Harvesting Hope
In February, I visited the Soils, Food and Healthy Communities program at Ekwendeni Hospital in Malawi to do research on farmers’ perspectives on climate change. […]
In February, I visited the Soils, Food and Healthy Communities program at Ekwendeni Hospital in Malawi to do research on farmers’ perspectives on climate change. […]
Galileo in Rome: The Rise and Fall of a Troublesome GeniusWilliam R. Shea and Mariano Artigas, Oxford University Press Well known even in his time as […]
WCC General Secretary Offers Condolences to Norway World Council of Churches General Secretary Rev. Dr. Olav Fyske Tveit penned a letter of condolence to the […]
The 16th – century reformers—Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, Knox and others—were derisively nicknamed, “the Sola – ists.” They distilled the essence of the gospel in five […]
Rev. Robert Smith came to the ministry as a second career—sort of. He was a minister in the United States during the 1980s, and then […]
There is a new word floating around in my country, India. It’s a combination of two words—fantastic and fabulous. The word then becomes, fantabulous! What […]
When the Atlantic Mission Society and the Women’s Missionary Society decided to jointly organize a large scale National Presbyterian Women’s Gathering, there were some misgivings. […]
I did have a regular life at one time. “Kids, carrots and the white picket fence,” I call it. We had most of the trappings […]
“As he walked by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into […]
“I truly believe that if it had not been for the experience of Pastors of Excellence I would have left ministry long ago!” An overstatement […]
According to Adrienne Clarkson, the Westminster Confession is “a stern and uncompromising document.” That sounds a bit harsh. Is she correct? Is that how others […]
Speaking at the recently held National Presbyterian Women’s Gathering, Rev. Paulette Brown referenced five biblical women, whose father had died: “The legacy of these women […]
Sept. 11, 2011, 13th Sunday after Pentecost Exodus 14:19-31 Matthew 18:21-35 Where were you on this date 10 years ago? Sept. 11, 2001 is one […]
I realized I was in the middle of something really special when I found myself sitting at a table drinking bubble tea at a restaurant […]
We come in the presence of God—we lay everything on the altar of God: our cherished positions about how things ought to be, ourselves as […]
The first time I met BeBe, she was in hospice care at Agape House, Hamilton, Bermuda. It was not a good day for her. She […]
Rodger Hunter of Boarding Homes Ministry, recipient of the E.H. Johnson award for being on the cutting edge of mission: “Boarding Homes Ministry does not […]
When I first stepped up to a microphone on Thursday, my heart was pounding and my hands shook, yet beyond all my nerves there was […]
Rev. Rick Horst, Moderator of the 137th General Assembly: “In and of itself, there is nothing wrong with institutions, but the Presbyterian Church in Canada […]