A few months ago we rented our hall to the Friends of Priestman Street School for a community breakfast. Just days before the breakfast, a nine-year-old student, Garrett, died from a sudden cardiac event while walking to school. Garrett’s family and all who knew him were shaken to the core.
The events in Ukraine as they have unfolded have captured frontpage headlines in most of the Western media. And although I do not follow the […]
Bruce MacLean celebrated his 103rd birthday at Evangel Hall Mission in Toronto on May 7. An EHM supporter for about a decade, MacLean brought along […]
In the often fractious Quebec cultural landscape, there’s a shining beacon of bilingual ecumenical co – operation. Longueuil, created by merging seven municipalities in 2002, […]
In 2008, a group from Chapel Place, Markham, Ont., decided to send clothing to the needy in Egypt through contacts we have in that country. […]
Mariliana Morales’s life is a story of passion, courage and faith.
Understanding the times in which we live is critical but, honestly, we are much better at denial than reality.
The lure of short-term gain has divided and weakened indigenous communities, allowing for larger mining operations.
Do your own prayers ever bore you? Do you sometimes come to the end of your prayers and wonder how you actually got there?
Living in Taiwan our boys experienced life as a “visible minority,” but when they moved back to Canada they were an “invisible minority.” On the outside they looked like average Canadians, but culturally they were a Taiwanese-Canadian blend.
A conversation with Dr. Douglas John Hall about church, culture, power, anxiety and challenge.
There is both good and bad news in Bill C-31, Canada’s refugee law which came into effect in December 2012.
I have this sense, having become a do-it-yourselfer, that I’m being given a small taste of what God Himself experienced in the act of creation.
I don’t imagine Canadians are clamouring to hear the views of the Presbyterian Church in Canada any more than Scots want advice on how to vote from the Church of Scotland.
About four years ago, the church to which I now belong introduced a contemporary service; and I thank God that they did.
Basic training is grueling, with sleep deprivation and drill sergeants yelling at recruits, constantly reminding them that they will flunk out. It is a harsh, graceless environment.
Re Table of Contents I learn a lot from the Record and I look forward to its arrival. My first contact is to read the […]
It’s neutral ground, a place where gangs lay down their guns.
Between 1888 and 1940, 185 Canadian missionaries risked their lives and came to Korea to deliver the Good News of Jesus Christ. Tutullian once said: “The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.”
Henry Wildeboer, a pastor with the Christian Reformed Church, writes out of the crucible of 50 years of ministry experience and describes the many challenges and opportunities he faced in leading congregations to fulfil the great commission.