National News
Joachim Fricker remembered as gifted liturgical innovator
Joachim Fricker, former suffragan (assistant) bishop of the diocese of Toronto and one of the principal authors of the Book of Alternative Services (BAS), will be remembered for his brilliance and his friendly personality as well as his gifts as a liturgist, say some of the people who knew him.
Crockett remembered as ‘giant intellect’ of the church
The Rev. Bill Crockett, who died October 29 at age 84, was a brilliant but humble theologian whose importance shaping liturgy and thought in...
International News
Tensions rise in Diocese of Albany over bishop’s rejection of same-sex...
Albany Bishop William Love’s refusal to accept a General Convention compromise on same-sex marriage has sent shockwaves through his New York diocese, with both his supporters and those who oppose his decision expressing uncertainty about what will happen next.
In Kenya, a pastor’s refusal to marry an HIV-positive bride stirs...
A Pentecostal pastor in the western Kenyan town of Bahati triggered outrage over the past week by refusing to marry a young couple until they complied with his demand that they be tested for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
Opinion
For all the saints
The Christian festival of All Saints (November 1) seemed to slip past me almost unnoticed this year; but perhaps it’s still not too late to share my thoughts with you about saintly mentors.
25 years after Peers’s apology, glimmers of ‘true repentance’
How times have changed in the 25 years since former primate Michael Peers offered his apology to Canada’s Indigenous peoples on behalf of the Anglican Church of Canada.
Arts & Culture
‘Decolonization’ collection stimulates new ways of thinking about the Bible
Unsettling the Word: Biblical Experiments in Decolonization
Edited by Steve Heinrichs; Illustrations by Jonathan Dyck
Publisher: Mennonite Church Canada
ISBN: 978-0-9959-7331-2
320 pages
Available through commonword.ca
Unsettling the Word is...
Life as improv?
God, Improv, and the Art of Living
By MaryAnn McKibben Dana
Eerdmans, 2018
ISBN: 978-0-8028-7464-1
230 pages
All self-help and exhortation-driven books seem inevitably prone to treading precariously close...
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