A Joke in Poor Taste
Re Kitsch Christmas, December Direction is given to a website where Jesus underwear can be ordered. Was this offered as a joke? If so it […]
Re Kitsch Christmas, December Direction is given to a website where Jesus underwear can be ordered. Was this offered as a joke? If so it […]
Faith is an audacious act of the imagination in which we speak about God as if God really exists. Imagination is not a fanciful denial of reality. It can be holy.
To celebrate 25 years of shared ministry, Chetwynd held a tree planting ceremony last August. The original seed was planted when three struggling congregations of […]
Interim ministers help congregations in their journeys through the wilderness.
Some people have expressed concern about the Korean presbyteries. Have the HanCa presbyteries improved our church? Or have they isolated Korean churches?
As I felt my life and ministry spiral out of control, the step to atheism was less of a precise intellectual calculation than an emotional preference.
I understand Canadian students were in Europe commemorating Canada’s war dead, including a massive ceremony on April 8 at Vimy Ridge. I would like to remind […]
Rev. George Turner shares a dance with his wife Evelyn. This photograph was featured at the couple’s retirement party. After more than 25 years of […]
Faith is not a matter of dogma, doctrine and reason. It is based on experience—the experience which touches the roots of our being and transforms us. Throughout India, those old people I encountered came to Christianity because of illiterate men pulling rickshaws or on rickety bicycles.
Re Sanctuary Off Limits, January The article did its best to explain why the Ottawa presbytery felt obliged to lock the doors of 83-year old […]
Clarkson Road’s youngest missionaries are all smiles after raising enough money to purchase 57 bed kits for children in Africa and India. Through weekly offerings, […]
An international observer makes some observations about the January elections in Taiwan.
Re Tribute to John Moir, April John Moir was a great friend of my father, Rev. Dr. Mel Bailey. I spent some time visiting with […]
For those of us of the Christian persuasion, summer rekindles a profound theological struggle: should I head to church or the golf course on Sunday morning?
A Presbyterian congregation was founded in Wingham 150 years ago. Joining the anniversary celebration was guest preacher and returning “son,” Rev. Dr. John Congram; his […]
The World Council of Churches joined the international community in condemning the massacre of at least 108 people, including 49 children, on May 25 in the villages of Taldou and Kall Laha in the El Houleh area of Syria.
Rev. Dr. Thomas Gemmell, the church administrator with a pastor’s heart, passed away May 13, in Richmond, Ont.
The Presbytery of Kamloops has issued a letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper challenging “the recent federal government’s decision to allow the use of information received by and through the use of torture.”
The Presbyterian Record took home 16 awards from the Canadian Church Press and Associated Church Press conventions in May, including the A.C. Forrest Memorial Award for excellence in religious journalism.
Korean churches are developing plans for a “peace train” that would travel from Berlin through Moscow and Beijing to Busan, South Korea in time for the World Council of Churches’ (WCC) global assembly in October 2013.
The plan is to draw attention to the need for peace and reunification in the Korean peninsula, the churches said, and North Korea also would be on the route of the train, which would carry church and civil society representatives.