Archive for June, 2008

Whenever I meet new people in my day-to-day life, our conversation usually begins with typical small talk about the weather or something else generally trivial. That is until the...

My iPod crashed - long story, not terribly interesting - and I have to rebuild. A good opportunity to bring some theology to my music. Here's my opening...

A new Conference Fund administered by the Life and Mission agency is available for anyone in the Presbyterian Church planning a small or large conference. Conference planners may...

A love of nature led the late Don Elliott and his wife, Heather to ensure a rare and mature seven-hectare woodlot in southern Ontario's Oro Moraine was conserved...

On a recent Sunday night I returned from a trip and noticed that the customary sparkle in my wife's eyes had been replaced by sadness. "I have bad...

ENI - A Japanese study group of Christian educators and doctors say sex education should be promoted from Christian perspectives. "We have a sense of impending crisis about the...

It's not everyday that I am prepared to say "well done" to a politician. But Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty wins my support. The premier - cognizant of the...

CNW - The Canadian International Development Agency and Canadian Lutheran World Relief are contributing $632,000 to improve access to essential health care in the Palestinian Territories. The funding...

May the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, equip...

The Presbyterian Record was awarded third place in the general excellence category for denominational magazines at the recent Canadian Church Press awards ceremony and convention in Cambridge, Ont.,...

Wendy Read was sexually abused by her father. The damage done by daddy dearest caught up to her, as it does with all victims. "The demands of life...

Rev. Bob Graham at Knox Presbyterian church in Alliston, Ont. learned of a Canadian invention which could purify dirty water and make it drinkable. The invention had been...

Due to an Internet server problem at national offices in April, emails sent to the Record may not have been received. If you sent a letter, a People...

David, I didn't realize that the PCC was into Mormon baptisms on behalf of others. No doubt this has been drawn to your attention but in the April/08 issue,...

Dear Andrew, I enjoyed your article "My Global Footprint". Yes, it is difficult for any one individual to walk gently on this ball of dirt that is our home....

Re Articulating Faith, Letters, March 2008 It was with interest that I read the article on Stanford Reid in your March edition. I was a young student in 1984,...

Stephen Neill once said, "If everything is mission then nothing is mission." The way we use the word "mission" around the church does perhaps reduce it to something...

Hi Andrew, I just read your online article in the Record on Bruxy Cavey. Are you sure you have done your homework on him? I know him for...

It was with a certain amount of wry amusement that I read about anti-English attitudes by the Scots when "Kesting (Moderator, Church of Scotland) made her remarks in...