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.
Why does a discussion of homosexuality tend inevitably to shift into a discussion of holiness versus sin, or wholeness versus brokenness?
What people of faith should fear is how the faith element is portrayed and how broader issues of religious rights and respect are in danger of being tarred in the public eye by bizarre rights appeals.
I had some changes to make in my garden and I needed to move two large granite stones. I didn’t want to tell my husband about my plan, since he would have decided to do the job and he is a heart patient. So I took it to the Lord.
If you’re like me, you want to know life—to enjoy a fullness in our living that accounts for the joys and heartbreaks of this world.
Many years ago, Dr. Stanley Walters told us theological students to read the first dozen chapters of Genesis as “pictorial theology.” This is a graphic novel, each episode told in a page or two of vivid images.
Why was I having such a difficult time referring to the people in my midst, my family and friends and the people I cherish outside of the Christian limits as “the other?” Could it be because I was once the other? Maybe I still am.
In the Cariboo Chilcotin, March is calving month. I love this hungry time of year. There are babies dropping on the calving grounds like flies. And not just calves! Sheep are lambing, horses are foaling, goats are kidding (just kidding).
Some believe there are “thin places” where heaven and earth come close to each other. If you’re ever seeking a thin place, Medicine Eagle Healing and Retreat Place, run by elders Stella Blackbird and Audrey Bone, is one of them.
I was relaxing between meetings at the General Assembly in Cape Breton. A friend quietly sat down beside me. He suggested to me that God could use me to call together a group of pastors in my presbytery to pray with each other. The idea resonated with me.
Reformed Presbyterians played an important role in Canadian history, argues Rev. Dr. Eldon Hay in his recently published book The Covenanters in Canada: Reformed Presbyterianism from 1820 to 2012.
I have been told by good Christian mentors that we should be moderate in all things. It must be written in the Bible somewhere, isn’t it? Well, actually it isn’t.
Online Videos Blimey Cow is a podcast and YouTube channel created by brothers Josh and Jordan Taylor. Basically, it’s the musings and skits of the […]
In Eichmann in Jerusalem, Arendt described the Nazi bureaucrat as all too ordinary, as “terribly and terrifying normal.”
When you go to some of the most rural areas, particularly in Africa, but elsewhere as well, often the only healthcare you come across happens to be faith-inspired organizations.
I sit and listen as my friend Ingrid pours out her story. The tears are wet on her cheeks as she spells out this special time of her life… when the Lord reached out and touched her.
In the February issue, the Record reported on the ongoing violence in South Sudan between President Salva Kiir’s military and rebel supporters of ousted vice-president […]
A civil war that has lasted three years and claimed 130,000 lives looks to be no closer to a resolution. As of mid-February, peace talks […]
Pictured are Paula Sampson, director of VST’s Native Ministries program; Dorothy Visser, Hummingbird Ministries elder; Patricia Dutcher-Walls; Mary Fontaine, executive director; Rebecca Simpson; Laura Fortin, […]
When Rev. Joyce Yanishewski preached for the call at Andrew’s, Thunder Bay, Ont., she jokes that she literally brought the ceiling down. The week before […]