Hope and Healing
I did have a regular life at one time. “Kids, carrots and the white picket fence,” I call it. We had most of the trappings […]
I did have a regular life at one time. “Kids, carrots and the white picket fence,” I call it. We had most of the trappings […]
I realized I was in the middle of something really special when I found myself sitting at a table drinking bubble tea at a restaurant […]
We come in the presence of God—we lay everything on the altar of God: our cherished positions about how things ought to be, ourselves as […]
Ever heard of Katherine Bushnell? Lee Anna Starr? Antoinette Brown Blackwell? Probably not. They were all 19th – century authors and speakers who made their […]
A well-meaning business friend of mine sent me a little tidbit on how a corporate culture change guru is effecting change in a car company. […]
It seems we’re always hearing about how the church is doomed. How it’s no longer relevant. How congregations must change in order to survive. And […]
When Gateway Community Church, Toronto, where I had been a worshipper, member and elder, over nearly 40 years, was dissolved by presbytery this summer, it […]
I spent days researching and learning as much as I could about Malawi and mission trips. I read countless articles about the dangers that mission […]
It was on May 5, 2010 that we expected our friends from Canada, but when we got to the airport we didn’t know what to […]
As an international development graduate from Trent University, I was looking forward to seeing firsthand some of the development projects supported by Presbyterian World Service […]
Youth in Mission: It’s a three-week whirlwind tour; a glimpse into the people, places and partnerships of Malawi’s Church of Central Africa Presbyterian and Canada’s […]
From just beyond the doors of Central Presbyterian Church, a statue of Joseph Brant (the Mohawk chief who leant his name to Brantford, Ont.), ringed […]
In the Great Hall of the Museum of Civilization in Ottawa there is an epitaph for an aboriginal leader named Chief Clelamen: In Memory of […]
Canadians seem to have forgotten that multiculturalism didn’t begin with Pierre Trudeau. He extended policies begun by Lester B. Pearson and opened wide the immigration […]
Living Faith and I are about the same age. That is, if I count the years from my ordination. Throughout my ministry, the little green […]
Articulating Belief An unlikely success story. by Stephen Hayes Living with Living Faith A useful and acceptable summing up of Presbyterianism. by Laurence DeWolfe Ancient […]
Well Jack certainly got that one wrong. Jack — Rev. John Weir Foote — was a beloved member of St. Andrew’s, Cobourg, Ont., where I […]
While I was still in my early 20s, a little green book appeared in the hymnbook racks of my home church. That little green book […]
SETTING: Abetifi, Ghana. Steepled stone church with balconies and soaring ceilings. Painted murals along the front of the sanctuary. On the right, an elevated, dark-wood […]
Holy communion, or eucharist, comes from the Greek eucharisto — I give thanks — because worshippers use this meal to give thanks to God. It […]