Back in September, The Meeting House, one of the largest churches in Canada, announced that it was closing down. “It is with sadness that we
Earlier this year playing cricket in, of all things, an Anglican cricket tournament, I pulled my right hamstring. Never happened before—wasn’t even aware I had
Earlier this year yet another street-preaching Christian was confronted by the police, this time in England on London’s Uxbridge High Street, not exactly renowned as
Late February was not kind. Within the space of 24 hours two of my friends died, both with a suddenness that chilled me. One was
I was first aware of my Jewish heritage when I was seven- years-old. I was at the home of a new friend I’d met in
I serve a community in Burlington that is considered a comfortable and attractive place to live, and for the most part that’s certainly true. St.
I may be a Christian priest but I have three Jewish grandparents,so, to an anti-Semite I’m a Jew. Even worse, I’m an infiltrator, trying to
A new and major British survey in which 1,200 priests were asked a set of questions about faith and the church has concluded that the
I’ve been ordained less than four years but have conducted almost fifty funerals. When I tell people that they look at me in disbelief. No
This year is the 60th anniversary of the death of C. S. Lewis, author of the Narnia stories, Miracles, Till We have Faces, Surprised by
I wasn’t raised in the church, and knew little about Christ or Christianity outside of what were then school assemblies with traditional hymns, and films
Amira Elghawaby, the Canadian government’s new Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia, hasn’t been welcomed by everybody. That’s a great shame, because she’s a moderate, intelligent,
It was, according to the roaring headline on journalist Melanie McDonagh’s column in The Times of London, “an assault on Christianity.” Good Lord, could it
There’s a marvelous story explaining the definition of chutzpah, the wonderful Yiddish word that loosely means impudence of gall. A woman gets on a crowded
I spent three weeks in the UK at the end of last year, and during my stay something of a statistical explosion occurred—if such a
I haven’t been back to Britain for more than three years. The pandemic and a minor surgical procedure were the impassable and impossible barriers, and
Along with many of my fellow clergy, and members of our congregations, I work on the front lines of poverty, suffering, and deprivation. It’s always
The time has come and gone, and we’ve moved on. Most, that is. Not those who knew her as a beloved family member, and not
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