March 1, 2002 Holloway loves doubt

London Bishop Richard Holloway, until last year the head of the Scottish Episcopal (Anglican) Church, has admitted that he may have ceased to be a Christian although he has given his life to the faith. In his new book,...

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March 1, 2002 Understanding and belief key to Grant's works

FROM THE VERY beginning the Cross of Jesus Christ presented a dilemma. Gentiles considered it a "foolishness" while for Jews it was a "stumbling block." For believers it revealed "the power of God and the wisdom of God." Over the...

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February 1, 2002 Lenten reading fosters an intimacy with God

In Canada it used to be that Lent was a time of spiritual flurry in Anglican parishes. Preachers traveled to urban areas and drew hundreds of people to noon-time services, Lenten study groups were almost universal, and parish...

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January 1, 2002 Religious renewal can be traumatic

SAVED. Converted. Born Again. Renewed. Spirit-baptism. These are familiar words to Anglicans who have heard them time and again in the services of holy baptism. Probably they were prayed for in these terms when they were...

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December 1, 2001 Where is God?

ADVENT AND Christmas this year will be different as a great cloud of unknowing covers the world. I recall the final verse of Canadian poet L. A. MacKay's Carol for l938: Oh in how many hearts of men Is kept the ghastly...

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November 1, 2001 Theology is seldom popular, but always vital

ON TUESDAY morning, Sept. 11, I was rereading Longing for God, Anglicans Talk About Revelation, Nature, Culture, and Authority which is the first book of Wrestling with God by the Primate's Theological Commission when the...

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October 1, 2001 Former Arctic bishop describes transitions

IN the 20th century Canada came into its own as a nation. In the 19th century it was, for many observers, an intimidating mass of geography holding little promise. The British historian, Sir Archibald Alison, wrote, "Probably...

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September 1, 2001 Books examine history of Christian-Jewish relations

SINCE FOR MOST Canadian Anglicans the church year begins in September, and mindful of Francis Bacon's admonition about books, "some few to be chewed and digested," it is appropriate in launching this new column to consider two...

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June 1, 2001 Tour of biblical lands becomes work of magic

Author Bruce Feiler has forged an enviable career by hanging out in interesting places - small-town Japan, Oxford and Cambridge, a circus, Nashville - and writing about them. His fifth book, Walking the Bible, starts with an...

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June 1, 2001 Suggestions for future

ELEVEN YEARS as Books Editor of the Anglican Journal have convinced me that the biblical author was right when he said "of making many books there is no end." He might have added something about there being a much smaller...

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