Leading From Subtext
We published an article in the April issue which involved a daughter accusing her father of incest. The offence occurred before he was a minister. […]
Pop Christianity
Rebuild Our Connections
This is the story of two presbyteries – though I think of many – and two surveys. Both presbyteries participated at the Emmaus Conference in […]
Overcome Your Fears
Who would have imagined that putting up a sign reading, “Ask Me About My Church” would cause such discussion? “A sign on my front lawn […]
Kingdom Building
Dec. 12th could not come quickly enough. Finally, our Ask Me About My Church campaign began. It involved seven of the nine churches in Keswick, […]
Ask Me About My Church
Over the 900 metres from my front door to my daughter’s school, I see a lot of handbills on hydro posts. There are the usual […]
Christians Without Borders
In the October 2007 issue I wrote about my visit to Afghanistan and introduced readers to Engineer Nejabat Khan Safi. He is director for a […]
Am I Just I?
What a year. My mother died. My church of 40 years closed. Oh Lord, why have you forsaken me? What a year. My mother died. […]
Twitterings
“Social media can’t provide what social change has always required,” argues Malcolm Gladwell in the Oct. 4 issue of the New Yorker in a fascinating […]
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 […]
Representative Presbyter
My reflections on General Assembly can be found on pccweb.ca/presbyterianrecord. In this space I’d like to share a conversation I had on the plane with […]
Double Plays
Watching Tony Fernandez turn a double play is amongst the most beautiful things I have seen in my life. He would run, scooping down towards […]
Connected
You think you’re doing just fine, but it’s only afterwards you find out what a mess you were (are!). The day, mid-March, when my mother […]
A Vulnerable Voice
Rev. David Webber — author of the monthly For the Journey column — and I live in two worlds which couldn’t be further apart. As […]
Passive Activism
It was quite a night of television in mid-January with two Haiti fundraisers. The second of these was from the States, featuring international — mostly […]
Personal Missions
The largest portion of my annual givings goes to my congregational church; as does a large portion of my volunteer time. But competing for my […]
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 […]
Spiritual Awakenings
Here’s one of my favourite stories. It appeared in the March 2005 Record in an article on Crieff Hills Community, a retreat centre north of […]
The Other Six Days
The name of the column is Pop Christianity — about the relationship between Christianity and the popular culture. It has always been my contention that […]
The Naked Church
My 10-week contract at the Record has now reached its 60th month. Over the years I have been privileged (as I’ve said before) to sit […]