Unexpected loves
Peter Elliott
December 1, 2023
Hallmark Christmas movies don’t have much to do with Christmas. Or do they? Have you ever watched a Hallmark Christmas movie? We began watching them
Hallmark Christmas movies don’t have much to do with Christmas. Or do they? Have you ever watched a Hallmark Christmas movie? We began watching them
The Coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla Golden horse-drawn carriages, crowns and gowns, marching troops and Anglican liturgy with resplendent music surrounded the
It’s not subtle; it’s bold and direct, a commentary on social norms like those its author and director Adam McKay developed countless times when he was head writer for Saturday Night Live.
If you found Anglican Video’s award-winning film Doctrine of Discovery: Stolen Lands, Strong Hearts to be as powerful and disturbing as I did, you’ll want
In 1974 the feminist poet Carole Etzler wrote a song with this chorus: Sometimes I wish my eyes hadn’t been opened Sometimes I wish I
Am I the only one who needs, in these pandemic times, to be reminded what day it is?
For many years Christ Church Cathedral hosted readings of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Co-sponsored by CBC radio, these enormously popular readings were held
In a review of the fourth season of Netflix’s “The Crown,” Dean Peter Elliott considers the intersection of royal fairy tales and sin. An estimated
You move through Kent Monkman’s art exhibit Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience encountering found objects from Canadian museums, large canvases in the grand manner of European and American history paintings, and three-dimensional installations that tell the story of Canada from the all but erased Indigenous perspective.
While politics has long been a blood sport, the current political climate in Canada, the U.S., Britain, Europe and beyond seems unusually volatile and unpredictable.
July 2020 will be remembered for many reasons, but for fans of musical theatre like me, it will be treasured as the time when the
Have you noticed that we’ve all been involved in a world-changing moment? Maybe not: read on. In a study on the impact of anti-contagion policies
It was the story of a community choir rehearsal in Mount Vernon, Washington, that sent shockwaves through the choral community. Sixty-one members of the choir
For a number of years in the early 2000s, Thomas Roach, then artist-in-residence at Vancouver’s Christ Church Cathedral, created an installation of veils that were
In her film about children’s TV star the Rev. Fred (“Mister”) Rogers, an ordained Presbyterian minister, gifted director Marielle Heller chooses to focus not on the children for whom Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood was made, but on a grown-up, journalist Lloyd Vogel (Matthew Rhys), a man who carries the scars of an unhappy childhood into his adult life.
Do you remember where you were on Sept. 11, 2001? Most everyone has a story to tell about where they were on that day when
IN 1968 TED Hughes, England’s poet laureate (until his death in 1998), wrote a story called The Iron Man for his children to console them
ON THE AFTERMATH of the high school tragedies in Littleton, Colo. and Taber Alta., media commentators have been searching for reasons why young people turn
IT’S THE EVENING of October 5, 1957, in Coalwood, West Virginia. A high school student, Homer Hickman (Jake Gyllenhaal), and others from the town stare
John Travolta stars as Jan Schlichtmann, a tenacious personal-injury attorney whose fierce determination entangles him in a case that threatens to destroy him, in Touchstone
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