Church News, Indigenous
Indigenous United Church Elders protest decision to dissolve National Indigenous Council
General Secretary Rev. Michael Blair's decision came over concerns that the body wasn't working
UCC in Focus
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Church News
United Church congregations in B.C.’s Fraser Presbytery eye the future
A consultant's report produced a wake-up call so stark it could be called a bucket of cold water in the face. Does it foreshadow what will happen in other parts of the country?
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Interview
United Church minister to MPP: Cheri DiNovo explains the journey
Seeing a family living in a car parking lot convinced her that she had to use her voice in the provincial legislature itself, not the pulpit
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Culture
United Church buildings can face heritage designations, and headaches
The honour pays tribute to the churches' role in history, but can constrain their efforts to move into the future
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Money
United Church survey finds retired clergy struggle with finances
A York Presbytery survey found that 30 percent of church retirees have been unable to buy homes and 44 percent had no Registered Retirement Savings Plans. And they get no help with financial planning from the church
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Society
United Church tries to figure out how to draw in the fence-sitters
Can the folks who show up for church only at Christmas and Easter be persuaded to become regulars? A new study says no amount of enticement will do the job
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Justice
United Church mandates education on racism, and ways to root it out
Ministers will have to take the training and to consider how white privilege creeps into life in the church and ministry
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Interview
United Church must realize it can’t be everything to everybody
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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Church News
United Church’s General Council to meet in Kelowna with big agenda
Six nominees are on the slate for the new moderatorship, along with questions about what the denomination should stand for. At the same time, budgets are tightening
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Interview
United Church’s main theological school has new principal from U.S.
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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Church News
United Church faces decisions on money, vision at General Council
Amid warnings of budget shortfalls and continuing membership loss, the General Council cuts top management tier and talks further cutbacks
