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 form of idolatry. Gradually, it fell out of favour with the majority of Protestants.
continue readingThe following recounts the experience of one of our United Church of Canada’s ordained ministers (used with the person’s full permission). “I can remember it well. It was your typical day in the ch...
continue readingA sacrament is a visible sign of an invisible grace.
continue readingAcross the United Church, there are many approaches to marking Remembrance Day. In contributing a new selection of prayers for use in a Remembrance Sunday service, my hope was to address the wide vari...
continue readingAs the Healing Programs Coordinator for the Aboriginal Ministries Circle, I am often invited into Indigenous communities that are engaged in healing, cultural restoration, and community revitalization...
continue readingWe are over a week into November and as I write this on Thursday night, the weather forecast says that we may get the first snowfall of the year in Toronto this weekend. I am a little excited about...
continue readingMe, too. "If all the women who have been sexually harassed or assaulted wrote 'Me too' as a status, we might give people a sense of the magnitude of the problem." A friend posted “Me too,” I did...
continue readingI would not be who I am, without camps. My first foray with camps was in 1999, when I joined the team at Sherbrooke Lake Camp in Nova Scotia as a Counsellor-in-Training. Like most 15-year-olds, my ...
continue readingWhat in the present church must we allow to die if we are to experience resurrection?
continue readingThe gospel calls us to seek health and wholeness for all God’s people. In 2014 the church signed the Canadian Health Coalition (CHC) statement, Secure the Future of Medicare: A Call to Care, stat...
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