UCC in Focus
United Church minister to MPP: Cheri DiNovo explains the journey
Seeing a family living in a car parking lot convinced her that she had to use her voice in the provincial legislature itself, not the pulpit
Interview
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Religion
Churches can learn how to grow says German author Christian Schwarz
He says mainline churches don't have to accept loss as a given, or as a natural phenomenon, like an earthquake
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World
Israel trips help educate Canadian Christians in lost history
Retired United Church minister Rev. Stan Lucyk wants people to understand the sacramental nature of geography, linking word to place, to bring the past into the present
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Justice
Marie Wilson, of Truth and Reconciliation Commission, on hope and strength
The story of residential schools is part of the story of Canada, and we can learn from those parts of our story that don't feel honourable to us, she says
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Religion
Summit of interfaith leaders across Canada to deliver G8 message
Karen Hamilton, general secretary of the Canadian Council of Churches, is coordinating the meeting, which will produce its own declaration for the political leaders
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UCC in Focus
United Church must realize it can’t be everything to everybody
Nora Sanders, the general secretary, says the church is in an exciting time of finding new directions and making choices about the way forward
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UCC in Focus
United Church’s main theological school has new principal from U.S.
Mark Toulouse comes from Brite Divinity School in Fort Worth, Texas, but says Canada and the U.S. have a long history of association among theological schools
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Society
Comedy is a way of life for Tricia Cooper, comedian from Winnipeg
She says she didn't have a horrible childhood to make fun of, unlike many jokesters, but that her family has always dealt with life through humour
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Politics
United Church minister Rob Oliphant trades pulpit for House seat
He tells The Observer his faith forms his politics, but that he consults his constituents before his Bible
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Society
United Church helped shape moral framework of writer Allan Stratton
He says that the essence of literature is our shared humanity. The core of emotional truth is the same across time, space and other divides
