Jeffrey Metcalfe, Author at Anglican Journal https://anglicanjournal.com National News from the Anglican Church of Canada Mon, 12 May 2025 14:10:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://anglicanjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/AJ-logo-01.svg Jeffrey Metcalfe, Author at Anglican Journal https://anglicanjournal.com 32 32 170042892 Buying silence is a social sin the church cannot afford https://anglicanjournal.com/buying-silence-is-a-social-sin-the-church-cannot-afford/ Mon, 12 May 2025 14:10:32 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=213006 If the cruelty of silence took a shape, it would be the scold’s bridle.

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]]> 213006 Living as footnotes to the story https://anglicanjournal.com/living-as-footnotes-to-the-story/ https://anglicanjournal.com/living-as-footnotes-to-the-story/#comments Wed, 22 Jan 2020 17:26:33 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=162396 “To live in the church in North America is to assume that our critique of the church is the most important, that our problems are the most significant problems in the universal church.”

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/living-as-footnotes-to-the-story/feed/ 1 162396 Seeing the fungus through the trees https://anglicanjournal.com/seeing-the-fungus-through-the-trees/ https://anglicanjournal.com/seeing-the-fungus-through-the-trees/#comments Thu, 16 Aug 2018 19:33:14 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=156843 I’ve always disliked church structures, an antipathy I credit to that potentially most monstrous of church creatures: the committee.

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/ask-more/feed/ 1 155217 Not wholly innocent https://anglicanjournal.com/not-wholly-innocent/ https://anglicanjournal.com/not-wholly-innocent/#comments Thu, 11 Jan 2018 14:27:23 +0000 http://anglicanjournal.com/?p=153578 Today is the day. The last feast has been prepared and the last family party has been attended.

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/not-wholly-innocent/feed/ 7 153578 Poking the wound https://anglicanjournal.com/poking-the-wound/ https://anglicanjournal.com/poking-the-wound/#comments Wed, 22 Nov 2017 14:30:52 +0000 http://anglicanjournal.com/?p=152932 It has taken me a long time to write this column. Too long.

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/poking-the-wound/feed/ 1 152932 Biting the bullet https://anglicanjournal.com/biting-the-bullet/ https://anglicanjournal.com/biting-the-bullet/#respond Tue, 29 Aug 2017 14:04:45 +0000 http://anglicanjournal.com/?p=150820 It was time to bite the bullet.

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/biting-the-bullet/feed/ 0 150820 Becoming a donkey church https://anglicanjournal.com/becoming-a-donkey-church/ https://anglicanjournal.com/becoming-a-donkey-church/#comments Tue, 20 Jun 2017 17:32:00 +0000 http://2017.anglicanjournal.com/articles/becoming-a-donkey-church/ I will be the first to admit that I have never really been a fan of large, herbaceous quadrupeds.

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/becoming-a-donkey-church/feed/ 1 127146 Entertained by angels https://anglicanjournal.com/entertained-by-angels/ https://anglicanjournal.com/entertained-by-angels/#respond Thu, 11 May 2017 15:03:00 +0000 http://2017.anglicanjournal.com/articles/entertained-by-angels/ Several weeks into my first tree-planting season, the company I had been working for finished its spring contract early, closing our camp and laying off my crew for a few weeks until the summer contract began.

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/entertained-by-angels/feed/ 0 127145 They will change our values https://anglicanjournal.com/they-will-change-our-values/ https://anglicanjournal.com/they-will-change-our-values/#respond Wed, 22 Mar 2017 14:57:00 +0000 http://localhost/anglicanjournal/index.php/article/they-will-change-our-values/ It is a phrase I hear far too often these days, as our world continues to grapple with the effects of human migration.

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