by Rob Fennell | Jul 23, 2019 | Blog
What does prayer mean to you? What are the problems that prayer poses? What does it promise? In June 2019, Touchstone offered a special issue devoted to some of the questions related to prayer. We invite you to respond to that issue, or indeed simply offer your...
by Adam Kilner | Jan 21, 2016 | Uncategorized
Download Discussion Papers – invitation to readers In August 2015 at its triennial General Council, The United Church of Canada undertook to ask the whole church to agree to establish a single order of ministry. Touchstone is hosting an online conversation on...
by Adam Kilner | Nov 13, 2020 | Uncategorized
In a gentler, more placid time, back before the world was on fire, which is to say when I was in graduate school, I remember a conversation about iconoclasm. We were studying icon theology with Geoffrey Wainwright at Duke Divinity School. This ecumenical theologian...
by Rob Fennell | Apr 18, 2020 | Blog
For some unknown reason, the sun still rose this morning, and it shone all day long. The chilly Atlantic winds still stung my cheeks and brought tears to my eyes. The taste of chocolate was still my favourite refuge. The joy of birdsong outside my window still...
by Adam Kilner | Jan 22, 2020 | 2018, Archive
Volume 36 October 2018 Number 3 Touchstone-October-2018-finalDownload Editorial ArticlesJonathan Edwards and the Beauty of God – Paul Miller Beauty and the Aesthetics of Poetry in the Bible – Judith H. Newman Beauty and Preaching – Paul Scott Wilson...
by Adam Kilner | Jan 22, 2020 | 2018, Archive
Volume 36 June 2018 Number 2 Touchstone-June-2018-15Download Editorial ArticlesThe Sovereignty and Self-Limitation of God: Biblical and Theological Reflections on Providence – Harold Wells Reflections on Providence and Prayer in an Age of Science – Anna...
by Adam Kilner | Jan 22, 2020 | 2018, Archive
February 2018 “1968” Volume 36 February 2018 Number 1 Touchstone-February-2018-Draft-9Download Editorial ArticlesHow the Sixties Shifted North American Spirituality – Mark A. Lemke Martin Luther King as Preacher – Jason Byassee Karl Barth,...
by Adam Kilner | Jan 21, 2020 | 2017
October 2017 “Free Creative Self-Withdrawal” Volume 35 October 2017 Number 3 Touchstone-October-2017Download Editorial ArticlesGod’s Justice and Righteousness – Michael Welker “The Vision of an Archangel, The Enthusiasm of a Prophet, The...
by Adam Kilner | Mar 2, 2018 | 2017, Archive
February 2017 “Pathways to Renewal” In this issue: Volume 35 February 2017 Number 1 “Pathways to Renewal” Editorial Articles What Secular Canada? – Jason Byassee A Renewal Experience at Parkdale United Church with the Unbinding Series...
by Adam Kilner | Mar 1, 2018 | 2016
October 2016 “Reconciliation” In this issue: Volume 34 October 2016 Number 3 “Reconciliation” Editorial Articles A Brief Theology of Reconciliation – Philip G. Ziegler The Church as Confessing Community: Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s...
