Archive for July, 2008

I was pleased to be able to spend a week with 18 new friends at General Assembly. YARs we were called - Young Adult Representatives. Our days...

Saw Winning and Wah Lay Ray are amongst about 100 Karens who live in Thunder Bay, Ont., because of sponsorship led by a Presbyterian church. Karen are an...

Four downtown Kitchener congregations, who had signed a covenant in 2001 to work together, met in May to discuss the issues they face. St. Andrew's Presbyterian, St. Peter's...

"If you invite someone to be open and honest about wounds you've inflicted on them, either personally or through identification, then you also have the responsibility to ask...

Click here to read this column in Korean. As I write this it has been a month since my induction as the Moderator of the Church and I may...

Rev. Karen Bach, currently director of the Evergreen Centre for Street Youth at Toronto's Yonge Street Mission, was honored in May for her contribution to the ecumenical chaplaincy...

On the last day in Ottawa at the 134th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church commissioners were told there was good news and bad news. Good news: all...

Rev. Dr. Hans Kouwenberg expressed concern the Presbyterian Church may have more of an institutional stance rather than that of a movement. "Although our new national resource centre,...

The enthusiastic congregation gathered at Knox, Ottawa, for the opening of the General Assembly experienced a worship service that was memorable. The presence of several hundred ready-to-sing Presbyterians...

ENI - Rev. Samuel Kobia, general secretary of the World Council of Churches, which supported comprehensive sanctions against apartheid South Africa, has issued a warning against imposing an...

ENI - World religious leaders who met in Sapporo, Japan, in advance of the summit of the Group of Eight industrial nations, which included Canada's Prime Minister Stephen...

Mr. Moderator, let me begin by saying thank you for the opportunity to come and observe the court this week, and for the chance to share my reflections...

I have the flu. Symptoms include everything from voice loss to a lack of enough physical stamina to hold up a paperback. Painfully, I muster up enough energy...

The rest of the magazine will no doubt give greater detail of the Assembly in Ottawa, so I have picked just a few highlights to share with you. The...

A coalition of Chinese language churches in the Greater Toronto Area met in the immediate aftermath of the worst earthquake to hit China since 1976 and issued a...

The longest debate at this year's assembly was an extension of issues raised last year by the Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations Committee. An overture asked assembly to reaffirm...

In May we read Observer Backs Darwin. Hopefully those presenting the exhibit will present both sides of the theory since, as quoted from Genesis and the Big Bang...

Spiritual iPod: Todd Snider - Somebody's coming. Incredible lyrics; Advent has never been described better. Paul Simon - A Church is Burning. Simon, before Garfunkle. Actually, they were a folk...

I'd like to suggest a few songs that could be added to the list. "What If God Was One Of Us" by Joan Osborne. An example showing how God...