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At the conclusion of his second missionary journey, Paul returned to Jerusalem to report on his progress to the mother church. From there he made ...

Elin Goulden is the Parish Outreach Facilitator for the episcopal area of York-Credit Valley. I serve as a liason between the diocese and York-Credit Valley ...

Canada has reached a milestone. For the first time in its nearly 150-year history, the number of seniors is greater than the number of children. ...

Will the real clergy please stand up? When we think about clergy, the image that first comes to mind is a priest, particularly the full-time, ...

The politics of fear are insidious. They appeal to that place in all of us that feels unsafe and vulnerable, the part of us that ...

Towards the end of his second missionary journey, Paul moved from Athens to Corinth. He would stay in and around this city for the next ...

An eagle hovers over the intersection as we gather. Around us, high smokestacks, overhead pipelines, huge corroded storage drums – the landscape of an industrial ...

The Rev. Christian Harvey is a deacon at St. John the Evangelist in Peterborough. He is the Area Youth Social Justice Coordinator for Trent-Durham and ...

It was the last. Twice a week, on schedule, a horse drawn wagon made its way up Charlotte Street, then home to the rectory of ...

Some images sear themselves into your mind. You cannot unthink them. They change how you see the world. A photo of a napalmed Vietnamese girl, ...

In my last column, Paul and Silas were in Troas, where they met Luke, who, along with Timothy, became part of the mission team. In ...

Garry Glowacki is the executive director of The Bridge, a prison ministry in Brampton that serves the Greater Toronto Area and beyond. We provide unique, ...

In late May, people from all over the land made their way – by foot, rail, car, plane and in spirit – to Ottawa for ...

Lately it seems I have been preoccupied with the question of how the church can better respond to the challenge of welcoming newcomers. Specifically, I’m ...

In the middle of summer, the Prime Minister called a federal election. Although not unexpected, we now find ourselves in the long campaign period to ...

Before we look at Paul’s second missionary journey and the beginning of his correspondence, we need to look at the man himself. He was born ...

Canon Giles Bryant is the organist and choirmaster at All Saints, Peterborough. He will be retiring on Sept. 6. He is also the organist and ...

Matthew Li is the Wasa-Nabin Urban Aboriginal Youth Program Worker at the Timmins Native Friendship Centre’s satellite site in Moosonee. He is the son of ...

The indefatigable and somewhat unlucky Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton said somewhere that he was always amazed at how quickly a bad situation can turn into ...

In an article in the Anglican Journal, General Secretary Michael Thompson asked, “How can we understand what’s going on in the lives of our congregations ...

Faith Journeys Stories of lives that have been changed by Christ   It was pretty much the same each week. There were meetings and classes ...

In the Old Testament, we see the prophets calling for justice in the communities to which they proclaimed the word. The call for justice in ...

We were looking to buy our first house (now 32 years ago.) It was far more expensive than we had imagined. In narrowing the choices ...

After the stoning of Stephen, the first Christian martyr, the persecution of Christians became intense in Jerusalem, causing many followers of the Way to flee, ...

I have a confession to make: I’m not a tither. After you get over the shock that the director of Stewardship Development for the diocese ...

Constance Kendall is the program director at the Downsview Youth Covenant and the lay pastoral minister and youth director at St. Stephen, Downsview. The Downsview ...

From time to time you will read in The Anglican that your bishop is away from the diocese. You may wonder, even aloud, “Why are ...