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At St. George’s Greek Orthodox Church in Ibillin, a Palestinian Arab village in Israel’s Galilee region, Father Saba Haj still remembers the day...
After 37 years of pastoral ministry, I left the church. I was emotionally exhausted and burnt out, and so I retired and studiously avoided church in...
With more than 90 percent of Gaza’s population displaced amid Israel’s bombing campaign and ground invasion — resulting in more than 81,000...
Trudy Sailors still remembers the day a bishop in the Anglican Church of Canada told her that her parish would have to move out of its beloved church....
Last Friday, as the setting sun shone into the high windows of Shaarey Zedek Synagogue, Cantor Leslie Emery opened a pair of sliding brass doors at...
He doesn’t take office until January 1, but Rev. Éric Hébert-Daly is busy getting up to speed on his new role as general secretary of the United...
When Grande Cache (Alta.) United first started holding monthly garage sales in its basement more than a decade ago, nobody expected a huge turnout....
Bank Block is haunted. At least, that’s what dozens of evicted residents, tenant activists and supporters gathered in downtown Ottawa on Sept. 26 to...
A Sunday school born during the most isolating stretch of the COVID-19 pandemic might seem like an unlikely success story. But the Alberton-Elmsdale...
“The way we have church today, if you look at Jesus’ time, they didn’t really have any of these things,” notes Atlantic School of Theology...
“The way we have church today, if you look at Jesus’ time, they didn’t really have any of these things,” notes Atlantic School of Theology...
Every Sunday morning, on the westernmost edge of Toronto’s Cabbagetown, 45 or so worshippers cram into the tiny chapel at Saint Luke’s United....
Zionism was not always a word uttered by so many people with such vitriol, scorn, and disgust. Perhaps because of that, those of us who identified as...
Above the kitchen window of St. John’s United Church in Kemptville, Ont., a small mural depicts a community sharing a meal, a family singing around...
One morning in May, John Pentland, a minister at Hillhurst United Church in Calgary, opened his newspaper and read about a group of Albertans who were...
On Sept. 1, Rev. Janet Anstead was appointed general secretary of the Canadian Council of Churches (CCC). The CCC is Canada’s largest ecumenical...
Preaching runs in Ins Choi’s family. While his grandfather, dad, uncle, aunt and seven cousins told stories from the pulpit, Choi ultimately chose a...
The future direction of St. Columba’s Anglican-United Church changed unexpectedly during an unusually cold winter in 2021. On Dec. 21, temperatures...
When most people think of church growth, they think of membership size. But Rev. Cameron Fraser, executive minister of growth and stewardship with The...
One of the limited joys of Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement) is the ability to temporarily disconnect from the outside world and engage in deep...
I found my church community in a storefront. It wasn’t much to look at, merely an unassuming space with folding chairs and a kitchenette. But it...
GRUNTHAL — Last Sunday, David Balzer parked his vintage 1978 Triple E Surfside camper trailer on a church lot in town and, like an itinerant priest...
When people use artificial intelligence to get spiritual help for personal issues around things like grief, marriage, addiction, forgiveness or...
When the COVID-19 pandemic closed church doors across Canada, congregations were forced to ask themselves a serious question: how do you sustain a...
What you have is enough. Those five words on our cover capture the heart of the Small Church Issue. Do you believe them? I confess, when I read those...
Reginald W. Bibby began tracking Canadian social trends in 1975, paying special attention to faith. The Alberta sociologist and prolific author has...
Memories of the tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001, are still deeply etched in my mind. I had just moved to Denver from the University of Miami to teach...
The ongoing economic spat between Canada and the United States took a strange turn after U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order...
Leilani Farha, the global director of The Shift, an international human rights organization focused on housing, finance and climate, has spent years...
I used to have a meaningful job, a loving family and a strong community. All that changed overnight. There was a regime change. I lost my job and...
Rev. Gerlyn Henry is an Anglican priest in Scarborough, Ont., where she has spent the past six years doing what she describes as her calling: serving...
When Lucy Maud Montgomery published her novel Anne of Green Gables in 1908, did she dare imagine her story would capture the hearts of generations of...
Last Friday, an hour before midnight, Prime Minister Mark Carney suspended trade negotiations with the United States and ordered Canada’s trade...
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Growing into womanhood is difficult within the confines of an insular Mennonite colony. At 17, Maria Giesbrecht left everything she had ever known,...
Ellen Downey is the director and founder of the TUFF Therapeutic Riding Program, a charity outside Alliston, Ont., where horses help at-risk youth —...
During the development of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, we spent months planning the Canadian Journeys gallery, the museum’s largest...
More than 100 wildfires continue to burn through the southern half of British Columbia on Friday morning, with about 18,900 people under evacuation...
On a warm July evening, inside the Comox United Church hall on Vancouver Island, 70 seats were arranged around long tables for guests from the Comox...
When John Scott first apprenticed at his uncle’s bell installation and repair company in the 1980s, he quickly learned to get comfortable with the...
A few weeks ago, the erstwhile punk-rock-poet John Samson Fellows taught an auditorium full of people how to fold a paper cup. With each fold, he...
One of Leah Alexander’s earliest memories is of driving around Lorneville, N.B., in a van with her mother and neighbours, handing out flyers in an...
When John Scott first apprenticed at his uncle’s bell installation and repair company in the 1980s, he quickly learned to get comfortable with the...
Blood banks are on the verge of complete shutdown in Gaza as a broken ceasefire between Hamas and Israel continues to devastate the territory....
Elizabeth Schrader Polczer didn’t set out to build a career in academia based on textual anomalies in the Gospel of John. In fact, she didn’t set...
Not every act of devotion happens in a sanctuary. Beyond the Sunday sermons, pastoral visits, community work and committee meetings, many faith...
The Masjid Bilal is a chunky grey building just off Logan Avenue surrounded by warehouses and railyards. It looks more like a bunker than a mosque. ...
When slavery was abolished across most of the British Empire in 1834, it led to a surge in another form of exploitation: indentured servitude. In this...
In most western societies, death has always been the church’s job. Nearly everyone wanted last rites, deathbed prayers and a faith leader at their...
Earlier this year, the director general of assessments of Canada’s Integrated Threat Assessment Centre testified before the House of Commons...
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