Presbyterian Museum Seeks Funds for Part-Time Curator
In 1996, the father of the National Presbyterian Museum, Rev. Dr. John A. Johnston, laughed at the thought of financial difficulties, recalled Rev. Duncan Jeffrey, […]
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Centre Road
In our presbytery, Lambton-West Middlesex, we have a church named Centre Road. We haven’t done the research to know for sure, but we bet it’s […]
CIDA Abandons Kairos
Church communities and officials, including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, have called on the Canadian government to restore funding to a church-supported justice organization after it was […]
A Life’s Work Nears Completion
Rev. Dr. Paul McLean spends most of his days behind a computer screen, surrounded by piled Bibles, biblical commentaries and translation notes. From his Canadian […]
Stop Exploitation of Falun Gong Practitioners, Says Former MP
Longtime Presbyterian and former MP David Kilgour stepped up his battle against China’s human rights abuses in a new co-authored book: Bloody Harvest: Organ Harvesting […]
A New Song
O sing to the Lord a new song: sing unto the Lord, all the earth. – Psalm 96:1 As we venture into a new year, […]
Restore Kairos’s Funding
Mainline Canadian Christians were given a sackful of coal by the federal government just before Christmas when Stephen Harper’s Tories abruptly cut funding from Kairos, […]
A Holy Uprising
The big question is, to what do we refer when we use the word “church?” Is 50 Wynford the church? Or Assembly Council, or the […]
Hymnist Dies
Fred Kaan, author of For the Healing of the Nations, Now Let Us From this Table Rise, and a plethora of other 20th century hymns […]
Smoke and Mirrors
The high beams of the pick-up force their way through the muggy heat of an early morning in Managua until they find their prey. There […]
Taiwan : A Presbyterian Island
The connection between Taiwan and Canada goes back to the Canadian Presbyterian Church when, with its first foreign missionary appointment, it sent George Leslie MacKay […]
New Anthology to Launch in February
“I don’t knit, crochet, sew, play golf,” said Patricia Anne Elford, a Record contributor and member of an Ontario chapter of the Grandmothers to Grandmothers […]
Nominees for Moderator
Three nominees for this year’s General Assembly were announced Dec. 1. The candidates are: • Rev. Dr. Jonathan Dent, Minister at St. David’s in St. […]
Committed Christians
Rappin’ with Jesus: The Good News According to the Four Brothers Vaguely along the same lines as Eugene Peterson’s The Message this is obviously not […]
Priesthood of all Believers
Over the last 25 years, Canadian Presbyterians have made a subtle, yet significant change in our understanding of the role the Book of Forms (“the […]
Children Helping Children
There are an estimated two million children living with HIV and AIDS around the world and two-thirds of them do not have the HIV medication […]
Year of Calvin Ends
Two Presbyterian schools, St. Andrew’s Hall, part of the Vancouver School of Theology, and Presbyterian College in Montreal, held autumn events to commemorate the end […]
Review: Ruth, a Liturgical Drama
Composer Ronald Beckett’s opera Ruth (1996) is the first in a trilogy of biblical musical dramas. It has been performed in a number of venues in Ontario, including Central, Brantford, where Beckett is music director. The CD of the opera lasts just over an hour, and is performed by a chorus of Israelites, a chorus of youths, and soloists who portray the characters Ruth, Naomi, Boaz and a Narrator.
A Gift for Gretje
The wind, howling from the heights of the Rockies, lashed tiny snow tornados across the moon-silvered Depression-era prairie. Half a lifetime later, the young man staring into the night would be short and plump, with a fringe of snow-white hair crowning twinkling eyes and a merry smile seeking the next excuse to laugh; but in that frozen hell, laughter seemed ashes of some spiteful dream.
Renewing Worship
Churches are always in need—and sometimes in desperate need—of renewal in their worship arts. Congregational song is one strand in the tapestry of our church life that is dangerously frayed. Part of the problem is that we are not a singing culture.