For some people, understanding comes before experience; for others, Christian faith begins with an experience for which we do not have the words. The church helps us name what we have felt, and to move forward in faith.
The images of God that I learned as a child came mostly from Sunday school, to which I [...]

This Article is from the Spring 1999 edition of good idea!, also available here in a fully formatted PDF file.

You are an unchurched person. You believe in God, but you have little time for organised religion. If pressed, you would say you are a spiritual person, but church? Well, thanks, but no thanks.
What will get you inside the church? [...]

This Article is from the Spring 1999 edition of good idea!, also available here in a fully formatted PDF file.

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I am very impressed by what I read of the development of the congregation at Christ Church, Cataraqui. As I read the interview with Ed Dallow, I believe there are several lessons to be [...]

This Article is from the Spring 1999 edition of good idea!, also available here in a fully formatted PDF file.

Our student son said to us recently, “By the way, I was talking to some street kids in Toronto the other day, and I gave them our phone number in case they needed it. I hope that’s OK?” So far [...]

This Article is from the Spring 1999 edition of good idea!, also available here in a fully formatted PDF file.

Numbers are not everything, but when they change dramatically, it is worth asking what is going on. In the past three and a half years, Christ Church, Cataraqui, has grown from 100 family units on the parish list and an [...]

Jesus went to a lot of parties. In fact, he went to too many of them–at least, according to the religious people. Yet for him, far from being an excuse to eat too much and drink too much–though that was the accusation–parties made a crucial theological point. His point? The kingdom of God is like [...]