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Any article on attitudes to racism in the Christian church’s foundational period would be necessarily short. There simply was none. The matter is far different […]
Any article on attitudes to racism in the Christian church’s foundational period would be necessarily short. There simply was none. The matter is far different […]
On Nov. 12, 2009, Greg Wagland stood vigil near a pile of trash in the Sonoran Desert, one of the largest and hottest deserts in […]
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 […]
I was driving to Lloydminster, which straddles the border of Alberta and Saskatchewan, to attend a rural ministry conference. The conference’s official title was Rooted […]
“The whole three year project — everything — every single thing we’re trying to do has something to do with the community. So finally, when […]
“They are my people,” David Pandy told the Record while on furlough in Canada, of the Ukrainian Roma or gypsies with whom he works. “I […]
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 […]
The first part of the path up the hill is the steepest and there isn’t a lot to hold on to; some of the trees […]
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 […]
“I can find no clear warrant in scripture for the practice of ordination to Word and Sacrament as we now practice it.” So declared Rev. […]
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 […]
Taiwan, along with another island, was the settlement China made with Japan after losing the first Sino-Japanese War in 1895. This led to 50 years […]
In our presbytery, Lambton-West Middlesex, we have a church named Centre Road. We haven’t done the research to know for sure, but we bet it’s […]
The connection between Taiwan and Canada goes back to the Canadian Presbyterian Church when, with its first foreign missionary appointment, it sent George Leslie MacKay […]
Over the last 25 years, Canadian Presbyterians have made a subtle, yet significant change in our understanding of the role the Book of Forms (“the […]
Buildings decay and become old-fashioned – this is a challenge facing all churches. Many congregations, regardless their history, are wondering whether to renovate or rebuild. […]
Faced with the choice of upgrading their 1920s church or starting from scratch with a brand new building, the members of Knox in Waterloo, Ont., […]
God does not provide much money to many Presbyterian congregations because they spend it in a way He does not want. To grow more in […]