Recently added articles from Presbyterian Record:
Pontius' puddle.(LETTERS)
Jun 01, 2009 ... WHY SO EXCITED? I GET TO PITCH FIRST ROCK AT A STONING! CHRISTIANS ARE CALLED TO RECONCILIATION, NOT VENGEANCE. "ONLY ...
Rev. Lisa (as she's affectionately known, even on the website for Faith, Fort McMurray, Alta., where she serves) is one of those lucky/unlucky people to have a birthday just a week before Christmas.(People & Places)
Jun 01, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Rev. Lisa (as she's affectionately known, even on the website for Faith, Fort McMurray, Alta., where she serves) is one of those lucky/unlucky people to have a birthday just a week before Christmas. Last ...
The WMS of First, Port Colborne, Ont., recently organized fundraising for Bricks for Jobat and School Supplies for Eastern Europe.(People & Places)
Jun 01, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The WMS of First, Port Colborne, Ont., recently organized fundraising for Bricks for Jobat and School Supplies for Eastern Europe. On Mission Sunday the guest speaker was Mary Lou Johnston, in flowered vest, of Dunnville, who described Christian gypsy ...
Mr. Zion, Ridgetown, Ont., got the blues one Sunday as Rev. Paul "Blues Brother" Shaw strummed out a few riffs with his son Adam, and, along with the Ray Whaling Band provided a classic rock and blues repertoire.(People & Places)
Jun 01, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Mr. Zion, Ridgetown, Ont., got the blues one Sunday as Rev. Paul "Blues Brother" Shaw strummed out a few riffs with his son Adam, and, along with the Ray ...
On our website.(People & Places)
Jun 01, 2009 ... An awesome spaghetti lunch in Halifax by some young chefs that raised nearly $400 for Presbyterians Sharing. St. Andrew's, Mansfield celebrates its 145th anniversary ...
Nurse Williams now a doctor: the refugee reverend honoured in Montreal.(NEWS)
Jun 01, 2009; ... TEN graduates (see photos elsewhere in this issue), one candidate in lay leadership and three honorary degrees were handed out early May at the Church of St. Andrew and St. Paul, Montreal, for the 142nd convocation of Presbyterian College. Rev. Glynis Williams, executive ...
Free web hosting.
Jun 01, 2009 ... THE Presbyterian Church's communications office is providing a new free web-hosting service to all recognized ministries of the church beginning in June. The service will offer a basic website that is easy to manage with no additional software or technical skills required. "It ...
Feeding the future: St. Paul's supports local children through food and fundraising.(NEWS)
Jun 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] IN THE FALL of 2007, Karen Mills was pregnant and struggling to provide for four children. But she discovered Family Futures, a program for single mothers, run out of St. Paul's in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. "I'm an aboriginal woman, so my ...
Dalit theology: a WCC conference on the caste system in a Christian context.(LETTER FROM BANKOK)
Jun 01, 2009; ... MOST of us cannot imagine being treated from birth as if we were impure, polluted and polluting to those around us. And yet, this is the daily reality for many of the world's 200 million "dalits". This past March, I participated in the first Global Ecumenical Conference On ...
Anti-Semitism rises.(WORLD NEWS IN BRIEF)
Jun 01, 2009 ... ENI--The global economic crisis has led to a rise in reported incidents of anti-Semitism in Canada, says a prominent Jewish human rights and humanitarian organization. In its annual audit of anti-Semitic incidents, the League for Human Rights of B'nai Brith Canada recorded 1,135 ...
A call to see and be near relationships and youth.(YOUTH)
Jun 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] On one episode of the TV show Scrubs, a sitcom about a hospital in which we are taken into the strange imagination of the main character, JD has one of his bizarre fantasies about infection spreading through the hospital. An infected person ...
Partnerships in ending hunger: CFGB and PWS&D.(PWS Developments)
Jun 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Presbyterian World Service & Development (PWS&D), is one of 15 church-based agencies that owns Canadian Foodgrains Bank (CFGB). Through these agencies, almost all Christian denominations in Canada (32 in total) are represented by CFGB. Each member agency ...
Redemption songs: fulfil de Book.(MEDIA: MUSIC)
Jun 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Bob Marley once sang, "Won't you help to sing, these songs of freedom. 'Cause all I ever have: Redemption Songs." Amen. While love (getting it, losing it, dealing with the loss) is a major theme in most musical forms, songs about faith can be found where ...
The forgotten God: rediscovering the Holy Spirit.(THEOLOGY 101)
Jun 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Holy Spirit has sometimes been referred to as the Cinderella of Christian theology; when the other two "sisters" of the Trinity were taken to the party, the Spirit was left at home. We begin, therefore, by asking whether the Holy Spirit is ...
Reform, reform, reform: Calvin, Capitalism and Canada.(CALVIN)
Jun 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] There was, undoubtedly, a connection between Calvinism and "the Spirit of Capitalism." An ethic of hard work and frugality tends towards capital accumulation. Combined with a willingness to take entrepreneurial risk in expectation of divine blessing, ...
Who is this? We're in the boat with Jesus.(PROGRESSIVE LECTIONARY)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Third Sunday after Pentecost Mark 4:35-41 Mark tells us Jesus spent a whole day in a boat. The crowd around him was so big, and so persistent. He ended up in the water. His friends pushed the boat a few yards out from shore. Jesus sat there and began to teach ...
Some data to work with: a major survey provides an important benchmarking tool.(FOR THE RECORD)
May 01, 2009; ... 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, "that the resources and the will exist for ministry to take place that touches people who are not actively involved in ...
Rising indignation.(Letter to the editor)
May 01, 2009; ... I've just read the March issue and feel a rising indignation within me, particularly due to two articles that put Jesus Christ on the same level as any other "saviour'--Two Kinds Of Knowledge--or with Muhammed--Journey To The Centre Of Our Faiths. I don't get it. I don't get how anybody ...
Re two kinds of knowledge.(Letter to the editor)
May 01, 2009; ... Science rests on the presupposition that the phenomenal world is perceived only through the five senses. Anything beyond that is not a fact and scientifically verifiable. Religion, on the other hand, is based on experience. The two are not comparable but not mutually exclusive. They are ...
Perhaps the right approach.(Letter to the editor)
May 01, 2009; ... Having visited Israel twice, l really do find Jerusalem to be one of the most beautiful cities in the world. The photographs that accompanied the March feature article on Jerusalem really bring that to expression. Although I appreciate Raheel Raza's effort to build connection, ...