There have been easier times to be the pope. I don’t mean now, with the relatively gentle divisions between conservative and reformer, but during the
I’ve been ordained for three years now, and a priest for almost one year. In that time, I’ve conducted numerous ceremonies, but never before have
I married a Canadian and moved to Toronto in 1987. I spoke to my parents in London by phone every month or so, but calls
The obscene war in Ukraine provided the opportunity for some people to write a lot of nonsense about the religiosity of modern Russia, and about
There was good news from Ottawa in February. Long pause. No, it had nothing to do with protests or convoys, hysteria and shouting. A new
When I was a child, my parents would sometimes leave me in the care of my great auntie, who was like a grandma to me.
Let us say grace, as it were. The 60s are beguiling. I don’t mean the 1960s. I was born in 1959 and couldn’t say “permissive
In late October 2021, in our very own Christ’s Church Cathedral in Hamilton, I was ordained a priest. I’d been made a deacon two years
While nobody ever thought they’d be a serious contender for government, the People’s Party of Canada made a definite impression in the recent election. They
I had a new book published recently, entitled The Rebel Christ. Provocative? I certainly hope so! Because its starting point is a question, based on a
The devil, it’s said, has all the best tunes. Not sure if that’s necessarily true, but Beelzebub certainly has an exemplary public relations department. How
In recent months, churches in Canada have been attacked, some of them destroyed. Most have been Roman Catholic, but some were Anglican. This has all
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to people considering mortality in a way they’ve seldom done before, which makes the timing of Richard Coles’ new book,
When I was a small boy, I spent a great deal of time with my grandpa. He was nothing special to most people but everything
We’ve just commemorated Black History Month, which in itself is an admission of failure. It should be unnecessary, redundant, should be part of the daily
It’s not the first time it’s happened, and I fear it won’t be the last. But the punishment of six members of Trinity Bible Chapel
My dear friend Walter died in the second week of Advent. Kind, humble, clever Walter Hooper had entered a nursing home some months earlier and
A new year, a new start, a new hope. It’s a time to look to what is to come but also, sometimes painfully, to look
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