Introducing: Will Your Anchor Hold?
Ministry asks a great deal of those who care for others. Over time, even the most faithful leaders can find themselves carrying more than they realize.
Will Your Anchor Hold? is a six-part series with Rev. John Borthwick exploring what it means to care for others without losing yourself in the process. Drawing from his own story, years of ministry, practical tools, and current research, John reflects on burnout, compassion, resilience, and the practices that help us stay grounded through the joys and challenges of ministry.
If you've ever wondered how to keep serving for the long haul while caring well for yourself too, we hope you'll join us for the journey.
Kristin Kobes Du Mez on Christian Culture and the World We Inherited
John sits down with historian and author Kristin Du Mez to talk about her new book, Live, Laugh, Love: The Secret History of White Christian Women and the World They Made. Their conversation wanders through Christian bookstores, Little House on the Prairie, purity culture, multi-level marketing, women in ministry, and the quiet ways faith, culture, and commerce have become tangled together over the last century.
Kristin invites us to become more curious. What has shaped us? What stories have we inherited without noticing? And what might it look like to hold onto faith while seeing our own history more honestly?
Rev. Kara Root on Letting Go in Parenting and Ministry
If you've ever felt responsible for holding a family together, saving a church, or making sure everyone else is okay, you'll probably hear a bit of yourself in this conversation. John welcomes pastor and author Rev. Kara Root to talk about The Pilgrimage of Letting Go, the book she co-authored with her husband, Andy Root. They reflect on control, anxiety, congregational leadership, Sabbath, pilgrimage, and the surprising freedom that comes when we stop believing everything depends on us.
Interview with Andy Harrington, Executive Director of the Canadian Foodgrains Bank
Andy Harrington reflects on calling, collaboration, and why ordinary churches still have an important role to play in responding to global hunger.
Rev. Dr. Stuart Macdonald on the Church Today
Churches across Canada are asking big questions about the future. Fewer people. Fewer resources. A culture that no longer assumes the Church belongs at the centre of public life. So where do we go from here?
John sits down with the Rev. Dr. Stuart Macdonald to talk about his After Christendom Substack and the ideas that have been shaping his writing. Together they reflect on what Christendom was, why it matters that it's ending, and what churches might need to rethink as they look ahead.
It's an honest conversation. There are moments of disagreement, plenty of curiosity, and no attempt to offer quick fixes. Instead, Stuart invites us to recover our imagination, rediscover our purpose, and ask what faithfulness looks like in the world we're actually living in.
Reimagine Conference with Adrian Jacobs and Friends
Recorded in partnership with Reimagine, Adrian Jacobs joins friends and colleagues to talk about land, treaty, church redevelopment, and what reconciliation might look like when it's rooted in relationship instead of obligation. Listen in on stories, history, theology, and honest questions.
Non-Congregational Ministers… “What’s it like out there?”
There aren't tidy answers here. Just three people trying to make sense of this moment in the life of the church and reminding one another that faithful ministry has always involved paying attention to where the Spirit is already moving.
Transitional Ministry
Transition isn't just what happens between pastors. Jan and Paul explore how every congregation can navigate change with greater intention and care.
Interview with Rev. Dr. Michael Brooks
Faithful preaching rarely gets the spotlight. Michael Brooks reflects on preaching, lament, relationships, and why proclaiming Jesus Christ still matters in the life of the local church.