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Reflecting on One Order of Ministry – Jennifer Janzen-Ball
Download PDF “Reflecting on One Order of Ministry – Jennifer Janzen-Ball” The “One Order of Ministry” proposal affirms many aspects of my...
Touchstone Journal
Mar 3, 20164 min read
Reflecting on One Order of Ministry – William Haughton
Download PDF “Reflecting on One Order of Ministry – William Haughton” In recent years, the United Church has engaged in significant...
Touchstone Journal
Mar 3, 20164 min read
Reflecting on One Order of Ministry – Connie denBok
Download PDF “Reflecting on One Order of Ministry – Connie denBok” “The world has changed . . .” murmurs the voice of Galadriel in the...
Touchstone Journal
Feb 27, 20164 min read
Eric Tusz-King: “Naming & Describing the One Order of Ministry”
Download PDF “Naming & Describing the One Order of Ministry” by Eric Tusz-King Most ministers have come into a ministry that already had...
Touchstone Journal
Feb 27, 20164 min read
Bradley T. Morrison: “My Order vs. One Order”
Download PDF “My Order Vs. One Order” by Brad Morrison Identity can be understood as ipse (selfhood) and idem (sameness).[1] The United...
Touchstone Journal
Feb 18, 20163 min read


Terrie Chedore: “Ministry from the Edges”
Download PDF “Ministry from the Edges” by Terrie Chedore The premise of One Order of Ministry has the potential to enrich the church. I...
Touchstone Journal
Feb 18, 20164 min read
Reflecting on One Order of Ministry – Andrew Hyde
Download PDF “Reflecting on One Order of Ministry – Andrew Hyde” Since my youth, God, you have taught me, and to this day I declare your...
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Feb 12, 20164 min read
Reflecting on One Order of Ministry – Cheryl-Ann Stadelbauer-Sampa
Download PDF “Reflecting on One Order of Ministry – Cheryl-Ann Stadelbauer-Sampa” I listened to the impassioned voices of my ordained...
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Feb 12, 20165 min read
Reflecting on One Order of Ministry – Caryn Douglas
Download PDF “Reflecting on One Order of Ministry – Caryn Douglas” Among progressive environmentalists, biomimicry is an important...
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Feb 2, 20162 min read
Reflecting on One Order of Ministry – David Kim-Cragg
Download PDF “Reflecting on One Order of Ministry – David Kim-Cragg” The biblical basis for different “streams” of ministry in the Book...
Touchstone Journal
Feb 2, 20164 min read
Harold Wells: Christological and Biblical Reflections on Ministry
Download – Harold Wells: Christological and Biblical Reflections on Ministry Since this is the initial installment in a series on the...
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Jan 20, 201610 min read


Grace and the Sin Tent
(blog post by Rob Fennell) In a sermon I heard him preach in 2014, Paul Hutchinson, former director of the Corrymeela Centre for Peace...
Touchstone Journal
Mar 10, 20152 min read


You Give Them Something to Eat: Reflections on Collaborative Ministry
Photo Credit: Loaves and Fishes by John and Helen Mary Skelton “And all ate and were filled.” –Mark 6:42 (blog post written by Rev....
Touchstone Journal
Jan 14, 20155 min read


Making Room
The carols and holiday songs came on the radio well before Advent was upon us, and car advertisers used nostalgia and holiday movies to...
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Dec 17, 20142 min read


Advent and “not knowing”
What frustrates us, bewilders us, and scares us is not knowing. Not knowing why, not knowing how, not knowing when: I don’t know why I...
Touchstone Journal
Nov 26, 20142 min read
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