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As Presbyterians, we have a strong heritage as a people of the book. That is, we are a people whose sole authority in matters of faith and life...

The young woman followed the guide's hand to where a passage from Psalm 132 was mounted high on the wall. She read it, then dissolved into tears, knees...

I was just a boy in Pakistan when Mohammed Ali fought Joe Frazier through 15 grueling rounds for boxing's heavyweight championship in the spring of '71. That fight...

February 26 / First Sunday in Lent Mark 1:9-15 Suggested alternative first reading: Daniel 4:28-37 The opening chapters of all four gospels are more important as theology than history. The...

It's February in the Cariboo. Bleak midwinter—earth like iron, water like stone, snow on snow; cold, howling drifts of the stuff. For those of us who live anywhere...

We had been anticipating it for weeks, my 10 - year - old grandson, Jacob and I. We had talked about it, dreamed it and meticulously planned it;...

There has been much debate about the purpose and meaning of the loosey - goosey Occupy movement, as a wide array of folk tented down in major cities...

TOYS Isaac Bros. Bobbleheads hasn't been around that long but I hope they have a good future ahead of them. Citing Genesis 21:6, "God has brought me laughter...

When I was in college, there were two things you were not allowed to discuss at a formal meal before dessert: politics and religion. Well, OK, there were actually...

"Rick Horst emerges from a shepherd’s cave in Beit Sahour, near Bethlehem." General Assembly doesn't usually choose the destination for its Moderator's international visit. But when the church's response...

January 15 - Second Sunday after Epiphany 1 Samuel 3:1-10 (11-20) Samuel watches old Eli's every move. Samuel was just a toddler when he went to Shiloh. To learn the...

In our house, the  table sits in the window, and the light comes in. Outside, we have a tiny garden space, then a tall and somewhat scraggling hedge,...

Knick-Knacks What could be better than giving a little Santa Claus statue to your loved ones this Christmas? Ok, so maybe a baby Jesus statue would be better....

This will be my 40th Christmas in Canada. Our first was spent in the Leaside home of friends from Lahore. It was a modest celebration, filled with surreal...

"Put away from you all bitterness and wrath and anger and wrangling and slander, together with all malice, and be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another,...

[/caption] Lynne Hill - St Andrews, Bolsover, Ont. Linda looked out the window and smiled. "I guess I've kept ‘em waiting long enough. Addy and I had better go for...

A book cataloguing a decade of international medical - scientific achievement and a magazine article challenging the tenets of the Occupy Wall Street protest are not the most...

[/caption] Deana Weyman-St Andrews King City Ont Perhaps central to any celebration of Christmas is the picture of Mary holding the infant Jesus. Around the picture and beyond the biblical...

June Robinson-Trinity Victoria BC Readers from small towns and rural communities will need to think about the people we struggle to look after at home, or try to pretend...