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A detail from a window at St. Matthew’s, Ottawa

Praying the Lord’s Prayer during Lent and beyond

Without doubt, the prayer that Christians know the best is what we call the Lord’s Prayer. It appears twice in Scripture, with slight differences, in ...
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The ironing board pulpit is still in place at St. Stephen’s

Singing ‘Forty Days and Forty Nights’

Dear friends, As I write this, I wonder how much the world may have changed by the time you read this article. We have lived ...
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Editor’s note

Due to an editing error, a version of Julia Thompson’s tribute ”Remembering Archbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu” (Feb.2022, pp. 8-9) that was not her complete and ...
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Listening for God to answer

The photograph accompanying this column was taken on March 13, 2020, a couple of days before everything changed in a heartbeat, and we took up ...
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Saint Mark, Pakenham

Saint Mark’s Church at Pakenham, it could be argued, is the chameleon of churches in the Anglican Diocese of Ottawa. From the top of the ...
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Scenes from St. Stephen’s diversity-embracing parish.

Embracing and acknowledging diversity

Following on the success of celebrations of Black History Month last year, we have set Sat. Feb. 19 at 2 p.m. as the day and ...
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The task of confronting colonialism

The Anglican Diocese of Ottawa launched into Project Anti-racism last fall. Before and since then, I reflected on colonialism and its continuing impacts in the ...
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Julia Thompson and her son Ezra met up with Archbishop Tutu again in 2018.

Remembering Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu

Anglican priest. Family man.  Anti-apartheid and human rights activist.  Nobel peace prize laureate.  An icon of South African and Christian leadership. Through it all, a ...
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Keeping one another’s spirits up on a long trek

I have written before about my snowshoe travels in the snow-laden forests of Algonquin Park—trips that lasted several days between destinations, by way of frozen creeks, ...
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