Spend an hour with Hillhurst United Church minister John Pentland! In his recent book, “Fishing Tips,” John offers an open invitation to be curious. Using an ancient story as inspiration, he reflects on how Hillhurst United said “Yes” to throwing the nets on the other side of convention. The result Read more
Presenters Darlene O’Leary (Citizens for Public Justice) and Megan Hooft (Canada Without Poverty) lead participants from a faith foundation and a focus on faith in community, through a brief look at the impact of power and privilege. Moving towards a way of seeing people through a human rights lens, participants learn how people can respond in ways Read more
Join minister and celebrated author, Rev. Dr. Lillian Daniel, for a one-hour conversation on her most recent book, When “Spiritual But Not Religious” is Not Enough: Seeing God in Surprising Places, Even the Church. During this webinar Lillian will give a new spin on church with stories of what a Read more
Our United Churches are full of good people who are eager to make a different in the world. But these same people are often very uncomfortable speaking their faith outside the safety of our stained glass sanctuaries. What role does preaching play in addressing this short-coming as we seek to Read more
Bruce Sanguin had an awakening experience on the shore of Narragansett, Rhode Island. He realized that he was the presence of the universe, in human form, evolving. He underwent an irreversible transformation of consciousness that involved his realization of unity with All That Is. Following this experience, his theological and Read more
This webinar explores how the focus is on: “defining your unique WHY?” as a congregation; the importance of establishing strong core values; living out the gospel admonition that finding life requires losing life; moving from congregational insulation to kingdom collaboration by forming creative partnerships with unlikely allies. Register for this Read more
The concept of “open source” – free and open sharing of technology, design and knowledge is quickly becoming a disruptive element in fields of software (where it started) and hardware development, and education, to name but a few. This is in part a result of expectations around mass collaboration, crowdsourcing Read more
One of the earliest admonitions in life is this: “Pay Attention.” One of the hardest things in the world to do is this: “Pay Attention.” Nobody attends to attention. People teach how to think, not how to pay attention. But paying attention changes one’s brain, one’s being, one’s future. Evangelism is the art Read more
Come listen and learn from people with lived experience of poverty. Inform anti- poverty work by learning from and becoming strategic partners with people living in poverty (rather than seeing them as a target group). People can only move from charity to justice when people with lived experience are leading the Read more
Many people would be surprised to learn that John Calvin, the founder of the Reformed branch of Protestantism, believed that mystical union with Christ was of utmost importance – union in our individual hearts and the hearts of faith communities. In fact, denominations within the Reformed tradition, of which the United Read more