Diana Swift, Author at Anglican Journal

Can running bring you closer to God?

Diana Swift — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 14:00:16 +0000

Over the centuries, many people have associated closeness to God with a sense of oneness, and they’ve sought that oneness in a range of ways—prayer, meditation, fasting, chanting, dance, immersion in nature and the consuming of hallucinogens, to name a few.

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Bishops attend grave search at Anglican school site

Diana Swift — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 14:05:49 +0000

Despite its pristine location in Saskatchewan’s boreal forest on the edge of the Canadian Shield, the town of La Ronge, Sask. (population: ca 5,700) has had its share of pain—experiencing, since 2015, a suicide crisis and evacuation for wildfires.

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‘Words that down the ages ring’

Diana Swift — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 14:00:31 +0000

Each year, I wait to hear the familiar words from the Gospel of St. Luke that for me are the portal into Christmas Eve.

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Forging Anglican links on the links

Diana Swift — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 17:42:35 +0000

For nearly 20 years, birdies, bogeys and bunkers have been bonding Anglican Communion clergy—in friendly but competitive pursuit of a coveted brass prize known as the Cranmer Cup. Driving fellowship on the driving range, the intercontinental golf tournament assembles 32 clerical players from the Anglican/Episcopal churches of Great Britain and Ireland, Canada and the United […]

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Interfaith gathering celebrates water

Diana Swift — Wed, 13 Jun 2018 15:47:09 +0000

The waves of Lake Ontario lapped a light andante to the prayers, chants and drumbeats of a powerful ceremony—Toronto’s second annual Niigaani-gichigami Gratitude Walk and Festival. Held June 8 just before dusk in a downtown waterfront park, the interfaith spiritual gathering attracted First Nations and non-First Nations folk alike—some in Indigenous dress, others in African […]

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Blair Dixon: Trailblazer for a diverse priesthood

Diana Swift — Wed, 09 May 2018 17:23:22 +0000

The Rev. Blair Allison Dixon never set out to become one of the first people of African descent to be ordained in the Anglican Church of Canada, nor does the 82-year-old clergyperson see his more than four decades of service as a black priest as a political act.

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The versatile talents of Dr. Florence Barton

Diana Swift — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 18:00:34 +0000

Dr. Florence Barton is living testimony to the fact that some people are simply born more broadly gifted than others—and they put those gifts to maximum use. Born in Drumheller, Alta., the B.C.-based octogenarian is a retired veterinarian, a pilot and flight instructor, and the writer of more than a dozen detective novels. She is […]

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Aviator’s anthem soars for Anglican Foundation’s 60th anniversary

Diana Swift — Thu, 07 Sep 2017 13:10:39 +0000

Nicholas Piper has two of the most disparate jobs you’re likely to find: by day, the licensed pilot instructs at a flight training school. By night, he composes liturgical music. This past May, the 33-year-old Ottawa native’s choral anthem, commissioned as a gift to the church by the Anglican Foundation of Canada to mark its […]

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Church warden from 18 to 81

Diana Swift — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 13:39:22 +0000

In the summer of 1955, Sherman Niles had recently finished high school and was working on his parents’ dairy farm on Wolfe Island, the first and largest of the St. Lawrence River’s Thousand Islands, at the eastern end of Lake Ontario.

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Nancy Mallett: Curator, keeper of history, powerhouse

Diana Swift — Mon, 10 Jul 2017 14:07:07 +0000

When I first met Nancy Mallett, ODT, curator of the museum and archives that bear her name at Toronto’s Cathedral Church of St. James, she was the organizing genius behind a major international conference and exhibition on the history of the crèche, hosted by the cathedral in November 2011. She was 82.

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