October 1, 2008 Letters to the editor

Keep the church Dear editor,Although not an Anglican, I have had a close affinity with the church via marriage, participation in activities and, many years ago, the AYPA. I always read and enjoy the entire Anglican Journal and...

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October 1, 2008 Giving thanks

My earliest memories of the harvest festival are of apples and leaves on every windowsill of the church, baskets of fruit and vegetables at the chancel steps, and homemade bread and grapes on the altar.  I remember the...

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October 1, 2008 View from a loft: Solitary singer and tradition

There is a black and white sketch hanging on the paneled wall in Old Cal’s organ loft. It shows the inside of a church, row upon row of pews, with a solitary man holding Common Praise and singing his heart out.I admired the...

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October 1, 2008 A Tale of God’s Will — New Orleans, the first time

I have never been to New Orleans, but I have known loss.  I have never had to confront what it might mean to have my city, my neighbourhood, my home, washed under an unstoppable wall of water, but I have known sadness of the...

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October 1, 2008 Henry Poole too shallow for theological deep diving

The Roman Catholic Church has confirmed a long history of holy apparitions, visions of Jesus or Mary that speak love and peace, usually from the sky. In the comedy Henry Poole Is Here, a middle-aged man with a neck beard is graced with such a blessing. Henry Poole finds Jesus’ face on the stucco wall of his suburban California bungalow. And he is ticked off.

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October 1, 2008 Audacious Anglicans reflects on heroes of faith

According to a young Church School pupil, a saint is “someone the light shines through” – speaking of the figures in stained glass windows that adorn many churches. But the saints described here – so labeled by the Archbishop of Canterbury himself in the foreword – are anything but stylized pictures in glass. They are real people.

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