Opinion

“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...

My first awareness of India probably came to me when, as a child, I heard and then read from the famous works of Englishman...

“God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world, things that are not, to reduce to nothing things that are, so that no one might boast in the presence of God” (1 Corinthians 1:27–29).

In many churches, these words are etched on a brass plaque or penned on a piece of parchment near the pulpit. They are from...

Not really knowing what to do, writing this piece might be merely therapeutic for me; thinking out loud, perhaps.

Anglican-Mennonite dialogue will yield positive outcome This is a good news story for sure (Canadian Anglicans, Mennonites meet for first-ever formal dialogue, anglicanjournal. com,...

Spring is the season of writing grant applications, not least of all for theological students. I know this season well because I am currently in...

Standing together with our Jewish sisters and brothers I write this on International Holocaust Remembrance Day. In my watching of the “Live Feed” of General...