Are We Nuts?
Last year, Canada sent $49.5 million to Haiti. But that’s $49.5 million too much according to Don Cherry.
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Anatomy of All Parts of the Soul
What must it be like, I wondered, to found a church on the ashes of your brethren? To keep the faith at such a cost? To try to forgive other Christians who condemned your friends as heretics?
Challenging Questions
Many years ago, someone told me, “If you don’t want to hear the answer, don’t ask the question.” So, I would like to acknowledge two important instances where the Presbyterian Church has had the courage to ask the question, even if it is challenged by the answer.
How St. Giles, Ottawa, Does Church
We do messy church every Sunday as we hold worship in the banquet hall as opposed to the sanctuary. (That’s another story). All I can […]
Technology and the Call
When it was time to call a new minister, a B.C. church discovered a few simple pieces of technology could make the job a lot easier.
An Otter Revelation
I love to ponder mysteries. But the mysteries I ponder tend to be the ones right in my face, like the winter otter holes outside my picture window on Lac La Hache. I am not all that intrigued by the unseen mysteries.
A Life at Crieff
Every time I have gone to Crieff Hills, I have visited the cross to pray. I have stood beneath it and I have taken all my concerns and issues to God. I sit on the bench and think about my life and how I could be a better Christian.
Novel Bibles & Reality TV
A New Bible Thomas Nelson, the world’s largest publisher of the King James Bible, has a new addition to its scripture line up. The Voice […]
Saviour and Lord
We do well not to overlook the reality of human sin, nor to dismiss it. If we were not sinners, Jesus would have died for no reason.
The Joy of the Lord
The walls of the city are rebuilt. The gates are open. The temple is restored. Society is reorganized. Leadership is established. Markets are open. People have homes. Now what?
The Grand Ladies
That name may sound a bit presumptuous, but many of us were grandparents and the Grand Ladies sounded a lot better than the Old Ladies, so that’s the name that stuck. Each year it felt like coming home.
One Seamless Garment
I wasn’t in Malawi very long before I started questioning why things are the way they are. The way we consume resources while others go without raises disturbing questions of justice. It also highlights the way materialism seems to bankrupt our souls.
Be Church
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about what it means to be church. What is church? What is worship?
Dependence on God
Over the last year we have attempted to bring focus to the Fellowship so that we have a clear message and a strong understanding of what we are called to do and to be.
Getting personal with Jesus.
The mind, I discovered, is not designed to bear a huge burden. It needs a regular break. And since I was in no position to give it one, it made an executive decision to take one. I was hospitalized for a psychotic break from reality.
Jesus at His Word
Tony Campolo is a “Red Letter Christian.” And it’s a badge he’s proud to wear. In many Bibles, the words of Jesus are highlighted in […]
Community News – January 2013
PWS&D Joins Campaign Presbyterian World Service and Development joined 37 other organizations in a campaign to reverse cuts to federally-funded international aid and development programs. […]
Excited About Stories
“The line of hope and fear runs right through the middle of all of us,” Diana Butler Bass told the 250-plus audience. “Let me read […]
Water Beneath the Stones
It was an intimidating place to begin a pilgrimage. Standing beneath the arches of Saint-Étienne Cathedral in Meaux, France, I felt like I was lost in some great, petrified forest.
The Warm Heart of Africa
John Vissers called his visit with a dying woman a holy moment. Not as mature in my faith, I found it difficult to be there. But Vissers’s words have become a meditation for me. In that basic cottage, on that hot day, I know we were somehow on holy ground.