Have you ever been to a church retreat facility in October? Have you ever noticed that with the right lighting and camera-work (and a bad script) your retreat could be the Halloween movie sensation of the year?
When I was a teen, the youth group from our church held an annual retreat at Gracefield in October [...]

I had the pleasure of having lunch on Tuesday with Andrew Faiz, Managing Editor of The Presbyterian Record, the national magazine of the PCC. Andrew, a life-long member of Gateway Community Church in the Flemingdon Park area of Toronto, is clearly passionate about the PCC and its future in Canadian society. He is equally passionate [...]

I’m a huge fan of technology and spend a lot of time thinking about how it affects our lives.  It is impossible in 2008 for our personal and professional lives to remain untouched by the latest and greatest advances in technology.
But what about our spiritual lives? Has technology improved (or perhaps diminished) your relationship with God?
Websites like [...]

One of the social networking tools that I use every day is LinkedIn.  It is a social network designed specifically to help professionals network. It’s largely a business card, resume and rolodex all rolled into one – then turbo-charged with Groups, a Q&A section, and job postings, among other things.
A few weeks ago I setup [...]

Yesterday we made some changes to the PCC denominational website at Presbyterian.ca. Most obvious is a completely new home page layout that we hope will make it easier for our visitors to find the information & resources they are looking for – and discover new things that they don’t even realize exist! We also made [...]

Any guesses who the first blogger of the Reformation might have been? I’ll admit that it’s a bit of a trick question, since there were no bloggers in the 16th century. Not literally, anyway.
I’ve always maintained that social media in general, and blogging in particular, are nothing new. The ‘conversational web’ is merely the [...]

Yesterday I gave a brief presentation to the staff at the Presbyterian national office about upcoming changes to the denomination website – more on that later. I started with a few interesting numbers related to our web traffic which I thought I’d quickly share here. These numbers represent traffic from the end of July through [...]

Last wednesday Reuben St. Louis, the PCC’s Youth-In-Mission Coordinator, kindly took me out for lunch half way through my first (almost overwhelming) week at the PCC national office. Reuben and I have been friends for many years and it was nice to catch up over a meal.
Among other things, we chatted about the upcoming Canada [...]

Welcome to the Being Presbyterian blog. The purpose of this little corner of the web is to offer my readers a glimpse into The Presbyterian Church in Canada and all of the work it does across the country and around the world. 
When I was appointed Associate Secretary, Communications earlier this month I thought I had [...]