Have Confidence
We have lost confidence in our stories. We have lost confidence that Christ is amongst us. Theology is not our God. Tradition is not our God. The Bible is not our God. They are mere tools that help us know God.
Benediction
Living in Expectation
I find myself preparing both for a death, in a way, of something that I have nursed with my mind and my energy and with the companionship of my amazing colleagues, and for the birth of a new life that is growing inside me.
Tangled
This magazine changed my life. Well, maybe not changed it so much as wrote the last 13 years of it.
A Remarkable Team
I am often struck by how well the Record stands out against magazines with budgets and staff that far exceed ours. It’s not that I’m thinking highly of myself. Rather, it’s the amazing team I’ve been blessed to work with at the Record over the years.
benediction
And wherever he went—into villages, towns or countryside—they placed the sick in the marketplaces. They begged him to let them touch even the edge of […]
St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church, Hamilton, ON
Amid the clatter of a busy downtown city sits a haven of peace and sanctity — St. Paul’s, an English Gothic stone structure designed by […]
Our Beautiful Church
Our beautiful church, Sedgwick Memorial, is nestled between the French and Waugh Rivers of Tatamagouche, N.S. But how do we define such beauty? If beauty […]
January’s Most Beautiful Church: St. Paul’s, Simcoe, Ont.
I believe St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church in Simcoe, Ont., is the most beautiful church you would ever want to attend. Its exterior is a picturesque, […]
November’s Most Beautiful Church: Mt. Pleasant, Ont.
photos courtesy of B. E. Franklin There’s a lot happening in our small country church, too much to mention, but the long and the short […]
The Most Beautiful Church Contest
The terms of this contest ask churches to define the word “Beautiful” in any way they decide. The folks at St. Paul’s, Bramalea, Ont., have […]
Here We Stand
“And it’s here we stand with memories made, Feelings of warmth I never want to fade. The laughs we shared, The pranks we played. With […]
The Kingsmill Prophets
To mark its 50th anniversary, St. Andrew’s Hall, Vancouver, asked local potter Bob Kingsmill to create four new panels based on four Hebrew prophets: Isaiah, […]
Dental Ministry
Evangel Hall’s new medical and dental clinic is “divine intervention,” according to Greg, one of the first people to use the new free service. The new and unique mission was officially launched in late April though doors had been open for a few months.
Geneology of Jesus (Matthew Fontispiece)
Matthew 1:1-17
Artist: Donald Jackson
100th anniversary Diaconal Ministry
“Diaconal Ministers are called to be servants of Jesus Christ.”