Talking Free Church
A seismic shift in 1840s Scotland stirred the ground for the 1925 Canadian Church Union. It’s a riveting story told by Don MacLeod.
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Deconstructing Work
Ten years later the stacks on my desk are replaced with folders in my computer. I no longer have a visual marker for my work. It’s still the same work, still the same amount of work, but I can’t visualize it in the same way.
A Listening Heart
Our focus on the pages of scripture, its grammar and syntax, can blind us to the simple reality that the word, written and read, was first a word of God, spoken and heard. The aim in reading the book is hearing the voice.
Eyes Wide Open
We received all sorts of backhanded compliments from friends as we packed up for Malawi in late 2010.
Choosing Our Priorities
The first virtue on the list of the fruit of the Spirit is love. Some suggest that it is first because it contains all the other virtues.
In Search of God’s Spirit
Most preachers who follow the lectionary will probably go with the reading from Acts 2 for Pentecost. Maybe the gospel. I think the reading from Numbers 11 has a word for us today. A word or two about whom we should pay attention to.
Extraordinary Things
Once upon a time there was a country church that was called by God to do remarkable things. People on the outside did not realize it was remarkable; people on the inside did not know any different.
Divine Community
A few months ago we rented our hall to the Friends of Priestman Street School for a community breakfast. Just days before the breakfast, a nine-year-old student, Garrett, died from a sudden cardiac event while walking to school. Garrett’s family and all who knew him were shaken to the core.
General Secretary Applies to Resign in 2015
Rev. Dr. Rick Fee is well known across the church in Canada and in churches and ecumenical organizations around the world. He was moderator of the 2004 […]
A Struggle for Power
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 […]
Presbyterians Respond to News of Schoolgirls Kidnapped in Nigeria
Almost 300 schoolgirls were kidnapped from a school in Chibok, Nigeria, on April 14th, and a Presbyterian in Ottawa is speaking up in hopes of […]
Communities Commemorate Cemetary
Members of the Presbyterian and United Church communities in Regina have joined with indigenous peoples to commemorate a cemetery on the grounds of the former […]
Canadian to Head WCRC
A United Church minister has been elected as the next general secretary of the World Communion of Reformed Churches. Rev. Christopher Ferguson assumes his new […]
Record Wins Awards
The Presbyterian Record received 10 awards from the Canadian Church Press and the Associated Church Press for its 2013 material. The September issue topped the […]
Spring Humour
Two jokes—one with truth in it and one that’s true.
Bilingual and Ecumenical
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, […]
A Discipleship Book
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.
Clothing drive for Egypt
In 2008, a group from Chapel Place, Markham, Ont., decided to send clothing to the needy in Egypt through contacts we have in that country. […]
St. Andrew’s Hall Appoints New Director
St. Andrew’s Hall has appointed Rev. Dr. Ross Lockhart to the position of director of ministry leadership and education at the Presbyterian seminary and, if […]
Wilderness Wanderings
Understanding the times in which we live is critical but, honestly, we are much better at denial than reality.