Free Methodist Church
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Forming the Ministry: The Probationer’s Reading Course Part 1
Sarah Pool applied to be a “probationer” in the Canada Conference of the Mennonite Brethren in Christ Church in March 1894. She was from Markham, ON, and was hoping to be a preacher in the MBiC.1 The first interview she… Continue reading
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Mergers That Didn’t Happen Part 2
Denominations have fallen on hard days in North America though they are flourishing in much of the rest of the world. In the last Canadian census, 2 million Christian respondents declined to name a denomination as their religious identity, a… Continue reading
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Lodges and Fraternal Societies
North American Mennonites and Brethren in Christ1 mainly applied non-swearing of oaths2 to rejecting membership in “oath-bound secret societies.”3 In Ontario, this put them at odds with their non-Mennonite neighbours. Nearly every settlement in the province had one lodge or… Continue reading
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