I have recently been doing some research at the Canadian War Museum. It is obvious that if we Canadian Presbyterians do not tell our own stories it is unlikely anyone else will. It is in that spirit that I offer short stories of two of our Second World War chaplains.
Three weeks after they became the first lay missionaries in the PCC commissioned to serve communion, Bruce Wilcox and Ginny-Lou Alexander celebrated the Lord’s Supper […]
According to individualistic Christianity, Christians find reconciliation with God through their own efforts alone. Because of this Christians can miss out on the richness of the Christian faith and our historic connection with ancient Israel.
The Rev. Iona MacLean is preparing to slice a cake in honour of her 20th anniversary as minister of First, Pictou, N.S., and her 35th […]
This May Kerrisdale, Vancouver, hosted a 50th anniversary reunion bash for the Kerrisdale Presbyterian Young People’s Society, 1960-1965. Of course there were youth groups at […]
After graduating from Ewart College more than 40 years ago, Rev. Dr. Lynda Reid embarked on long and dedicated journey of ministry. She has served […]
In honour of Queen Elizabeth’s 60 years on the throne, members of St. Paul’s threw a two day, royalty-themed celebration. Ladies arrived at church adorned […]
I am a middle-aged man who is in the early stages of a second career. I have passed through many doors in my time. But when I met the Jewish Rabbi who is on the faculty of my theological college, many more doors opened in my mind.
This year, the annual church picnic was held at an old barn with an historical connection to the congregation: their first minister, Rev. Coutts, lived […]
I don’t always agree with the decisions made by the United Church of Canada, but the one they made this past summer to boycott products made in the settlements in the West Bank is one I support.
During the inaugural service at the Donald Walker MacKay Chapel, two staff climbed a fence to attach the new sign. Peter McLean and Marcel d’Entremonth […]
I would have loved to sit through these lectures, which were given at St. Andrew’s Hall, Vancouver, and the Presbyterian College, Montreal, in the fall of 2009 to celebrate the 500th anniversary of John Calvin’s birth.
Delores Werchola holds a rose given to her by Riverside’s community school coordinator Juanita McKay-Raymond. The night after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission ended a […]
Rhoda MacRitchie, a native of the Isle of Harris and a Gaelic speaker, fondly recalls the three-hour-long summer communion services of her childhood. Communion was a major event and people would come from miles around. Beforehand, the host congregation undertook a flurry of cooking and baking and there was a competition as to whose house attracted the most guests for a lunch of Scotch broth, roast lamb and trifle.
Ewart’s Principals Honoured On August 22, alumnae representing graduating classes from as early as 1940 gathered on the lawn of the south quad at Knox […]
Grant Sayers first played the piano at a St. Andrew’s service in 1942. Seventy years later he continues to provide musical accompaniment for the congregation. […]
As the old joke has it, God is obviously a baseball fan—“In the big inning …”—so perhaps hockey, too, has been around longer than Don Cherry.
Most of us have special memories of Sunday school picnics, Burns suppers, church socials and, above all, the home-baking served at teas and church-basement bazaars. These continue to be a part of the fabric that is woven into belonging to a Presbyterian congregation.
It was June 6, 1973. I was travelling to Palestine with my fiancé, a Palestinian Muslim. It was the anniversary of the Six-Day War. And I was the only white person on the flight.
Re Pretty Nice Grace, July/August I just read Kevin McCabe’s very funny take on hymns that have been “cleaned up” to protect our tender egos […]