I am a middle-aged man who is in the early stages of a second career. I have passed through many doors in my time. But when I met the Jewish Rabbi who is on the faculty of my theological college, many more doors opened in my mind.
I don’t always agree with the decisions made by the United Church of Canada, but the one they made this past summer to boycott products made in the settlements in the West Bank is one I support.
I would have loved to sit through these lectures, which were given at St. Andrew’s Hall, Vancouver, and the Presbyterian College, Montreal, in the fall of 2009 to celebrate the 500th anniversary of John Calvin’s birth.
Delores Werchola holds a rose given to her by Riverside’s community school coordinator Juanita McKay-Raymond. The night after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission ended a […]
Ewart’s Principals Honoured On August 22, alumnae representing graduating classes from as early as 1940 gathered on the lawn of the south quad at Knox […]
As the old joke has it, God is obviously a baseball fan—“In the big inning …”—so perhaps hockey, too, has been around longer than Don Cherry.
Renewal is needed when passion dies. Are we passionate about the things of God?
Today, or tomorrow, when we bow our heads and say our nervous thanks over the turkey and squash, will we know for sure just who it is we’re thanking, and why?
The organization known today as Presbyterian World Service and Development has a rich history. Its past is full of interesting characters, difficult situations, disasters—both natural and human-made—and a lot of love and devotion. Here are only a few of the highlights from 65 years of international aid.
A few years ago I approached Presbyterian World Service and Development with the idea of doing a profile of Guy Smagghe. I had travelled with […]
It was June 6, 1973. I was travelling to Palestine with my fiancé, a Palestinian Muslim. It was the anniversary of the Six-Day War. And I was the only white person on the flight.
Nothing prepared me for the experience of sitting through the testimony of survivors of residential schools. I winced and I wept. It moved our church’s 1994 apology from my head to my heart.
The presbyterian church is urging the federal government to reverse cuts to health care coverage for refugees. As of June 30, supplementary health care benefits […]
Disasters strike, hearts open, and so do our wallets. Canadian Presbyterians donate millions of dollars to provide aid overseas. And while relief efforts are important and dramatic, they are often the smallest part of the job.
We don’t often think of religion and the mainstream media as natural companions. But the divide between faith communities and the secular press may not be deep or wide.
It was Friday’s tail that was his most disconcerting physical trait. Friday’s tail was docked in true spaniel fashion but in mind and body he was obviously built for a full-length tail. He had absolutely no idea how to wag a short-docked tail, so he didn’t. His tail wagged him.
We look around the world and easily see that things are not as they should be. Something has gone terribly wrong with how God made the world to be.
Is adopting a secular outlook an inevitable outcome? Are the arguments of secularists cogent enough to turn all of us away from any understanding of God that has any similarity to the Christian religion? These are questions of paramount importance for people of faith. Are we dealing with them seriously?
Six member churches of the Community of Protestant Churches in Europe (CPCE) on September 24 outlined strategies they have adopted to cope with changing religious […]
Moments before leaving Malawi on Sept. 15, John Vissers, moderator of the 138th General Assembly, met with President Joyce Banda.