Archive for March, 2007

To step into the national archives and records office is to step back in time. Its walls are peppered with sepiatoned photographs of mustached men in dark suits...

Dear Phil, My wife is due in a month, and I'm a little frightened. No, I'm a lot frightened. Friends of ours had their first child a year ago...

When I read my first book on mainline church renewal in the early 1990s, the operative phrase was "paradigm shift." Churches were encouraged to develop new models for...

A sense of belonging is at the core of Christian experience. It includes not only the grace-filled belonging in the personal fellowship within the Godhead, as John speaks...

Mark L. MacDonald, former bishop of Alaska, has been named the Anglican Church's first national indigenous bishop with pastoral oversight over all native Anglicans across Canada, a move...

For the first time in its history the Caribbean and North America Council for Mission met in Canada, at Crieff Hills Community last fall. The delegates seen here...

ENI – Rev. Ishmael Noko, a world Lutheran leader, says that if the international community wants the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement for south Sudan to hold, it must...

I just love the title on the January...

Editor Notes: An extensive list of courses is available at all three Presbyterian colleges, in Vancouver, Montreal and Toronto. Also, many synods, presbyteries and congregations also offer lectures...

"Who, then, is the faithful and prudent servant, whom the master has put in charge of his household to distribute to them their food at the proper time?...

During the fall semester of 2006, I had the opportunity and privilege to take a course entitled A Global History of Christianity — a survey at Knox College,...

Re Reclaiming the Sabbath, by Gwyneth J. Whilsmith, January.While I agree with Lynn M. Baab, that everyone, where possible, needs a full day for Sabbath, but not necessarily...

Calvin Brown is right on! Jesus as fully God yet fully man is the central truth of our faith. To take this uncompromising position is to offer the...

Core beliefs come soaring to consciousness: the birth of Jesus, the crucifixion, the empty tomb, the ascension, the appearance of the holy spirit on the day of Pentecost,...

I was dismayed to read in Calvin Brown's January article, Debating The Virgin Birth, that "some liberal Christians who deny the virgin birth of Jesus in any realistic...

The Church of St. John and St. Andrew, Hamilton, Ont., honoured four of its members with Elder Emeritus certificates. From left: Ken Fothergill, for 49 years of service;...

Kay Morrison, a member of St. John's, Cresswell, Ont., certainly was not going to let something as minor as her motorized chair get in the way of participating...

Ida Law a member of Duff's, Puslinch, Ont., has been busy helping the church spread its message by making posters for the VBS last summer and a mission's...

Knox Presbyterian Church, Agincourt gave $500.00 Christmas gifts to four of the local Presbyterian Missions, Armah, Evangel Hall, Fernie House, and Scott Mission. Pictured here is the presentation...