UCC in Focus | Society
at our churches, you wouldn’t know it. Congregations in the United Church are embarrassingly white. In a recent blog post, Moderator Rt. Rev. Gary Paterson urges the church to discover...
UCC in Focus | Church News
...the work of the church. I served the United Church of Zambia for a decade. I was very comfortable. I had a supportive church, which had over 2,000 members, and...
UCC in Focus | Theology
...question worked its way through the church’s bureaucracy, ministers and members across Canada made impassioned pleas for either her inclusion within the United Church’s “big tent” or her dismissal as...
UCC in Focus | Church News, Theology
...speak clearly and bravely.” Calling on a church to free itself from religion may stretch logic. Challenging the United Church’s elected spiritual leader over a routine public prayer certainly stretched...
Spirituality | Society
...church is not organized religion; the church is the spiritual connection that we foster through our faith,” she says, adding that the United Church is only one version of that...
UCC in Focus | Opinion, Theology
of where I live. I have driven by this church hundreds of times and chose it at random to experience the evangelical church first-hand. As the parking lot fills up,...
UCC in Focus | LGBTQ2, Society
supposed to be quiet in church?” Then I married a male United Church candidate for ministry and transferred to the United Church, where we went through the process together. By...
UCC in Focus | Human Rights
...church is not immune. Meet five United Church women who share their stories of church-related sexual harassment, misconduct and assault, including rape. Some of these stories go back decades; many...
UCC in Focus | Human Rights
...something happens.” The United Church has tried to promote anti-racist values over the years. Training documents are available to ministers and churchgoers alike on the church’s website. These include sermon...
Spirituality | Society
backed by local politicians and the church’s neighbours, soundly rejected their plan last summer. The church has gone back to the drawing board to try to revive it. Five years...