The photograph of Rev. Michael Batten blessing solar panels at St. David’s Church, Vancouver, was taken by photographer Drew Eves-Lethbridge.
Category: October 2007, Opinion and Editorial
Rev. Ephraim Radner was recently appointed professor of historical theology at Wycliffe College in Toronto. Letter writer Rev. Barbara Liotscos (Resistance to injustice, June/July letters) is not an archdeacon.
Incorrect...
Category: September 2007, Opinion and Editorial
Last year, the National Church Council – not the Eastern Synod – of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada voted to ask the 2007 National Convention to reconsider its 2005 decision rejecting same-sex blessings. Incorrect...
Category: March 2007, Opinion and Editorial
He was a thoughtful man with a lot of questions. Like many of us, he was anxious about the health of the church! “How long do we have?” he said. We had run into each other at a party and his question, although challenging, gave...
Category: April 2006, Opinion and Editorial
In light of the continuing interest in my presentation on declining church membership to the house of bishops last October, and the controversy it is generating, I think some clarification is in order.
I have been...
Category: March 2006, Opinion and Editorial
John Kenneth Galbraith once remarked that the main function of economic forecasting was to make astrology appear as a reputable science. The same could be said of other types of projections, including predictions of the...
Category: March 2006, Opinion and Editorial

The news of the four Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) members abducted in Baghdad last November – all of whom, at this writing, are still missing – has brought home to many of us the reality of the world in...
Category: February 2006, Opinion and Editorial
Archdeacon Edwin Stanley ("Ted") Light, who served as general secretary of General Synod, the Anglican Church of Canada's governing body, from 1968 to 1979, died Saturday, May 21. He was 91. Born March 19,1914 on a farm near...
Category: September 2005, Opinion and Editorial
What does it mean to be human? As medical science takes us deeper, the answer to that question is increasingly clouded. New questions emerge, such as, to what degree can we play with the genetic material we are given? When may we...
Category: June 2005, Opinion and Editorial
Dear editors, Re: Canterbury snubs North Americans (April issue). I'm Canadian and I don't feel the least bit "snubbed" by Archbishop Williams' decision. What right did the Canadian primate, Archbishop Andrew...
Category: May 2005, Opinion and Editorial