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WHAT the Data?!

Lior Barak and Michael Stiller

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Let's talk about how we leverage our data to improve the user targeting and experience. Join our podcast while we explorer how our guests using data, how they develop the user experience, and improve marketing expenses. Lior Barak, data strategist, author of "Data is Like a Plate of Hummus" and founder of "Tale About Data", Michael Stiller, analyst, founder of STILLGROVE, going to explorer how companies collect, process, and use their data, and how this improves the user experience of their ...
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While most movie reviewers focus on films out now, David and Michael Rainey decided to review movies from ten to twenty years ago. These are movies that were ignored when they were first released, didn't get the marketing push to be well known, or simply had the bad luck to be released opposite a much more popular blockbuster. It's time to give these movies a second chance.
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The Faith Today Podcast-Conversation inspired by Canada's Christian magazine. The podcast features interviews with Canadian Christians as they sort through the pressing issues of the day and topics like spiritual growth and health, other religions, religious freedom, vocation, and tough questions of faith and living in contemporary society.
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​​​​​​A Short Guide to Reading the Bible Better is a new book by George Guthrie, a professor of New Testament at Regent College in Vancouver. We talk to him about how we can overcome the obstacles the prevent us from using the Bible to grow in our faith.https://www.regent-college.edu/faculty/full-time/george-guthriehttps://www.bhpublishinggroup.com…
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​Effective ministry -- and good seminary education -- can both benefit from paying attention to local context, says Anna Robbins, president of Acadia Divinity College in Nova Scotia. She chats with host Bill Fledderus about a series of initiatives at ADC known as East Coast Theology.https://acadiadiv.ca/east-coast-theology/https://acadiadiv.ca/pres…
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​How can we all help reduce the internal and external obstacles that impede women from using their gifts? Cathie Ostapchuk has some ideas. She is cofounder of Gather Women Canada, author of the 2019 book Brave Women, Bold Moves: Choosing Courage in a Culture of Conformity, a consultant, coach and podcaster. She spoke with host Bill Fledderus about …
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​​Do you view yourself as a creative person? Do you wish you had more time to write poetry, paint, knit, work with wood or just colour a picture? This conversation with Canadian Creative Ann-Margret Hovsepian is all about getting you moving more deeply into your creative side -- with a bit of side dip into pondering why colouring has become an acti…
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​Canadian prayer networks have flourished in just the past two or three years. Hear from three national leaders about how their network developed and how they have come to cooperate together for initiatives such as Ignite Prayer and Worship Summits. Includes Chris Byberg (NHOP), Roger Helland (EFC) and Dale Winder (BGEA).https://www.billygraham.ca/…
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David Guretzki is the new president and CEO of The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, after serving as its executive vice-president and resident theologian since 2017 and a long stint on its board of directors. He speaks with Bill Fledderus about the EFC’s role in the Christian community across Canada and his hopes for the future (and also about ast…
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In November of 2020, Toronto-based Tim Challies and his wife Aileen received the call that is every parent's worst fear. Their 20-year old son Nick had died mysteriously and suddenly on a field at the seminary he attended in the States. Seasons of Sorrow: the pain of loss and the comfort of God is a chronicle of Tim's journey of grief, healing and …
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​Calgary theatre director Val Lieske (Fire Exit Theatre, Ambrose University) talks with us about the importance of training Christian actors and storytellers. She argues these professions are hugely influential in our society but that many Christians make the mistake of avoiding them for a variety of misguided reasons. https://ambrose.edu/profile/v…
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Reconciliation, at the core of the Gospel and mission of God in the world, intersects with the experiences we all live. Jeanette Bohm and Phil Wagler wrestle with the hope of reconciliation in their own stories and desire to be increasingly reconcilers in the world.By Faith Today
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How does reconciliation move beyond ideas and even theologies to the practical everyday realities of society, politics, church life, family and creation care? Johannes Reimer, Director of the World Evangelical Alliance’s Public Engagement Department, unpacks the practical ways reconciliation impacts every area of life.…
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Can the life of an angry prisoner really be transformed into a witness of God’s reconciling mission? Johannes Reimer, Director of the World Evangelical Alliance’s Public Engagement Department, reveals how his life from unlikely beginnings became precisely that.By Faith Today
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​How can the Church do better with mental health? That is a big and important question these days. Daniel Whitehead is our guest, CEO of Vancouver-based Sanctuary Mental Health Ministries.Sanctuary equips the Church to support mental health and wellbeing. Most recently that has meant the launch of the Sanctuary Course, an online, video-based study …
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​How can parents best help their children grow in their faith? How can churches best support the parents?We're at a funny moment right now. Some of us have gone back to church in person, lots of us haven't. We're all busy. We all want the best for our children and for them to come to a living and lifelong faith in Jesus. The latest EFC-led partner-…
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​​Have you ever wondered if you'd have what it takes to care for a loved one when called upon?Life is full of caregiving surprises, and sometimes more is asked of us than we think we can give. Marjorie J. Thompson has reassuring and encouraging words for us as we dig into the spirituality of caregiving.Author of the recently released Courage for Ca…
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​Do you ever think about writing your life story? Dipping your toes into the waters of memoir? A lot of us do, and for good reason. We can share our stories with our children or extended family, or even just use this kind of important writing as a way to understand ourselves and our place in the world better.Carla Funk is a Canadian poet and memoir…
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The All Things Reconciled podcast is a mini series facilitated by Faith Today PodcastEpisode 4 - From CanadaZlata Zolotarova came to Canada from Ukraine as a college student. She now finds herself unexpectedly working with churches in her British Columbian city welcome, lament with, and understand her people as they arrive because of the war. Zlata…
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The All Things Reconciled podcast is a mini series facilitated by the Faith Today podcastEpisode 2 - From RussiaVitaly Vlasenko is the Secretary General of the Russian Evangelical Alliance and wrote an open letter of objection to the war, apologizing to the Ukrainian people. In this interview, Vitaly Vlaskenko shares the background to his decision …
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The All Things Reconciled podcast is a mini series facilitated by Faith Today PodcastEpisode 3 - From Western EuropeRuslan Maliuta, who helped launch World Without Orphans, is a Ukrainian serving the World Evangelical Alliance's crisis response among the 10 million people displaced by the war. He and his family left Ukraine by God's surprise leadin…
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The All Things Reconciled podcast is a mini series facilitated by FT PodcastEpisode 1 - From UkraineMaxym Oliferovski leads the New Hope Center team in Zaporizhzhia, 30kms from the frontline. They welcome refugees fleeing the Donbas region while awaiting what might yet be coming their way. Maxym speaks of the despair, the hope, and the spiritual re…
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​​After 199 episodes of interviewing other people, our podcast host Karen Stiller takes the mic for herself and shares some of what she's learned through this podcast about listening, and from listening to others. And if you don't like being interrupted, this one is for you. Karen references and pulls clips from several previous podcast in this epi…
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​Victim-advocate Melodie Bissell, who is also president of Plan to Protect, is currently working with victims connected with The Meeting House situation. Stories about clergy sexual abuse are so hard to hear and to bear. It's almost impossible to imagine what victim-survivors go through and the long journey toward healing. Melodie joins us, answeri…
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Do you ever wonder if, amidst controversy and a sometimes questionable reputation, we should just ditch the word 'Evangelical?' John G. Stackhouse, Jr. answers that question and more in this conversation. John is professor of religious studies at Crandall University in Moncton, a favourite and well read Faith Today columnist, and a scholar and auth…
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Why does the Christian life always seem to involve suffering? How is Jesus present in our sorrow and confusion? And...we also talk about adorable lambs. Ann Voskamp is a New York Times bestselling author who lives and writes on a working farm in Ontario. Her latest book is WayMaker: Finding the Way to the Life You’ve Always Dreamed of(Thomas Nelson…
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​Thank you. I'm sorry. Tell me more. They are such simple phrases but they carry a lot of meaning. Author, psychologist and pastor Rod Wilson unpacks them for us in this podcast and shares some practical tips on how to do all three well. We drill down on how to apologize well and how to interact politely (but firmly) with people who talk too much. …
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​​We've all had a dream not come true, or experienced some kind of deep disappointment in life that stopped us in our tracks. You're at the right podcast. This episode, featuring Scott Erickson, author of Say yes: discover the surprising life beyond the death of a dream, is full of great advice, including something called ‘the wonder hack’ and a cr…
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​One of our favourite departments in Faith Today is called Church in Community, and it's all about showcasing the creative ways churches across Canada are serving their communities, no strings attached.We loved the idea of Eucharist Church in Hamilton, Ont., to open their doors for people to wander in and sit quietly in the sanctuary during the wee…
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​Have you been moved by a piece of art? Or…have you wondered why some Christian art can sometimes feels a little, cringey?John Franklin leads Imago, an organization that supports Christians in the arts in Canada. He has great insight to share on why art matters so much, and how churches, and individuals can help nurture the artists.Find out more ab…
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​​What is it like to be on the Romanian/Ukraine border as refugees arrive? ​Michael Messenger, president of World Vision Canada, joins us from the Romanian/Ukraine border where World Vision is helping to welcome and meet the needs of hundreds of thousands of refugees forced to flee their country. He shares with host Karen Stiller what he is seeing …
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​What does it mean to truly care for one another? To really see and hear each other? How do you do with people who are different from you?Keith Dow is our guest and manager of organizational and spiritual life at Christian Horizons, an organization that works together with people who experience disabilities to accomplish their goals and nurture com…
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​With this podcast, we step into the warm writing and reading life of Randy Boyagoda, whose two recent novels contain faith, humour and fast moving plots. Boyagoda is a writer, scholar and professor, critic and author of the recently released Dante's Indiana, a sequel to his popular novel Original Prin. He's a deeply Catholic thinker who contribute…
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Andrew is a software architect in the Cloud and Cognitive Expert Labs and Learning group at IBM. He has extensive experience building solutions with AI and holds over 100 US patents. Virtual assistants sometimes called chatbots **Website:** http://freedville.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewrfreed/ https://twitter.com/andrewrfreed https://www…
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​​Do you worry about your kids and online pornography? It's a big issue for parents today. We have some help to offer you from Marilyn Evans, the founder of Parents Aware, an organization aimed at helping parents have healthy conversations with their kids about pornography, sex, and intimacy, and host of the Media Savvy Moms podcast. We featured he…
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​​Who wants to sit around and talk about funerals? We do! In this special episode of the Faith Today podcast, EFC's resident theologian David Guretzki dialogues with Tim Perry, author of Funerals: for the Care of Souls, the book that inspired the cover story of the latest Faith Today. If you think this will be a downer, think again. But it might ch…
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​​Join Faith Today podcast host Karen Stiller, tech producer Dave Auyeung, Rick Hiemstra and Lindsay Callaway, hosts of the new EFC podcast Faith Trends, as they go behind the scenes. This is the entire EFC podcast team sharing notes, favourite episodes from the last year, and what they really think and feel about Christmas. A fun and light way to …
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​​Christmas is coming and so are awkward conversations about vaccination status and who is going where when and what we're all going to talk about when we get there.Psychotherapist and Marriage and Family Therapist Sharon Ramsay -- and all-around good advice giver -- offers practical tools and very kind ways of thinking through the coming days. Thi…
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​​To read her is to love her, in our opinion. Kate Bowler brings fresh honesty to some of life's toughest questions. In this interview with Karen Stiller, Kate takes us behind the scenes of her latest book, No Cure for Being Human, and also solves a lot of everything. Plus, laughter. Thanks Kate!Read all about Kate's work and her books here: https:…
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Hello and welcome to another episode of WHAT the Data?! Podcast, and today we have for you a great episode with Thorsten Dittmar. Thorsten in this episode helped us to understand what is wrong with the dataconomy today. Thorsten is passionate about data Economy, Data Privacy, EDGE-Computing, Privacy-preserving processing. He is a professional nerd,…
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Hello and welcome to another episode of WHAT the Data?! Podcast, and today we have for you a great episode with Yehonathan Sharvit. Yehonathan in this episode helped us to understand what is data-oriented programming, how can you use it, and in general an intro to why it is important to adapt the method. Yehonathan Sharvit has been working as a sof…
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​​Do you feel sluggish in your spiritual life? Wonder if you're growing or stalled? Author and pastor Darryl Dash shares good news and good habits in this interview with Karen Stiller. His insights into identifying a "good church" is worth the listen alone.Darryl's new book is 8 Habits for Growth: A Simple Guide to Becoming More Like Christ. https:…
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​Religious people are not very popular when it comes to politics. Canadian politicians are asked tough questions about how their religious beliefs shape their politics. Is that fair? Should it discourage people of faith from running for office?Our guest John Milloy is Assistant Professor of Public Ethics and the Director of the Centre for Public Et…
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​Philip Yancey is a popular and prolific author, whose honest and searching books over a long writing career have helped Christians grapple with questions like, where is God when it hurts, and come to terms with the reality of feeling disappointment with God. Now, he's released a memoir that takes us back to his fundamentalist upbringing and the pa…
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​Joanna la Fleur is a speaker, podcaster, TV host, and communications consultant. With a Business Communications degree and a Masters in Theological Studies, she has been helping the Church communicate the best news in the world for over 15 years. We loved this interview full of insights, learnings and practical tips for churches coming out of the …
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​Dr. Todd Johnson is Professor of Mission and Global Christianity, and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Boston. The Centre, which you will hear about, is an academic research center that monitors worldwide demographic trends in Christianity, including outreach and mission. They…
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