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
United Church has a lot of messages to impart, and is working on it
Breakdowns in communication can occur between the pews and the General Council, and also to the world at large
United Church searches archives for those dead at residential schools
As the Truth and Reconciliation Commission gears up, the United Church and others are scouring the archives for names of children who
United Church’s rural congregations are reinventing themselves
More than half of the United Church's preaching places are in rural communities and they are changing as the rural fabric of
20 years after the United Church raised the rainbow flag, we are still talking about inclusion
The movement to welcome people of all sexual orientations into the United Church hits the quarter-century mark this year. While its numbers
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