Archive for March, 2009

Blast From the Past

I use Google Alerts quite a bit to make sure that NOTHING happens on the internet that I’m not acutely aware of…
One of those alerts delivered a surprise this morning… a fifty forty-four year old photo of the field that used to be where my office is now.

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Episode 2 – Innovation: New Twists to Old Processes

The theme of today’s episode is innovation. I talk to two people in the Presbyterian community who have added new twists to an old process: filling a vacancy.
Guests:
Rev. John Borthwick (St. Andrews, Guelph)
Laurie McGugan (St. John’s, Toronto)
Links:
Knox Crieff Search Blog
St. Andrew’s, Guelph
St. John’s, Toronto

 
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What’s Special About School Cultural Day?

Riverside Community School in Prince Albert reflects its city. Sandy Scott, the Minister of St. Paul’s Prebyterian Church tells me Aboriginal people constitute about forty-fiver percent of the population of “PA”. Riverside students reflect the beauty of the Cree, Dene, Metis and other First peoples of the area.
On the first day of spring, [...]

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Healing & Reconciliation is Part of BeingPresbyterian

I mentioned a little while ago that I would be adding some additional bloggers to the roster at BeingPresbyterian. I’m please to announce today that tomorrow, Lori Ransom will begin to write here about her experiences as Healing and Reconciliation Program Animator for The Presbyterian Church in Canada. I’ve included Lori’s official bio below.

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3 Quick Lessons in Church Website Design

Every once in a while I come across a church website that is clearly run by someone who “gets it.” That happened this morning what I ended up (by a rather circuitous route that I don’t even remember now) on the website for Park Community Church in Chicago.
Park Community Church is a “non-denominational, contemporary Christian [...]

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Catching Up

It’s been a busy two weeks or so – so here are a few quick items that I’ve been meaning to pass along:
PCConnect-TV is Coming!
The Communications team has been busily preparing for the launch of PCConnect-TV, the new weekly video series being produced by the Communications Office to showcase the life and work of The [...]

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The Words We Live By

The life and work of Presbyterian Church in Canada are guided by many documents – primary among them being, of course, The Bible.
Two other documents that figure prominently in the life of The PCC are Living Faith, a subordinate standard of our Church and the Book of Forms. I wondered what a word-density analysis of [...]

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