United Church Observer

Mainstream religious publications are always a challenge to read. The United Church of Canada, with its liberal reputation, publishes a magazine that is frustrating, annoying, challenging and inspiring—depending on one’s point of view and the material in question. This particular issue has pieces on former native residential school workers, the effects of Manitoba hydro development on native communities and life in Cuba interspersed with material primarily of interest to United Church members such as changes in the view of ministry or how to expand a congregation with little or no capital funding. Every time I read an issue of the United Church Observer I consider again seeking to be a United Church minister. (BB)

Magazine, vol. 63, no. 10, 51 pp, $2.00, $20.00 for 11 issues, 478 Huron Street, Toronto, ON, M5R 2R3, [email protected], www.ucobserver.org