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Sep 30, 2024 · Between the 1870s and the 1990s, Canada's federal government took more than 150,000 First Nations, Métis and Inuit children away from their families and forced them to attend church-run schools ...
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18th and 19th Century Although French Calvinists (Huguenots) shared in the early fur trade, non-Catholics were officially barred from New France until the British conquest. Early Scottish settlers brought Presbyterianism to the Maritimesand central Canada in the late 18th century. Attempts by Scottish, Irish and American churches to organize congre...
All Christian churches of the "Reformed" tradition function through a system of presbyterian or representative elected courts often referred to as "corporate episcopy." The hierarchy of courts rises from the congregational session to presbytery to synod, and for the Presbyterian Church in Canada to the annual General Assembly. The Presbyterian Chur...
Because of the corporate structure of Presbyterianism, individual leadership is not especially evident in church life. However, the church has numbered among its members such well-known Canadians as the vocal nationalist G.M. Grant, principal of Queen's University, 1877-1902; Prime Minister Mackenzie King; novelist Charles W. Gordon (pen name Ralph...
3 hours ago · After decades of progressive dissent, the leaders of the Christian Reformed Church in America finally took a firm stand against the sexual revolution. Not only did the 2022 CRC Synod, voting 123 ...
The Christian Reformed Church has three levels of assembly: the church council (local assembly, composed of a congregation's deacons, elders, and ministerial staff), the classis (regional assembly, of which there are 48: 37 in the United States and 12 in Canada, with one straddling the international border), and the synod (bi-national assembly.) [26] The church's Synod meets annually in June ...
Reformed faith spread throughout Europe in the 16th century, with different character in different places. Calvinism was the dominant form of Protestantism in France. After a period of struggle, Calvinists were officially tolerated there. Under the leadership of John Knox, the Church of Scotland, which is Reformed, became the established church ...
May 24, 2022 · The Protestant Reformation (1517-1648) was one of the most significant cultural, political, and religious events in the history of Europe and helped shape the modern world. It was a complex event spanning over 100 years, which radically changed the way people understood themselves, religion, society, and ultimately how one defines truth. Prior ...
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Sep 1, 2017 · The Reformation was about finding the balance between commitment to one’s faith and recognition that others . . . who hold different beliefs are still brothers and sisters made in the image of God. In 2017, Christians are marking the Reformation’s 500th anniversary. Historians and theologians have been racing to publish biographies of ...
