Archive for June, 2009

Laura Ashfield has been appointed intern with Project Ploughshares. The eight-month position should begin this September. As a representative of the Presbyterian Church, Ashfield has attended the Sabeel International...

Rev. Lisa (as she’s affectionately known, even on the website for Faith, Fort McMurray, Alta., where she serves) is one of those lucky/unlucky people to have a birthday...

Click here to read this article in Korean. There is a small craft sitting on my desk. It is a sailboat; not your fancy dream yacht but a typical...

How shall we read the Bible? In the many ways to read the Bible today, it seems there are as many interpretations as there are interpreters. Christians all...

Bruce "The Cookie Man" Cornish has been selling Christmas cakes and shortbread for 20 years at St. Andrew’s, Brampton, for the church’s food bank. Little by little, and...

I would agree with Dr. McLelland’s view that science and religion should not be treated as opposed to each other, they should be both able to correspond with...

Ahhhhh! Wood tick! The scream sent the three of us for separate parts of the travel trailer, stripping off jeans and shirts as we scampered to do...

First, Pictou, N.S., had a Best of First Sunday, which included worship (of course), lunch, storytelling about mission, education, stewardship and wishes for the congregation’s future. On our...

The Presbyterian Record does not shy away from critical, often sensitive, questions about the function and future of the church and the God she serves. It shows courageous...

PC(USA)—A General Assembly amendment that would allow presbyteries to ordain openly gay or lesbian clergy in the Presbyterian Church (USA) was defeated in late April. Eighty-eight presbyteries had...

I especially appreciated Dr. McLelland’s last paragraph where he speaks about "God-centered faith." The following quote from Margaret Isherwood’s The Root of the Matter has helped me understand...

This advertisement has no place in the Presbyterian Record, whether paid for by a Presbyterian or not. Regardless of one’s personal views of abortion, to say, as the...

Re the February 2009 editorial, Suffering Servants No professional that I know works a 40-hour week, other than hourly paid workers. Everyone else, salaried or contract, works the hours...

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ENI—The global economic crisis has led to a rise in reported incidents of anti-Semitism in Canada, says a prominent Jewish human rights and humanitarian organization. In its annual audit...

ENI—The Roman Catholic bishop in Sudan, Antonio Menegazzo, is warning that the humanitarian situation in the country’s western Darfur region is worsening, nearly a month after President Omar...

Karen Mills says her life has done a complete turn-around since discovering Family Futures, a program that helps single mothers and is run out of St. Paul’s, Prince...

ENI—German Bishop Margot Kässmann has criticized the Protestant work ethic ascribed to the 16th century theologian John Calvin, saying it has excesses in the current social and economic...

Rev. Dr. Richard Topping has been appointed the first professor of Studies in the Reformed Tradition at St. Andrew’s Hall. He will begin July 1. Rev. Dr. Stephen Farris,...