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...

THE FEAST of Epiphany on January 6 is associated with the visit of the Magi to see the child Jesus, when God “showed forth” the Messiah to Gentiles who had come, attracted by his light. Ho...

LONG SHADOWS fell across the rifle range the morning of October 12th, 1915. The place was Schaerbeek, Belgium. The time was World War I. The German prison chaplain spoke quietly to the woman in front...

THE INCARNATION – that the Divine Word took on flesh and dwelt among us – must be one of the most distinguishing and central doctrines of the Christian Faith. The reality of the Incarnatio...

AT THE annual Mere Anglicanism conference, you’re likely to hear speakers from Oxford, Cambridge and McGill quote Goethe, Nietzsche and Rousseau. But what you come away remembering best are tale...

MANY CHRISTIANS imagine that the kingdom of God advances through stadiums full of people being addressed by a great preacher. Dr Amy Orr-Ewing, senior fellow at the Oxford Centre for Apologetics, beli...

THE NEW Testament word for hospitality philo-xenia is a wonderful concept because it means the love of the xenia, the foreigner, the outsider. It’s a far more daring concept than friendship phil...

“Speaking the Truth in Love: The Church and the Challenge of the New Morality” was the theme at this year’s Mere Anglicanism Conference held in Charleston, S.C., Jan. 18-20. One outs...

A chequered past: That’s what they call it in polite company. In our memories, four portraits last, swaying some to scorn, some to sympathy.

ROBERT CROUSE was one of the great spiritual mentors and contemplative theologians of the twentieth century.

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 events of life and works of art through the wisdom of the Bible. Since...

IT WAS Feb. 24, 1551 and John Samford, a draper of the City of Gloucester, clutched a treasure. It was a letter. The king’s seal had given his household permission to serve meat during Lent. We...

IN 1954 when Cynthia Donnelly wrote a letter to C. S. Lewis asking what role faith should play in a Christian author’s work, he replied: “…we needn’t all write patently moral...

IF WE are to tell the Christian story of redemption in a more beautiful fashion, Michael Ward believes we must, like C.S. Lewis, “become alive to beauty in every context, the beauty of bread and...