Welcome to the Reason for the Season edition of our B2B Bulletin.

This month we take the opportunity to consider "What would Jesus do?" if He was faced with the social justice ideologies that are currently plaguing our school system. Once we have answered that question, it is necessary to dig deeper. The real question in the light of these same issues. is, "What would Jesus have me do?",

Jesus calls us to take up our cross and follow HIm to where He is going, and emulate what He is doing. Once again the questions challenge us, "Am I following Him? Is there more I could be doing?" Where Jesus calls us to follow, the journey is not always comfortable, but the destination achieves His purposes and that is sufficient.

From the Back2Basics Durham team, we wish you a wonderful Christmas, filled with hope, joy and good fellowship. May it be a time in which you draw near to the One who is the Reason for the Season and came to visit and stay so that ultimately we might find a permanent home with Him.

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NO. 15

This month's theme...

The Reason for the Season

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The Reason for the Season

Tis the season to be jolly – Fa la la la la la la la la. At least that’s the way Christmas comes across these days. What is missing in this cheerful outlook is the reason why the season calls us to be so jolly.

The Reason is the One, namely Jesus, who’s coming to earth as a helpless infant has been celebrated during this season for over 2000 years.

Who is Jesus and what is it that makes Him the reason for such celebration? In the Bible, Jesus is known by a variety of titles such as Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. These titles describe various aspects of His character. If these claims are true, then surely, He is the Reason for the Season.

However, Jesus did not come just to portray aspects of His character. He also came to model to us how we should live. His life was a living, walking, talking example of how we are called to act in a way that pleases God. Through His own example, Jesus was able to convey how we are to shape our own lives. He taught us to :

· Be Salt Seasoners – A common use of salt in Jesus’s time, as it is now, is to prevent rot. A modest amount of salt seasoning can stop rot and decay in its tracks. Jesus calls us to actively apply salt seasoning to our own communities with right living and Godly wisdom.
· Be Lamp Lighters - Jesus also calls us to be like Light, shining goodness, healthy thinking and wisdom into the dark places in our communities. When a light is turned on in a room, darkness is eliminated. Jesus calls us to bring light into the dark nooks and crannies of our society.
· Be Defeaters of Death and Decay – Jesus brings hope into a dying world. Through His death on the cross and subsequent resurrection, He reveals that death and decay need no longer instill fear and dread in our hearts. There is Eternal Life and Hope for those who choose to follow Jesus. When we share this Good News with others, who are as lost as we are, we too, like Jesus, become defeaters of death and decay.

Jesus truly is the Reason we celebrate during this Season of Joy and Hope. In this month’s bulletin we view our stories through the lens of Salt and Light versus Death and Decay. We are called to emulate the former and do battle against the latter.

May God bless you richly this Christmas as we celebrate the Reason for the Season.

JESUS THE REASON FOR THIS HOLLY JOLLY SEASON - check out that banio.

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Season with Salt

THE NOTWITHSTANDING CLAUSE ALLOWS ALBERTA TO PROTECT MINORS BY OPTING OUT OF A BAD COURT RULING - the Alberta government is wisely and necessarily using a legitimate section of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to opt out

DANIELLE SMITH HAS UNITED CONSERVATIVES, LIBERTARIANS UNDER COMMON-SENSE PRO-LIFE LEGISLATION - Danielle Smith has created a conservative ‘big tent’ in which both the libertarians and the social conservatives get real legislative change to protect freedoms once considered common sense.

NEW ZEALAND THE LATEST COUNTRY TO BAN PUBERTY BLOCKERS FOR MINORS - New Zealand is prohibiting new minors from using puberty blockers for gender confusion, joining several western countries that have restricted the highly dangerous drugs.

OREGON SCHOOL DISTRICT SETTLES WITH TEACHERS WRONGFULLY FIRED FOR CHALLENGING GENDER POLICIES - Grants Pass School District publicly admit to wrongful termination, amend personnel files, write positive letters of recommendation, and revise its policies.

OLYMPICS POISEDTO BAN GENDER CONFUSED MEN FROM WOMEN'S EVENTS - The International Olympic Committee is reportedly set to impose a universal 2026 ban on transgender women in Olympic women's events, citing irreversible male physical advantages.

BBC USES LAME 'NEUTRALITY' EXCUSE TO REBUKE NEWSCASTER WHO OBJECTED TO GENDER IDEOLOGY - Rebuking a female presenter for correcting an ideological script that says men can get pregnant isn't 'neutrality,' by any stretch.

Shine Light

UNDERCOVER VIDEOS ON LATE-TERM ABORTION ARE CAUSING CHAOS AMONG LIBERALS - The narrative that late-term abortions are never perpetrated on healthy, viable babies is now completely, and publicly, collapsing.

MOST FLORIDA DOCTORS SUPPORT BANNING TRANSGENdER DRUGS, SURGERIES FOR MINORS - A new Do No Harm report reveals doctors overwhelmingly oppose puberty blockers and sex-change surgeries for minors, aligning with the consensus of the general public.

IOWA PREPARES RULES TO TEACH CHILDREN ABOUT UNBORN BABIES' DEVELOPMENT, REMOVE GENDER IDEOLOGY - New Iowa Board of Education rules require pro-life instruction for children in grades 5-12 on ‘the humanity of the unborn child’ and remove ‘gender identity’ from education policies.

AMERICAN COLLEGE OF PEDIATRICIANS APPLAUDS AND ENDORSES THE GROUNDBREAKING HHS PEER REVIEWED REPORT - This report discrediting pediatric sex-rejecting procedures. supersedes the department’s initial groundbreaking report released in May 2025.

JOHN CARPLAY, PRESIDENT AND FOUNDER OF JUSTICE CENTRE FOR CONSTITUTIONAL FREEDOM, ADDRESSES THE HYPOCRISY OF LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND THE PROBLEM OF IMPOSING THEM ON THE PUBLIC.

EQUAL RIGHTS FOR ALL, SPECIAL PRIVILEGES FOR NONE, IS THE ONLY PATH TO RECONCILIATION - Well-intentioned racism, to achieve the vague objective of “equity”, is still racism.

Defeat Death and Decay

LGBT GROUP DEMANDS EVEN ONSCREEN 'REPRESENTATION' - A recent report by GLAAD shares its concern over the number of LGBT characters who will not return to shows due to series cancellations, endings or limited series format.

PARENTS SUE SCHOOL DISTRICT AFTER 11-YEAR-OLD GIRL WAS FORCED TO SHARE A BED WITH A 'TRANSGENDER' BOY - the Colorado school district told the girl not to talk about the gender-confused male’s actual sex and instead instructed her to keep quiet that he was actually a boy.

MORE THAN 200 CHILDREN WILL RECEIVE PUBERTY BLOCKERS FOR A NEW UK STUDY - An NHS-backed trial will administer puberty blockers to children as young as 10 despite serious harms and is facing legal action from a prominent detransitioner

NEW CHILDREN'S BOOK TEACHES 5-YEAR-OLDS THAT ABORTION IS A 'SUPERPOWER' - The abortion industry has long tried to indoctrinate children into their anti-life agenda. This book, presenting abortion as human empowerment, is just the latest example.

CANADIAN HOSPITAL TELLS 23 WEEKS' PREGNANT WOMAN SHE CAN GET AN ABORTION FOR 'ANY REASON YOU CAN THINK OF' - BC Women’s Hospital is offered a dismemberment abortion for her 23-week baby and told her that taxpayer funding would cover a late-term abortion if she traveled to the US.

NEW REPORT SHOWS CHIDLREN AS YOUNG AS 6 ARE EXPOSED TO PORN THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA - Kids now see pornography not on adult sites but through social media platforms, with over half exposed accidentally, revealing a systemic failure to protect them from degenerate material.

School Matters

GTA HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER STARTS A CHRISTIAN GROUP AT HIS SCHOOL AND RUNS YOUTH ALPHA - he has made a decision to be salt and light in his school community and the school is reaping the benefit.

ONTARIO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CROSSES A LINE WITH QURAN LESSON, PARENT SAYS. A Durham mother says she pulled her son out of Colonel J.E. Farewell Public School after discovering that his Grade 4 class was being tested on Islamic teachings.

VOUCHER SYSTEM WOULD BOOST SCHOOL CHOICE AND INNOVATION IN CANADA. The debate over school choice is ideological and is much like the debate over health-care provision in Canada..

ONTARIO WOULD CRUSH PARENTS RIGHTS IF IT ABOLISHED DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED SCHOOL TRUSTEES - In a letter to Paul Calandra, a concerned constituent warns that Bill 33 'would harm parental authority over an essential aspect of family life, the education of their children.'

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Recommended Reads and Views - this month

the following materials challenge modern day commonly accepted narratives

VIDEO (15 mins) - Posie Parker at the European Parliament: Europe’s trans ideology unmasked

READ THE MADNESS OF CROWDS (267 pages) - "at a moment of collective madness, there is nothing more refreshing - or indeed provocative - than sanity" (Sam Wells). Available on Amazon.