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In our house, one of the most wonderful moments each day is reading books at bedtime to our little girl. So many books and so many stories. But...

"Vanity of vanities, all is vanity." So said the Preacher. It was all I could think of as I picked up the glossy real estate flyer that came in...

The question of identity is difficult to answer. Who am I? Is this a question of "I" who has been, who is and who will be? Jesus is...

The headline in one of my community newspapers said it all: Low Murder Rate [an] Anomaly: Cops. It was a classic case of not letting facts get in...

Blame it on Aristotle. If you happen to miss church on Feb. 28 because you are watching the men's gold medal hockey game, that is. On the other...

Mainline Canadian Christians were given a sackful of coal by the federal government just before Christmas when Stephen Harper's Tories abruptly cut funding from Kairos, the ecumenical justice...

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...

It is almost a decade since the Presbyterian Record left the umbrella of the church governance to become a federally incorporated not-for-profit to continue publishing the magazine founded...

"We're prudent people. We don't make decisions easily, carelessly. We delay the process, postpone the sederunt. We're practical." That comment on the ethos of Canadian Presbyterianism comes from the...

That the [135th] General Assembly encourage congregations to join the Presbyterian Record’s Every Home Plan as an important way to stay informed about our church. —recommendation passed at...

Most people in the world do not enjoy the freedoms we do in Canada. Section 2 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms sets out the "fundamental...

Seven years ago in an editorial for this magazine, I quoted the following passage from Prof. Reg Bibby’s then latest book, Restless Churches. “I am convinced,” he wrote,...

Icebergs are about 90 per cent underwater. Among other things, this means it takes considerable effort to change their course. Because these facts are commonly known, people who...

It's all about relationships. Much of the current economic crisis is about relationships that have fallen apart. That banks are refusing to lend money to each other, as well...

When Henri Nouwen's book The Wounded Healer was published in 1979, it was met with a resounding "Yes!" from many clergy and candidates for ordination because it spoke...

Welcome to the 133rd year of publication of the Presbyterian Record. It's still fall as I write this - despite the snow - but we already have a...

To all those readers who were surprised and offended in any way to receive a recent mailing from an insurance company in a Presbyterian Record envelope, my profound...

I look at a piece of Zimbabwe almost every day. The slightly abstract mother and child carved in black springstone radiate extraordinary love and tenderness and is probably...

The idea of the shrinking "humanitarian space" for refugees is a common theme in international discussions about refugee issues. I prefer to call the condition our shrinking humanitarian...