from other cul­tural back­grounds began to attend largely because of a per­ceived … Read the full article

“It was a dark and stormy night…” We hear these words and find our­selves intrigued. We want to know what hap­pened on that “dark and stormy night” and so we read on and enter more fully into the story. … Read the full article

When­ever we drive in another city, my wife and I get lost. It could be down­town Chicago or Guelph, Ontario; regard­less of where we start from, we will some­how become dis­ori­ented and diverge from our neatly printed direc­tions. A street … Read the full article

We are well aware that life is not always filled with joy and hap­pi­ness. We know pain and bro­ken­ness, alien­ation and con­fu­sion, doubt and despair, and at times the seem­ing absence of God. When we feel that God has aban­doned … Read the full article

[Editor’s note: Please con­tinue to the end of  this arti­cle for Prof. Beverley’s exten­sive list of books and web-​​​​sites on Islam.]

A proper evan­gel­i­cal engage­ment with Islam must be mul­ti­fac­eted in light of the scope of Islamic his­tory, the vast spread … Read the full article