As I sat there watching people coming in to register, I began to feel myself being pulled into my past. I felt like I was back at the residential school being dropped off as a young child. A strange place. Strange people. Strange language. I started shaking.
Just as soldiers who went to fight did not hear of the Holocaust until after they returned, so we who were raised in Canada were never taught the story of residential schools.
Two recent superior court decisions have stated that while religious institutions have the right to their beliefs, the propagation of those beliefs must be framed within secular standards.
Now that the TRC has come to a close, a challenge for us as citizens of both God’s Kingdom and Canada, will be that our First Nations and Aboriginal peoples continue to be a priority of our mission and outreach mandates.
As a lay missionary working with Anishinabe people on Manitoba’s Keeseekowenin and Rolling River reserves in the 1970s, I, like other missionaries at the time, was given lessons in how to learn any language and cross-cultural communications.
When you have a cottage on an island you learn quickly never to call an expert to fix something you might be able to fix yourself.
Effective Sept. 1, the Life and Mission Agency’s Stewardship and Planned Giving offices will be amalgamated into a single department.
Guy Smagghe has appointed director of Presbyterian World Service and Development effective Sept. 1.
Rev. Dr. David Sherbino was awarded the 2015 Word Guild award in the instructional book category for his book Living, Dying, Living Forever: Spiritual Reflections on the Journey of Life.
In June, the General Assembly agreed the denomination should “develop a plan to implement the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission related to church apologies and reconciliation.”
Commissioners at the highest court of the United Church of Canada urged the denomination’s foundation and General Council executive “to take active steps to sell their holdings in the 200 largest fossil fuel companies” and reinvest the assets in renewable energy.
Members of Galilee, Toronto, woke up to a surprise on July 2. In the early morning, a driver crashed a sedan through a lamppost and into the church building, crumpling the front of the car.
One of the best things about General Assembly is the opportunity to connect with Presbyterians from across the country.
It’s one thing to say that we trust God; it’s another to actually live in that trust.
Have you ever played with clay? I have, and it’s hard and thick.
The tale of King David, Bathsheba and Uriah the Hittite is the stuff soap opera is made of.
It started, as these things often do, from the unlikeliest source: The Committee to Nominate Standing Committees.
People have asked me, what was it like? It was a wonderful experience, but not easy.
It’s an exciting time to be the church these days. Our loquacious God is always speaking and always on the move.
General Assembly is about the business of the church and that business seems dry to many. This year, along with the much anticipated and expected […]