Richard LeSueur, Author at Anglican Journal https://anglicanjournal.com National News from the Anglican Church of Canada Thu, 20 Apr 2023 20:53:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://anglicanjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/AJ-logo-01.svg Richard LeSueur, Author at Anglican Journal https://anglicanjournal.com 32 32 170042892 The other Easter https://anglicanjournal.com/the-other-easter/ Fri, 31 Mar 2023 13:00:27 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=172297 On the first Easter morning no one was singing Alleluia. Not for hours. The atmosphere in the room where Jesus’ disciples and others were huddled “for fear” was charged with confusion. The shout that initially rose to the lips of Jesus’ followers was not “Jesus is risen,” but that the body of Jesus was missing! […]

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]]> 172297 Preparing to meet the ‘final wave’: grief https://anglicanjournal.com/preparing-to-meet-the-final-wave-grief/ https://anglicanjournal.com/preparing-to-meet-the-final-wave-grief/#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2021 05:44:22 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=167306 Seven months after the attacks on the United States that reduced the twin towers of the World Trade Center to a smouldering mass of rubble, I flew into New York. It was the week before Holy Week of 2002.

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/preparing-to-meet-the-final-wave-grief/feed/ 2 167306 On the Plain of Waiting https://anglicanjournal.com/on-the-plain-of-waiting/ https://anglicanjournal.com/on-the-plain-of-waiting/#respond Sat, 19 Dec 2020 14:42:13 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=166334 Beneath the towering umber faces of Mount Sinai lies a broad, empty valley called the Plain of Waiting. Bounded by peaks that rise sharply out of the south Sinai, the Plain of Waiting is where tradition says the people of Israel waited and waited in a howling desolation. Dislocated from familiar things, reduced to a […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/on-the-plain-of-waiting/feed/ 0 166334 Tourist or pilgrim: it’s up to you https://anglicanjournal.com/tourist-or-pilgrim-it-s-up-to-you/ https://anglicanjournal.com/tourist-or-pilgrim-it-s-up-to-you/#comments Wed, 16 Apr 2014 18:11:00 +0000 http://localhost/anglicanjournal/index.php/article/tourist-or-pilgrim-it-s-up-to-you/ I used to live in Jerusalem. I lived there with my wife and our children in in the 1990s when I served with St. George's College as the director of their Desert Program.

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