Archive for May, 2009

links for 2009-05-20

Opening the Word: Presbyterian Connections in Malawi -
On April 22nd Nancy Sue and I left Johannesburg for Blantyre, Malawi. In the Johannesburg airport I saw Dr. Ron Wallace, the Secretary for International Ministries of the Presbyterian Church in Canada. I knew he was headed to Blantyre also, but didn't realize we would see him on [...]

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Memory and truth in good fiction

“How are we going to preserve the stories residential school survivors are now telling us?”
Such an important question. It came up during a lively discussion in Halifax with members of the AMS and Presbytery of Halifax Lunenburg. It seems so critical we do this or else people will quickly lose sight of why there is [...]

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links for 2009-05-17

TheRecord.com – Local – He revels in heavy metal
Peter Goudy revels in the way his heavy metal music echoes over Galt every Sunday morning.
The bell in Knox's (Galt) Presbyterian Church across Queen's Square is hardly competition, he said.
After all, he has 10 bells at hand in the century-old stone tower at Central Presbyterian Church.
(tags: Central [...]

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links for 2009-05-16

U.S. Congregations
The U.S. Congregational Life Survey is the largest and most representative profile of worshipers and their congregations ever developed in the United States.
The Survey:
* examines congregational vitality to help congregations renew and enrich their mission, and
* describes the American religious landscape in the new millennium based [...]

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The Future of Indian reserves

Some months ago I made a presentation to a Men’s Breakfast group in Markham, Ontario.  Not for the first time, questions arose about the viability of the “Indian reserve” system—“reserves” being that land set aside in Canadian law—land still owned by the federal Crown—which is still home to well over 600 First Nation communities.  This [...]

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links for 2009-05-01

TheStar.com | GTA | Mount Pleasant Cemetery a peek into our city's past
There are stories to be told – of a ship that sunk on a misty voyage, of philanthropists fighting homelessness and tuberculosis, of a Presbyterian minister who survived the bullets of a religious fanatic and of women who spent their entire lives shrouded [...]

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