Archive for January, 2007

During these past few weeks, my travels as moderator have taken me to Alberta, Nova Scotia, and British Columbia as well as to several places in Ontario. I...

The African drumbeat beckoned the delegates from the hallways of a Halifax convention centre in November into the large meeting room. As we followed the drumbeat, it drew...

I've stayed in some pits in my time but this place really takes the biscuit. Disgusting. I don't mind shabbyness but this place was just plain dirty. And...

ENI – An east African church grouping has joined with an inter-religious council and a leading NGO to urge religious leaders from the Horn of Africa to help...

ENI – The presence of African churches is considered urgent and important at this month's World Social Forum. The WSF tends to meet when the World Economic Forum,...

If you are around long enough, you will always get one, and the village of Grand Valley has been around more than long enough to have earned a...

I couldn't believe it was happening. Oh, how I wish I could turn back the clock. It was Maundy Thursday — it was indeed the last supper that...

We met one another in 1962. It was not long before our two families became good friends. Raymond and Cindy lived on Isle Jesu in an area called...

During the restless rule of Emperor Tiberius, a Jewish Nazarene by the name of Yeshua bar-Joseph began teaching and preaching in Palestine. He was but one of many...

"Children are a great comfort in your old age — and they help you reach it faster too." – Lionel Kauffman On the night of my 35th birthday —...

What is an innovative Presbyterian? This is what we were looking to find out when the good people at PIM decided to hold a synod-wide conference. That's where Dr....

It is interesting to reflect that faithful followers of both Islam and Christianity can confess that according to their scriptures Jesus was born of the Virgin Mary. But...

A private member's bill that will grant appeals to refugees being sent back to their countries from Canada was slated for a second reading in the House of...

In Presbyterian communities, a 50th birthday celebration is not a sign of old age — in some congregations the recipients of such well wishes still constitute the "young...

Shaneil Keesic and her younger sister Desiree rescued a handicapped youth after bullies coerced a group of eight- to 12-year-old children to shut the youth into the shed...

G. Jean Elliot and Robert Harvey have a right to their own opinions but not to their own facts and I think they might add to their reading...

If Robert Harvey's reference is to the same Rev. Donald Kemble who was minister of the church where I was a member, and his daughter to whom I...

G. Jean Elliott asks what Jesus really was like, and by implication, whether the Bible tells us enough about Jesus. Many such questions are asked nowadays (but it...

New to the city of London, I went to the closest Presbyterian Church. I never realized how intimidating it is for someone new to just walk into a...