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COVID-19, Frozen 2, and “This Strange Time”
For some unknown reason, the sun still rose this morning, and it shone all day long. The chilly Atlantic winds still stung my cheeks and...
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Touchstone Journal
Jul 23, 20191 min read
All about PRAYER
What does prayer mean to you? What are the problems that prayer poses? What does it promise? In June 2019, Touchstone offered a special...
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Touchstone Journal
Mar 15, 20171 min read
One Order of Ministry: A Robust Conversation
As we draw this series of blogs on One Order of Ministry to a close, we’re grateful to two past Moderators, Lois Wilson and Peter Short,...
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Touchstone Journal
Mar 14, 20176 min read
Peter Short: Reflections on Ministry
Download PDF “Peter Short: Reflections on Ministry” The work of a minister is a bewildering array. Are you not a counselor? Are you not a...
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Touchstone Journal
Mar 14, 20175 min read
Lois Wilson: Which Way will the United Church Go?
Download PDF “Lois Wilson: Which Way will the United Church Go?” I welcome the current discussion around One Order of Ministry because we...
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Touchstone Journal
Feb 8, 20175 min read
Kate Jones: Reflections on One Order of Ministry
Download PDF “Kate Jones: Reflections on One Order of Ministry” Ministry does not exist for its own benefit; ministry exists for the...
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Touchstone Journal
Feb 8, 20174 min read
Daniel MacDonald: A Trinitarian Order and Approach to the Meaning of Ministry
Download PDF “Daniel MacDonald: A Trinitarian Order and Approach to the Meaning of Ministry” What does it means to be separated out for a...
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Touchstone Journal
Jan 18, 20175 min read
Linda Yates: “Ministry, in-love”
Download PDF Linda Yates: “Ministry, in-love” One summer, reveling in the new status of Affirming, the Session of St. John’s United...
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Touchstone Journal
Jan 18, 20174 min read
Joanne Anquist: Reflections on One Order of Ministry
Download PDF “Joanne Anquist: Reflections on One Order of Ministry” If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my theological studies, it’s...
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Touchstone Journal
Jan 18, 20174 min read
Ian Sloan: “One Order of Ministry: A Proclamation of Abundant Life”
Download PDF Ian Sloan: “One Order of Ministry: A Proclamation of Abundant Life” One thing that stands out for me in a comparison of the...
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Touchstone Journal
Dec 4, 20164 min read
Vicki McPhee: Reflections on One Order of Ministry
Download PDF “Vicki McPhee: Reflections on One Order of Ministry” I recognized my calling to diaconal ministry in my early thirties....
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Touchstone Journal
Dec 4, 20164 min read
Dale Skinner: Reflections on One Order of Ministry
Download PDF “Dale Skinner: Reflections on One Order of Ministry” Ministry, it seems, is as much a matter of identity as it is a matter...
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Touchstone Journal
Dec 4, 20163 min read
Catherine MacDonald: Reflections on One Order of Ministry
Download PDF “Catherine MacDonald: Reflections on One Order of Ministry” I write this both from the perspective of someone who spent many...
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Touchstone Journal
Oct 12, 20163 min read
Jane Johnson: Reflections on One Order of Ministry
Download PDF “Jane Johnson: Reflections on One Order of Ministry” I had no idea my colleagues’ pain ran so deep. I had little idea that...
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Touchstone Journal
Oct 12, 20165 min read
Angelika Piché: Reflections on One Order of Ministry
Download PDF “Angelika Piché : Reflections on One Order of Ministry” The Statement on Ministry in The United Church of Canada (2012)...
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Touchstone Journal
Oct 12, 20163 min read
John Lawson: Reflecting on One Order of Ministry
Download PDF “John Lawson: Reflecting on One Order of Ministry” Imagine with me the exiles – refugees – trudging away from the smoldering...
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Touchstone Journal
Sep 29, 20165 min read
Bruce Gregersen: A History of the One Order Remit
Download PDF “Bruce Gregersen: A History of the One Order Remit” The processes that have led to the development of the One Order Remit...
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Touchstone Journal
Sep 29, 20165 min read
Susan Browning: A Reflection on One Order from both Sides of the Stream
Download PDF “Susan Browning: A Reflection on One Order from both Sides of the Stream” It is 1989 and I am sitting in the parlour of St....
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Touchstone Journal
Sep 29, 20163 min read
Janice Frame – “One Ministry? Really?”
Download PDF Janice Frame “One Ministry? Really?” My first career was as a Medical Laboratory Technologist in a city hospital. A small...
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Touchstone Journal
Sep 7, 20164 min read
Reflecting on One Order of Ministry: Mardi Tindal
Download PDF “Reflecting on One Order of Ministry” by Mardi Tindal The “One Order” proposal provides us with an extraordinary opportunity...
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