October 1, 2009 Adieu, Robert

MY DEAR FRIEND, I am writing this letter because I miss you so very much. I have been thinking about the wonderful experiences we shared over more than 25 years. I am reminded of the trips we took to “Dunrovin,” your cottage on Emma Lake, Sask., where the four seasons were our companions as we created works of art.

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November 1, 2008 Remembering our soldiers, past and present

The First World War ended 90 years ago on Nov. 11. After a terrible battle in the Ypres Salient in the spring of 1915, Lt. Col. John McCrae, a Canadian army medical officer from Guelph, Ont., wrote his well beloved  poem, In...

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September 1, 2008 Meet Old Cal, the philosopher

I FIRST MET Old Cal in the kitchen of the parish hall where he was brewing a cup of tea. He wore baggy pants and suspenders over a plaid shirt. His lined face featured an immaculately combed grey beard that fell like a sparkling...

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January 2, 2008 ‘My contribution made a difference’

Retiree, 77 years old, serves volunteer placement at Ugandan hospital

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April 5, 2007 Burying your treasure in order to harvest abundant life

As a Volunteer in Mission in Uganda for the Anglican Church of Canada I have become aware that the Christians of the Global South can bring to scriptural interpretation understandings quite different from ours. Images or events found in Scripture can appear to relate more closely to the developing world’s experience. At the beginning of our last planting season I had such an experience.

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April 1, 2007 Burying your treasure in order to harvest abundant life

As a Volunteer in Mission in Uganda for the Anglican Church of Canada I have become aware that the Christians of the Global South can bring to scriptural interpretation understandings quite different from ours. Images or events...

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February 1, 2007 Amid Palestinians’ despair, one sees signs of hope

I am in Palestine with the Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) this year from Christmas until the beginning of Lent. By the time you read this, you will be observing the Lenten season. Being in this place at this time of year when...

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November 1, 2006 Defending the innocent

Rev. Major Robert A. Lauder, a military chaplain in Afghanistan, visits an orphanage. The visit with the 21 girls, he writes, “reminds me of why we are here and gives me real faces to recall in the months to come.”

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November 1, 2006 ‘We hold their experience in our hands and cherish it’

It was a hot, dusty day, like every other day. This is Kandahar Province, southern Afghanistan, a desolate place, and the heat hits like an open oven. Everything is tan wherever one looks. The roads are dust, and it swirls like...

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November 1, 2006 ‘There were clergy behind me and in front of me’

I grew up in the church when girls did not serve as servers. I used to watch the choirboys put up the hymns on the hymn board and wish I could do that! And now, at 88 years of age, I am about to celebrate 30 years as a priest.

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