Keith Dow is a theologian who focuses on care and community, as he does in his book "Formed Together: Mystery, Narrative, and Virtue in Christian Caregiving" (Baylor, 2021) and in his work with Karis Disability Services. He talks with host David Guretzki about Christian perspectives on disability, the ethics of care and issues like MAiD and euthanasia.

Guest host David Guretzki chats with Shoaib Ebadi about reaching and supporting migrants with the gospel. Since 2010 Shoaib Ebadi and his wife have, from Canada, been running an evangelical TV program called Secret of Life, which is broadcast in Afghanistan where he grew up as a Muslim. Ebadi directs Square One World Media, an organization producing Christian content in Russian, Arabic, Low German, Spanish and more, including programs for Indigenous audiences in Canada.

https://www.squareoneworldmedia.com/our-team

https://chvnradio.com/articles/growing-up-muslim-one-mans-life-changing-encounter-with-jesus

Rick Hiemstra is a former Wesleyan pastor who now directs the EFC's Centre for Research on Church and Faith. He and host David Guretzki reflect on increasing concerns over upcoming pastor retirements and the shrinking numbers of future pastors. They consider issues around training, educational structures, public reputation around pastoral careers, and the need for Christian communities to be more intentional and explicit in raising conversations about vocation.

Rick Hiemstra's 2024 article in Faith Today: Waking up to the pastor shortage https://digital.faithtoday.ca/faithtoday/library/item/05062024/4188073/

A response by Gordon T. Smith from 2025: Rethinking Canada's congregational leadership crisis https://www.faithtoday.ca/CCLC

Glenn Smith is the director of the graduate program in practical theology at McGill University. He recently published Christians in the City of Montréal, a book that documents the roots of Christianity in Montréal while focusing on the present experience of Christians among its 4.3 million residents. He speaks with guest host David Guretzki about the Indigenous roots of Montréal, the 1960s "Quiet Revolution,” immigration since the 1960s and the reality today.

Christians in the City of Montréal is published by Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

Guest host David Guretzki speaks with Dom Ruso, who leads a church called The180 in Laval, Que., that he helped to plant in 2016. Ruso was born and raised in Montreal, holds a PhD in historical theology and has also worked pastoring young adults. The180 church is an interdenominational church under the umbrella of The Alliance Canada. Ruso has a new book coming in September called The Bible in a Shifting Secular Age (Cascade, 2025).

https://wipfandstock.com/9781666784909/the-bible-for-a-shifting-secular-age/

https://theoneeighty.ca/ourstory

https://www.dashhouse.com/pastor-planter-interview-domenic-ruso/

https://www.eteq.ca/d8/en/node/235

https://biblesociety.ca/scriptureuntangled/podcast-episode-7-domenic-ruso/

Jesse Nickel of Columbia Bible College in Abbotsford, B.C., published a compelling book last year about how Jesus' ministry and presentation of the Kingdom of God contrast with human understandings of power (A Revolutionary Jesus: Violence and Peacemaking in the Kingdom of God, Fortress Press, 2024). He talks with host Bill Fledderus about the challenge we face to understand shalom is at the heart of Jesus’ teachings and life.

His book is A Revolutionary Jesus: Violence and Peacemaking in the Kingdom of God (Fortress Press, 2024).

His page at Columbia Bible College https://columbiabc.edu/instructor/jesse-nickel/

Instagram: @jesse_p_nickel

Facebook: @Jesse Nickel

Jesus and the revolutionary kingdom of peace by Faith Today

Lisa Pak serves at Finishing the Task, a Great Commission initiative led by Rick Warren, founder of Saddleback Church. Her title at that “network of networks” is director of partnerships in Asia, for young leaders and women. She talked with guest host David Guretzki about diaspora communities and engaging younger generations with the gospel.

Previous to her current position, she has pastored across South Korea, Singapore and Canada and been a regional director for the Canadian Bible Society. A second-generation Korean-Canadian and Toronto native, she is ordained by the Korean Association of Independent Churches and Missions.

https://finishingthetask.com/about/

https://missionexus.org/lisa-pak-keynote-at-missio-nexus-conference/

https://lausanne.org/podcast/the-task-set-before-us-breaking-barriers-building-bridges-in-global-missions-with-lisa-pak

https://gospelmobilization.org/podcast/2023/9/25/the-mobilizers-role-in-finishing-the-task-with-lisa-pak

Greg Needham of Salmon Arm, B.C., and Lauralynn Mercer of Ontario are educators leading the Canadian Christian Education Movement, a project of the global education ministry Teach Beyond (cemovement.ca). They spoke with host Bill Fledderus about Christ-centred education options in Canada and new ways to help them grow.

Guest host David Guretzki chats with Sarah Han about how church members can think about the church being intercultural and missional. Dr. Han is assistant professor of pastoral ministry at Tyndale University. She considers herself to be "third culture" Canadian-Korean-Chinese and her formative theology was shaped on the mission field abroad. She has diverse experience in the Canadian public and private sectors, including immigrant churches. Her research focuses on an intercultural, intergenerational, missional ecclesiology for Canada.

https://www.tyndale.ca/faculty/sarah-han