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This Calgary church nearly closed. Now it’s flourishing.

With 20 staff and a million-dollar budget, Hillhurst United in Calgary is an anomaly within The United Church of Canada. If you’re a longtime...

17.04.2025 10

Christopher White

These 4 historic churches are finalists in national heritage competition

Twelve heritage properties, including several churches, are finalists in a National Trust of Canada competition for $65,000 in cash prizes. The...

14.04.2025 4

Abhisha Nanda

3 churches on the Canada/U.S. border grapple with political tensions

Canada and the United States are divided along many lines, but among the haziest of those lines are the geographic ones. We’re very close, our two...

14.04.2025 1

Kate Spencer

Inside Nova Scotia’s bold plan to end disability institutions

For Jacob Wilkie, freedom tastes like pork chops cooked in tomato sauce and smells like the cleaners used to detail cars. Both are things that, for...

09.04.2025 1

Meagan Gillmore

25 immigrant-led ‘church plants’ bring community to newcomers

Two years into its strategic plan, The United Church of Canada may not have achieved its goal of creating 100 new communities of faith, but it can...

08.04.2025 1

Emma Prestwich

Elon Musk’s X has become a disinformation machine. We’re leaving it.

Remember when Elon Musk was just your friendly neighbourhood rocket-launching, electric-car-making billionaire? Or even further back to when...

08.04.2025 1

Jocelyn Bell

Arguments over Easter’s date go back hundreds of years

Religious leaders have been arguing for centuries about the correct date of Easter. Complexities revolve, in part, around how humans tell time....

07.04.2025 1

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