Kristen Deede Johnson, the new principal of Wycliffe College at the University of Toronto, speaks with Joey Royal, himself a former seminary principal.   

From the beginning, being a bishop was connected to a place. At a time when surnames were not yet a “thing,” we have known bishops in history as “of someplace,” unless they had...

IN RECENT YEARS, the Anglican Church of Canada has been wrestling with a series of scandals related to clergy misconduct.

On April 9, 1945, the Protestant pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer was executed at a Nazi concentration camp in Flossenburg, Germany. The prisoner’s last recorded words were: “This...

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 my age and my fellow pupils called me the dumb ox.

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 unhealthy level I do not know, but I imagine most people have it to some degr...

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

BELIEVE IT or not, there is a lot for Christians to celebrate in 2025. Can you guess what crucial event in church history occurred 1700 years ago? What important theologian was born 800 years ago? And...

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 planned to return to Australia with their two young so...

A new creation at St. George’s Grange Park

WHEN a young child was asked what a saint was, the youngster replied, “Saints are people the light shines through.” In the Apostles’ Creed we declare: “I believe in …...

OUR weekly Bible study group has embarked on a study of saints that has proven remarkably refreshing. We usually study Scripture and had just finished a close reading of the book of Jonah but thought...