Commentary

Aboriginal singers in front of the Canadian Parliament

Listening to Indigenous voices and hard truths

Leigh Anne Williams September 1, 2021

At a loss about what to write or how to address the shock, grief and shame felt across the country as news of the unmarked ...

collage of photos of a rainbow from a kayak

Paddling out of the storm

Bishop Shane Parker September 1, 2021

Last summer I took myself up to a large lake in Algonquin Park for an annual three-day silent, solo, retreat. Like all of you, I ...

Orléans, Saint Helen

Glenn J Lockwood June 1, 2021

Planners for the national capital were concerned by the 1990s that growth in the urban core was getting increasingly lopsided. Two generations earlier, in the ...

Companions on the Journey

Paul Dumbrille June 1, 2021

One of my favourite contemporary Christian songs is “Companions on the Journey” by Carey Landry. As I listen to that song my mind goes to ...

Coping with the pandemic at home and work

Jennifer Omoike June 1, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused many hardships for everyone, whether it is affecting people directly or they are empathizing with the pain a loved one ...

Letter to the editor

Perspective June 1, 2021

Dear Editor February’s Anglican Journal article, ‘Rethinking darkness and light; Leaders in the Lutheran and United churches on language and anti-Blackness’, describes the damaging impact ...

Bishop Shane praying in front of Christ Church Cathedral

As summer begins and we seek rest…

Bishop Shane Parker June 1, 2021

It is very hard to believe that one year ago, on May 31, 2020, the day of Pentecost, I was consecrated to be your bishop. ...

A Prayer Adapted from one by Theresa of Avila

Paul Dumbrille May 1, 2021

We have no hands but our hands, to do your work today. We have no feet but our feet, to lead others in your way. ...

Archive photo of the interior of Trinity Anglican Church, Ottawa

Ottawa, Trinity

Glenn J Lockwood May 1, 2021

Trinity Church, Ottawa South, had humble beginnings in 1876, with its first worship services held in a local temperance hall. By the end of the ...