Archive for December, 2009

"The stellar's jay was at the birdfeeder today," Linda said. "I haven't seen him for more than a month. And the pileated woodpecker was in today too. He...

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Rabbi Dr. Stan Chester has been carrying his Torah Light Ministry from St. Andrew's, Penticton, B.C., for more than a year. Last year he celebrated Passover at St....

Print and video resources dealing with refugee issues, stories and sponsorships are now available at presbyterian.ca/refugees. Most resources are produced by various national church offices and are intended...

It's complicated, love is. It's what makes the world go round, yet we often feel it could slip away in an instant; it's as fragile as an orchid...

Joan Osbourne, a contemporary song writer penned a wake-up song entitled: If God Was One of Us. In some ways it is a Christmas song, although it doesn't sound...

First Sunday after Christmas, Year C Luke 2:41-52 (1 Samuel 2:18-20, 26) I must have missed this. Maybe I knew it and forgot. As Luke writes the opening chapters of...

Relativity theory does not mean that nothing is stable; rather that everything is relative to an Absolute. Is there a theory of relativity for religious pluralism? Where is...

Interfaith leaders are calling on the world's industrialized nations to seek peace, justice, and environmental sustainability as they prepare for a historic G8 and G20 meeting near Huntsville,...

Rev. Dr. Cheryl Bear wears her button blanket with Bear Clan crest, and Rev. Wendy Adams at the Splats'in First Nation Band Hall, Enderby BC. Cheryl Bear makes return...

WARC - Twenty years ago, Christians in the former East Germany gathered in Wittenberg to celebrate Reformation Day at the church where on Oct. 31, 1517, Martin Luther...

ENI/RNS - The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. will open a new permanent exhibit on the "discovery and understanding of human origins" in March...

Recent studies conclude that almost six in three Canadian women are relieved when the relatives leave after Christmas. The season can leave us exhausted and broke. But if...

Churches worldwide prayed for drug addicts, sex workers, homosexual men and other populations afflicted by HIV/AIDS as they marked Word AIDS Day on Dec. 1. This year's events...

Gloria Wasacase, 74, a longtime member of the Women's Missionary Society and a supporter of work with aboriginal people, died suddenly on Oct. 13. Wasacase worked for many years...

Faced with the choice of upgrading their 1920s church or starting from scratch with a brand new building, the members of Knox in Waterloo, Ont., took a radical...

Due to a retroactive change by the Canadian Revenue Agency, ministers who rent or own their homes and qualify for residence deductions will have to file an additional...

As an avid People and Places reader, you know there are always stories within stories in each photograph. Here we have Rev. Amanda Birchall, minister at Guthrie, Melbourne,...

"The security situation has become worse in the last year. In Pakistan, especially in the north, it is very bad," said Shama Mall, deputy director of Church World...