Archive for September, 2007

Don't look now, but did you notice? The paradigm ... it shifted. Historians will likely look back on 2007 as the year that climate change and global warming...

Although the Christian church year officially begins in Advent - the four Sundays leading up to Christmas - practically, it begins for us at the beginning of September,...

The Presbyterian Church was represented on national television in July when Rev. Stephen Kendall, principal clerk, shared his opinion on the Pope's recent comments. Kendall was asked by...

Bald eagles are diving lazily into the Pacific, outside this cottage on a northern Gulf island, three ferry rides away from Vancouver. In a few hours the ocean...

I grew up Presbyterian. My mom made sure my sister and I went to church every week, and participated in Sunday school and the junior choir. As I...

ENI — Rev. Samuel Kobia, head of the World Council of Churches, urged ordinary people in the Middle East to take action to promote peace and justice in...

ENI — Christians from both parts of divided Korea have prayed together for the reunification of their country, which has been split in two by a militarized demarcation...

You could say that I've worked in youth ministry for over a decade. That's not entirely accurate, though. A decade ago, I was a youth. Yes, I was...

Someone asked me recently what I do. I said, "I follow teenagers around the house. I shut lights off. It's a full-time job." We are a SITCOM family: Single...

Hundreds are dead, thousands are injured and hundreds of thousands of people are homeless or displaced after tropical cyclone Yemyin brought torrential rains, massive flooding and high winds...

The complete U2 lyrics suggest that love for the world's shared humanity can unite all people even amidst great diversity. The Smiths' lyric has a different feel. But,...

Barb Summers, newly-hired communications coordinator for PWS&D, is shown in Ethiopia in 2005. Summers travelled there with her previous employer to celebrate the opening of a new school....

The unfortunate thing about the U2 line—"one life, with each other, sisters, brothers"—is that it was taken quite out of context. But then, I guess that that was...

In his letter to the editor in May, Coos De Vries quotes The Economist to argue that "it is both bad farming practice and bad economics." What he...

Regarding the May letter suggesting that fair trade is "not in the interest of (small) growers." I am not surprised that The Economist magazine is critical of fair...

As a hospital chaplain in Kingston where there are no fewer than seven federal prisons, I read with interest that the Presbyterian Church recently signed a revised agreement...

Editor's note: These books were sent to the Record for review by the publishersAs soon as the May issue arrived I had to write. The new art director...

I read the review and wondered why these books were chosen? I have never even heard of the three mentioned or their authors! Why don't you review books...

Photography by Alex Luyckx There are a few key things about a Presbyterian Young People's Society weekend that make it, well, a PYPS weekend. First, there is a...