At Easter’s threshold: Standing between this world and the world to come
Precious Lord, take my hand, lead me on, let me stand, I am tired, I am weak, I am worn; Through the storm, through the
The Ven. Dr. Michael Thompson was the General Secretary of the Anglican Church of Canada from 2011 to 2020.
Precious Lord, take my hand, lead me on, let me stand, I am tired, I am weak, I am worn; Through the storm, through the
When, on Friday, at the cross, the centurion gasps, “Truly this man was God’s Son,” he is not only telling us what his heart says about Jesus.
We are standing at the river’s edge, looking at the other bank.
As we gathered in the chapel to celebrate Eucharist, our friend and colleague Barbara was preparing to smudge the altar. In attempting to light her sweetgrass braid from the altar candle, she held it too close to the flame and for a moment too long, and the flame sputtered and died.
“Friendship-I am allowing myself to be changed by you, and I trust that the change will be positive” (Sam Wells).
After a while, the thread of truth, the rhythm of life and death, thevisceral loneliness-after a while they are impossible to ignore.Standing, kneeling, the liturgy of ashes gets personal, as the sign ofour origin and our end smears the foreheads of the faithful: “Remember,you are dust, and to dust you shall return” (Genesis 3:19).
Rob Stewart’s new film, Revolution, charts a new chapter in the life of the activist filmmaker whose first film,Sharkwater, challenged the slaughter of sharks for their fins.
Photo: Blue Orange Studio Beginning with a dramatic donkey ride on Sunday, Jesus’ presence in Jerusalem provoked response. Those with power—religious, political—were profoundly worried. He
Havana Bishop Griselda Delgado del Carpio, in her first sermon as the first female diocesan bishop in Latin America, invited her community to watchfulness and
Gilbert and Sullivan’s wonderfully imagined Mikado purports “To let the punishment fit the crime, the punishment fit the crime.” In their guest opinion column in
Michael Thompson is the Rector of St. Jude’s Church, Oakville, in the diocese of Niagara. (Contributed) In the work that bears his name, Gilbert and
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