
Books in Brief
Saint Saul A Skeleton Key to the Historical Jesus Donald Harman Akenson 346 pages, hardcover, $32.95 McGill – Queen’s University Press 0773520 9025 The author

Saint Saul A Skeleton Key to the Historical Jesus Donald Harman Akenson 346 pages, hardcover, $32.95 McGill – Queen’s University Press 0773520 9025 The author

The news footage was horrifying: Innu children standing like trees in a forest, oblivious to the cold, holding green plastic bags filled with gasoline to

Terry Brown is the Anglican bishop of Malaita and a former mission coordinator for Asia and the Pacific with General Synod. Malaita is one of

New York -The U.S. National Council of Churches will not go under any time soon, says Robert Edgar, its general secretary. In an interview following

NEW YEAR’S Day 2001 marks the end of a debate which will not surface for another hundred years: the debate about when a century begins.

Dulcie Brown, left, and Barbara Pacey share a laugh in the street clinic where they bring compassion and cookies. Kamloops, B.C. IT IS Friday evening

London Domestic violence against women is as common in church-supporting households as in the wider community, according to the results of a Methodist research project.

Toronto Canon George H. Elliott was elected suffragan bishop for the diocese of Toronto in December. The position became open after Bishop Taylor Pryce retired.

Former church treasurer Ellen F. Cooke, convicted in 1995 of embezzling $2 million from the Episcopal Church in the United States is to be released

An Indiana man hostile to Christianity has been sentenced to 42 years in prison for arson attacks at more than two dozen U.S. churches in

Rome’s Lutheran pastor has rallied to the defence of Martin Luther, whose theology was blamed by a Roman Catholic theologian for America’s fast food culture.

Committee chair Monica Patten Mississauga, Ont. The Council of General Synod has authorized the launching of a fast-track process to produce a new financial strategy

Photo: Marites N. Sison The following news updates are taken from reports filed by Marites N. Sison from the first joint meeting of the Council

Colin LindenSad & Beautiful World 1975 – 1999Sony ONE OF this column’s perennial subjects in the past eight years has been the work of Canadian

Violent clashes between Palestinians and Israelis in the city of Bethlehem has caused the cancellation of Christmas eve festivities. The high point, a concert of

Kathmandu Representatives of 11 major faiths gathering in Nepal, have vowed to mobilize billions of believers to conserve the world’s natural resources. Representatives of the

100 years ago: December 1900 Canadian Churchman reported that it is comforting in these days to find that just as hard things were said of

Next summer the General Synod of the Church of Australia will debate a new canon, which could remove all legal obstacles to the consecration of

The Latin Patriarch in the Holy Land has called on Israel to stop its troops firing at an Arab Christian village and to surrender all

The controversial Vatican document, Dominus Iesus, has strengthened the ecumenical commitment of many German Catholics, according to Maria Jepsen, the Lutheran bishop of Hamburg in