Archive for July, 2005

There is the news story, the facts, the rains that fell Early one evening on the first day of June in an area of Manitoba. There is the weather, the winds, the rain, The torrents of...

Remembering the Pentecostal belief that God can and does heal today could be healthy and worthwhile for the Christian church, according to Ron Wallace, associate secretary of International...

The Toronto Zimbabwean community gathered on May 21 for a dinner and dance to raise money for Tinashe and Tinotenda — the conjoined twins flown from Zimbabwe and...

It was my privilege to serve as moderator during the 131st General Assembly whose theme was Claiming the Joy of Our Faith. With the Assembly ended, I continue...

The Presbyterian Church hopes to meet with a new federal government representative working on resolving claims of former residential schools students. Mr. Justice Frank Iacobucci is mandated by...

I have probably witnessed in excess of 1,500 sermons over the past 35 years. Of those, I remember about a dozen vividly. There's another two dozen, maybe, of...

Called the world's toughest spelling competition, the Scripps National Spelling Bee held in Washington, D.C., saw one Canadian Presbyterian compete. Twelve-year-old Jennifer Hurd, daughter of Rev. James Hurd...

Presbyterians ran for Rett on May 15, helping to raise money for a disorder many parents and doctors don't even know about. Rett Syndrome is a degenerative neurodevelopmental...

A request to include housing allowance in maternity/paternity leave benefits was denied by General Assembly, which argued the current policy is sufficient. Difficulties revolve around the definition of...

The Assembly overwhelmingly voted to adopt Leading with Care: A Policy for Ensuring a Climate of Safety for Children, Youth and Vulnerable Adults. Congregations are expected to implement...

It was Sunday morning, the setting a serious Church of Scotland Service in a formidable stone building several hundred years old. As the minister, I stood to read...

There are clues to Mulugeta Abai's Ethiopian past. One of them is the job he has chosen for himself in Toronto at the Canadian Centre for Victims of...

I was a crazy kid. Teachers didn't appreciate me and my parents wondered if there was hope for me. The trouble with being a crazy kid is that...

Canada's relief and aid community is joining with 50 other countries to help Make Poverty History. The international campaign is supported by the Presbyterian Church through Presbyterian World...

Each department at church offices must find ways for aboriginal ministries' healing and reconciliation to become a permanent part of their mandate, according to assembly. An additional motion was...

Taiwan is celebrating the 140th anniversary of the arrival of Protestant missionaries. Canadian Presbyterian missionary George Mackay was one of the pioneers, arriving in 1872. "When the early...

Women, who know the price of conflict so well, are also better equipped to prevent or resolve it. – U.N. General Secretary Kofi Annan The women filed into a conference...

The number of Presbyterian churches in London, Ont., has not changed in at least a decade and the collective roll from 1999 to today shows a downwards trend,...

"The church likes the moderator. They really do," Rick Fee told Jean Morris. "They see the moderator as somebody through whom they can show appreciation to the church." Fee's...