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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...
Does the Anglican Church of Canada deserve good journalism? Do they need it? I’m a former editor of the Anglican Journal, one with a fraught and...
Michael W. Higgins recalls, with some bemusement, the time the CBC sent a radio crew to the wrong event. He and a colleague had organized a symposium...
Counsellors should have reported to duty this week at Wellman Lake United Church Camp, and prepared to receive their youngest campers this weekend....
For the first time, residents of Fort McPherson, N.W.T., have a local food bank — a milestone community leaders say has become necessary as soaring...
Following decades of tension between the Anglican Church’s national leadership and the editorial staff of the Anglican Journal over how much...
About 100 kilometres north of Winnipeg, on the eastern shores of Lake Winnipeg, a village is being built where Indigenous girls, women and two-spirit...
For more than half a century, David Suzuki has inspired people around the world to embrace nature and treat the Earth as they would their mother:...
This Canada Day, I want to tell you a story about the Canada I love. It started before I even walked through the doors of BC Place for Egypt’s World...
I have had my driver’s license since I was 16. I’ve never had a criminal record or been involved in any kind of illicit activity. I’m now 45. ...
How does a young man come to believe that violence against women is justified? That question has resurfaced after the recent shooting at a...
Stewart Mior has spent more than a decade in silviculture, working as both a tree planter and camp manager in provinces across Canada. Today, he’s...
A dwindling congregation that owns a red brick church building in South Osborne, Winnipeg has found a creative way to keep its doors open while...
What would the existence of aliens mean for Christians? It’s a question that former aspiring nun Jane Blankenship (Eve Hewson) wrestles with in...
The lights go up, and the stage is set. The audience begins to fill the assembly, and an anticipatory buzz fills the room. Backstage, you adjust your...
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