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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 [...]

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

One of my first experiences with evangelism happened in a rather backwards fashion. I was an undergraduate at a party where I was to have my first conversation with my future husband. Tim came up to me and said, [...]

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

 
The Decade of Evangelism has been a time of consciousness raising.  We entered the Decade at a time when we were only just beginning to recognize and name the loss of Christian memory and the emerging “godless” spirituality. It [...]

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

 
The Lambeth Conference in 1988 designated the 1990s a Decade of Evangelism, so now seems a good time to pause and review where we have come from and where we yet need to go. Complete objectivity is a luxury [...]

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 [...]