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Paying attention to the layers all around us
There are always many layers in nature, seen and unseen. Every human situation has many layers, physically and politically—and certainly emotionally and spiritually. Most of
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There are always many layers in nature, seen and unseen. Every human situation has many layers, physically and politically—and certainly emotionally and spiritually. Most of
I know only a few words of Arabic, the language spoken by our partners in the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem. One beautiful, frequently used phrase
In early January I went to the Habitat for Humanity ReStore in Ottawa East to donate a number of items left over from a renovation
There are 800 hectares of forest in the Gatineau Hills that are very familiar to me. I lived on the edge of this forest for
In December, when our minds stretch to imagine the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, be mindful of the many cultural layers that have been placed
I am fond of November, a month when nature shifts from the richness of autumn, with its pungent smells, colourful leaves, golden days, and temperate
After the Lambeth Conference ended in early August, I travelled up to Edinburgh for a vacation in the County of Sutherland in northwest Scotland. The
I write this column from Canterbury, England, as the 15th Lambeth Conference ends. The Conference drew together more than 600 bishops representing dioceses and Christian
In 1996, the Right Reverend Paul Idlout became the first Inuk bishop in the world. Paul, with his father Joseph and four other traditional Inuit hunters, were famously
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