In my column for Lent I want to declare that we can learn other ways of “being” church and new ways of “doing” church.
As editor of the Anglican Journal, I sometimes agonize over the editorials I write—spending days developing and discarding drafts before settling on a message that
Seven months after the attacks on the United States that reduced the twin towers of the World Trade Center to a smouldering mass of rubble, I flew into New York. It was the week before Holy Week of 2002.
And why clergy burnout is something you should care about “I haven’t heard from you since March!” one parishioner said to me accusingly on the
“For in his power are the hidden mysteries of earth.” This translation by Rabbi Hillel Danziger of the first part of Verse 4 of Psalm 95 reveals a rabbinic insight about the presence of God’s energies and power in Creation.
The apostle Paul says that “enemies of blood and flesh” (Ephesians 6:12) are not our greatest challenge in life.
When I first published a version of this column in September, another Black man in the United States had been shot (seven times in the back) by a white police officer.
Although some people find February a dismal month as we long for the end of winter, it is, for me, a month of good memories and celebrations.
It was a spring afternoon on a Sunday in Edmonton.
“…all things work together for good to those who love God…” —Romans 8:28 Jigsaw puzzles are popular these days, but they intimidate me. People who
The reports in November and December 2020 were dire. For the people of Matabeleland in Zimbabwe, the “lean” season had begun. The peak lean season—the
Recently, a member of our congregational book study group raised a timely question with me. Quoting a front-page article in a local paper, he said,
Planning, disruption and hope in a pandemic year
Three years ago, I visited the diocese of Quebec as a foreign journalist writing about the sometimes weird, sometimes wonderful world of anglophone Christians in
Four-directional thinking is quite widespread among Indigenous elders.
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