Following up from the excellent podcasts that Rev. Roberta Howey has produced on the subject of medical assistance in dying (MAID), Rev. Dr. Bacon will be joining Rev. Howey in a ministry forum on the above date. We will be joined by our guest the Reverend Doctor Anne Simmons who brings a wealth of experience in the area of death, dying and the management of grief. Our plan is to have three brief presentations followed by a Q & A session. In 2016 the Canadian Parliament passed legislation...
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Another series for The Bible for Busy People online on Zoom. Why have the psalms been so important to Christians? We use them in our church services and funerals, and they form the basis of many of our hymns. Much of their importance comes from the fact that they are used so often in the New Testament. Many of the most famous statements that Jesus makes are actually Jesus quoting from the psalms. Even Satan quotes them in the NT. Why? That’s what we’ll be looking at in this edition of the...
Please join Emmanuel College’s Centre for Religion and Its Contexts, Trinity-St Paul's United Church and Centre for Faith, Justice and the Arts, the Centre for Philosophy, Religion and Social Ethics of The Institute for Christian Studies and Broadview Magazine for the third edition of the Christian Left Conference (August 5-6). It's ONLINE and FREE! This year's theme is "Creation, Land, and Indigeneity: Resistance on Turtle Island and Beyond." Our featured keynote speakers are Dan Longboat...
Please join Emmanuel College’s Centre for Religion and Its Contexts, Trinity-St Paul's United Church and Centre for Faith, Justice and the Arts, the Centre for Philosophy, Religion and Social Ethics of The Institute for Christian Studies and Broadview Magazine for the third edition of the Christian Left Conference (August 5-6). It's ONLINE and FREE! This year's theme is "Creation, Land, and Indigeneity: Resistance on Turtle Island and Beyond." Our featured keynote speakers are Dan Longboat...
Join us for the launch of David Kim-Cragg's book, Water from Dragon's Well: The History of a Korean-Canadian Church Relationship (2022, McGill-Queen's University Press), on Monday, October 3 at 7 p.m. EDT. The launch is online and free. Kim-Cragg Emm 9T9 is both a sessional lecturer at Emmanuel College and minister at St. Matthew's United Church in Richmond Hill. Kim-Cragg will be joined by Phyllis D. Airhart (professor emerita, Emmanuel College), Dr. Keith Carlson (Tier 1 Canada Research...