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
Convention of atheists causes writer to fine-tune what she believes
She can't denounce her faith in God, just as she can't denounce her faith in love, art, nature, science, beauty or humanity.
President Barack Obama is a gifted orator, a skill learned at church
His prowess stems from the fact that he keeps even mundane topics in the context of the biblical story of heading for
Health care woes in medicare lead some to propose private solutions
But can private clinics uphold the idea that publicly funded medicine will be there when we need it, whether or not we
Church founded by son of disgraced televangelists is small, humble
Jay Bakker, son of Jim and Tammy Faye, preaches at Revolution Church in Brooklyn, N.Y., baffled by Christians who want to force
United Church supports translation of Bible into Indigenous languages
In a bygone era, the Bible was a tool for subverting Indigenous cultures, but recent translations aim to preserve endangered Indigenous tongues
United Church apology 10 years ago helped set bar for federal government
The church apologized for its involvement in running residential schools for Indigenous children, and for all the pain and hardship those schools
Famine epidemic stalks the world’s poor, but solutions are at hand
Spiking food prices have caused a world food crisis. It's rooted in petro-politics and the flaws of the global food system
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
Barack Obama, vying for presidency, names slavery as “original sin”
The Senator from Chicago firmly positioned himself in the African-American experience in a historic speech
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