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Ellie Johnson embodied Christian mission in partnership and reconciliation

Matthew Puddister — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 14:00:14 +0000

Eleanor “Ellie” Johnson, the longtime director of partnerships for the Anglican Church of Canada who played a key role in the settlement agreement for residential school survivors, died on Jan. 7.

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Can running bring you closer to God?

Diana Swift — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 14:00:16 +0000

Over the centuries, many people have associated closeness to God with a sense of oneness, and they’ve sought that oneness in a range of ways—prayer, meditation, fasting, chanting, dance, immersion in nature and the consuming of hallucinogens, to name a few.

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‘Faith demands action’: A conversation with Cheri DiNovo

Matthew Puddister — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 17:37:02 +0000

The message of Jesus is a profoundly radical one for the Rev. Cheri DiNovo.

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Rethinking darkness and light

Joelle Kidd — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 05:00:46 +0000

Leaders in the Lutheran and United churches on language and anti-Blackness Adele Halliday still remembers conversations from a church she attended years ago. The congregation constantly associated whiteness with purity and goodness, and darkness with evil. They talked about people being “washed white” from the blackness of sin. Language is an important part of Christian […]

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UCC general secretary would like to see African-Canadian theology grants

Tali Folkins — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 05:00:09 +0000

The United Church of Canada’s recently named general secretary says he hopes to see the creation of an educational institution for African-Canadian theology, funded at least partly by payments of reparation for the colonization of African peoples.

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Resurrection comes to Fort McMurray

Matthew Puddister — Fri, 10 Apr 2020 22:48:20 +0000

For almost four years, Fort McMurray has been recovering from the fire which, at the height of evacuation, forced more than 80,000 people to flee their homes. In the aftermath of the disaster, local churches played a vital role in helping the community rebuild.

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The changing face of church

Joelle Kidd — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 19:10:03 +0000

Some say that house churches may become an increasingly common solution to the problems of aging buildings, rising costs and diminishing finances that many of today’s shrinking congregations face.

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Celebrating community in Canada’s North

Wayne Holst — Wed, 16 Jan 2019 13:00:24 +0000

Almost 50 years ago, as a Lutheran synod staff person, I worked with representatives of Anglican, Presbyterian and United churches to create a viable model for church-planting across northern Canada. What started as the Leaf Rapids Ecumenical Parish in Manitoba has now been adapted to other isolated mining, mill-town and petroleum industry-support locations across the […]

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Proposed changes at United Church of Canada might ease co-operation with Anglicans

Tali Folkins — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 15:08:13 +0000

Changes now being considered to the structure of the United Church of Canada could conceivably ease clergy-sharing and other forms of co-operation between that church and the Anglican Church of Canada, say some leaders from the two churches. One challenge now facing merged Anglican and United congregations, as noted in a report issued following the conclusion […]

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