Michael Thompson, Author at Anglican Journal https://anglicanjournal.com National News from the Anglican Church of Canada Sun, 05 Apr 2020 23:06:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://anglicanjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/AJ-logo-01.svg Michael Thompson, Author at Anglican Journal https://anglicanjournal.com 32 32 170042892 At Easter’s threshold: Standing between this world and the world to come https://anglicanjournal.com/at-easters-threshold/ https://anglicanjournal.com/at-easters-threshold/#respond Sun, 05 Apr 2020 22:43:46 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=163541 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 night, lead me on to the light, Take my hand, precious Lord, Lead me home.  (Composed in 1932 by Thomas Dorsey as he grieved the death of his wife and […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/at-easters-threshold/feed/ 0 163541 Easter eyes: life in the midst of spiritual crisis https://anglicanjournal.com/easter-eyes-life-in-the-midst-of-spiritual-crisis/ https://anglicanjournal.com/easter-eyes-life-in-the-midst-of-spiritual-crisis/#respond Thu, 11 Apr 2019 12:00:43 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=159093 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.

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/easter-eyes-life-in-the-midst-of-spiritual-crisis/feed/ 0 159093 ‘Live like you say you’re gonna live’ https://anglicanjournal.com/live-like-you-say-youre-gonna-live/ https://anglicanjournal.com/live-like-you-say-youre-gonna-live/#respond Mon, 04 Mar 2019 13:00:42 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=158838 We are standing at the river’s edge, looking at the other bank.

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/live-like-you-say-youre-gonna-live/feed/ 0 158838 Beeswax and sweetgrass https://anglicanjournal.com/beeswax-and-sweetgrass/ https://anglicanjournal.com/beeswax-and-sweetgrass/#respond Fri, 21 Nov 2014 20:33:00 +0000 http://localhost/anglicanjournal/index.php/article/beeswax-and-sweetgrass/ 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.

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/beeswax-and-sweetgrass/feed/ 0 112536 Unlikely friends https://anglicanjournal.com/unlikely-friends/ https://anglicanjournal.com/unlikely-friends/#respond Tue, 14 Oct 2014 15:23:00 +0000 http://localhost/anglicanjournal/index.php/article/unlikely-friends/ "Friendship-I am allowing myself to be changed by you, and I trust that the change will be positive" (Sam Wells).

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/unlikely-friends/feed/ 0 112541 Lent: Time to take heed https://anglicanjournal.com/lent-time-to-take-heed/ https://anglicanjournal.com/lent-time-to-take-heed/#respond Wed, 05 Mar 2014 22:18:00 +0000 http://localhost/anglicanjournal/index.php/article/lent-time-to-take-heed/ 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).

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/lent-time-to-take-heed/feed/ 0 112538 A film to cause change https://anglicanjournal.com/a-film-to-cause-change/ https://anglicanjournal.com/a-film-to-cause-change/#respond Wed, 31 Jul 2013 15:41:00 +0000 http://localhost/anglicanjournal/index.php/article/a-film-to-cause-change/ 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.

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/a-film-to-cause-change/feed/ 0 112532 A whisper, quiet words… https://anglicanjournal.com/a-whisper-quiet-words-10559/ https://anglicanjournal.com/a-whisper-quiet-words-10559/#respond Sun, 01 Apr 2012 04:00:00 +0000 http://localhost/anglicanjournal/index.php/article/a-whisper-quiet-words-10559/ 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 tangled publicly with lawyers about taxes and Caesar and overturned the tables of the moneychangers. They looked for a way to arrest him. But crowds surrounded him, hearing his proclamation […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/a-whisper-quiet-words-10559/feed/ 0 112534 ‘Turning weapons into farm tools’ https://anglicanjournal.com/turning-weapons-into-farm-tools-9487/ https://anglicanjournal.com/turning-weapons-into-farm-tools-9487/#respond Sat, 01 Jan 2011 05:00:00 +0000 http://localhost/anglicanjournal/index.php/article/turning-weapons-into-farm-tools-9487/ 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 hope. “Are we,” she asked, “those women and men who love the future and believe in it?” And, reflecting on the reading from Hebrew scripture for the First Sunday in […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/turning-weapons-into-farm-tools-9487/feed/ 0 112530 So-called crime and punishment https://anglicanjournal.com/so-called-crime-and-punishment-9278/ https://anglicanjournal.com/so-called-crime-and-punishment-9278/#respond Thu, 01 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0000 http://localhost/anglicanjournal/index.php/article/so-called-crime-and-punishment-9278/ 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 the Anglican Journal (May 2010, p. 5), Catherine Sider-Hamilton and Dean Mercer have already decided the punishment- “a second-tier status in the larger Anglican Communion.” It remains only to conjure […]

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