While Muslims everywhere know where Mecca is, many Christians are at a loss to describe Bethlehem as a city in Palestine, let alone one under siege. Many Palestinian Christians feel abandoned by their Western brethren. There is often a jarring dissociation between the place and the biblical ideal—both real and mythic, actual and imagined.
Most read articles
National News
International News
Opinion
November 2025 Issue
The pages of Scripture are rife with roots and branches. From the fruit trees in the Garden of Eden to the Tree of Life to the wood of the Cross itself, trees appear constantly.
Anglican bishops in Quebec are strongly opposing a planned law that would ban prayer in public spaces, warning it would further erode human rights while criminalizing people of faith.
The Rev. Kris Gosse, whom Bishop of Western Newfoundland John Organ appointed as dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist in Corner Brook after the bishop fired former dean Catherine Short—actions by which the provincial metropolitan found Organ violated misconduct policies—has resigned as dean.
When St. Clement’s Anglican Church in North Vancouver, B.C. got a request to use their building for filming a TV production going by the name “Megasword” in 2024, says the Rev. Helen Dunn, the church’s rector, it was the church’s first time being approached for a film rental.
