Opinion

Seeking sanctuary — my home, their homes, our homes

May 1, 2023

In the church, we are used to thinking of sanctuary as the holiest part of our church buildings. It is where the congregation gathers to ...

Embracing the world

March 31, 2023

“…the burden belongs to the nation, and the hands of none of us are clean if we bend not our energies to righting these great ...

The cost

March 31, 2023

In flippant phrases such as “there’s no free lunch,” we acknowledge a deep truth about life: everything has a cost. We could add that the ...

A Fool’s Journey to Easter — Trickster Jesus

March 31, 2023

After wondering for some time about how the indigenous understanding of Trickster could be linked to the biblical Christian story, I was intrigued to stumble ...

The neighbours that God has given us

March 1, 2023

March is the month when the diocese asks that all parishes complete their annual Parish Information Return (PIR). The data collected in this form helps ...

The medicine of truth

March 1, 2023

It is fascinating to see how many of the therapies of our time have much in common, though their language seems to differ. For instance, ...

Anytime is a good time to be inspired

March 1, 2023

Any day, any age is a good time to be inspired. A young doctor, after completing two of five years of surgeon residency training, felt ...

Parenthood and Faith

March 1, 2023

There is an old Thomistic adage that grace does not destroy nature but rather perfects it. This means in part that God uses the ordinary ...

Recommitting ourselves for Lent

February 1, 2023

Those in our diocese taking part in the lay leadership in worship course have read Joan Chittister’s The Liturgical Year: The Spiraling Adventure of the ...

Companions on El Camino

February 1, 2023

For one enchanted evening a very long time ago, I was one of the Magi — a wise man. My black moustache and beard were ...

Halfway back to the light

February 1, 2023

A new Irish public holiday begins this year in honour of St Brigid as one of the country’s patron saints https://www.officeholidays.com/holidays/ireland/st-brigids-day. It’s the first such ...

Book review – A Word Shared Between Us

February 1, 2023

Few of us will look back at 2020 with fondness. The COVID-19 disease which had appeared in late 2019 was by March of the following ...

The most secular diocese in North America

January 2, 2023

As we begin 2023, I’d invite us all to consider the recent census that suggests we are the most secular diocese in North America. According ...

Will the new year bring anything new, or just more novelties?

January 2, 2023

The new is not the novel. The novel appears routinely — novel gadgets, novel operating systems, and even novel cultural trends. But the genuinely new ...

Christian themes in the Harry Potter book series

January 2, 2023

Having recently finished reading the seven volumes of Harry Potter (British Bloomsbury edition) for the first time at age 70, I was struck by its ...

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