Finding Light in Darkness
So here we are, putting the final touches on the final issue of the Presbyterian Record. It’s hard to believe this is the last time I’ll have the thrill of looking through all our readers’ art contest entries.
So here we are, putting the final touches on the final issue of the Presbyterian Record. It’s hard to believe this is the last time I’ll have the thrill of looking through all our readers’ art contest entries.
A huge congratulations to our cover art winner, Hannah Watson of Warkworth, Ont.!If you can believe it, she’s only eight years old. She did get […]
This year’s art submissions were really incredible—from a cute little scribble from a two-year-old to a painting from a 92-year-old! Talk about variety. You can […]
Christmas is a very big deal in my household. Before the Halloween decorations have even come down, my four-year-old son Alex is begging me to […]
As Presbyterians, we know John Calvin as a key influence on our doctrine and faith. How many of us can also say that we understand […]
If William Proudfoot had gotten his way, this year’s recruit of graduates from Knox and Presbyterian College would have been as proficient with crop rotations […]
We changed the process of the Rayner Award this year. In past years, I have chosen a theme on which the participants have to write. This year, we asked the participants to convert one of their academic essays into an article.
It is often absolute chaos. There is a din in the background; bowls of food are going out left and right to all the tables. […]
How does the church find a balance between safeguarding the tradition and speaking with a prophetic voice? This was the question posed to me and […]
Like me, you may be amazed how new concepts are continuously revealed to you as you pursue your relationship with God. This happened to me […]
Thank you to all our Christmas Art Contest entrants. We were blown away by the amazing artwork, which is featured throughout this issue. A special […]
Entry Deadline: November 1st, 2010 Share your gifts with the rest of the church this Christmas: Help us illustrate the December issue of the Presbyterian […]
In order for us to stay “on track” as faithful Christians, I think its important for us to often ask ourselves who we are and […]
I recently heard the polity of the Presbyterian Church in Canada described as “intentionally ambiguous.” It occurred to me that this was at the root […]
Rev. DeCourcey Rayner was the right man at the right job at the right time. A minister and a journalist he helmed the Record through […]
To be Presbyterian is to be identified by one’s church government. Historically speaking, Presbyterianism emerged as a kind of proto democracy, distinguishing itself against the […]
Every autumn, the editorial team waits with anticipation – not unlike a child waiting for Christmas morning – to receive your works of art depicting […]
Globe and Mail columnist Jeffrey Simpson famously—at least in our circle—described Stéphane Dion as a Presbyterian in December 2006, when Dion won the top job for the […]
Clichés become clichés for a reason. The expression is overused to the point of becoming a caricature, but that does not mean there is no […]
Although it doesn’t look like the portrait of a revolutionary, the painting hanging in the student lounge of the Presbyterian College in Montreal is the […]