Community News – December 2012
Esther Lupafya, community health nurse, in Malawi. Discrimination on the Decline, AIDS Worker Says During the early decades of the HIV pandemic, “it was very […]
Magazine
Enabling A Self-Emptying Joy
Christmas Web giving receiving buying wrapping sending sticky fibres entangling all in festive gathering overtime evading pausing worshipping redirecting avoiding silken strands angelic peace within […]
Who Will Lead Us to Bethlehem?
Who will lead us to Bethlehem? Luke offers us some wonderful possibilities. Characters whose saintliness and ordinariness are so tightly braided we can’t turn away from them.
Christian Magazine Reveals ‘Disturbing’ Letter from CRA
A Mennonite magazine has gone public with a letter from the Canadian Revenue Agency, which “reminded” the publication not to print articles that may be construed as partisan.
Congregations Matter
As a denomination we’re beginning to understand in new ways that congregations matter and their existence cannot be assumed.
Timeline: Youth Ministry and the National Church
The story of a sometimes growing, sometimes shrinking, sometimes embattled young people’s organization.
Want Young People in Your Church?
Our first Presbyterian Young People’s Society weekend was the catalyst that transformed our youth group from a small, improbable family affair into a vital, ongoing ministry. There is no single experience of PYPS. It once thrived in every synod in the country.
Community News – November 2012
Taiwanese Church Delegate Visits National Offices As part of his Canadian tour, the incoming general secretary of the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan visited national offices […]
World News – November 2012
PCK Celebrates Centennial The Presbyterian Church of Korea received congratulations from the World Communion of Reformed Churches as it celebrated its 100th anniversary. WCRC General […]
Nigerian High Commissioner Visits National Offices
The church has a prophetic role to play, Chief Ojo Maduekwe, Nigeria’s high commissioner to Canada, told church staff, Nigerians and former missionaries at the […]
The Game
As we watched the serene scene of the otters on the dock, over on the island there was someone else watching. Baldy the Eagle left his perch, beating the air for elevation. If you didn’t know the game, you would never have guessed what Baldy was up to.
Meet Jesus…
A video was posted on the PCC’s Facebook page earlier this year. In it various people give very candid responses to why they don’t go to church: Their excuses sound very familiar. “I’m nervous.” “I don’t like hypocrites.” “I’m not sure about my faith.”
Life Next Door to Syria
Dr. George Sabra, president of the Near Eastern School of Theology, shares what life is like for a Christian school in a nation next door to war-torn Syria.
Ruth and Remembrance
It’s Remembrance Day. A lot of preachers are uncomfortable today. They don’t know what to say.
Chaplains at War
I have recently been doing some research at the Canadian War Museum. It is obvious that if we Canadian Presbyterians do not tell our own stories it is unlikely anyone else will. It is in that spirit that I offer short stories of two of our Second World War chaplains.
Ministry by Youth
As a preacher’s kid, I grew up in Presbyterian churches in small Ontario towns. Church was always a part of my life. But there’s a difference, in my experience, between attending a church and being part of a church.
Blessing and Restoration
According to individualistic Christianity, Christians find reconciliation with God through their own efforts alone. Because of this Christians can miss out on the richness of the Christian faith and our historic connection with ancient Israel.
Buy One, Give One
Bible On the one hand, the new Archeological Study Bible is just another New International Version. The translation is the same. On the other hand, […]
Kerrisdale PYPS at 50
This May Kerrisdale, Vancouver, hosted a 50th anniversary reunion bash for the Kerrisdale Presbyterian Young People’s Society, 1960-1965. Of course there were youth groups at […]
Doing It All Wrong
Through it all, through the dark shadows, the mood lighting, the strange and disturbing dioramas, which were ubiquitously familiar, through the growing sense of horror as we moved for a long time through the subterranean passages, I heard Charlie Farquharson’s prophets screaming in my head, “You’re doing it all wrong!”