By Patricia Allan. The issue of homosexuality demands a response of godly compassion from the Body of Christ. How serious it is to misrepresent God. We need to take a broad biblical response. The prohibitions are there, but we need a response that sees the whole person. … Read more
Human Sexuality
Prepared by the Issues Committee of the Renewal Fellowship. Our culture has been in the process of throwing off the restraints of the Christian moral code, but for Christians, the written Word of God is to inform our decisions and guide our behaviour. … Read more
Editorial/Dallas Report
By A. Donald MacLeod. The Dallas Presbyterian Renewal Conference was described as the largest gathering of Presbyterians ever convened for renewal. What does unitedness within a pluralistic denomination mean? What does Dallas have to say to those not American? … Read more
Worship Workshop: Two Songs
Here are two songs written by Bruce Robertson, a pastor at Burnaby Christian Fellowship, Burnaby, B.C. They are the property of Hallel Songs. Churches are welcome to copy them for overhead projector and congregational use. The words and music of the two songs appear in the PDF version of the page. … Read more
The Church and Public Life
By Stephen Allen. The challenge for the religious community is to nurture public places of moral deliberation, but we do so in a post-modern, secular Canadian society and a society comprised of many faiths and cultures. Profound cultural shifts have taken in place in Canada in a short period of time. … Read more
The Church and the Parachurch, by Jerry White
Reviewed by Roman Garrison. Evangelical Christianity is a broken society with conflict, infighting, and competition rivaling that of the industrial world. Evangelical local churches and para-local church groups need to labor together and encourage one another. … Read more
The Report on Human Sexuality: A Call for Action
By Bruce Cairnie. The Committee on Church Doctrine is still receiving responses to the interim report, so we urge you to re-state your firm support immediately. … Read more
Living with Dying, by George Lea Harper, Jr.
Reviewed by Kit Schindell. Living with Dying is a book for a person who is living with dying. In one sense it is for all of us, as each of us will face death sooner or later. But some of us have a clearer indication of the span of their life. … Read more
Feminism Unhinged from the Bible a Dead End
By Harold Jantz. Feminism stands at a crossroad. The Re-Imagining Conference represents a pagan dead end. Promise for women and for men will be found only where Christ truly is Lord and his word genuinely is allowed to shape us. … Read more
It’s all about Sex
Calvin Brown introduces this issue’s topic of sexuality, noting that our culture seems to have lost its way and what was only a few years ago taken for granted is now up for grabs. … Read more
A Prayer of “Expectancy”
By Edward P. Mason. This is a prayer of preparation for worship, reflecting on both personal witness and the worshipping body. … Read more
The Ministry of God
By Thomas W. Gillespie. The ministry of the church, properly speaking, belongs to the triune God who distributes the work of the Spirit to each and every member of the Christian community. … Read more
On My Fifteen Minutes of Fame
Nancy Cocks clarifies what she really meant, having been misquoted out of context in a report in the Globe and Mail about the Re-Imagining Conference. … Read more
Editorial: Church-State Relations
By Calvin Brown. Throughout the centuries there has always been an interplay between politics and religion and between the spiritual and the secular. Basically, there have been four positions that the church has held at different times and different places in regards to church-state relations. … Read more
Preaching, by Fred B. Craddock
Reviewed by J.H. (Hans) Kouwenberg. Craddock is one of those in the school of preaching who pays as much attention to those who listen to preaching as to the liturgical reading and interpreting of Scripture. … Read more