Archive for June, 2006

The Canadian government announced a final agreement concerning Indian residential schools, dropping the Presbyterian Church's liability cap from $2.1 million to $1.32 million. Rev. Stephen Kendall, the church's...

The benediction is always at the end. The benediction is the last word as the people leave the worship service and go into the world to live out their...

For the first time ever, the provisional Book of Reports for this month's General Assembly were posted online (www.presbyterian.ca) during the first week of May, at the same...

Not a day goes by, it seems to me, without some newspaper of magazine article that somehow touches upon the moral, ethical, spiritual or religious zeitgeist. So, over...

This pamphlet has been prepared with the intent of helping you through this difficult time. Following my husband's death, I made two mistakes which took months to rectify....

In a civilization that has lost the meaning of life the most important thing a Christian can do is to live ... this life alone can break the...

The United Church of Canada is investing $6-8 million on a two-year project that aims to attract new parishioners between the ages of 30 and 45. Emerging Spirits...

Suzie McNeil, step-daughter of Rev. Ian McPherson of Erindale, Mississauga, was chosen as one of the finalists for Rock Star INXS, a reality show to choose the next...

Lost Women of the Bible: Finding Strength and Significance Through Their Stories Carolyn Custis James Zondervan It didn't take long to compile the propositions James would use in her unfolding story...

Lloyd Evans in the British weekly Spectator unequivocally asserts that Jesus could not read, a claim made by many books and Internet sites, glossed in Northrop Frye's The...

To help you through this difficult time, this pamphlet has been prepared. Following my husband's death, I made two mistakes, which took months to rectify. But a year...

Waking up to wonder A hand tapped me on the shoulder. I turned around to face a smiling stranger. "You're the girl who preached in Iona Abbey on Sunday," he said,...

The night before you crossed the River Jordan, we crowded your bed and sang the hymns you loved to hear. Twice you took my daughter's hand and tried...

ENI – The World Association for Christian Communication, a global media development and advocacy network, is relocating its headquarters from London to Toronto following a decline in grants...

Becoming a Blessed Church N. Graham Standish Alban Institute Looking at the title I start with a certain bias in reviewing this book; my understanding is that the church is already...

William Sloane Coffin, a former Yale University chaplain, civil rights activist and self-proclaimed "disturber of the peace" who revelled in infuriating his critics, died, aged 81 in April....

Presbyterian minister Rev. Dr. Robert P. Fourney has been deposed from office for sexual misconduct following an investigation by the Presbytery of East Toronto and its Sexual Abuse...

Sacred Simplicities: Seeing the Miracles in Our Lives Lori Knutson Path Books, ABC Publishing Psychologist Carl Jung wrote about the concept of synchronicity, apparently random events that happen in your life and...

"Canada Ministries has looked after Malvern as a child of its own," Christy Kurian, clerk of session, told the Record. "It can be proud of the way Malvern...