Archive for September, 2011

The Pension Board of the Presbyterian Church does an excellent job keeping those who receive a pension up to date. Several times a year their mailing includes a...

Stories and Celebrations at Inuvik TRC Event Two Hundred Kilometres north of the Arctic Circle, in the land of the midnight sun, Principal Clerk Stephen Kendall and seminary...

I have been looking around for information about the Rayner Prize for this year. What is the topic this year? Has the deadline for submissions already passed? Editor Responds: Funny...

This letter should probably be directed to the doctrine committee. I am not a theologian but a former member of the United Church who experienced a miraculous healing immediately...

Five women from Winnipeg Inner City Missions attended the Presbyterian Women's Gathering. For me, Rev. Margaret Mullin/Thundering Eagle Woman, it was an honour to be asked to be...

Re July/August issue It was my privilege to be a first - time commissioner at General Assembly, so I was not jaded by much of what has gone before....

Man of interest Got demons? For 20 years, Bob Larson was the host of a very popular two-hour Christian radio program. Over the airwaves he would exorcise demons...

Re Salvation is Membership, Letters, July/August I agree that salvation is what makes us Christian. Near where I live here in Cape Breton there is a sign along the...

Galileo in Rome: The Rise and Fall of a Troublesome GeniusWilliam R. Shea and Mariano Artigas, Oxford University Press Well known even in his time as a physicist, mathematician and...

In February, I visited the Soils, Food and Healthy Communities program at Ekwendeni Hospital in Malawi to do research on farmers' perspectives on climate change. Presbyterian World Service...

Hands circled the sanctuary at Alexandra Church when the congregation celebrated the end of its Lenten mission project, a fundraiser for hygiene kits for Haiti. The Sunday school...

One hundred forty two years of service to St. Andrew's and still counting. Shown are Rev. Steven Webb, elders Don Murray (50 years), Martin MacKay (42 years), Ken...

WCC General Secretary Offers Condolences to Norway World Council of Churches General Secretary Rev. Dr. Olav Fyske Tveit penned a letter of condolence to the Christian Council of Norway...

The 16th - century reformers—Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, Knox and others—were derisively nicknamed, "the Sola - ists." They distilled the essence of the gospel in five short Latin slogans...

In regard to the ongoing homosexual harangue and quotation of scriptures prohibiting the same, I would like to add some quotations that I am sure have inadvertently been...

Rev. Robert Smith came to the ministry as a second career—sort of. He was a minister in the United States during the 1980s, and then briefly in the...

St. Paul’s, which styles itself “a thinking church with a tender heart,” opened that heart to Rev. Barb Molengraaf, who was inducted in May. She is seen with...

The past and future met at Knox in April as the church's oldest and youngest members attended a dedication service for memorial door windows. The dedication was in...

I did have a regular life at one time. "Kids, carrots and the white picket fence," I call it. We had most of the trappings of a...