Commentary

St. Leonard, Rockingham — Deanery of the Northwest

Glenn J Lockwood April 22, 2024

In the late 1850s, Canada West (now Ontario) decided to push a series of colonization roads through the southern portion of the Canadian Shield to ...

Plants flourish in the hall at Ascension.

Creating fields of love and new life as followers of Jesus

The Rev. Victoria Scott April 22, 2024

The hall at the Church of the Ascension (pictured below) is a testament to my love of things green and growing. The whisper of ferns, ...

The path forward as we change, learn and thrive

Bishop Shane Parker April 22, 2024

I have written before of how the people and clergy of our diocesan church joined me in a three-year long journey of honestly assessing where ...

All Saints, Petawawa — Deanery of the Northwest

Glenn J Lockwood March 25, 2024

Petawawa is first mentioned in 1887 as a station of the Anglican Upper Ottawa Mission, based at Pembroke. A cornerstone for a church at Petawawa ...

Stock photo of person kayaking in rapids

Abide in my love

The Rev. Rob Davis March 25, 2024

Sadly, the truth of it is that it is hard enough for me to love those who love me, let alone those who do not. ...

The Edicule, covering the site of Christ’s tomb

There is always more than we can see

Bishop Shane Parker March 25, 2024

The Risen Christ first appeared to women—as attested by the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. This striking placement of women in the very ...

Church of the Epiphany, Gloucester, East Ottawa Deanery

Glenn J Lockwood January 26, 2024

A funny thing happened to the architecture of Anglican churches in the 1960s. It got religion. Or, to put it another way, people began thinking ...

Prayerfully rising to the challenge

Paul Mugarura January 26, 2024

As Bishop Shane outlined in his column on p. 2, the most recent Synod set two goals or challenges for every parish and congregation in ...

Saint John the Evangelist, Ottawa

Glenn J Lockwood December 27, 2023

Here we are in downtown Ottawa in the mid to late 1870s in the upper storey of a building on Rideau Street, looking north along ...