Authors: Susan Lukey


December 15, 2023

January 31st deadline to submit content is fast approaching! You could receive a free one-year subscription to GatheringWorship.ca* For five decades, worship leaders across the country have been sharing resources through Gathering, so we’re celebrating by giving to five contributors a free one-year subscription to GatheringWorship.ca. All you need to...

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Susan Lukey
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December 01, 2023

Sustained by the Story: Biblical Telling for Times Like These, the online festival by the Network of Biblical Storytellers Canada, is being held February 2–4, 2024. It features keynote presenter Rabbi Elyse Goldstein and keynote artist Steve Bell. The festival is an exploration of the ways in which sacred story...

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Susan Lukey
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November 27, 2023

You could receive a free one-year subscription to GatheringWorship.ca* For five decades, worship leaders across the country have been sharing resources through Gathering, so we’re celebrating by giving to five contributors a free one-year subscription to GatheringWorship.ca. All you need to do is submit a prayer, hymn, worship idea, or...

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Susan Lukey
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November 08, 2023

“Come, almighty to deliver; let us all thy grace receive.” I find myself singing Charles Wesley’s hymn “Love divine, all loves excelling” (VU 333) each morning as I drive to work at the church. His words, penned in 1747, express the yearnings and deepest prayers of my heart, as I...

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Susan Lukey
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October 14, 2023

It is interesting to trace the life and work of The United Church of Canada and its worship resources since the union of the Presbyterian, Methodist, Congregational, and Union churches in 1925. Below is a timeline of hymn and song books used by the United Church (published by The United...

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Tammy-Jo Mortensen
Susan Lukey
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