Architecture matters when it comes to churches, urban planner says
Good design makes us feel at peace with ourselves and connected to our community. We feel at once comfortable and grand
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 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
Charity is big business in Canada but the number of donors shrinks
Canadians gave $8.5 billion to charities last year, an increase of 8.3 percent over the year before. That rise is driven by
Sleep eludes many Canadians, providing grief — or spiritual balm
One in seven Canadians suffers from insomnia, missing out on sleep the body needs to heal muscles and strengthen the immune system
Churches, complicit in the slave trade, must promote healing, dignity
The World Council of Churches has called for reparation for churches' roles in failing to take a strong enough stand against enslavement.
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
United Church members are part of a global system that fails many
That system of domination, also known as "empire," leads ordinary people to be complicit through their role as consumers, says Omega Bula,
The real value of saying “sorry”
Apologies not only help right past wrongs; they can also open a window on the injustices of today
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