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?
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
United Church must realize it can’t be everything to everybody
Nora Sanders, the general secretary, says the church is in an exciting time
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.
United Church’s main theological school has new principal from U.S.
Mark Toulouse says Canada and the U.S. have a long history of association among theological schools
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
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
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