The Journal editorial team could have explored the first Mark of Mission for their first issue of “Epiphanies,” knowing that they would get the new primate in on writing a short item to provide credibility for their new digital initiative, and one presumes Nicholls could have thrown some weight around to persuade them to address the spiritual needs of the people she is supposed to shepherd. Is not the salvation of souls more important than care of creation?

Nicholls has chosen to open her ministry as first bishop in the wrong place, and this does not bode well for the health of Jesus Christ’s catholic church among Anglicans in Canada. Time, already, for her to reevaluate what her legacy will be.

Here is what the Apostle Paul worked out for himself what his ministry would be among the people of Corinth: “And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.”

Anglicans who want a vibrant faith cry out, “Please, we would see Jesus.”