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Topics: UCC in Focus | Church News
United Church’s new moderator is a poet, a preacher, a pioneer
By David Wilson |Rt. Rev. Gary Paterson brings a keen intellect and a passion for words to his new role as the United Church’s elected spiritual leader. And by the way, he’s gay.
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Topics: Spirituality | Religion
Rev. Bruce Sanguin brings an athlete’s intensity to his spiritual questing
By David Wilson |The United Church minister is busy reconciling traditional theological thinking with science and the universe's natural mysticism
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Topics: Death | Interview, LGBTQ2S+
Cancer death of gay partner flows into poignant memoir, with tears
By David Wilson |David Hallman's partner of 33 years lived for just 16 days after his cancer diagnosis, and the story of their life together poured out in the weeks that followed
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Topics: Religion | Interview
Scholar of New Testament, Amy-Jill Levine, talks about anti-Semitism
By David Wilson |Feminist, Jewish academic teaches at a Protestant divinity school in the "buckle of the Bible belt." In this interview, she explores the state of Jewish-Christians relations
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Topics: UCC in Focus | Interview
United Church must realize it can’t be everything to everybody
By David Wilson |Nora Sanders, the general secretary, says the church is in an exciting time of finding new directions and making choices about the way forward
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Topics: UCC in Focus | Interview
United Church’s main theological school has new principal from U.S.
By David Wilson |Mark Toulouse comes from Brite Divinity School in Fort Worth, Texas, but says Canada and the U.S. have a long history of association among theological schools
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Topics: UCC in Focus | Women
United Church Women faces challenges as family time constraints rise
By David Wilson |"There's no question, we were the backbone of the church," UCW president Joyce MacKinnon tells The Observer
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Topics: World | Health, Interview
United Church supports lunch plus schooling for Kenyan AIDS orphans
By David Wilson |Cate Dewey, a professor of veterinary science at the University of Guelph, was in Kenya on a research trip when she noticed many children were not going to school. She came up with a program on the spot
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Topics: UCC in Focus | Interview
United Church is too easily seduced by Empire, the moderator says
By David Wilson |Those values are measured by money and numbers, but the United Church doesn't have a big disciple-factory out by the highway
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Topics: Society | Interview, LGBTQ2S+
Iraq hostage James Loney talks to the Observer about gay activism
By David Wilson |He had to keep secret the fact that he is gay while he was a captive, and says even now he and others face homophobia