What is the good news of Jesus Christ? You may think this is a crazy question. Everyone knows the gospel, right? Or, at least, everyone who’s gone to Sunday school knows the drill—surely. Yet the gospel has fallen on hard times. A recent conference that drew more than...
So there’s this nice, really nice, middle aged couple who go to Walmart to buy food for the food bank. They ask the nice, really nice, young woman cashier to keep the food bank food together because ‘it’s going to the church’ and the rest of...
One of the key leaders in our church just returned from the Fall Meetings of East District. He was “pumped” and enthused. He felt there was hope for the United Church of Canada after-all. He was encouraged by the worship and for the desire expressed by many, for...
When I bleed, I don’t bleed red. I bleed black-and-gold. I am a die-hard Ti-Cats fan from my childhood. Even though I now live up the QEW in Hogtown, my heart still belongs to the boys of TigerTown. If I spot a fellow Ti-Cat fan, all I have to say is,...
This is the letter that went out earlier this year to some United Church leaders. What do you think of the term conservationist? Does it work? Is this kind of identification a good fit in the United Church? Do you think the idea of asking people to self identify in...
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