Archive for July, 2007

The following is an email exchange I had with a commissioner in the weeks following this year's General Assembly. Dear Andrew, In thinking about the debates at General Assembly, it...

Assembly is a good time for meeting friends and sometimes saying goodbye to them. One friend from my intervarsity days is annemarie Klassen, who is stepping down from...

May 17, 2060: White lines snake from my head to the little portable device slipped into my pocket. I'm wearing the new technological device that inputs electromagnetic impulses...

Dr. Ernie Regehr's passion for his peace-building work was shown with tears while accepting the E.H. Johnson award for being "on the cutting edge of mission." His emotions...

The Presbyterian Church's Rev. Rick Fee was one of more than 570 religious leaders and activists who signed a letter to the heads of the G8, asking them...

The Canadian Foodgrains Bank welcomed Catholic and Anglican agencies into its membership, making it one of the most ecumenical organizations in Canada working to end world hunger. It...

On my refrigerator are pictures of friends and family and animals and one of my dad falling off a chair laughing. There are magnets too. Imitation cabbages, cauliflowers,...

Divided Heritage: The Presbyterian Contribution to the United Church of Canada by John Webster Grant; Gravelbooks. This is a marvelous book, a fitting final testament of a gracious and able historian, who...

Rev. Susan Johnson was named the first female national bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada. "I'm just overwhelmed by this incredible honour," Johnson said after her...

Rev. Linda Ashfield of Knox, Waterloo, Ont., spoke at the 174th anniversary dinner in May at St. Andrew's, Cobourg, Ont., about the 40th anniversary of the ordination of...

ENI — A Japanese theologian has made an unlikely connection between the Bible and the classical Japanese drama form called Noh. In Noh Drama And The Bible —...

Being a Young Adult Representative at this year's General Assembly is one of the most unexpectedly enjoyable things I have done in my life. In all honesty, I...

Rev. Stephen Kendall, Principal Clerk, accentuates the positive at General...

Ever so many years ago, I recall a parishioner saying to me: "I come home from work on fridays and often I don't go out of the house...

First, let me say that the March Record was the best I've read.I noted the opposing views of Calvin Brown and Zander Dunn on the virginity of Mary....

"One day we stuck a shovel in the ground, and we never looked back," says Pastor Mike Mills of Advent Lutheran, Toronto, telescoping the church's speedy decision-making process...

Re Letters, MarchOne must go back to The Disruption of 1843 when preachers such as Candlist and Chalmers brought about the end of Patronage, something Knox had been...

Dear Jan, In no way would I ever begin to suggest that one is easier than the other, hence I had hoped that I had phrased it well when...

Re Vicki Homes on Divorce, MarchIn particular one paragraph: "Many who have gone through this (divorce) say that they believe death would be easier to deal with." As...