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“When he would go to do a parish visit, it wasn’t ‘the bishop from London’ coming, it was Bob coming. And so it was kind of a celebration. People knew him, they loved him and they looked forward to being with him,” says Bennett's close friend, Bishop Terry Dance. Photo: General Synod Archives
Sean Frankling

Beloved Bishop Robert Bennett remembered for people-first ministry

Friends and colleagues remember Bishop Robert Bennett, formerly of the diocese of Huron, as a caring, hilarious and deeply pastoral bishop who invariably put his relationships with parishioners first. Bennett died April 14 after a life touched by the love of his wife, Kathleen, their daughters Meghan and Jessica and countless Anglicans, an amazing number of whom Bennett always remembered by name, say his friends. 

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Looking for God in ‘the devils’ gospels’

If God is truly the Almighty and the basis of our existence, Christopher Gasson says, then everything anyone can say about life and the world will tell us more about God’s nature—to the point, he believes, that “we can find God in works that are savagely opposed to God.”

Parishes struggle with money woes, uncertainty

Many parishes in the Anglican Church of Canada are finding themselves torn between their own desire to survive and their obligation to support the higher structures of the church, says Ed Willms, a parishioner at All Saints Anglican Church in Huntsville, Ont.

The church and Donald Trump

Amid the rising international tensions and overwhelming flood of executive orders under the new Trump administration, it is the duty of Anglicans in Canada to speak up for the marginalized and vulnerable, says Canon Maggie Helwig, rector of St. Stephen-in-the-Fields Church in Toronto.

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