Pat pleaded, “What are you saying?! How long does he have?” The oncologist replied, “With kids I’ve known with this kind of tumour, it is usually a matter of months, though sometimes we can be surprised, and it may be a bit longer.” The devastation in the room was palpable.
While I was working on my dissertation, I was also serving in spiritual care, in palliative care, in pediatric trauma. Here I was writing and thinking about these big picture ideas about hope when I was walking with people who were facing endings and facing their own death.
With allegations of another kidnapping in Nigeria by the militant group Boko Haram, the Nigerian government is facing increased pressure to act.
My decision to enter into ministry was a process that took a number of years to realize.
Time takes its toll on a church building. In turn, an aging building can take its toll on the members. It’s time to rejuvenate the building—or even build anew. This will take significant funds over and above a congregation’s annual budget. But how?
A seismic shift in 1840s Scotland stirred the ground for the 1925 Canadian Church Union. It’s a riveting story told by Don MacLeod.
The events in Ukraine as they have unfolded have captured frontpage headlines in most of the Western media. And although I do not follow the […]
In the often fractious Quebec cultural landscape, there’s a shining beacon of bilingual ecumenical co – operation. Longueuil, created by merging seven municipalities in 2002, […]
One of the things that I very much appreciated about the book is that it’s not really an environmentalist book. It’s a discipleship book. It’s a missional book.
Mariliana Morales’s life is a story of passion, courage and faith.
A conversation with Dr. Douglas John Hall about church, culture, power, anxiety and challenge.
There is both good and bad news in Bill C-31, Canada’s refugee law which came into effect in December 2012.
About four years ago, the church to which I now belong introduced a contemporary service; and I thank God that they did.
Ask a room full of people about church and you will open up not just a box of stories but a range of meanings, connotations and denotations that are as varied as the people you are speaking to.
Basic training is grueling, with sleep deprivation and drill sergeants yelling at recruits, constantly reminding them that they will flunk out. It is a harsh, graceless environment.
It’s neutral ground, a place where gangs lay down their guns.
Between 1888 and 1940, 185 Canadian missionaries risked their lives and came to Korea to deliver the Good News of Jesus Christ. Tutullian once said: “The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.”
It began with a chance encounter. On his way home from a church meeting one evening in 1964, George Fernie met a young man who […]
Rev. Feras Shammas came to Canada from Syria in June 2013. Born in Damascus and raised in Aleppo, he is now minister at Knox, Morrisburg, […]
One of my favourite authors, Northrop Frye, claims that if imagination is stoked (educated) with ideas from other times and places, you quickly realize there are better worlds than the one around us right now; there are worlds we want to live in.