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I spend my Sunday mornings watching an eight-person band perform for a crowd of 400 — this is the reality in many contemporary Evangelical churches. As a musician and a Christian, I’m questioning why worship is done this way.

Throwing punches and lifting six days a week. Praying through vivid nightmares. Sobriety isn’t the finish line — it’s the fight you wake up to every morning. This is recovery.

Come for the miniature orcs and goblins playing football. Stay for the camaraderie.

In 2019, my high school esports club had fewer than 10 students showing up each week. Today, 72 schools are registered with the Manitoba School Esports Association. So what changed? As it turns out, a lot more than I ever expected.

Eldest daughters wear a lot of hats: the role model, the parentified child, the mediator, the responsible one. Online communities like #eldestdaughter are building a narrative of support that finally recognizes the backbone of the family.

People say that the kids these days are lazy, good-for-nothings that don’t want to work, but are they lazier than any generation has ever been? Let’s find out.

When romance and fantasy are more popular then ever, why are the readers who love them still so often ridiculed?

Gambling is usually associated with poker chips or slot machines, but these collectors gamble on blind boxes.

My first Yu-Gi-Oh! meetup seemed doomed to disaster after I unwittingly used an illegal deck against a perfect stranger. Little did I know, friendship and community were in the cards.

A business collapse. A child’s leukemia diagnosis. A realization that life could be different. For three Manitoban women, midlife became the moment to rethink work and to rebuild their careers on their own terms.

Working abroad has become a billion-dollar industry in the Philippines and provides for many Filipino families, but at what cost to those who leave and those who are left behind?

A job interview begins the moment someone walks into the room. What they are wearing is part of the first impression that follows.