Archbishop Shane Parker, Author at Anglican Journal https://anglicanjournal.com National News from the Anglican Church of Canada Thu, 27 Aug 2026 14:46:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.7 https://anglicanjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/AJ-logo-01.svg Archbishop Shane Parker, Author at Anglican Journal https://anglicanjournal.com 32 32 170042892 Nature reveals God’s creative love https://anglicanjournal.com/nature-reveals-gods-creative-love/ Mon, 24 Aug 2026 13:00:42 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=215703 Ahead of the liturgical Season of Creation in September, Archbishop Shane Parker, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, reflects on God's work in the intricacies and interdependencies of nature—and in human lives.

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]]> 215703 Holding another’s story is transformative https://anglicanjournal.com/holding-anothers-story-is-transformative/ Thu, 28 May 2026 15:07:40 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=215344 In his June column, Archbishop Shane Parker, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, reflects on the ongoing journey of reconciliation and building of a new relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Anglicans.

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]]> 215344 Celebrate Pentecost joyfully and abundantly https://anglicanjournal.com/celebrate-pentecost-joyfully-and-abundantly/ Tue, 05 May 2026 13:00:41 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=215251 “Pentecost is a celebration of the gift of the Holy Spirit to the Church,” Archbishop Shane Parker, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, writes in his May column.

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]]> 215251 The hope we need can never be destroyed https://anglicanjournal.com/the-hope-we-need-can-never-be-destroyed/ Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:00:57 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=214997 In his Easter message, Archbishop Shane Parker, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, calls the resurrection of Jesus the most profound statement of God’s abundant, gracious love.

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]]> 214997 Pray with deep trust, then listen to the spirit https://anglicanjournal.com/pray-with-deep-trust-then-listen-to-the-spirit/ Thu, 26 Feb 2026 17:00:48 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=214841 Six years ago in March, we suddenly had to take up masking, distancing and sanitizing as weapons of choice in our early fight against the global coronavirus pandemic. The development of effective vaccines was relatively rapid, although the distribution was uneven around the world.

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]]> 214841 Pushing forward on the trail of spiritual discipline https://anglicanjournal.com/pushing-forward-on-the-trail-of-spiritual-discipline/ Tue, 27 Jan 2026 21:23:12 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=214641 I recently went to a Habitat for Humanity ReStore on Belfast Road in Ottawa to donate some items (and to check out the used tools). The store is in an industrial building which used to house the automotive machine shop I worked in for the better part of two years in the late 1970s.

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]]> 214641 Like a winter forest, God draws the truth from us https://anglicanjournal.com/like-a-winter-forest-god-draws-the-truth-from-us/ Thu, 18 Dec 2025 16:23:01 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=214444 I have spent many hours on snowshoes. My first taste of snowshoeing was at age four or five in Fort Nelson, B.C. (Treaty 8 Territory). My father was serving there as a member of the Royal Canadian Army Pay Corps and was given training suitable to the environment.

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]]> 214444 ‘God loves to be found in unexpected places’ https://anglicanjournal.com/god-loves-to-be-found-in-unexpected-places/ Mon, 24 Nov 2025 19:23:19 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=214200 Several years ago, I toured through parts of Germany that had been closed to the West when I lived there as a child of NATO in the late 1960s.

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]]> 214200 Carrying the spark of love into a colder month https://anglicanjournal.com/carrying-the-spark-of-love-into-a-colder-month/ Mon, 27 Oct 2025 14:42:10 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=214023 I am fond of November, a month when nature shifts from the richness of autumn, with its pungent smells, colourful leaves, golden days and temperate weather to a kind of stark, minimalist beauty.

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]]> 214023 God has opened a new vista for our church https://anglicanjournal.com/god-has-opened-a-new-vista-for-our-church/ Fri, 26 Sep 2025 13:00:17 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=213872 Sutherland is a sparsely populated part of northwest Scotland. As you travel there the roads get increasingly narrow and twisty, with only a single lane in many places.

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