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Nigerian High Commissioner Visits National Offices
The church has a prophetic role to play, Chief Ojo Maduekwe, Nigeria’s high commissioner to Canada, told church staff, Nigerians and former missionaries at the […]
The church has a prophetic role to play, Chief Ojo Maduekwe, Nigeria’s high commissioner to Canada, told church staff, Nigerians and former missionaries at the […]
As a preacher’s kid, I grew up in Presbyterian churches in small Ontario towns. Church was always a part of my life. But there’s a difference, in my experience, between attending a church and being part of a church.
This recipe originally appeared in the December 2001 issue of the Presbyterian Record. By request, here it is again. Sand art brownies make a great gift (and a great craft for Sunday school.)
The organization known today as Presbyterian World Service and Development has a rich history. Its past is full of interesting characters, difficult situations, disasters—both natural and human-made—and a lot of love and devotion. Here are only a few of the highlights from 65 years of international aid.
Rev. Gordon Haynes, a former associate secretary, sees an interesting future for the Presbyterian Church—if we give ourselves the freedom and nurture the creativity we’ll need to make new ministries happen.
When the Life and Mission Agency amalgamated Canada Ministries with another department last year, Rev. Gordon Haynes stepped out of the position he’d held for […]
“We must remember Christ was not crucified in a cathedral between two candles, but on a cross between two thieves; on a town garbage heap.”
There is a line from a song by John Bell of the Iona Community that has taken on new meaning for the pilgrims: “At night, as I dreamt, God summoned the day; for God never sleeps, but patterns the morning with slithers of gold or glory in grey.”
The time of John Knox and the time of the Covenanters came together inside the walls of St. Giles High Kirk (still often called St. Giles Cathedral).
We began our journey through Scotland at a place of great beauty and, for John Knox , great pain.
“John Calvin was many things, but he was not a Calvinist,” said Rev. John Gibaut. “A Reformer, yes. But a Catholic Reformer. That was what he considered himself to be.”
Although it’s now a small community surrounded by farms, Avenches was once the site of a Roman city (then called Aventicum). It was the capital of Rome’s Swiss province, and the fields are still dotted with ruins.
Psalms were of central importance to John Calvin and his worshipping community in Geneva. Through their diversity, the Psalms captured every human emotion and feeling.
On our last day in Meaux, we visited a church founded by martyrs. The modest Reformed church, or “temple” in French, seems jarringly plain compared to the soaring Gothic cathedrals we’ve visited in the past few days.
Rev. Dr. Ron Wallace (right) poses with Mary Beth McLean, Rev. Dr. Paul McLean and Rev. Te-Chien (Andrew) Chang, general secretary of the Presbyterian Church […]
Notre Dame de Noyon has seen plenty of destruction. The statues and most of the carvings that adorned its façade were smashed by Protestants during the Wars of Religion.
Today began in an obscure corner of the Bible: Genesis 26:12-18. You may have never heard the story, said Gerald Hobbs, one of the pilgrimage leaders, as we sat near one of the side chapels in Meaux’s immense cathedral.
Yesterday, I was starting to feel like a pilgrim. Bleary-eyed, tired and far from home was how I always imagined pilgrims must feel—at least for a little while.
I think we need to accept that what we do—if we’re going to do something new—might look very strange to other people. It might even look strange to people within our home tribe.
Lay-administered communion officially becomes church law; Urging prayer for Nigeria and Syria; LMA asked to focus on congregations