Bishop’s Opinion

It didn’t take long for the novelty of living in self-isolation to wear off. While the idea of working from home seemed appealing at first, ...

The Easter message is about new life and hope for new beginnings. The season of spring brings a welcome change from the cold to warmer ...

“The report of my death was an exaggeration.” Mark Twain, ending a letter written in 1897 to a newspaper journalist, in response to reports that ...

Nicodemus went under cover of darkness. The Samaritan woman left her jar at the well to go back and tell the others. With mud in ...

“There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you ...

Our great nephew was born in Australia on March 1, 2012. The news of his birth reached us the day before, on Feb. 29. It ...

God is good! And so is gracious disruption. In turning over the tables in the temple, teaching that the last shall be first and uplifting ...

I begin this article with a word of profound thanks to Almighty God for the healing I have been experiencing since my surgery in June. ...

“I don’t think we’ll understand Advent correctly until we see it as a preparation for a revolution.” The Rt. Rev. Robert Barron Advent and Christmas ...

On their first day of school in September, our children were asked to share with the class how they had spent the summer. At the ...

With the arrival of autumn comes the departure of the heat and humidity of summer. Short sleeves are changed out for sweaters. The days become ...

God is good. People make mistakes. In Inuvik in 2012, at the Northern National Event of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Indian Residential Schools, ...

We are familiar with the term “doubting Thomas,” which is derived from the story of Thomas’s unwillingness to believe his friends who told him that ...

We had seen the trailer a few times and said to ourselves, maybe we should watch that movie sometime. And then, the sometime came. Free ...

“Prayer is where the action is” – John Wesley My 16-year-old daughter Kate and I visited southern India in January, at the invitation of the ...

Programs for new bishops are sometimes referred to with some cheek as “Baby Bishops’ Schools.” Since my consecration, I have had the opportunity to attend ...

Things tend to happen in the garden. Our story of faith begins in the garden. The garden was verdant, luscious, brimming with life. The soil, ...

God is good. Very often we think “stuff” is good, too. Sometimes we like our stuff better than people and relationships. People can be difficult; ...

We are en route now. For almost 30 years, I have had the joy of holding the keys and serving as the incumbent of a ...

Black History Month is celebrated in North America and in some other countries in February. It is believed that the precursor of Black History Month ...

February, the shortest month of the year, begins with the tradition of Wiarton Willie seeing or not seeing his shadow. Will he show us the ...

One of the memorable moments from the consecration of Andrew Asbil as our new bishop was the recessional music, U2’s “Beautiful Day.” It was an ...

God is love. God is good. Not all people behave well all the time, even though we are all formed in the image of God. ...

In a couple of months, I will retire as Bishop of Toronto. I have already retired as Metropolitan of Ontario and Bishop of Moosonee. Many ...

In Chapter 4 of the Acts of the Apostles, we read of the strong emphasis by the early Church on the importance of community. Members ...

Racist graffiti was sprayed recently across property at the back of one of our churches. It was a vile display of bigotry and racism that ...