In the Old Tes­ta­ment, there are a num­ber of pas­sages of Scrip­ture where the rev­e­la­tion of God’s glory to his peo­ple becomes part of the mes­sage of sal­va­tion, restora­tion and hope. In these texts, the appear­ance of the divine glory … Read the full article

The Hope­ful­ness and Help­ful­ness of an Exilic Paradigm

The grow­ing mar­gin­al­iza­tion of the church in Canada is well doc­u­mented. At one time the church occu­pied a role near the cen­tre of power in Cana­dian life. There once was a day … Read the full article

One of the heart­break­ing facts of the church is that many hun­dreds of pas­tors leave min­istry every year. Most are badly wounded – bro­ken from years of func­tion­ing poorly, some­times inap­pro­pri­ately, in the voca­tion given them by the Lord. Why … Read the full article

In John 17, Jesus prays the fol­low­ing prayer for the church:

I ask not only on behalf of these, but also on behalf of those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one. As

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In the 1980s a new church was ini­ti­ated in the north-​​​​west Greater Toronto Area. It was devel­oped as an essen­tially white, Anglo-​​​​European back­ground con­gre­ga­tion. Early on, how­ever, peo­ple from other cul­tural back­grounds began to attend largely because of a per­ceived … Read the full article