Archive for March, 2008

Guildwood Community Presbyterian Church, Toronto, has had protestors walking its front lawn thanks to a 20-year lease agreement with Bell Mobility that will see a 10-storey relay signal...

Worship materials from 190 congregations from every province in Canada will now be sealed in the Presbyterian Church's national archives for 50 years, preserving a "moment in time"...

Though I am only 46, my hair has begun to vanish. I do not have trouble growing hair. But location is everything with hair. I am like a...

ENI - Church leaders in Nigeria say urgent government action is needed to tackle poverty in the West African nation that was ranked 158th out of 177 countries...

Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the...

February is a time when we think about love and part of that is the Lenten emphasis on repentence for not loving enough. As I thought about that...

A new department has been launched at national offices, designed to quickly and easily provide resources and leadership, answer questions, and otherwise aid congregations and individuals in their...

The term "church growth" makes me queasy, or at least, uneasy, in the same way that the term tilt-a-whirl makes me queasy at the fall fair or the...

It started, like so many things, with a personal connection: A member at Knox, Agincourt, Toronto, has a brother-in-law serving in Afghanistan. The congregation decided to adopt him...

ENI - International organizations representing young people from all main Christian traditions say they are anguished at not being able to share in the Lord's Supper together. "Many of...

Just read your article Jesus Good in the Record. I'm not an expert on the Meeting House or Bruxy Cavey but I have been attending for about 8...

With managing editors like Andrew Faiz, who needs enemies? I'm not entirely clear about the point, if any, of Faiz's article. It does seem clear that Faiz is...

Re Jesus Good, JanuaryAndrew Faiz quoted Bruxy Cavey and linked him with a bunch of different authors who are anti-Christian, and I think that was completely unfair. I...

Today memories of my camping days at Gen Mohr in the mid 1950's floated back into my mind as clean and sweet as the days they were made....

In my experience, at the best of times it seems very difficult to keep a sense of liturgy before Presbyterians and actually live and experience the riches of...

Grace Will Lead Us Home (4.27mb MP3 file) presented by the Knox Youth Chorus and Choir (Matthew 20: 19-34; 21:1-11) words and music by David Buckley soloists: Shaelah Grace Buckley, Dave Buckley 1)...

Re Mark Tremblay letter, DecemberWas Luther fishing for laughs when he posted his 95 theses? Or why should it mark an erosion of tolerance and diversity of opinion...

As a new member of St. Andrew's, Penticton, B.C., I applaud Rev. Colin Cross for his boldness and courage. The Walk to Bethlehem (December 2007) was a way...

I wonder if the practice of offering critiques of the ministry and motives of particular ministers in our denomination, through the pages of the Record, is going to...