United Church’s diaconal ministers are frustrated at lack of heft
They say they are under-represented when the church makes decisions about ministry, just one more chapter in a long history of being
United Church Women faces challenges as family time constraints rise
"There's no question, we were the backbone of the church," UCW president Joyce MacKinnon tells The Observer
United Church is putting money toward healing Indigenous relations
The General Council Executive is also creating an Aboriginal Ministries Council to bring together Indigenous ministries in the church and hiring seven
United Church carillonneur is endangered species, but he loves it
Gerald Martindale, who rings the carillon at Metropolitan United, is the United Church's only bell-ringer, but the musical discipline is growing in
United Church hospitals in remote areas are few but necessary
Over the years, the United Church has owned and staffed about 30 hospitals and medical clinics. Today, four remain
Blindness is a nuisance, but it carries blessings, too, minister says
Sharon Ballantyne is the United Church's first blind ordained minister. It's not about being a pioneer. It's about not letting fear get
United Church is too easily seduced by Empire, the moderator says
Those values are measured by money and numbers, but the United Church doesn't have a big disciple-factory out by the highway
United Church digests report citing distrust, lack of leadership
The damning report, by an outside consultancy, says the church is nowhere near ready to launch a major fundraising campaign
United Church’s point person on refugees talks to the Observer
Susan Ferguson says Canada is going to start getting a wave of people fleeing the Iraqi war and that congregations may want
United Church task force wants triple tithes on real estate sales
The task group also proposes to launch an inventory to evaluate the church's billions of dollars in property assets, part of a
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