Articles

January 2022

I was born into a Muslim family in Iran. I was a member of AA (Alcoholics Anonymous), and as I worked on the 12 steps of the AA ...

OC Director's Blog: January 2022

January 2022 Update from Outreach Canada's Executive Directior, Dr. Craig Kraft. 

Transform Prayer Course

Flipping the Calendar

I love the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day. If feels like there is more space in this time than almost any other week of the year. Time t ...

Let's NOT Bring the Troops Home for Christmas

It is a wonderful thing to know that a great army of Canadian ambassadors are out heralding the good news in a host of languages. Christ was born i ...

Visitors from the East

From the earliest days, the visit of the Magi has been celebrated as a recognition, even in the Gospel account, of the inclusion of the Gentiles in ...

Al Massira Online Training Event 2022 (Thursdays & Saturdays)

Al Massira Online Training Event 2022 (Mondays)

Beyond the Mistletoe

Christmas is not all, and only about green mistletoe, tasty pastries, and sweet fluffy calico cats. It is, I believe about two puzzling and paradox ...

Light of the world

The Covid pandemic has profoundly shaken the world. “Is this a wake-up call?” Many people in the west who've lost jobs because of lockdown are rece ...

What is Love?

When a group of four to eight-year olds were asked “What is love?”, their responses were incredibly accurate and insightful...

December 2021

I was born in Aleppo, Syria in a simple, Islamic educated family who practiced Islamic rituals and taught me to do the sam ...