Sharing stories of life, faith, and ministry in the United Church and beyond.
The following recounts the experience of one of our United Church of Canada’s ordained ministers (used with the person’s full permission).
Most of the reformers left it up to individual Christians to decide whether signing was an appropriate expression of faith, but there were some who condemned it as a…
Reformers disagreed about whether to reject or use the crucifix, to adopt an unadorned cross, or to discard the symbol altogether. Most Protestant churches…
For the first thousand years of Christianity, and particularly since the Council of Ephesus in 431, Mary has held a special place in Christian faith. But for just as…
Did you know that October is Clergy Appreciation Month? It was introduced in the United States in the 1990s but throughout church history people have…
A colleague mentioned that the salmon were spawning in the Humber River yesterday, so I chose that route for my run this morning. I stopped near a small waterfall and…
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At the end of September 2017 the commissioners of the 42nd General Council will gather electronically for…
On my desk I have an article posted behind my computer by William H. Willimon. In the February 17, 2016 edition of…
