PEOPLE
POPE Francis is dead. I have been asked to write a reflection on his pontificate, and I confess at the outset a deep dis-ease at the prospect. I have...
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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...
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In July 2023, Fr. Nathan Humphrey, rector of St Thomas’s in Toronto, was pleased to announce the appointment of Manuel or “Manny” Giovanni Piazza as Assistant Organist and Choirmaster. He had studied under John Tuttle, the Organist Emeritus at St Thomas’s. The single largest initiative launched in the parish in 2023 was the St. Thomas’s Choristers program. Children ages seven to 17 (in grades two to twelve) rehearse every Thursday and sing at the 9:30 a.m. Sunday...
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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 Bishop of Thetford in the Church of England from 1981 to 1992.
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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, 1942, George Bruce grew up in Cambridge, England and emigrated to Canada...
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 conference was “The Church and the Challenge...
Ephraim Radner, professor emeritus of historical theology at Wycliffe College in Toronto, is author of A Time to Keep: Theology, Mortality, and the Shape of a Human Life (Baylor, 2016). An Anglican cl...
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Nicholas Nicolaidis, the music director of the Trinity Bach Project, was interviewed by Sue Careless after the first concert of their second season.
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“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 than we ever dared hope.
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ONE OF THE longest-serving leaders in the Anglican Church of Canada (ACoC) has died. Michael Geoffrey Peers, who served as primate from 1986 to 2004, died in Toronto on July 27. He was 88.
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WHILE sadly our small publication does not have the space to recognize every faithful Canadian Anglican who dies, we would like to acknowledge the passing of Canon Brent Stiller, and offer our sincere...
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THOMAS “Tom” Fitches was the superb organist and beloved choral director. at St. Clement’s Anglican Church in North Toronto from 1973 to 2015, and – in semi-retirement –...
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Sharon Dewey Hetke recently talked with Bp. Joey Royal (Suffragan bishop in the Diocese of the Arctic) about his trip to the GAFCON Conference in Kigali, Rwanda.
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