Opinion

Reflecting my penchant for all things edible, I have several food magazine subscriptions and, just like Anglican church newsletters and newspapers, these magazines are seasonal...

If you stand in the chancel of the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Quebec City and look straight up, you’ll see four gilded...

“Are you an evangelical Christian?” a woman asked me recently. “It depends on what you mean by ‘evangelical,’" I replied. (Being “evangelical” has to...

A recent visit to the Church of the Redeemer in downtown Toronto brought back the memory of a visit I made there on the...

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.

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.

"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...

“If you get the chance, we’d humbly request that our ‘worship hoedown’ be mentioned from stage, or added into your service announcement slides. Or,...

I’ve always disliked church structures, an antipathy I credit to that potentially most monstrous of church creatures: the committee.

Jerusalem is often portrayed in the media as a place of conflict and hostility, a city where competing belief systems jostle and confront one...

My partner, Marlene, was thrilled to see her first trillium (Ontario’s provincial flower) while we hiked the Peck Lake Trail in Algonquin Provincial Park during late May of this year.

'Profoundly chilling' The article detailing Carolyn Sitlington’s illness and her eventual decision to seek medical assistance in dying was heartbreaking . No doubt many readers...

In 1992, my friends Keith Boeckner and Joan Polfuss-Boeckner, Lutheran graduates from what is now Wilfrid Laurier University in southern Ontario, publicly joined the...

(This article first appeared in the June 2018 issue of the Anglican Journal.) It’s a question that never gets old. Why do media, including the...

(This column first appeared in the June 2018 issue of the Anglican Journal.) For just a few minutes, I want to take you to a...