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Macrailds head into busy retirement
Peter and Isabel Macraild will be living in Quezon City, a suburb of Manila, in the Philippines, for the next five months. Their assignment: taking care of the SEND International guest house for mission workers. Peter is retiring from the pastoral staff of Gateway Baptist Church, a handsome cedar-clad edifice that climbs the hillside just […]
Free speech and diversified mosquitos
Some discussion on a list serve of which I recently became a part has concerned freedom of speech and of the press. The focal point was a complaint which has been laid with several Canadian human rights commissions, against Maclean’s magazine, for a Mark Steyn excerpt they ran from his recent book, America Alone: The […]
News Roundup
Note: Registration or subscription to the host news sites may be required to read some of the stories linked here. Stories about Christmas: Jewish family pulls boy from schoolA Shawnigan Lake mother has pulled her five-year-old boy from his kindergarten class at Ecole Mill Bay because she says Christmas has gone beyond the annual concert […]
Quebec Protestants welcome “secular” society
Quebec Protestants are welcoming the open secularism that has been proposed by the Quebec government, and they are even welcoming a new inter-religious school curriculum that has been opposed by Roman Catholics. In a brief presented to the Taylor-Bouchard commission on the “reasonable accommodation” of minorities November 14, the Protestant Partnership in Education noted that Protestants are the largest […]
Living with unhealed illness
Read her husband’s testimony My name is Joy. People often say that I live up to it, although life has sobered me some and, unfortunately, I probably laugh less and carry more burdens than I used to. I’m the wife of a pastor, the daughter of missionaries and mom to five children, two of whom […]
Quebec ministry celebrates 40th anniversary
A ministry designed for a one-time event is still impacting Quebec society a generation later. When a group of Christian businessmen in Quebec decided to set up a ‘Sermons from Science’ pavilion at Expo 67, the world’s fair held in Montreal, they probably had no idea what the result would be. Earlier this year, Christian Direction, […]
Dying Well
“It was a great game.” Bing Crosby, who collapsed after sinking a final putt on a golf course in Spain. (1904-1977) “O my God! It is over. I have come to the end of it-the end, the end. To have only one life, and to have done with it! To have lived, and loved, and […]
Crohns, control & Christ (Part 2)
In 2001 Carole, who did not grow up with a religious background, had a powerful encounter with God — which has changed her life. She attends a Roman Catholic church in Regina. (Read Part 1) … I spent Holy Thursday in my hospital bed, feeling very much at peace. I was thinking of everyone from […]
Cartoon Campolo set for pixilated pulpit
LEADING American Baptist Tony Campolo will deliver a sermon in the world’s first 3D, interactive church this Wednesday, July 28 (15.30 EST, 20.30 BST). Campolo, 69, makes his debut as a cartoon avatar in the pixilated pulpit of Church of Fools. He will be the first U.S. preacher in the church – following luminaries like […]