Religion - Page 45

Cuban President Fidel Castro attends a professional baseball game between Cuba’s national team and Major League Baseball’s Baltimore Orioles in Havana on March 28, 1999. Photo by Mario Tama

Cuba’s paradox and passages

by David Wilson

An island enigma, Cuba bewilders and beguiles. And somehow, it perseveres. — May 2000

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Today’s ultra-engaged parents suffer when their kids take flight

by Anne Bokma

“People get angry when empty nesters feel sad, and they’ll say things like ‘Why don’t you just go volunteer?’ But their grief

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What the end of The Record means for church publications

by David Wilson

We say a sad goodbye to The Presbyterian Record, a newspaper that has been printing for well over 100 years

Vincent van Gogh's "The Starry Night." Courtesy of the Art Gallery of Ontario

An exhibit explores the intersection of art, nature and mysticism

by Trisha Elliott

Conceived and developed by Katharine Lochnan, the Art Gallery Of Ontario’s senior curator of international exhibitions, Mystical Landscapes is the first exhibit

Atheist minister Gretta Vosper receives a hug from Fran Ota, also a United Church minister, before the start of the Toronto Conference sub-Executive meeting, held on Sept. 15. Vosper’s lawyer, Julian Falconer, sits to her left. Photo by Hugh Wesley

How atheist minister Gretta Vosper tested the limits of United Church tolerance

by Mike Milne

Atheist minister Gretta Vosper is audacious, passionate and polarizing. She tested the limits of United Church tolerance and found little institutional appetite

The Laura Butler Lodge at Camp Pringle, a United Church camp on the shores of Shawnigan Lake, B.C. (Photo courtesy of Camp Pringle)

What’s really killing church camps?

by Pieta Woolley

Church-run summer camps are in serious decline. Marketers hired to troubleshoot the problem wonder if religion is a deterrent.

One of two cameras set up to run all night. It records both video and audio, which paranormal researchers will review in the days following their investigation. Photo by Elena Gritzan

This will make you believe in ghosts

by Elena Gritzan

Do the dead remain among us? Paranormal investigators are determined to prove what science rejects, Christianity scorns — and half of Canadians

Knox United’s rock band, Khrysalis, on Highway 289 in Brookfield, N.S. From left: Rev. Keith Gale, Beth O’Connell, Shelb-e Ryan, Julia Hamilton, Anna Hamilton, Jacob Smith, Kyle Henderson and Peter Betts. Photo by Merna Ryan

Millennial ministers: Young, smart and into Jesus

by Pieta Woolley

These young "Jesus Freaks" are embracing Christ, spiritual practice and the Bible. Is a return to theological roots the wave of the

Photo Merle Robillard

For years I was secretly spiritual, but then I accepted my identity

by Lucille Joseph

As she rose up the ranks to become a Toronto business executive, the writer felt compelled to keep her quest for deeper

It was reassuring for El-Farouk Khaki (left) to know he wasn’t alone, yet meeting others with a similar religious and sexual orientation made evident the lack of a space that spoke directly to queer Muslims’ needs. Photo by Daniel Ehrenworth

Unity Mosque provides a space for observant Muslims who openly live in LGBTQ relationships

by Davide Mastracci

More than half of Canadian Muslims believe it’s impossible to be an observant Muslim while living openly in an LGBTQ relationship. El-Farouk

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