hope Archives - Anglican Journal https://anglicanjournal.com/tag/hope/ National News from the Anglican Church of Canada Sat, 20 Nov 2021 15:34:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://anglicanjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/AJ-logo-01.svg hope Archives - Anglican Journal https://anglicanjournal.com/tag/hope/ 32 32 170042892 The illusion of control—and the reality of hope https://anglicanjournal.com/the-illusion-of-control-and-the-reality-of-hope/ https://anglicanjournal.com/the-illusion-of-control-and-the-reality-of-hope/#respond Mon, 01 Nov 2021 13:01:53 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=169319 One of the great illusions when life is stable is that we are in control. The pandemic has shattered that illusion; a tiny virus broke through all our expectations. Plans were disrupted; families separated; and many of the ways in which we manage our lives were no longer effective. We discovered our vulnerability, and that we need each other for survival and are not in control.

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/the-illusion-of-control-and-the-reality-of-hope/feed/ 0 169319 ‘Be still and know that I am God’: Hope in the year ahead, no matter what https://anglicanjournal.com/be-still-and-know-that-i-am-god-hope-in-the-year-ahead-no-matter-what/ https://anglicanjournal.com/be-still-and-know-that-i-am-god-hope-in-the-year-ahead-no-matter-what/#comments Fri, 01 Jan 2021 05:00:06 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=166593 I ask God to give me the words he wants me to speak for him.

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/be-still-and-know-that-i-am-god-hope-in-the-year-ahead-no-matter-what/feed/ 1 166593 Something new waits to be born https://anglicanjournal.com/something-new-waits-to-be-born/ https://anglicanjournal.com/something-new-waits-to-be-born/#comments Tue, 08 Sep 2020 14:02:04 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=165580 Going back is never what you thought it would be! Do you remember returning to your hometown and discovering a new building on the corner? Or that the old ice cream store is gone? Or that your favourite park has been redeveloped? The memory of home and familiarity of places and people are disrupted by […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/something-new-waits-to-be-born/feed/ 2 165580 Shall we postpone Easter? (Spoiler warning: No.) https://anglicanjournal.com/shall-we-postpone-easter-spoiler-warning-no/ https://anglicanjournal.com/shall-we-postpone-easter-spoiler-warning-no/#comments Mon, 06 Apr 2020 11:12:10 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=163559 Holy Week has always been an important touchstone for my faith and ministry. It is the week at the very centre of our faith story that shows the depth of God’s love for us, the human paths of rejection of that love and the extraordinary gift of God in Jesus Christ. Every year my faith […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/shall-we-postpone-easter-spoiler-warning-no/feed/ 3 163559 From the Primate: Lamentation as a gift https://anglicanjournal.com/from-the-primate-lamentation-as-a-gift/ https://anglicanjournal.com/from-the-primate-lamentation-as-a-gift/#respond Mon, 30 Mar 2020 18:59:24 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=163403 At a recent meeting those present acknowledged that nothing will ever be the same again, even after the urgency of COVID-19 has passed. In that moment we acknowledged aloud that the changes being experienced are deep, profound and in some cases irreversible. With such changes come losses for which we were not prepared, and such […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/from-the-primate-lamentation-as-a-gift/feed/ 0 163403 Finding beauty—and God’s grace—in self-isolation https://anglicanjournal.com/finding-beauty-and-gods-grace-in-self-isolation/ https://anglicanjournal.com/finding-beauty-and-gods-grace-in-self-isolation/#comments Thu, 19 Mar 2020 13:54:24 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=163112 Almost three years ago now, my partner and I left our home in Rochester, New York, and set off on a somewhat bizarre tour of the western hemisphere. I started alone in Cuba, as a journalist on a short educational cruise; about a month after, we boarded a flight to Montevideo, Uruguay. Our travels continued […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/finding-beauty-and-gods-grace-in-self-isolation/feed/ 1 163112 COVID-19 and us https://anglicanjournal.com/covid-19-and-us/ https://anglicanjournal.com/covid-19-and-us/#comments Tue, 17 Mar 2020 20:37:43 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=163104 We are facing an unprecedented pandemic in the COVID-19 crisis. Although we have seen serious illnesses emerge in the past 20 years, we have not seen the emergence of a global pandemic of this proportion in the lifetime of most people today. We, who are used to the gifts of medical science being able to […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/covid-19-and-us/feed/ 2 163104 ‘Shoring up the pillars of hope’: A conversation with Hugh Segal https://anglicanjournal.com/shoring-up-the-pillars-of-hope-a-conversation-with-hugh-segal/ https://anglicanjournal.com/shoring-up-the-pillars-of-hope-a-conversation-with-hugh-segal/#comments Thu, 31 Jan 2019 13:00:10 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=158614 Hugh Segal is not an Anglican—but you might get that impression, based on his appearances at a series of high-profile church events in recent years.

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