National News
Diocese of Saskatoon elects new bishop
The Rev. Chris Harper, Indigenous native priest for the diocese of Toronto, was elected on the fourth ballot during an electoral synod in the...
Bishop’s cross-Canada ride raises more than $187,000
On July 31, Bishop Rob Hardwick of the diocese of Qu’Appelle dipped the wheel of his bicycle in the Atlantic Ocean in St. John’s,...
International News
Episcopal Church of South Sudan’s Bishop of Yirol, Simon Adut Yuang,...
Anglican Bishop of Yirol, Simon Adut Yuang, was one of 20 people killed when a plane carrying them from the South Sudanese capital Juba...
World Council of Churches and Catholics map future together after papal...
Ten weeks after Pope Francis visited the World Council of Churches (WCC) in Geneva as “a pilgrim in quest of unity and peace,” church leaders of different churches representing the WCC and the Roman Catholic Church are meeting in Germany this week to continue their task of “walking, praying and working together.”
Opinion
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.
The web of life
"Nature is a fine piece of cloth. You pull a thread here and it vibrates throughout the whole fabric."
—Joseph Sittler, Gravity and Grace: Reflections and...
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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