Reconciliation Presentation
Re Reconciliation Works, Community News, July/August I want to thank the national staff for their warm welcome and the opportunity for me to lead worship […]
AuthorTom Childs, Peterborough, Ont.
Looking In, Shouting Out
Last Spring, more than 550 Presbyterian women from across the country and around the world gathered near Toronto to “Look in, Shout Out.” For four […]
Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan, born in 1911, coined the phrase “The medium is the message.” There is general agreement that McLuhan’s statement is very significant but I […]
List Those Gone to Glory
The Pension Board of the Presbyterian Church does an excellent job keeping those who receive a pension up to date. Several times a year their […]
Community News
Stories and Celebrations at Inuvik TRC Event Two Hundred Kilometres north of the Arctic Circle, in the land of the midnight sun, Principal Clerk Stephen […]
Seeking the Rayner Prize
I have been looking around for information about the Rayner Prize for this year. What is the topic this year? Has the deadline for submissions […]
Prophecy of the Book
This letter should probably be directed to the doctrine committee. I am not a theologian but a former member of the United Church who experienced […]
A Long Journey
Five women from Winnipeg Inner City Missions attended the Presbyterian Women’s Gathering. For me, Rev. Margaret Mullin/Thundering Eagle Woman, it was an honour to be […]
Flowing of God’s Guidance
Re July/August issue It was my privilege to be a first – time commissioner at General Assembly, so I was not jaded by much of […]
Pure and Simple
Re Salvation is Membership, Letters, July/August I agree that salvation is what makes us Christian. Near where I live here in Cape Breton there is […]
Galileo Magnifico
Galileo in Rome: The Rise and Fall of a Troublesome GeniusWilliam R. Shea and Mariano Artigas, Oxford University Press Well known even in his time as […]
Harvesting Hope
In February, I visited the Soils, Food and Healthy Communities program at Ekwendeni Hospital in Malawi to do research on farmers’ perspectives on climate change. […]
Alexandra, Brantford, Ont.
Hands circled the sanctuary at Alexandra Church when the congregation celebrated the end of its Lenten mission project, a fundraiser for hygiene kits for Haiti. […]
St. Andrew’s, Pictou, N.S.
One hundred forty two years of service to St. Andrew’s and still counting. Shown are Rev. Steven Webb, elders Don Murray (50 years), Martin MacKay […]
World News
WCC General Secretary Offers Condolences to Norway World Council of Churches General Secretary Rev. Dr. Olav Fyske Tveit penned a letter of condolence to the […]
Solas Not Solo – By Faith Alone
The 16th – century reformers—Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, Knox and others—were derisively nicknamed, “the Sola – ists.” They distilled the essence of the gospel in five […]
Speak Out
In regard to the ongoing homosexual harangue and quotation of scriptures prohibiting the same, I would like to add some quotations that I am sure […]
St. Paul’s, Bramalea, Ont.
St. Paul’s, which styles itself “a thinking church with a tender heart,” opened that heart to Rev. Barb Molengraaf, who was inducted in May. She […]
St. Andrew’s, Woodstock, Ont.
The past and future met at Knox in April as the church’s oldest and youngest members attended a dedication service for memorial door windows. The […]
Hope and Healing
I did have a regular life at one time. “Kids, carrots and the white picket fence,” I call it. We had most of the trappings […]