Our Story

As with many good things in life, Living in Truth resulted from a conversation between friends.

Structure for mission and intentional innovation

Churchgoers love routine. Parishioners gather at St. Paul Lutheran in Grafton, Wisconsin in this undated feature photo. (Wikimedia Commons) A church-planting mindset includes risks and discipling leaders to grow and…

Striving for a balance

An update on the legal process at Cote des Neiges Presbyterian Church MONTREAL – Like many other congregations across the Presbyterian Church in Canada, the remits recognizing multiple definitions of…

General Assembly 2024

After lengthy and spirited discussion at the 2023 General Assembly, there was anticipation of something similar in 2024. The audacious hope was that different liberal voices who spoke up in…

Dialogue, pluralism and discipleship

A challenge to repositioning the church in a post-Christendom age.

The art of healthy dust-shaking (1)

Grace and humility are essential when we act. Part 1 of 4 … Read more

Mired in Christendom but moving forward

Inside the uneasy theological symbiosis in the belly of The Presbyterian Church in Canada Christendom died a long time ago. But the church still operates as if it were alive.…

Quebec: an unholy mess of secularism and regulation

Tighter controls, no mercy and a moratorium mean hundreds of congregations are without a home. Mountainside United Church and St. Stephen’s Anglican Church, both in Westmount QC, recently sold and…

Speaking the truth in love

Text of the THEO Trio’s report to General Assembly DORA DAROCZI: Good morning, everyone! My name is Dora from the Calvin Hungarian Presbyterian Church in Calgary, and my friends speaking…

What is a Presbyterian General Assembly?

Rev. Paul Johnston, in blue shirt, takes in the proceedings at General Assembly 2025. A (possibly radical) proposal for a fresh answer. What is a Presbyterian General Assembly. The short…

Way, Truth and Life 

The hand-out invitation for a class now essential in any church: If you know nothing, or maybe a little, or are full of questions about the Christian faith and are…

What God is doing at Cariboo

Drawn in by God and sent out on holy mission.

Bavinck in Brief: The Gospel and Social Action

Bavinck critiques two dominant views: one portraying Jesus as a social reformer, the other separating religion from politics entirely. … Read more

Generation Gap no more

Welcome to the Theological Gap.