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...

What does prayer mean to you? What are the problems that prayer poses? What does it promise? In June 2019, Touchstone offered a special...

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,...

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...

Download PDF “Lois Wilson: Which Way will the United Church Go?” I welcome the current discussion around One Order of Ministry because we...

Download PDF “Kate Jones: Reflections on One Order of Ministry” Ministry does not exist for its own benefit; ministry exists for the...

Download PDF “Daniel MacDonald: A Trinitarian Order and Approach to the Meaning of Ministry” What does it means to be separated out for a...

Download PDF Linda Yates: “Ministry, in-love” One summer, reveling in the new status of Affirming, the Session of St. John’s United...

Download PDF “Joanne Anquist: Reflections on One Order of Ministry” If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my theological studies, it’s...

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...

Download PDF “Vicki McPhee: Reflections on One Order of Ministry” I recognized my calling to diaconal ministry in my early thirties....

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...

Download PDF “Catherine MacDonald: Reflections on One Order of Ministry” I write this both from the perspective of someone who spent many...

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...

Download PDF “Angelika Piché : Reflections on One Order of Ministry” The Statement on Ministry in The United Church of Canada (2012)...

Download PDF “John Lawson: Reflecting on One Order of Ministry” Imagine with me the exiles – refugees – trudging away from the smoldering...

Download PDF “Bruce Gregersen: A History of the One Order Remit” The processes that have led to the development of the One Order Remit...

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....

Download PDF Janice Frame “One Ministry? Really?” My first career was as a Medical Laboratory Technologist in a city hospital. A small...

Download PDF “Reflecting on One Order of Ministry” by Mardi Tindal The “One Order” proposal provides us with an extraordinary opportunity...