The Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, Archbishop Shane Parker, along with the four Metropolitans of the denomination issued this pastoral stat...

By Rebecca PaVeley PROPOSALS to ban public prayer in Quebec would be a violation of human rights, threatening Christian festivals and the many...

By André Picard “IT IS POSSIBLE to die healed,” Dr. Balfour Mount famously said. What he meant is that, while physical healin...

By Jacob Vandiver THE ANGLICAN Diocese of Canada (formerly the Anglican Network in Canada) gathered for its annual General Synod on Oct. 29–3...

By Kathryn Post (RNS) – ARCHBISHOP Steve Wood, who leads the Anglican Church in North America, was inhibited, or temporarily suspended f...

By Joey Royal RECENT events in the Anglican Communion have been tumultuous. The appointment of Bishop Sarah Mullally as the new Archbishop of Ca...

By Harman Thomas “Prepare ye the way of the Lord,” the Baptist cries. Jesus is coming! Repent, and believe the good news. But the...

By David Goodhew IN THE 250th anniversary of her birth, Jane Austen’s reputation has never been higher. But what would surprise many dev...

By Mark Michael BOLDLY announcing that “the future has arrived,” GAFCON, the Global South-based conservative renewal movement also know...

(Staff) DAME Sarah Mullally has been announced as the first female Archbishop of Canterbury and the next primate of England. She will also be...

By Sue Careless THE ANGLICAN Church of Canada elected a new leader at last June’s General Synod – but not from among the original slate...

By Robyn Douglass THE RT REV. Dr. Mark Short, Bishop of Canberra & Goulburn since 2019, was elected on July 19 as Primate of the Anglican Churc...

THE CHURCH of England’s governing body has called on the British government to improve funding for “desperately needed” palliative c...

By Perry Cooper WHOM do you look up to? Everyone has a person or persons they admire or look up to. For some it is an actor, for others it may b...

(Staff) THE BISHOP-ELECT of Rupert’s Land, who has lived and worked in both Africa and North America, hopes to bridge the division between the G...

  Reviewed by Tim Challies Creators: Keith Getty, Kristyn Getty Editors: John Martin, Dan Kreider, Douglas Sean O’Donnell Hardc...

By K.C. Nwajei ANGLICAN LEADERS from across the Global South condemned the July 30 election of the Rt. Rev. Cherry Vann, a partnered lesbian,...

By Bp William Cliff From the beginning, being a bishop was connected to a place. At a time when surnames were not yet a “thing,” w...

FOR SIX sweltering days last June General Synod delegates gathered in London, ON. Top of mind for many was a set of “Pathways” for the res...

By Bp. Anthony Burton  When in 1989 Charlie Arthurson was elected the first Indigenous bishop in Canada, he retired to his church in LaRonge,...

By Sue Careless IN THE LAST week of June, over two hundred delegates to the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada met in London, Ontario t...

By Sue Careless A MASSIVE financial scandal is rocking the Anglican Church of Canada. How was a $9 million five-year lease signed without the knowl...

By Sue Careless THE ANGLICAN Church of Canada has elected a new leader – but not from among the original slate of four candidates. The Rt. Re...

Julie Lane-Gay is a writer and editor who, with her husband Craig, attends St John’s Vancouver. She is the author of The Riches of Your Grace: L...

By Francis Delaplain “It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.” –Proverbs...

By Joseph Mangina On April 9, 1945, the Protestant pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer was executed at a Nazi concentration camp in Flossenbu...

By Joey Royal THE Anglican Church of Canada has long affirmed its commitment to racial reconciliation. That commitment is evident in several ways &...

By Sue Careless May 13, 2025 THE BISHOP-ELECT of Montreal told The Anglican Planet and The Living Church that he has three top priorities for hi...

By Sue Careless THE Diocese of Montreal, facing allegations of misconduct against at least one of its candidates for coadjutor bishop, has elected...

By Sue Careless THE ANGLICAN Church of Canada has announced four nominees for the office of primate: the Most Rev. Christopher Harper, the Most Rev...

(Staff)  ON March 8, the Rev. Chad McCharles, a Manitoba priest and student of Benedictine spirituality, was elected bishop of Saskatoon. Ther...

I was born of a noble Italian family in 1225. I was sent at age five to a monastery to be educated by the Benedictines. I was always large for m...

By Sean Davidson IT’S EASTER SUNDAY, a day of unending surprise. This is a day that the prophets had pointed to long ago. Just when we tho...

By Dane Neufeld FOR AS LONG as I can remember I have had a fairly vivid fear of catastrophic death. Whether this fear sits at a healthy or unhealth...

I was born on Dec. 16, 1775, in the Hampshire village of Steventon, where my father was the Anglican parish priest. I was the seventh of eight chil...

By Sue Careless ON March 26, the Rev. Rod BrantFrancis was elected as the next bishop of the Diocese of Moosonee during an electoral synod held in...

Faithful, Creative Hopeful: Fifteen Theses for Christians in a Crisis-Shaped World by Jesse A. Zink Church Publishing New York, 2024 Re...

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 t...

The Good for Nothing Puddle: Finding Hope When You’re Stuck in Sadness Author: Jana Jackson Illustrator: Abby Jartos Zonderkids, 2025...

By Douglas LeBLANC THE Archbishop of Kenya has ordered churches under his care to stop allowing speeches by politicians during their worship servic...

By Sue Careless BELIEVE IT or not, there is a lot for Christians to celebrate in 2025. Can you guess what crucial event in church history occurred...

IN THE EARLY 1990s, the Rev’d David Short came to Canada to study under J.I. Packer at Regent College in Vancouver. He and his wife Bronwyn plan...

By Rob Robotham THERE WAS so much joy and energy, and a strange mix of liturgy with informal evangelical enthusiasm. I had never attended a ch...

By Sue Careless WHEN I was a child, I learned Old Testament stories in Sunday school (often told using felt board figures) and in illustrated Bible...

By Doug LeBlanc THE RT. REV. Martin Gordon, who has served as Bishop of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) since December 2022, has fle...

By Alex Schadenberg ON Dec. 11, 2024, Canada’s Ministry of Health released the Fifth Annual Report on Medical Assistance in Dying which indic...

(Staff)  THE Anglican Church of Canada (ACoC) is divided not only into 30 dioceses, each led by at least one bishop, but also into four regional...

(Staff) POPE Francis issued a major rebuke to the Trump administration’s plans for mass deportations of migrants, warning that the forceful remo...

By Sue Careless WHEN a young child was asked what a saint was, the youngster replied, “Saints are people the light shines through.”...

BP. MARIANN BUDDE’S sermon at the National Cathedral’s inaugural prayer service in Washington stirred up a great deal of controversy on so...

By Sue Careless OUR weekly Bible study group has embarked on a study of saints that has proven remarkably refreshing. We usually study Scriptu...

By Catherine Sider Hamilton IT WAS Christmas Eve. The children had made the journey to Bethlehem, up one aisle and down another in the candlelight,...

by David Roseberry RML Books, Leaderworks, 2024 Rviewed by Barbara Richardson THE Rev. Canon David Roseberry is Provincial Canon for Mis...

By Sue Careless THE Anglican Network in Canada has voted to change its name to the “Anglican Diocese of Canada.” It did so at its 17th...

By Sue Careless KATHERINE ‘Kit” Packer, the wife of one of the most influential evangelicals in the English-speaking world died on...

(Staff)  ON NOV. 29, British lawmakers approved in principle a Bill that permits terminally ill adults to seek help to end their lives if they ha...

 By Edith Humphrey THE FEAST of Epiphany on January 6 is associated with the visit of the Magi to see the child Jesus, when God “showed...

O is for Christmas: A Midwinter Night’s Dream By Mia Anderson St Thomas Poetry Series, 2024   Reviewed by Sue Careless Mia...

Julie Lane-Gay is a writer and editor who, with her husband Craig, attends St John’s Vancouver. She is the author of The Riches of You...

(Staff) ON NOV. 12 the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, resigned amid allegations that he did little to stop a predatory layman from serially a...

BY Peter T. Chattaway   The Best Christmas Pageant Ever tells the story of six wild, intimidating children who basically bully their way in...

RIGHT OFF the top – yes, we realize that you may actually be reading the paper version of this issue in Epiphany…or Lent, depending on wh...

By Lynne McCarthy These have been the hallmarks of St. Aidan’s Anglican Church in Winnipeg for many decades. We try to follow St. Aidan&rsquo...

By Sue Careless Joey Royal, suffragan bishop of the Arctic, has stunned Anglicans across the country by leaving episcopal office to take up a new p...

By Sue Careless A new North/South partnership is making waves in the Arctic – sound waves. On Sept. 19th, Facebook carried this joyful mes...

By Mark Michael THE VEN. Darrell Critch, a priest of the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA), was elected August 24 as Bishop of Mahajanga, Mad...

BY Richard White LONG SHADOWS fell across the rifle range the morning of October 12th, 1915. The place was Schaerbeek, Belgium. The time was World...

(Staff) CANADA was a much more overtly religious nation a hundred years ago, when over 500 chaplains served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)...

THE ANGLICAN CHURCH of Canada is about to have a big conversation. The Primate’s Commission’s seven Hypotheses will likely dominate the wo...

Seasons of Sorrow:    The Pain of Loss and the Comfort of God By Tim Challies Zondervan, 2022 Reviewed BY Siobhan & Gerry La...

Young choristers sing out at St Thomas’s in Toronto   In July 2023, Fr. Nathan Humphrey, rector of St Thomas’s in Toronto, was...

      New book celebrates parish’s 150th year Household of God A Parish History of St. Thomas’s Church, Tor...

By Sue Careless Joey Royal, suffragan bishop of the Arctic, has stunned Anglicans across the country by leaving episcopal office to take up a new p...

By Sharon Dewey Hetke FOR TOO LONG, we have danced around the reality of the Anglican Church of Canada’s decline in finances and attendance,...

By Christopher Ketch ST. MICHAEL’S Youth Conference has many traditions and practices that give shape to our six days of shared life tog...

By Douglas LeBlanc TIMOTHY Dudley-Smith, who wrote Tell Out My Soul and over 400 other hymns, died August 12 at the age of 97. He also served as Bi...

ON JUNE 22, The Rt. Rev. Steve Wood of St. Andrew’s Church in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina was elected the next archbishop of the Anglican Chu...

BISHOP SEAN ROWE of the Diocese of Northwestern Pennsylvania and the Diocese of Western New York was elected the next presiding bishop of the Episcopa...

By Sharon Dewey Hetke Abp ANNE GERMOND has become Acting Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada with the Sept. 15 retirement of Abp Linda Nicholl...

By David Goodhew NEW NUMBERS for the Anglican Church of Canada (ACoC) are out, and they show that Canada is the first major province of the Anglica...

The Riches of Your Grace: Living in the Book of Common Prayer By Julie Lane-Gay InterVarsity Press, 2024 Reviewed byKaren Stiller WE ARE...

By Matthew Vanderkwaak THE INCARNATION – that the Divine Word took on flesh and dwelt among us – must be one of the most distinguishing...

By Sharon Dewey Hetke FOR TOO LONG, we have danced around the reality of the Anglican Church of Canada’s decline in finances and attendance,...

By Sue Careless A SUNDAY MORNING FIRE has destroyed one of the most beautiful churches in Canada. The four-alarm blaze early on June 9 gutted St...

Community in shock over church fire in Kasabonika Lake By Clint Fleury KASABONIKA LAKE – A CHURCH FIRE on Sunday Aug. 11 has devastated th...

By Richard White HE WAS ANXIOUS. Or perhaps agitated would better describe it. A bishop who wasn’t his, threatened a faith that was. The Reve...

(Staff) ON MAY 28, the Rev. Dr. Dane Neufeld was elected Chair of the Canadian Communion Partners at the group’s Annual General Meeting. On i...

By Ken Andrews TODAY many churches, including Anglican ones, wrestle with how best to engage the broader community and how to maintain a critical m...

By Sue Careless THERE CAN BE no doubt that the Anglican Church of Canada is in steep decline. Some would say collapse. Both membership numbers and...

By Sue Careless A SUNDAY MORNING FIRE has destroyed one of the most beautiful churches in Canada. The four-alarm blaze early on June 9 gutted St...

Bill Reimer recently retired as the manager of the Regent College Book Store in Vancouver. He and his wife, Dorcas, attend St John’s Vancouver....

By Sharon Dewey Hetke   ON MAY 11 the Rev. Richard Reed was elected as the new bishop of Saskatchewan during an electoral synod at St. Alba...

By Jonathan Luxmore PATRIARCH KIRILL of Moscow has been warned that his recent approval of a decree urging a “Holy War” and total takeo...

By Hattie Williams CONSERVATIVE Anglican leaders have challenged the authority of the Primates’ Meeting in Rome April 29-May 2, arguing that...

By Sharon Dewey Hetke THE ELEVENTH bishop of Ontario, the Rt. Rev. George Bruce, died on March 23 in Kingston, ON at the age of 81. Born on June 20...

By Sean Davidson CAN YOU REMEMBER a time when you were desperately thirsty? Maybe on a hot day working in the sun. Or after a long hike. Or maybe y...

Reviewed by Peter T. Chattaway IT’S BECOMING something of a pattern: every time Anthony Hopkins wins an Oscar, he goes on to star in a movie...

By Sue CareLess HOPES WERE HIGH that the Toronto Congress of 1963 would radically change the Anglican attitude to mission. Over 1,000 bishops, cler...

(Staff) Russia’s most famous opposition leader and political prisoner died suddenly on Feb. 16 while incarcerated in the Arctic gulag. Alexei Na...

Brunei: Compulsory Islamic teaching in schools ON NOV. 1, 2023, Islamic religious teaching was officially integrated into the educational system of...

By Abigail Frymann Rouch CONVERTS from Islam are being pressured to leave Iran by the Shia regime, Christian charities concerned with religious fre...

BY Jonathan Hoskin   EASTER is the most important festival for Christians, because it is the basis of our faith. We trust our lives to Jesu...

By Tyler James Dunlop with Tim den Bok Independently published, 2023 Review and Comment by Margaret Cottle, MD IN Therefore Choose Life, by T...

By Sue CareLess AT THE annual Mere Anglicanism conference, you’re likely to hear speakers from Oxford, Cambridge and McGill quote Goethe, Nie...

By Sue CareLess MANY CHRISTIANS imagine that the kingdom of God advances through stadiums full of people being addressed by a great preacher. Dr Am...

Down the Valley By Edith M. Humphrey Cascade Books, 2024   Reviewed by Sue Careless JAMES is feeling sorry for himself. It is a ho...

By Siobhan Laskey JUST OVER thirty years ago two young women, Teresa from rural New Brunswick, Jane from rural Nova Scotia, were “sent”...

THIS IS an edited portion of the panel discussion that concluded the Mere Anglicanism Conference held Jan. 18-20 in Charleston, S.C. The theme of the...

BY RON CSILLAG THERE’S THE OLD SAW about the famous Jewish violinist who was asked why he chose the violin over, say, the piano. “If yo...

By Fiona André IN ITS ANNUAL LIST detailing countries of concern when it comes to persecution of Christians, the watchdog organization Open...

By Douglas LeBlanc SPEAKING at Mere Anglicanism, a conference sponsored by a diocese that ordains women to the priesthood, priest and conservative...

VATICAN CITY (AP) – In the greatest rebuke yet to Pope Francis, the Catholic bishops of Africa and Madagascar issued a unified statement on Jan....

Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.    –Matthew 4:1 By Robert D. Crouse IN THE...

A YOUNG FRIEND of mine has a troubled, addicted roommate who is asking to go to church with her. Another young man I know, who is spiritually grounded...

“Speaking the Truth in Love: The Church and the Challenge of the New Morality” was the theme at this year’s Mere Anglicanism Confere...

By Francis Martin THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND Evangelical Council (CEEC) will offer alternative spiritual episcopal ministry for clergy and congregations...