Book Review: Repentance and Repair by Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
A group of us at All Saints, Collingwood, recently completed a study of this book and I compiled a summary of it for our parish newsletter, passed on in […]
King Charles III: Defender of Faith?
Britain’s King Charles III and Camilla, the queen consort, leave after a Service of Prayer and Reflection for the life of Queen Elizabeth II, at Llandaff Cathedral in Cardiff, […]
Food Security and God’s Community: A Homily on the Book of Ruth
Food Insecurity and God’s Community: A Sermon on The Book of Ruth Preached on the Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost, 31 October, All Saints, King City, Anglican Diocese of Toronto. Readings […]
Churches and Food Insecurity
This week I’ve been working on sermons on the Book of Ruth for this coming Sunday and the next. Perhaps because I’ve been thinking also about food insecurity, my attention […]
Notable Quotable: Living your Neighbour Means Caring About Climate Change
From Dianne Randall, a US Quaker church leader, on how living our neighbour means loving our planet, on which all our neighbours: “As I wrote in June 2020, the Quaker […]
Five Faith Facts About the Late Prince Philip
I never realized that the late Duke of Edinburgh was a convert to Anglicanism, that his mother became a nun in the Greek Orthodox Church, or that his mother’s aunt […]
Ryan Burge on Declining Church Attendance, Declining Belief, and Growing Numbers of “Nones”
Just saw this post in Religion News Service of an interview with a US sociologist of religion, Ryan Burge, on the steady growth of “Nones”, those who answer “None” when […]
Pandemic Church Closings – Saving Lives or Surrendering to Secularism?
Hello on this the Feast of the Epiphany. I’ve made some comments on several recent videos in which some prominent figures (Tom Holland in particular) offer their thoughts on the […]
Conversation with Brian Bork: Celebrity Pastors, Cultural Sorting Mechanisms, and Where Are the Eagles When We Need Them?
My friend Brian Bork is a Christian Reformed Church pastor living in Waterloo, ON, and his ministry focus is as chaplain at Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo. […]
New Findings On The Relevance Of Clergy Are Not Inspiring
A new poll suggesting the waning influence of clergy doesn’t really surprise me. Perhaps the only thing that is at all newsworthy is that the poll describes religions opinions in […]