Crieff Hills Capital Campaign
Presbyterian-owned Crieff Hills Community Retreat and Conference Centre is seeking $600,000 for the construction of a new retreat house. The capital fundraising campaign was launched […]
Presbyterian-owned Crieff Hills Community Retreat and Conference Centre is seeking $600,000 for the construction of a new retreat house. The capital fundraising campaign was launched […]
Those words the Prime Minister spoke [on June 11, 2008] brought back the old memories from my residential school days. The feelings of sheer loneliness, […]
The Moderator said on the first day of the assembly, “It takes a village to raise a child.” We student and young adult representatives are […]
ENI—The appointment of a Roman Catholic nun as dean of San Francisco Theological Seminary, a school of the Presbyterian Church (USA),illustrates the truth of the […]
There are Two kinds of change, said Rev. Wesley Denyer, chair of the Emmaus Project planning team. One is a slow, often budget-driven change, and the other is a sudden revelatory change akin to suddenly opening your eyes and perceiving the world in a different way.
“The dream [of next summer’s planning conference] is that our eyes will be open to the reality that the Presbyterian Church already has God and Christ with it,” he said. “And with us recognizing that, we’ll be instantly changed.”
During his final remarks as Moderator of the 2008 General Assembly, Rev. Cheol Soon Park asked for special prayers for Canada’s oil industry.
“It’s a remarkable resource, and we need it,” he told commissioners and staff during the first session of the 2009 assembly. “Although a lot of money can be made by extracting oil quickly, we need to be responsible. We need to ensure that the next generation and the generation after that still have access, and do not have to bear
the cost of restoring the land.”
Park had just returned from a tour of Alberta’s Athabasca oil sands that allowed church and aboriginal leaders to meet with industry representatives, workers, government officials and aboriginal communities. The tour was sponsored by KAIROS: Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives.
Fresh from his graduation in May, Rev. Mike Hamilton was ordained as Trinity Oro’s new minister in June. The congregation voted unanimously to call him. […]
Presbyterian World Service and Development is involved in several development Projects in northern Malawi. The work is challenging, but as these faces show, there is […]
When Kai Kuypers from West Point Grey, Vancouver, B.C., threw a party for his tenth birthday, he asked his friends to bring a donation to […]
“Well, here we are.” My friend parked the car and I looked nostalgically at the home I grew up in. It was not quite what […]
A cryptic reference to “a Presbyterian minister who survived the bullets of a religious fanatic,” in a newspaper article, started speculation on the Presbyterian Church’s […]
In May the Ladies Aid of St. Andrew’s, Tillsonburg, Ont., sponsored a plant sale and barbecue to raise funds in support of missions. In the […]
I respond to Calvin Brown’s May article, Popping The Question, in which he says some of our ministers “think that Jesus will save everyone. It […]
In the February issue of the Presbyterian Record, David Harris refers “a well educated but somewhat suspicious modern mind.” In the April issue he draws […]
Question: What do you call someone, other than a Christian, who believes Jesus was born of the Virgin Mary and will judge the world at […]
Something moved me in the June Record. I thought it was a good issue—a thinking way of reading the Bible outlined, the theology series continued, […]
A new face is coming to national offices as Tori Smit prepares to replace Dorothy Henderson as associate secretary of the Vine resource network. She […]
Dr. McLelland is supporting the watering down of our mission. He tends to stray from the path of our faith onto worldy concerns instead of […]
I am a Palestinian Arab. I’m also a Christian Palestinian Arab. Palestinian Christians were born in the upper room. We’re not outstanding theologians. We’re obsessed […]