January 2026 Issue

"With the new year before us, a new beginning, a new hope, we together pray" Photo: Microgen

Nursing the infant year on love and prayers

Snowshoing through winter forests, the author writes, taught him a lot about perseverance—and prayer. Photo: Shane Parker

Like a winter forest, God draws the truth from us

I have spent many hours on snowshoes. My first taste of snowshoeing was at age four or five in Fort Nelson, B.C. (Treaty 8 Territory). ...

Sometimes God calls us in extraordinary ways

Church history is a narrative of surprising conversions. In the earliest written strands, we have the dramatic “Damascus Road” experience of the violently zealous Saul ...
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January 2026 letters to the editor

Quebeckers may have to act to protect religious freedom

Former general secretary Pollesel remembered as faithful servant

Michele—also known as Michael—Pollesel, who served as general secretary of the Anglican Church of Canada from 2006 to 2011 and then as bishop of Uruguay, ...

‘The problem is greed’: B.C. priest reports back from COP30

A Canadian Anglican priest who attended the 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP30, found ongoing obstacles to climate action in the form of ...

Arson suspected in fire that destroyed historic Toronto church

Toronto police and Ontario’s fire marshal are treating the June 2024 fire that destroyed the historic St. Anne’s Anglican Church as suspected arson.

Canadian Anglicans push back against cuts to refugee sponsorship, foreign aid in announced federal budget

When Mimi Merrill fled to Canada in 2003 as a student and refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo, it was 17 years before she ...

Clare Burns resigns as chancellor of General Synod

Canon (lay) Clare Burns has submitted her resignation as chancellor of General Synod and will step down from the position no later than Dec. 31.
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