Tag: Baptist

On Sunday, August 30, I had just found a pew at the back of McPhail Memorial Baptist Church at 249 Bronson Avenue — the back being where many good Christians across the denominational divide are apt to sit — when Reverend Steve Zink sat down next to me. “Good morning, I’m Steve,” he said with…

First Baptist Church, at 140 Laurier Avenue West, is one of Ottawa’s religious landmarks and a fine example of Gothic Revival architecture. In 1877, Prime Minister Alexander Mackenzie, a Baptist convert, laid the building’s cornerstone. I visited the church on the Fourth Sunday of Advent and found a liturgical community that places a keen focus…