I and Thou
Re Pop Christianity, April and March Thank you for your article, especially in regards to relationships. It reminds me of the work of Martin Buber […]
AuthorJoshua Weresch, Hamilton, Ont.
The View from the Ages
Here’s a Christian assumption that shapes life: the world, and everything in it, is created. The ecosphere comes into being from outside itself.
Secrets and Lies
“It’s like God has been looking out for me,” she wrote. “I don’t know why God does this. I’m feeling so worthless and so down because once again, I’ve been lied to, and humiliated.”
My Life as an Elder
When I was first asked to be a ruling elder in my church my instinct was to say ‘No.’
God Makes a Way
Late in November 2015, two weeks before the rush of Syrian refugees to Canada, a refugee family quietly arrived in Toronto from Namibia and was whisked off to the Niagara area. Thus a long story ended and a new one began.
I and Thou
Thank you for writing the article on newcomers and the welcoming styles of churches. We really have forgotten the excitement of the gospel. One of the […]
The Future of the Record
Seven years of declining readership averaging more than 13 per cent a year have put the 140-year-old Presbyterian Record in a position where the board is having to weigh its future.
Now we call it the Dry Season
Nineteen-year-old Yvette Nicholas hasn’t been farming long, but she knows that things are different today in Haiti than when her parents were young.
That Was Then
Re New Members at St. Marks, Don Mills, March Apr 7, 1963: Knox, Walkerton, Ont., received 24 youth members—six by adult baptism and 18 by personal confession […]
St. Stephen’s, Peterborough, Ont.
On April 17, St. Stephen’s welcomed new members to the congregation. In the back row are Laura Davis, Rev. Ed Musson, Bernice Hewitt, John Hewitt, Chris […]
Memorials
Re Poetry, Hymns, War, February Ms. Bridgewater’s article concentrated on several of the older congregations in the Presbytery of Waterloo-Wellington and she conducted a fair […]
Beautiful Sabbath
Re A Little Guarded, March May I encourage you to take a few steps back and review your reaction to the lack of welcome that […]
Heaps of Hospitality
Being a Presbyterian minister, I promised I would find a place for the reception, believing that the local Presbyterian church would be able to accommodate us.
Recovering Joy
I was visiting my sister at her cottage in the summertime. It was first thing in the morning, the sun was emerging beautifully from her slumber, and I was down at the dock with my Bible in hand.
Preaching Grace
“The witness of the New Testament is not a soloist, it’s a choir” and “all voices are important if we are to understand the fullness of Jesus,” says Thomas Long.
Pastor Theologians
Being a minister is stressful. In part the stress arises from what M. Craig Barnes, president of Princeton Theological Seminary, describes as “confusion about what it means to be a pastor.”
Recognition Service for Staff
On March 8 at St. Mark’s, Toronto, Guy Smagghe (executive director, Presbyterian World Service & Development), Rev. Ian Ross-McDonald (general secretary, LMA), and Jennifer de […]
The View from Space
There will be a few thousand ways in which we see our world differently, but let me focus on a big one.
Mentoring Ministers
With a keystroke on his laptop, Dale Woods welcomes a seventh minister into the meeting. “Let’s start with a check-in,” he says. “Steve, how are things in Vancouver?”
Mysterious Memorials
Re Poetry, Hymns, War, February Kudos to Tess Bridgewater for her story on graveyard history. Having spent much of my life in cemeteries, at one […]