John Updike, who died in January at 76, was widely regarded as a colossal figure in American letters and named “the finest novelist writing in […]

Precious in the sight of the Lord [is] the death of his saints.Psalms 116:15

Barbara Edmonds, co-founder of Edmonds, Gallagher and McLaughlin Insurance Brokers Limited and Royal Lepage Edmonds and Associates Real Estate, Pembroke and life member of Petawawa Presbyterian passed away peacefully in a hospital, in March last year, at the age of 74.

We met one another in 1962. It was not long before our two families became good friends. Raymond and Cindy lived on Isle Jesu in an area called Duvernay. He had been appointed the minister of St. John's there. The two families visited one another until Raymond and Cindy left Montreal for California.

John Hoag and I were fellow members of Rosedale, Toronto, for 40 years. It was customary for John and Sarah and their two children, Hannah and Matthew, to sit in the pew immediately behind the one in which my family sat. This positioned me to hear his periodic insightful commentaries on what was taking place during the service-uttered sotto voce-sounding very similar to the hushed tones one hears from some television commentators during golf tournaments.

Committed… passionate… strong-minded… compassionate listener… sense of humour… pastor… friend… family man… faithful servant of Jesus Christ. These are just a few of the words […]

Mel Bailey walked the Great Wall of China; he dined in the banquet halls of such luminaries as the Archbishops of Oslo, Norway and Leningrad, Russia. Equally he brought cigarettes every Tuesday to a blind man in an Ancaster nursing home and spent long nights by the side of dying saints and sinners. A beloved husband and father who walked in pastures green and in the valley of the shadow. This is our Mel.

It's hard to believe that I first heard an exposition of this passage of scripture almost 40 years ago by Rev. Dr. John Stott, then […]

The Presbyterian Church in Canada has lost a number of faithful servants in the last few months. Below is a brief look at a handful of those no longer with us.

It is the end of an era.