Sue Careless is senior editor of The Anglican Planet and author of the series Discovering the Book of Common Prayer: A Hands-On Approach. She is based in Toronto.
The Trinity Bach Project is a baroque vocal and instrumental ensemble dedicated to offering “ordinary audiences the extraordinary musical and spiritual riches of Bach’s choral repertoire.”
The “MRI at 60” conference was dedicated to retired Bishop Terry Brown, the Canadian Church Historical Society president who died just days before the event he had organized.
Robert Darwin Crouse (1930-2011) was a contemplative, teacher, gardener, mystic, preacher, musician, and theologian who lived most of his life in the small community of Crousetown, Nova Scotia.
At the annual Mere Anglicanism conference, you’re likely to hear speakers from Oxford, Cambridge, and McGill quote Goethe, Nietzsche, and Rousseau. But what you come away remembering best are tales of some of the ordinary folk who influenced these scholars’ lives.
Art historian Jean Leymarie has described these drawings by Chagall as “monumental” and “full of divine inspiration. … Each picture becomes one with the event, informing the text with a solemn intimacy unknown since Rembrandt.”
The Anglican Church of Canada’s General Synod celebrated Anglican-Lutheran unity in North America, heard a final synod address by Archbishop Linda Nicholls, and debated a statement it issued about relations between Israel and Palestine.
Conservative diocesan bishops will be able to block the use of the liturgies within their dioceses — similar to the original Episcopal Church approach to same-sex marriage rites.
Only three days after he was elected as the next Bishop of Ontario, Bishop William Cliff of the Diocese of Brandon has been inhibited in both the Ecclesiastical Province of Ontario and in his home Province of Rupert’s Land.
