Attendance at a Friday afternoon Muslim prayer service at the General Council Office (GCO) almost doubled last week, thanks to the presence of about two dozen GCO…
Somewhere in The United Church of Canada’s General Council Office (GCO) in Toronto lies a piece of the Berlin Wall.
That important piece of mortar is…
Last week I published a blog, 5 Reasons the Church May Not Find a Way Ahead. This blog is…
It’s Advent, a time of preparation.
With the lives we lead, juggling various responsibilities, are any of us ever just preparing for one thing?
One of my all-time favourite compositions is Edward Elgar’s Op. 36 (popularly known as Enigma Variations…
Canada became my home at the age of five. I entered the Canadian education system as a kindergarten student. Although I felt some racial tension throughout…
Moderator Jordan Cantwell had a busy November. It started with her keynote address at an LBGT conference in Jakarta, Indonesia. She then “chilled” at a youth…
In that region there were shepherds living in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night…
As we enter into Advent, we bring to mind the…
We stood in the hallway of a retreat centre and listened to our instructions. The animator would read us a question. If our answer was yes, we were to take a step…
I have had a long love affair with Leonard Cohen, or rather, with his words. I furiously read his poems in university; I saw him in concert in 1970, when he came to…
