Spiritual travel
Wayne Holst
March 1, 2019
During the past decade, members and friends of our congregation have contributed to evening prayers at St. David’s Cathedral in Wales. What a special experience
During the past decade, members and friends of our congregation have contributed to evening prayers at St. David’s Cathedral in Wales. What a special experience
Almost 50 years ago, as a Lutheran synod staff person, I worked with representatives of Anglican, Presbyterian and United churches to create a viable model
“Are you an evangelical Christian?” a woman asked me recently. “It depends on what you mean by ‘evangelical,’” I replied. (Being “evangelical” has to do
The Christian festival of All Saints (November 1) seemed to slip past me almost unnoticed this year; but perhaps it’s still not too late to share my thoughts with you about saintly mentors.
How times have changed in the 25 years since former primate Michael Peers offered his apology to Canada’s Indigenous peoples on behalf of the Anglican Church of Canada.
“Nature is a fine piece of cloth. You pull a thread here and it vibrates throughout the whole fabric.” —Joseph Sittler, Gravity and Grace: Reflections and
My partner, Marlene, was thrilled to see her first trillium (Ontario’s provincial flower) while we hiked the Peck Lake Trail in Algonquin Provincial Park during late May of this year.
In 1992, my friends Keith Boeckner and Joan Polfuss-Boeckner, Lutheran graduates from what is now Wilfrid Laurier University in southern Ontario, publicly joined the parish
My first awareness of India probably came to me when, as a child, I heard and then read from the famous works of Englishman Rudyard
A few weeks ago, my partner, Marlene, and I saw a unique movie at our local cinema that I would like to tell you about.
Photo: BG Smith/Shutterstock A favourite Lenten discipline is the annual silent retreat that members and friends of my home congregation undertake at Mount St. Francis
While out walking one morning in our snowy, cold but beautiful February sunshine, we heard the enthusiastic honking of Canada geese. Soon we saw several
In previous columns, I have celebrated the special contributions to Canadian theology of Herbert O’Driscoll (Anglican, Victoria) and William Hordern (Lutheran, deceased, Saskatoon, Sask). In
Worshipful is a well-written, ecumenically informed reflection on what it means for moderns to be engaged in praising God—not just in formal services of worship,
Sometimes the best way into a sacred Good News story is through a secular narrative, and that, it seems to me, is what happens in the movie, The Man Who Invented Christmas.
“…A high birth rate (and) migration can transform the religious economy of a society…By 2050, by far the largest share of the world’s Christians will
A rush of Luther-adulation washed over me as my partner Marlene and I stood—less than a decade ago—before the refurbished doors of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany, and again as we visited a tower room at the Wartburg Castle, in the town of Eisenach, about 265 kilometres away.
(In my August column, Honouring our Christian departed and mourners alike, I wrote of conducting a committal service for a friend and teacher, Marjorie Gibson, who
I suspect that there is little difference between many of the memorial services conducted in our mainline churches today from those with no church connection
I remember meeting my first Anglican theological student friends from Trinity and Wycliffe Colleges, Toronto, during planning sessions for the annual conferences of the Canadian
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