Once again, we are entering the last quarter of the calendar year, when many people are considering year-end donations to their favourite charitable causes. Please consider making a financial contribution to my work with Global Scholars Canada. Your contributions help to support the following:
- I draw a small monthly salary from these funds to supplement my private and public pension income, and together they cover a portion of the time and energy put into the various responsibilities I have taken on.
- The funds cover equipment, supplies, books, and other incidental expenses incurred in my work. The computer on which I work and the connected printer are two of the major pieces of equipment provided by your generous contributions.
- With the easing of the pandemic, I have resumed some work-related travel, most recently to western Pennsylvania to speak at two educational institutions. Your contributions will help to support this travel, especially where resources in the host country are insufficient to cover the costs.
GSC's page for giving can be found here. Once you are in the page, scroll down to the heading marked DONATION DETAILS, and then choose one of the options under FUND. Americans may donate through our sister organization in the US.
Canadian donors can donate publicly traded securities (shares or mutual funds) directly to charities without having to pay the capital gains tax. This is a cost-effective way to make a donation that comes with a substantial tax incentive. By donating securities, donors pay no tax on capital gains, receive a tax receipt for the fair market value of the securities, as well as reduce their taxes. Watch this video for more information about this option: Link Charity Canada: Donation of Securities. If interested, please visit the Link Charity Canada Inc. website, and call for details at 1-800-387-8146. Link Charity Canada is a partner organization of Global Scholars Canada, so Link Charity can easily direct funds for my work.
If you cannot afford to give, please do continue to pray for my work. God does work through our prayers for each other. Thanks once again to those of you who have been faithful in supporting my work both financially and in your prayers.
Much of our attention for the past week or so has been focussed on the horrific terrorist attack by Hamas on southern Israeli towns near the border with Gaza. Earlier this year I wrote a four-part series on Israel's precarious democracy, examining more closely the Israel-Palestine issue and the obstacles to a peaceful and just resolution. Last week, Christian Courier published my article, Contributing factors in the Israel-Hamas war, updating my earlier analysis in light of the events of the previous weekend. Finally, I received word that a nine-year-old article of mine on the subject was trending: Israelis and Palestinians: Who's oppressing whom?
A few months ago I conversed online with a group of young Christians in Europe who style themselves a European Fraternity, courtesy of my young friend Samuel Vandeputte. Late last month I spoke again to this group, which included participants from five countries. The topic was "Ideologies in Christian Perspective," based, of course, on my first book.
In recent years I've come to think that the critical methods that come second nature to the typical academic may push aside something more basic that ought to set the tone for our life in God's world. I explore this from a first-person perspective here: A critic's gratitude.
Finally, First Things recently published my article: The fight for parents' rights in Canada. This is in response to articles in the Canadian press that made parental rights in education appear to be an unusual notion with a questionable provenance.
North American Christians are familiar with the so-called "worship wars" in response to praise bands increasingly displacing the organ in our churches. But how many of us are aware that in the mid-19th century, parish churches in England saw organs replace worship bands, or west gallery quires, as they were called? This trend disappointed novelist Thomas Hardy, as I point out here: West gallery quires and a Thomas Hardy novel.
InterVarsity Press now has the manuscript for my next book. I recently received an email detailing the process from here on. For the moment I turn to other projects. But sometime shortly after the turn of the year, I can expect to receive a consolidated report from the publisher suggesting revisions based on the responses of their anonymous reviewers. Please pray that this process will go well.
Thank you once again for your support for my work.
Yours in God's service,
David Koyzis, Global Scholar
No comments:
Post a Comment