suffering Archives - Anglican Journal https://anglicanjournal.com/tag/suffering/ National News from the Anglican Church of Canada Tue, 07 Feb 2023 22:06:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.7 https://anglicanjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/AJ-logo-01.svg suffering Archives - Anglican Journal https://anglicanjournal.com/tag/suffering/ 32 32 170042892 Americans need Canadian prayers. They also need Canadian action. https://anglicanjournal.com/americans-need-canadian-prayers-they-also-need-canadian-action/ https://anglicanjournal.com/americans-need-canadian-prayers-they-also-need-canadian-action/#comments Thu, 07 Jan 2021 15:46:29 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=166821 Three years ago, I visited the diocese of Quebec as a foreign journalist writing about the sometimes weird, sometimes wonderful world of anglophone Christians in a place where neither group is the social norm. During this time, I participated in a Lenten book study of A Canticle for Leibowitz—one of my favourite books. A group […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/americans-need-canadian-prayers-they-also-need-canadian-action/feed/ 7 166821 On the suffering of American neighbours https://anglicanjournal.com/on-the-suffering-of-american-neighbours/ https://anglicanjournal.com/on-the-suffering-of-american-neighbours/#comments Wed, 07 Oct 2020 11:47:04 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=165859 A voice cries out: “In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low; the uneven ground shall become level, and the rough places a plain. Then the glory of the Lord […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/on-the-suffering-of-american-neighbours/feed/ 7 165859 God is here, God is with us https://anglicanjournal.com/god-is-here-god-is-with-us/ https://anglicanjournal.com/god-is-here-god-is-with-us/#respond Wed, 27 May 2020 15:54:44 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=164320 As I write this, we are still in the  midst of the COVID-19 lockdown. A skiff of snow lies on the ground outside my window. Easter is behind us and ongoing uncertainty lies ahead. As you read this, our lives may already be very different. In the least, spring will be fully upon us, warming […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/god-is-here-god-is-with-us/feed/ 0 164320 Julian of Norwich: ‘A theologian for our time’ https://anglicanjournal.com/julian-of-norwich-a-theologian-for-our-time/ https://anglicanjournal.com/julian-of-norwich-a-theologian-for-our-time/#comments Thu, 07 May 2020 18:49:08 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=164095 The pandemic swept through Europe with terrifying speed, leaving in its wake a staggering death toll and severe economic dislocation.

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/julian-of-norwich-a-theologian-for-our-time/feed/ 4 164095 COVID-19’s impossible choices: What is the church’s ministry to the dying? https://anglicanjournal.com/covid-19s-impossible-choices-what-is-the-churchs-ministry-to-the-dying/ https://anglicanjournal.com/covid-19s-impossible-choices-what-is-the-churchs-ministry-to-the-dying/#comments Thu, 02 Apr 2020 19:39:02 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=163478 Thirty years ago, in seminary, we would often talk about the situations and emergencies that might overcome us in ministry. We talked of the history of cholera epidemics, of plague, war and disease. We learned the stories of heroic clergy who ministered on frontiers when disease would sweep through settlements. We questioned what the “right […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/covid-19s-impossible-choices-what-is-the-churchs-ministry-to-the-dying/feed/ 1 163478 From the Primate: ‘Where is God?’ https://anglicanjournal.com/from-the-primate-where-is-god/ https://anglicanjournal.com/from-the-primate-where-is-god/#comments Mon, 23 Mar 2020 19:56:18 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=163203 The most challenging question for any person of faith is “Where is God in the midst of suffering?” It is the question that is on the lips of many today as we look at the devastation being wrought by COVID-19. It is the question that haunted Americans after September 11, 2001. It is the question […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/from-the-primate-where-is-god/feed/ 8 163203 Where, O death, is your victory? https://anglicanjournal.com/where-o-death-is-your-victory/ https://anglicanjournal.com/where-o-death-is-your-victory/#respond Tue, 05 Nov 2019 13:00:54 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=161577 During my youth in Florida, I used a cynical but common nickname for the place: God’s waiting room.

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