Ordinary Angels Director: Jon Gunn Starring Hilary Swank, Alan Ritchson Streaming on Netflix   Reviewed by Sue Careless THERE i...

BY Joey Roylal IN THE FOURTH century, in the region we now know as Turkey, there lived a pastor named John. Although his life was relatively short...

(Staff)  A VIOLENT extremist attack against Canada’s Jewish community is a “realistic possibility” in the next six months, the...

By James Macintyre IN A March 5 communiqué marking what it said is a “historic day for the Global Anglican Communion,” GAFCON an...

By James Macintyre THE Archbishop of Canterbury, speaking in the House of Lords on March 18 against the decriminalisation of abortions carried out...

By Sue Careless WRITER Mary Eberstadt believes that the “techno-sexual revolution” which began in the 1960s has transformed the entire...

By ALex schadenberg ALBERTA’s Minister of Justice, Mickey Amery, introduced Bill 18: the “Safeguards for Last Resort Termination of Lif...

By ALex Schadenberg ON MARCH 17, Scotland’s parliament voted 69 to 57 to reject Liam McArthur’s assisted suicide bill. This is a great...

By CARDUS FOR YEARS, we’ve heard the same story: Religion is dying in Canada, especially among young people. Churches are emptying. Faith is...

By Thomas Brauer Tom Holland, Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World (Basic Books, NY, 2019; Trade paperback, 2021). 609 pages, in...

By Sue Careless CANON Jonas Allooloo, one of four Inuit Anglicans who embarked on the project of a lifetime – translating the entire Bible in...

(Staff) On Feb. 12, after a marathon debate, the General Synod of the Church of England formally ended Living in Love and Faith (LLF), the nine-year p...

(Staff) SASKATCHEWAN’s highest court has issued a ruling that should please congregations across the country. Churches know they must give un...

POOR Pierre Poilievre, leader of the Conservative Party of Canada. On the one hand, a part of his base thinks he is too mild. That he should be more o...

  By Terence Chandra THIS PAST November – on the feast day of the Reign of Christ – I celebrated twenty years of ordained minis...

A panel discussion concluded the Mere Anglicanism conference held Jan. 22-24 in Charleston, S.C. This is an abbreviated version, edited by Sue Careles...

By K.C. Nwajei   IT IS A sobering season in Nigeria. On Feb. 4, Islamic extremists killed 177 villagers in Kwara State, mostly moderate M...

By Elizabeth King THE PSALMS flow all around us, in the Offices of Morning and Evening Prayer, in the Introits, Graduals, and preparatory prayers o...

Dr. Stephen Presley, Associate Professor at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, is the author of Cultural Sanctification: Engaging the World Like t...

By Sue Careless RT. REV. PAUL Idlout, the first Inuit bishop in the world, died on New Year's Eve at the age of 90. A teenaged Idlout, with...

The first Christmas was a night of long journeys, closed doors, and unexpected visitors smelling of woodsmoke and sheep. By Chris Ketch EVERY YE...

(Staff) THE REV. Catherine Short will be celebrating the Christmas Eucharist at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist, Corner Brook in the Diocese...

By John Paul Westin FOR MOST Christians, Christmas is a season of joy, family and celebration. Yet, for those behind prison walls, it can be the mo...

By Sue Careless THE ANGLICAN CHURCH of Canada is making progress in resolving a massive financial scandal that rocked the denomination last summer....

Julie Lane-Gay is a writer and editor. She is the author of The Riches of Your Grace: Living in the Book of Common Prayer, IVP (2024). She and her hus...

By Richard White   IT’S POSSIBLE that the notion of making positive New Year’s resolutions finds its origins in 18th-century Angli...

By Sue Careless Bill C-9, the Combatting Hate Act now under consideration by Canada’s House of Commons, is seen by many as an appropriate res...

BY Karen Stiller I ENTERED the buffet restaurant in a Cuban resort on December 25, 2023, and stumbled, almost literally, upon a circle of tourists...

By Manya Egerton The Trip to Bountiful is one of my favorite movies. It tells the story of Mrs. Watts, an elderly widow who attempts to recapture t...

Based on The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis  Adapted & Directed by Fiona Sauder Music & Lyrics by Landon...

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

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

By Sue Careless IN THE WAKE of the suspension of Archbishop Steve Wood, the Right Rev. Daniel Gifford, the Diocesan Bishop of the Anglican Diocese...

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

(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...