What does it mean to be an Ally?
In preparation for this week’s Second Fridays on the importance of solidarity and allies with Michael Champagne and Mary Lysecki, here are some recent graphics posted by the folks at the “It Gets Better” Project…





In preparation for this week’s Second Fridays on the importance of solidarity and allies with Michael Champagne and Mary Lysecki, here are some recent graphics posted by the folks at the “It Gets Better” Project…





Marion Pardy’s sermon for the CCS 120th Anniversary worship service on Sunday, October 14, 2012: Listen to audio (MP3) of Marion’s sermon. Scripture: Job 14: 7-9; Romans 8: 22-28, 31-39; Mark 4: 30-34 In preparation for today’s sermon I attempt to purchase a bracelet, with a small glass ball hanging from it, containing a…
I had the amazing privilege (no pun intended) of attending the White Privilege Conference Global in May, held for the first time in Canada. (It has been held in the U.S. for the past nineteen years). It was an amazing event, and I was delighted that other than school boards, the United Church of Canada…
A profile of diaconal minister Mary Ann McFarlane. In Mary Ann’s words: “ I have been a diaconal minister for over 37 years, having been commissioned by Toronto conference on my birthday in May 1973. I had the privilege of studying in Toronto at The Centre for Christian Studies with classmates such as Marlyne Myles,…
Maylanne Maybee has an article on the diaconate in the most recent Rupert’s Land News.
From Principal Maylanne Maybee: Conferences and Meetings!! June is the month of conferences, meetings, and gatherings. And I’ve been going to my fair share of them… Two weekends ago I had breakfast with DUCC members and made a presentation about CCS at the Manitoba Northwestern Ontario Conference Annual Meeting in Winnipeg – using Scott Douglas’…
CCS’s Ann Naylor reflects on the “Feast for Friends” held at the Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre on September 22, 2012: Children are playing – working together to create a structure from the wood in the carefully stacked woodpile, sharing ideas, negotiating, being stubborn, cooperating, joking, celebrating their accomplishment. Adults are sitting together in circles – sharing…