Archive for April, 2011

I vividly remember visiting Lenin’s tomb in August 1967. I had heard that thousands filed past to see the embalmed body of the father of the Russian Revolution...

Re Going Backwards, January My family roots are in Hungary. Your articles on the Roma, along with the Auschwitz imagery and accompanying quotations, “acknowledgement of mistakes of the past”...

Sexual abuse is grim; sexual abuse in the church is even grimmer, because the church sets high moral standards for its adherents and especially its clergy. This makes reporting...

Re Minister Censured Extensive publicity is given to the case of an excommunicated minister. Is this consistent with Christian charity and the injunction to love our enemies? ...

I’ve been journaling diligently since I arrived in Malawi last October. One of my new year’s resolutions was to share my experiences as an important part of my...

Re Kortright Raises Thousands, February I'm thrilled to once again read about the not-too-shabby goings-on at Kortright, which had its beginnings in our backyard Vacation Bible School in 1980....

Four generations worshiping together in St. Matthew’s, Wallace, N.S., on the occasion of the youngest’s baptism: Great grandmother Norma Dewar; grandmother Helen Gordon; and mother Mary Smith holding...

Cake Of the Month: St. Andrew’s, Brandon, Man., celebrated its centennial in classic Presbyterian fashion: cake and guest preacher Rev. Dr. Stephen Farris. Both are seen here with...

What does it mean to believe in the resurrection? Some of you may be surprised to know that both the Bible and the earliest confessions of the church...

"It dawned on us that by working with only women, we weren't having much of an impact on HIV and AIDS. It wasn't working if we didn't include...

The Presbytery of Kingston has rebuked and suspended a retired minister from all ministerial and pastoral activity based on allegations that he sexually abused his daughter when she...

Online Lectures Harvard Divinity School Lectures are available online in various formats; you can watch/listen to them without having to pay the high cost of tuition. Check out Howard Stevenson’s “What’s...

Re Planting Seeds in Prison, February The work of chaplains like Rev. Brad Shoemaker is very much needed in the prison system. We know that God wants to reclaim...

I recently had an opportunity to speak with a young man at his grandmother’s funeral. He was wrestling with issues of faith and of knowing. Earlier in the month...

Rev. Peter MacDonald was recently inducted as minister of the Boularderie Charge in Cape Breton. Pictured with him are three former ministers of the charge: Rev. Dr. Donald...

Who would have imagined that putting up a sign reading, “Ask Me About My Church” would cause such discussion? “A sign on my front lawn advertising my church?...

Re The 40-acre Poplar Bush, March Barb Alston’s 40-Acre Poplar Bush is a quiet but profound reflection of that quotation Laurence DeWolfe gives us in the same issue: “The...

Re Can You Imagine, January Weird is good in the godly sense as our ways are not His. His ways generally take us out of our comfort zones....

Re: Don't Make God Small, December On reading Mr. Harris’s I began a search of the Theology 101 series in an attempt to discern what dimensions and particulars we...