Christian Communicator Group Installs First Female General Secretary
Soon after a study commissioned by the World Association of Christian Communication found that men continue to hog the global news headlines — despite the […]
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Mission on the Edge
The 134th annual meeting of the Atlantic Mission Society was held at St. Andrew’s, St. John’s, in September. The three-day event brought together 60 Presbyterians, […]
A Dream Deferred
November 28, 2010 reading: Advent 1: Isaiah 2:1-5; Romans 13:11-14; Matthew 24:36-44 What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin […]
Real Life in Real Time
Book reviewed: From Pulp to Pulpit by Hugh Appel Essence Publishing This is the story of a minister’s life written with a clarity that brings […]
Tech Support for Presbyterian.ca
The Church’s Communications office launched a new technical support system in October, geared toward better managing its websites. Broken links, typos, and problems found on […]
Resources for Change
“These are challenging times for many of our congregations. Some are contemplating church clustering, merging, amalgamating and closing. Others are visioning new ways of being […]
Letter from Afghanistan: The $106 Investment
Have you ever considered the return an investment of $106 could bring? The amount is so meager; it probably never crosses our minds to invest […]
You’ve Got to Listen to This
Today I suggest a few more psalm paraphrases that merit attention.
Wandering No More
This is the last chapter. I can’t promise a happy Hollywood ending but maybe there’s something better.
Two More Gems from the Book of Praise
More how-to comments on some contemporary and global songs in the Presbyterian Book of Praise. Listening to songs and artists of the same genre is a key ingredient in presenting the music on its own terms.
Fishers of Men
In the dozen years I have been a member of the Presbyterian Church in Canada my life has been touched and transformed by some remarkable people. Many of them have been other lay members whose friendship and inspiration have nursed life’s bruises and rekindled flagging spirits, but important in a different sense have been those called to the ministry of word and sacrament.
Third Intern at Ploughshares
Melanie Ferrier began an eight-month internship at a Waterloo-based ecumenical peace centre Sept. 1, making her the third intern to be hired through a partnership […]
Commit, Support, Acknowledge
Three events in the early 1990s precipitated a crisis of faith and a reconsideration of my relationship with aboriginal peoples — indeed, with all people. […]
Presbyterians Help Pakistan
When the Canadian government announced it would match individual donations for Pakistan in a Pakistan Floods Relief Fund from Aug. 2 to Oct. 3, Presbyterians […]
Mission, Mission, Mission
St. Paul’s, Prince Albert, Sask., could have died, but through valiant effort and a strong faith in God many people — men, women, and clergy […]
Soaked in Tears
In our particular life in the world — from the slow breakdown of a relationship, to years of physical abuse, from sudden accidents which devastate […]
What’s the Story?
We don’t always get it right. Or, I suppose I should say, for every article published in the Record, there is always another perspective. At […]
The Guru Tour
When Gateway Community Church, Toronto, where I had been a worshipper, member and elder, over nearly 40 years, was dissolved by presbytery this summer, it […]
Physics Versus Faith
Jewish, Christian and Muslim leaders have rejected claims that belief in the divine has been disproved following the assertion by British physicist Stephen Hawking that […]
Letter From Pakistan: Tragedy Strikes Again
It is Aug. 14, Pakistan’s Independence Day. Images of the mass exodus across the Pakistan–India border 63 years ago are repeated today, as millions of […]