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(Staff)  ON March 8, the Rev. Chad McCharles, a Manitoba priest and student...

I was born 800 years ago. Who am I?

I was born of a noble Italian family in 1225. I was sent at age five to a monastery to be educate...

Four Bishops Nominated to Lead Canadian Church

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Easter Sermon: A Day of Unending Surprise

IT’S EASTER SUNDAY, a day of unending surprise.

This is a day that the prophets had pointed to long ago. Just when we thought all was lost, God’s redeeming love has broken through. Jesus has triumphed over the grave and now we’re rising with him f-rom the baptismal deep. This is a new parting of the waters, a new exodus – all because of what Jesus has done on the cross.

The Cost of Cultural Compromise: Lessons from Berton and Wurmbrand

I’m excited to share with you that Bp. Joey Royal is joining me as Co-General Editor. Bp. Joey brings his experience as a priest and bishop in the Arctic, his knowledge of the Anglican Church of Canada, gained through serving on various councils of the Church, and his theological expertise. Long-time TAP readers will remember that when this paper got started, it was led by two editors – Peter Molloy and David A. Harris. I believe that returning to this dual editorship model will strengthen this amazing project we call The Anglican Planet. Bp. Joey served in the Diocese of the Arctic as priest and then Suffragan bishop f-rom 2012 to 2024. He is now living in the Ottawa area with his wife Jennifer and son Ben. He serves as the International Relations and Operations Manager for Christian Embassy of Canada. From the whole TAP team, welcome aboard, Bp. Joey!    –SDH

Unmoored Compassion

BP. MARIANN BUDDE’S sermon at the National Cathedral’s inaugural prayer service in Washington stirred up a great deal of controversy on social media, including amongst traditionally-minded Anglicans.

Receiving the Christ Child

IT WAS Christmas Eve. The children had made the journey to Bethlehem, up one aisle and down another in the candlelight, picking up a donkey and a cow and Mary and Joseph and sheep and shepherds on the way. Now they sat by the crèche looking up at the Advent wreath. The Christ candle flamed– Jesus is born!– and one little boy leapt up at the sight of the light (Oh! Oh!) and flung up his arms and said, “Glory to God!”

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Interview with David Short
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Young choristers sing out at St Thomas’s in Toronto
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Timothy Dudley Smith (1926-2024) Hymnwriter
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Tribute: Bishop George Bruce 1942-2024
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Mere Anglicanism Panel
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Death is part of life, but euthanasia should not be
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TAP Interview: Nicholas Nicolaidis
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Tribute: Tim Keller (1950-2023)
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Michael Peers (1934-2023) – 11th Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada
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Harry Antonides
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Tribute: Brent Stiller 1963-2023
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Thomas Fitches 1945 – 2023
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Interview with Bishop Joey Royal

REVIEWS

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intellectual, biblical and spiritual renewal.

Faithful, Creative Hopeful: Fifteen Theses for Christians in a Crisis-Shaped World

CRISIS is not new. Crisis, such as a major war or plague, is often the hinge point of historical research – but what is different today is the globalization and accessibility of crisis. Societies are intertwined more than ever, which means a crisis across the world that we may have never heard of or been affected by now has a direct impact on our daily lives. This new context requires a re-evaluation of the Christian response to crisis. Jesse A. Zink’s book, Faithful, Creative, Hopeful: Fifteen Theses for Christians in a Crisis-Shaped World, brings together thoughtful ideas that speak to the response of Christians in a world filled with crises

The Good for Nothing Puddle: Finding Hope When You’re Stuck in Sadness

IN THIS powerful picture book about a girl experiencing loss, The Good for Nothing Puddle helps children explore the nature of grief and loss. It does not offer the quick fix of a superficial band aid for those “stuck in sadness.” Instead, it leads them gently and gradually to finding hope in the midst of their pain.

New liturgical resource

WHEN I was a child, I learned Old Testament stories in Sunday school (often told using felt board figures) and in illustrated Bible story books at home. But three Sundays each month I also heard lessons f-rom the Old Testament read aloud in the main morning service of my parish church.

The Seven Tools: Rediscover Your Church’s Hidden Potential for Growth and Vitality

THE Rev. Canon David Roseberry is Provincial Canon for Mission in the Anglican Church in North America. In 2016, he retired from Christ Church, Plano, Texas, after 31 years of ministry. He has written several books, including devotional books on the Psalms, Ruth, Mark, and 2 Timothy, as well as books for pastors and church leaders on stewardship, church organization and preaching. I have enjoyed many of them so looked forward to the release last August of The Seven Tools: Rediscover Your Church’s Hidden Potential for Growth and Vitality

A Place at the (S)table

Mia Anderson follows in the illustrious tradition of poet-priests such as John Donne, George Herbert and Gerard Manley Hopkins. But she can also add to her resumé: actor, chorister, shepherd and goatherd.

Books for the New Year

Julie Lane-Gay and Bill Reimer share their annual book reviews.

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever tells the story of six wild, intimidating children who basically bully their way into taking all the main parts in a church’s Nativity play, with unexpectedly profound results.

A Canadian Chaplain in the Great War: Revisiting B.J. Murdoch’s The Red Vineyard

Now there is a fine annotated edition of this war memoir from priest and historian Dr. Ross Hebb, a fellow Maritimer, and the author of A Canadian Nurse in the Great War.

Seasons of Sorrow: The Pain of Loss and the Comfort of God

EVERYONE experiences grief. We have grieved the deaths of friends and family, including our only son, Sean, who died at the age of eleven.  For Canadian Tim Challies, a Christian pastor, author and blogger, the sudden death of his son, Nick, on a playing field at the age of twenty, led him to process his grief by keeping a journal of reflections published as Seasons of Sorrow: The Pain of Loss and the Comfort of God.

New book celebrates parish’s 150th year

Household of God, Volume 2: 1994–2024 celebrates the 150th anniversary of St. Thomas’s Church on Huron Street in Toronto. It supplements the first volume, which appeared in 1993 to mark the 100th anniversary of the modest brick Arts and Crafts church designed by parishioner and noted architect Eden Smith.

The Riches of Your Grace: Living in the Book of Common Prayer

WE ARE what we read. At a retreat, author Julie Lane-Gay of Vancouver was asked what had shaped her as a Christian. She writes in the introduction to The Riches of Your Grace: Living in the Book of Common Prayer that her answer came as a surprise “and made total sense.”  And that answer was, of course, The Book of Common Prayer (BCP).

Six for Summer

Enjoy these books with your iced cappuccino, cold beer or lemonade.

Freud’s Last Session

IT’S BECOMING something of a pattern: every time Anthony Hopkins wins an Oscar, he goes on to star in a movie about C.S. Lewis.Thirty years ago, after winning his first trophy for Silence of the Lambs, Hopkins played Lewis in Shadowlands, a movie about Lewis’s late-in-life romance with Joy Davidman Gresham

Therefore Choose Life: My Journey from Hopelessness to Hope

By Tyler James Dunlop with Tim den Bok

Independently published, 2023

Review and Comment by Margaret Cottle, MD

More time-travel for young people

JAMES is feeling sorry for himself. It is a hot summer evening in Pittsburgh and he longs for some adventures with his cousins gathered next door at his grandparents for a family reunion. But he is laid low with an asthma attack and declares miserably, “Nothing interesting ever happens!

The Holdovers

CHRISTMAS FILMS often come all sugar-coated and candy-cane sweet. But not The Holdovers. Think, instead, bleak midwinter and bittersweet. Instead of Home Alone it is rather a school-alone movie as a woeful handful of students at a boys’ private prep school in New England are left behind as their classmates and faculty cheerfully depart for the Christmas holidays. Only one teacher, a grumpy Classics instructor (Paul Giametti) is left behind to supervise them

New Books for the New Year

On Foot to Canterbury: A Son’s Pilgrimage

I MUST ADMIT from the onset that I am “totally hard-wired” for this book. Ken Haigh’s On Foot to Canterbury: A Son’s Pilgrimage covers so many areas of personal interest – hiking, English history, Anglican history, nature – that it’s hard for me not to become absorbed with his journey

Winter Reads

Curl up with a mug of cider or hot chocolate and enjoy some of these new titles, which our West Coast reviewers recommend.

Little Prayers for Ordinary Days

FOR their spiritual formation children need Bible story books but they also need prayer books suited to their young age. There are certainly some classics out there and a new one has just joined their ranks

The Watchmaker’s Daughter: The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie ten Boom

I MUST CONFESS that I had not heard the term “historical espionage thriller” before, but now that I have read The Watchmaker’s Daughter, it applies perfectly. Larry Loftis’ book is a page-turner – you can’t put it down but it is also historically accurate. This is not historical fiction but the true story of a remarkable Christian woman, Corrie ten Boom.

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