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...

The Holdovers Director: Alexander Payne Genre: Comedy, Drama Starring: Paul Giametti, Da’Vine Joy Randolph & Dominic Sessa &...

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   By Sue Careless SOME CANADIAN Anglicans were heartened to learn that a priest that they fe...

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

Glorious now behold him arise, King, and God, and Sacrifice, Alleluia! Alleluia! Earth to the heavens replies.   By Richard White...

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...

(Staff) A PROMINENT Canadian evangelical scholar, speaker and author has been fired by a Christian university on the east coast after a lengthy invest...

By Vanilla Black A proud tree stands storey upon shopping- mall storey tall, set ablaze by red lights. Its image captured by pilgrims flockin...

By Sue Careless ROBERT CROUSE was one of the great spiritual mentors and contemplative theologians of the twentieth century. Now a collection of...

“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,...

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...

OTTAWA, ON – MORE THAN eight in ten Canadians agree that euthanasia and assisted suicide eligibility “should not be expanded without impro...

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...

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...

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: There are already several professional choirs in Toronto, so what niche are you hoping the Trinity Bach Project will fill? NN: Yes, there are...

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...

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...

“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...

By Sue Careless   ONE OF THE longest-serving leaders in the Anglican Church of Canada (ACoC) has died. Michael Geoffrey Peers, who served a...

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...

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...

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...

By Larry Loftis William Morrow, an imprint of Harper Collins 2023   Reviewed by Sue Careless I MUST CONFESS that I had not heard the...