Archive for March, 2005

A prominent Toronto minister has been charged with sexual assault and sexual exploitation of a teenager for an alleged incident 15 years ago. Rev. Robert Fourney, minister at...

Each individual's motivation for going on a retreat is very personal. Some are at a crisis point and need to make an important decision, some want to draw...

What is more joyous than the birth of a baby? Ironically, following this joyous event, congregations often neglect or even ignore children in the first six years of...

Money. Women. Fame. Prestige. Being a major league baseball player has its perks. But worldly temptations and inflated egos are things Vince Perkins is trying to resist. As...

On Tuesday morning my wife and I invited 10 small boys to help us celebrate our son's birthday party. When I was a child I squeezed the front...

Congregations have an excellent example to follow when taking their ministries beyond church walls: Although Jesus did teach in synagogues, the majority of his preaching took place on...

The Presbytery of East Toronto is sending an overture to General Assembly, asking it to establish a committee that will study same-sex marriage. The presbytery hopes the committee...

The Presbyterian Church in Canada has lost a number of faithful servants in the last few months. Below is a brief look at a handful of those no...

"There are a lot of frustrations in the health care system," said Amy Tolhurst, Quebec's only parish nurse. Officially she is the parish nurse for the two Presbyterian...

Re: January's edtiorial Child Poverty Truly Threatens The Family.Tackle the problem at the grass roots level: i.e., welfare payments must be raised. A couple in British Columbia receives...

Over the course of one month, as the missing were declared dead, the estimates of deaths due to the Asian tsunami rose to above 300,000. But, that wasn't...

A recent news story reported that the Vatican is so concerned about attacks upon Christianity that it has appealed to the United Nations organization for some form of...

You finally have been successful at my house.Here's the history of the Record when it showed up at our house. Wow it's the Record, there's the recycle box....

I just read Andrew Faiz's article in the January Presbyterian Record on moral issues and the Christian Right.His article reflects my own feelings and beliefs, but said it...

After the recent U.S. election, there were some serious doubts regarding some of the counting methods. Michael Coren refers to it as "the game of democracy". Surely he...

My blood was boiling after reading Michael Coren's sanctimonious column The Secular Left Blames The Christian Right. We are either in agreement with the platform of U.S. conservatives...

The Bermuda Pipe Band, along with a young sword dancer, helped launch the Christmas season at St. Andrew's, Bermuda. The skirl of the music and the grace of...

That was some 'I do' Bob and Leta Lawrence uttered on Boxing Day, 1934. Seventy years later they stand behind a massive cake at Westminster, Sault Ste. Marie.,...

That was some 'I do' Bob and Leta Lawrence uttered on Boxing Day, 1934. Seventy years later they stand behind a massive cake at Westminster, Sault Ste. Marie.,...