Joey Royal: Suffragan bishop of the Arctic has resigned
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...
More Context for the Collapse of the Anglican Church of Canada
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,...
Jesus is Alive! A Homily at the Closing of St. Michael’s Youth Conference
By Christopher Ketch ST. MICHAEL’S Youth Conference has many traditions and practices that give shape to our six days of shared life tog...
Timothy Dudley Smith (1926-2024) Hymnwriter
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...
Steve Wood elected new Archbishop of ACNA
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...
Sean Rowe elected next Presiding Bishop of TEC
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...
Acting Primate for Anglican Church of Canada
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...
The Collapse of the Anglican Church of Canada
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
The Riches of Your Grace: Living in the Book of Common Prayer By Julie Lane-Gay InterVarsity Press, 2024 Reviewed byKaren Stiller WE ARE...
Incarnation & Inner Meaning of Christian Fellowship: The 2024 Atlantic Theological Conference
By Matthew Vanderkwaak THE INCARNATION – that the Divine Word took on flesh and dwelt among us – must be one of the most distinguishing...
More Context for the Collapse of the Anglican Church of Canada
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,...
Fire guts art-rich Toronto church
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...
Church fires in Kasabonika Lake and Jasper
Community in shock over church fire in Kasabonika Lake By Clint Fleury KASABONIKA LAKE – A CHURCH FIRE on Sunday Aug. 11 has devastated th...
The Anglican Protest Song
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...
New Chair for Anglican Communion Partners (Canada)
(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...
Faithful on the basics: St. George’s, London now and in the future
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...
Provocative proposals stir debate in Canadian church
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...
Fire guts art-filled Toronto church
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...
Six for Summer
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....
New bishop of Saskatchewan
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...
Russia: World Council of Churches may drop Russian Orthodox Church as member
By Jonathan Luxmore PATRIARCH KIRILL of Moscow has been warned that his recent approval of a decree urging a “Holy War” and total takeo...
Primates’ Meeting: Anglican Primates argue over who stayed away from Rome, and why
By Hattie Williams CONSERVATIVE Anglican leaders have challenged the authority of the Primates’ Meeting in Rome April 29-May 2, arguing that...
Tribute: Bishop George Bruce 1942-2024
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...
Thirsting for God
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...
Freud’s Last Session
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...
Reshaping Mission
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...
Tribute: Alexei Navalny (1976 – 2024) Russian anti-corruption activist
(Staff) Russia’s most famous opposition leader and political prisoner died suddenly on Feb. 16 while incarcerated in the Arctic gulag. Alexei Na...
The Persecuted Church in Brunei and China
Brunei: Compulsory Islamic teaching in schools ON NOV. 1, 2023, Islamic religious teaching was officially integrated into the educational system of...
Christian converts under pressure to spy or leave Iran
By Abigail Frymann Rouch CONVERTS from Islam are being pressured to leave Iran by the Shia regime, Christian charities concerned with religious fre...
Set Free!
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...
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 IN Therefore Choose Life, by T...
More from Mere Anglicanism
By Sue CareLess AT THE annual Mere Anglicanism conference, you’re likely to hear speakers from Oxford, Cambridge and McGill quote Goethe, Nie...
Conversational evangelism that is not afraid to address rage and trauma
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...
More time-travel for young people
Down the Valley By Edith M. Humphrey Cascade Books, 2024 Reviewed by Sue Careless JAMES is feeling sorry for himself. It is a ho...
Finding friendship, fun and faith at summer camp
By Siobhan Laskey JUST OVER thirty years ago two young women, Teresa from rural New Brunswick, Jane from rural Nova Scotia, were “sent”...
Mere Anglicanism Panel
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...
Comment: Jews tend to be ready for anything – but this?
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...
Open Doors 2024 Watch List highlights Persecution of sub-Saharan Christians
By Fiona André IN ITS ANNUAL LIST detailing countries of concern when it comes to persecution of Christians, the watchdog organization Open...
Calvin Robinson stirs passions at Mere Anglicanism
By Douglas LeBlanc SPEAKING at Mere Anglicanism, a conference sponsored by a diocese that ordains women to the priesthood, priest and conservative...
Africa: Catholic bishops in Africa reject same-sex blessings
VATICAN CITY (AP) – In the greatest rebuke yet to Pope Francis, the Catholic bishops of Africa and Madagascar issued a unified statement on Jan....
The Soul’s Lenten Pilgrimage
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...
Signs of Hope
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...
Who Am I? Defining Identity and Self in an Age of Faulty Anthropology
“Speaking the Truth in Love: The Church and the Challenge of the New Morality” was the theme at this year’s Mere Anglicanism Confere...
The Holdovers
The Holdovers Director: Alexander Payne Genre: Comedy, Drama Starring: Paul Giametti, Da’Vine Joy Randolph & Dominic Sessa &...
Church of England: Same-Sex blessings advance after narrow Synod vote
Bu Francis Martin AFTER MANY HOURS of intense debate, the Church of England’s General Synod on Nov. 15 narrowly approved a proposal by its bi...
Jacob Worley’s journey continues
Jacob Worley’s journey continues By Sue Careless SOME CANADIAN Anglicans were heartened to learn that a priest that they fe...
Church of England: CEEC offers alternative spiritual oversight after same-sex vote
By Francis Martin THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND Evangelical Council (CEEC) will offer alternative spiritual episcopal ministry for clergy and congregations...
“We Three Kings” – The Carol that Preserved a Tradition
Glorious now behold him arise, King, and God, and Sacrifice, Alleluia! Alleluia! Earth to the heavens replies. By Richard White...
A Special Christmas message from the TAP team
IT WAS A JOY to bring you independent news, features and commentary over the past year. We have been serving Canadian Anglicans since 2004 – and...
Professor fired by Christian college
(Staff) A PROMINENT Canadian evangelical scholar, speaker and author has been fired by a Christian university on the east coast after a lengthy invest...
At the Eaton Centre, December 2023
By Vanilla Black A proud tree stands storey upon shopping- mall storey tall, set ablaze by red lights. Its image captured by pilgrims flockin...
On Pilgrimage with Robert Crouse
By Sue Careless ROBERT CROUSE was one of the great spiritual mentors and contemplative theologians of the twentieth century. Now a collection of...
Sermon for the First Sunday in Advent
“And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep.” (Romans 13:11) By Colin Nicolle ON SOME level,...
Serving in the high Arctic
Padre Chris VanBuskirk has been an Anglican reserve Chaplain with the Canadian Armed Forces for almost 14 years. He is the rector of St George’s...
Prioritize mental health, not MAID, say Canadians
OTTAWA, ON – MORE THAN eight in ten Canadians agree that euthanasia and assisted suicide eligibility “should not be expanded without impro...
An Appeal for Peace
There have been many statements issued concerning the Israeli-Hamas war. We think this one from the Church of England’s House of Bishops offers...
Restricting Military chaplains
By Sue Careless A NEW directive for military chaplains that came down one month before Remembrance Day could spell the end of open displays of reli...
Marc Chagall and the Bible
By Sue Careless Since my childhood, [the Bible] has filled me with a vision about the fate of the world and inspired me in my work.... I see the ev...
TAP Interview: Nicholas Nicolaidis
TAP: There are already several professional choirs in Toronto, so what niche are you hoping the Trinity Bach Project will fill? NN: Yes, there are...
Breaking down barriers to Bach
By Sue Careless A RECENT POLL of 174 living composers called J.S. Bach the “greatest composer of all time.” That would make Bach the Sh...
Angels Among Us
By Christopher Samsom ANGELS are one of the stranger elements in many Bible stories. Yet it seems important to God to tell us about these...
Tribute: Tim Keller (1950-2023)
“We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ...
Michael Peers (1934-2023) – 11th Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada
By Sue Careless ONE OF THE longest-serving leaders in the Anglican Church of Canada (ACoC) has died. Michael Geoffrey Peers, who served a...
A Dispatch from the Atlantic Theological Conference
By Amy Bird I SNEAK into the church hall at St. Peter’s Cathedral, Charlottetown. It turns out all the chairs have been set up faci...
Christ the King
By David Smith THE GOSPELS teach us that Jesus is Lord, that having risen and ascended, he rules over heaven and earth. In the Nicene Creed we say...
Interview with Bishop Joey Royal
TAP: You and your diocesan bishop, David Parsons, were the only Anglican Church of Canada bishops at GAFCON, although ANiC Bp. Dan Gifford was also in...
The Watchmaker’s Daughter: The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie ten Boom
By Larry Loftis William Morrow, an imprint of Harper Collins 2023 Reviewed by Sue Careless I MUST CONFESS that I had not heard the...
General Synod – two governance issues
By Jason G. Antonio This year’s General Synod has punted to 2025 two major governance motions that arose in 2019 — after delegates fail...
Some early observations at General Synod
By Sue Careless WHILE most Canadians were preparing to relax and enjoy the long Canada Day weekend, over two hundred Anglicans were gathered in Cal...
Gender Transition Liturgies approved
By Sue Careless At its General Synod held in Calgary, Alberta, on June 30, the Anglican Church of Canada authorized “Pastoral Liturgies for J...