Archive for January, 2006

The World Alliance of Reformed Churches has restructured itself in hopes of avoiding financial difficulties and increasing access to church members throughout the world. The WARC executive committee met...

The richest person on earth cannot get a better Coca-Cola than the poorest. Unlike wine, whiskey, beer and even water, there is only one Coke for all. Coke...

The issue of how to set professors' salaries was back on the front burner at November's Assembly Council meeting. General Assembly was unhappy with council's handling of executive staff...

(ENI) - Bishop Munib Younan, a Palestinian Lutheran bishop for the Holy Land, issued a plea after four members of the pacifist group Christian Peacemaker Teams were abducted...

Nothing is Sound Switchfoot Sony Music Canada Inc The fifth and latest album from Switchfoot, Nothing is Sound, can be easily lumped into a growing musical trend; one which features sufficiently...

Torture. Persecution. Imprisonment. Fleeing for your life. Most people won't experience any of these things during their lifetime. Martha Kuwee Kumsa experienced them all. She now accepts her...

It's bath night. Around the world hurried and harried parents seize precious moments to rest and recharge while their children set uncontested Olympic records in the dunking and...

The Taskforce on the Churches and Corporate Responsibility, along with equivalent bodies from the United States and United Kingdom, created a framework for analyzing how corporations perform on...

Leading by Design Dr. Andrew Westmoreland Baxter Press: Friendswood, Texas. Most people know the acronym WWJD stands for What Would Jesus Do. Dr. Andrew Westmoreland would add the two letters IB...

An Ontario judge has dismissed two charges of sex crimes against Rev. Robert Fourney, senior minister at Glenview Presbyterian Church, Toronto. Fourney was charged with sexual assault and...

Who's that monotheistic manifestation Our elders tell us we owe our adoration? Lacking in psychopomps, we struggle on, Seeking oracles, building our own Avalon. With no metaphysical ology, Can't comprehend our own doxology. There...

The Presbyterian Church has two trust funds - the pension fund and the consolidated fund. (The Record is an investor in the consolidated fund). The pension fund -...

Thank you, Michael Coren for so accurately putting into words the thoughts I experience each time we are exposed to The Oprah Syndrome. Often those same people who...

I enjoyed greatly the article by Brian Stewart on St. Andrew's, King St., Toronto. While a student at Knox College, 1954-57, this was the church that I usually...

Many thanks to Erin Walton's Called to Wonder, December. Along with Christmas were also Hanukkah and Ramadan and the statement, "It is important for us to respect others."Respect...

I must share an enjoyable, and uplifting, experience our congregation, Knox's Galt, Cambridge, Ont., had with Richard Schwartz. (Letter From Away, December)On Presbyterians Sharing... Sunday, we telephoned Nepal...

Rev. Duncan Cameron, Rev. Bill Klempa and Rev. Stuart Coles sing one of Mr. Coles' hymns at the 50th anniversary celebration of the Declaration of Faith Concerning Church...

I found the responses to Andrew Faiz's column interesting (November). Sunday worship is an expression of our spirituality; not spirituality. In fact, it is a ritual based on...

Re. The End Of Slavery letter, OctoberJames MacGregor, an Antiburgher Seceder missionary from Scotland, who in 1788 published a pamphlet against another Presbyterian minister in Nova Scotia who...