Presbyterian-owned Crieff Hills Community Retreat and Conference Centre is seeking $600,000 for the construction of a new retreat house. The capital fundraising campaign was launched […]

The Anglican Journal—The Anglican Network in Canada, a group composed of 29 churches that have split from the Anglican Church in Canada, is set to […]

There are Two kinds of change, said Rev. Wesley Denyer, chair of the Emmaus Project planning team. One is a slow, often budget-driven change, and the other is a sudden revelatory change akin to suddenly opening your eyes and perceiving the world in a different way.

“The dream [of next summer’s planning conference] is that our eyes will be open to the reality that the Presbyterian Church already has God and Christ with it,” he said. “And with us recognizing that, we’ll be instantly changed.”

ENI—The appointment of a Roman Catholic nun as dean of San Francisco Theological Seminary, a school of the Presbyterian Church (USA),illustrates the truth of the […]

During his final remarks as Moderator of the 2008 General Assembly, Rev. Cheol Soon Park asked for special prayers for Canada’s oil industry.

“It’s a remarkable resource, and we need it,” he told commissioners and staff during the first session of the 2009 assembly. “Although a lot of money can be made by extracting oil quickly, we need to be responsible. We need to ensure that the next generation and the generation after that still have access, and do not have to bear
the cost of restoring the land.”

Park had just returned from a tour of Alberta’s Athabasca oil sands that allowed church and aboriginal leaders to meet with industry representatives, workers, government officials and aboriginal communities. The tour was sponsored by KAIROS: Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives.

Congratulations to the Presbyterian Record for its seven Canadian Church Press awards. the publication is way ahead of the magazine of years ago. It prints […]

Fresh from his graduation in May, Rev. Mike Hamilton was ordained as Trinity Oro’s new minister in June. The congregation voted unanimously to call him. […]

A cryptic reference to “a Presbyterian minister who survived the bullets of a religious fanatic,” in a newspaper article, started speculation on the Presbyterian Church’s […]

A new face is coming to national offices as Tori Smit prepares to replace Dorothy Henderson as associate secretary of the Vine resource network. She […]

Despite a false start, Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission is ready to begin anew with three new commissioners.

Justice Murray Sinclair will serve as the commission’s chairperson, replacing Justice Harry LaForme who resigned last October. Sinclair was appointed Associate Chief Judge of Manitoba’s provincial court in 1988, and co-commissioner of Manitoba’s Aboriginal Justice Inquiry.

ACT—Two development bodies are amalgamating to create the ACT Alliance. The new body will draw on a common income of more than $2 billion US […]