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ACNA Priest Elected Bishop in Madagascar

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ANGLICAN MIND

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Praying in the new church year

This will be Bp Critch’s inaugural sermon as the newly

elected bishop of the Diocese of Mahajanga in St Luke’s

Cathedral in the seaport city of Mahajanga in north-

western Madagascar on December 1st. It will be interpreted from English into Malagasy.

What do you mean when you say “Gospel”?

THE ANGLICAN CHURCH of Canada is about to have a big conversation. The Primate’s Commission’s seven Hypotheses will likely dominate the work of COGS and General Synod (meeting June 23-29 in London, ON).

More Context for the Collapse of the Anglican Church of Canada

FOR TOO LONG, we have danced around the reality of the Anglican Church of Canada’s decline in finances and attendance, with Church House releasing statistics only sporadically, and various leaders offering soothing sermons on how God is doing something special — along the lines of our declining numbers being a picture of the upside-down kingdom.

Jesus is Alive! A Homily at the Closing of St. Michael’s Youth Conference

ST. MICHAEL’S Youth Conference has many traditions and practices that give shape to our six days of shared life together. These traditions and practices are built around a vital core that we hope each of us has come holding already – but which is important enough for us to revisit at any time. At the heart of St. Michael’s Youth Conference, alive and beating strong, is Jesus Christ and the gospel: that is, the good news of God’s love and forgiveness and the new life we are offered in the kingdom of heaven – all because of him.


People

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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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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

The Anglican Planet (TAP) seeks to serve the worldwide Anglican Communion as a source of
intellectual, biblical and spiritual renewal.

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.

Seven for Summer

It’s sandal weather and our West Coast reviewers, who can dip their toes in the Pacific, have some summer reads for us.