Easter is such a glorious, positive festival in the Christian year. In the northern hemisphere, it accompanies springtime, the dying and rising of Christ aligning holistically with the germination of … Read more
I’m so pleased that The Voice Bible translation gives us these dramatic dialogue versions of scripture, to help us really step inside a hard yet hopeful story like this one … Read more
Sermon: April 11, 2021 – John 20: 19-31 and Acts 4: 32-35 Ralph Connor Memorial United Church, Canmore AB – Rev Greg Wooley Each year, on this first Sunday after … Read more
Easter Sunday, of all the Sundays of the Christian year, we proclaim life. We proclaim hope and renewal and emergence and all things that help our spirits to arise. We … Read more
Legacy. One’s legacy can be a tough thing to ponder. While a legacy doesn’t necessarily wait until one has died, the word does remind me of my mortality; and the … Read more
Join us at https://youtu.be/sCxVe7L6qtY for our online Sunday worship, honouring a colleague in Ministry who died of COVID in July: Rev Vickey Gibbs of Resurrection Metropolitan Community Church in Houston. … Read more
The calendar indicates that April 12, 2020, is Easter Sunday. And here it is! The Church building is not open, a public gathering at Riverside wasn’t allowable, a few of … Read more
Two words that emerge from today’s passage from John are presence, and absence. click here for a PDF of this Sermon When my Mom was growing up, her Sunday School … Read more
A shoot, growing from the stump of Jesse. How appropriate, in this year when we’ve chosen to build our Advent themes around the classical elements of wind-fire-water-and-earth, to begin with … Read more