On the Edge: From Shoreline Saviour to Mission Behaviour

4 June 2012Rick Horst

I’ve been hearing a lot of questions these days throughout our church—questions that are endeavoring to wrestle with the realities of church decline in our day.

Opening Worship and Q&A@GA

4 June 2012conniepurvis

The opening worship service may have been conducted in a university gymnasium, but the local affairs committee—and their art committee—did their best to ensure the space was transformed.

Connections at G.A.

4 June 2012angelacluney

General Assembly is a great place to meet up with people in our church we have come to know over our lifetime. I was so happy last night and again this morning to see people I have come to know from across our denomination over the years.

On the edge G.A. 138!

4 June 2012Angela Cluney

My name is Angela J. Cluney, and this is my second Assembly as a Commissioner. For some lucky reason, I am destined to attend Ontario Assemblies—first Ottawa and now Oshawa. I am originally from the Presbytery of Pictou in Nova Scotia, but I am now a member of the Presbytery of East Toronto.

General Assembly 2012

3 June 2012communications

The church’s highest court met in Oshawa, Ont. June 3 – 7. Read about news and views from the assembly floor.

Welcome to General Assembly 2012

3 June 2012communications

Welcome to our coverage of General Assembly 2012. The meeting of the church’s highest court begins in earnest tonight with a 7:30 p.m. worship service. […]

Missionary Rebound

1 June 2012Peter Bush

First generation immigrant clergy are bringing new life and new ideas to Canada’s prairie churches.

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Presbyterian Theology

1 June 2012Richard R. Topping

This collection of essays and articles is a reminder that theology, as Karl Barth said, is a cheerful science.

Prayer Action

1 June 2012Brian McClure

This is not an easy book to read. The topics are difficult, and the situations are meant to make you uncomfortable. But as I read it, I experienced an incredible feeling of God’s presence and I began to see answered prayers everywhere.

Subversive Imagination

1 June 2012John Vissers

Faith is an audacious act of the imagination in which we speak about God as if God really exists. Imagination is not a fanciful denial of reality. It can be holy.

Interim Ministry

1 June 2012Frank Breisch

Interim ministers help congregations in their journeys through the wilderness.

Smoking in Church

1 June 2012Brad Childs

Christian comedy, hipsters and Jesus, and—for the first time—a recommendation for a movie I haven’t seen.

Moving Radically – Letter from HanCa

1 June 2012In Kee Kim

Some people have expressed concern about the Korean presbyteries. Have the HanCa presbyteries improved our church? Or have they isolated Korean churches?

A Persistent Little Tap

1 June 2012Joel Coppieters

As I felt my life and ministry spiral out of control, the step to atheism was less of a precise intellectual calculation than an emotional preference.

I Never Shot My Wife’s Horse

1 June 2012davidwebber

Choices can be scary sometimes. What if you make the wrong choice? What if someone you love does?

Longing For Faith

1 June 2012Clarence McMullen

Faith is not a matter of dogma, doctrine and reason. It is based on experience—the experience which touches the roots of our being and transforms us. Throughout India, those old people I encountered came to Christianity because of illiterate men pulling rickshaws or on rickety bicycles.