May 1, 1999 Valid process crucial to debating homosexuality issue'

HOW PEOPLE and organizations arrive at decisions is often as important to the final outcome as the data used in resolving an issue. The contemporary code word is process. The cartoon strip Dilbert, which gets its gags...

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April 1, 1999 Balancing competing values at heart of `open table'

IT'S NO SECRET that as the village becomes more global, the more people ponder what values mark their house from the one next door or across the street. Competing values are at the heart of many of the disputes between...

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January 1, 1999 World Council and host Zimbabwe each at crossroads

It was a tentative 50th anniversary but with an infectious dose of vibrant African hospitality, the World Council of Churches recently concluded its eighth assembly in Harare since first meeting in Amsterdam 50 years ago. ...

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December 1, 1998 Faith interest media; do media interest faith?

THERE'S A QUIET revolution going on in the media these days. Journalists are beginning to reappraise the role of faith in people's lives. A faith and media conference in Ottawa earlier this year drew representatives...

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November 1, 1998 Balanced approach needed to Native issues

NATIVE ISSUES, never far from the front burner in the church, are a hot topic these days. First, in various parts of the country lawsuits are being filed and court decisions watched to see how culpable courts find the church...

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July 1, 1998 Church still together after somnolent synod

'WE ARE NOT (divided).' With those words, Archbishop Michael Peers brought the church's 35th General Synod to a close in a short speech that summed up nine days of polite but dull meetings. The Primate's comment was at...

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May 1, 1998 Pink slips no remedy for unsatisfactory clergy

SHOULD CLERGY be fired without cause? General Synod is about to consider a law that would permit just that. It is a well-intentioned but it is wrong. Currently, when a bishop, priest and parish agree on an appointment, the...

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April 1, 1998 Hard questions behind the Morrison-Mills case

IT'S NOT THE WAY one would choose to have the proverbial 15 minutes of fame but then again that was probably the furthest thing from Nancy Morrison's mind when she made the fateful decision to inject a dying Paul ...

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