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The Trip to Bountiful is one of my favorite movies. It tells the story of Mrs. Watts, an elderly widow who attempts to recapture the happiness she kne...
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IN THE 250th anniversary of her birth, Jane Austen’s reputation has never been higher. But what would surprise many devotees is the depth of Aus...
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From the beginning, being a bishop was connected to a place. At a time when surnames were not yet a “thing,” we have known bishops in history as “of someplace,” unless they had some specific gift which marked them out, like St. John “Chrysostom” (the golden-tongued). So it is we know of Irenaeus of Lyon, or Ignatius of Antioch or Augustine of Hippo. In fact, the location of a bishop in geography is often used as a shorthand to explain their place in the develo...
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IN RECENT YEARS, the Anglican Church of Canada has been wrestling with a series of scandals related to clergy misconduct.
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On April 9, 1945, the Protestant pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer was executed at a Nazi concentration camp in Flossenburg, Germany. The prisoner’s last recorded words were: “This...
I was born of a noble Italian family in 1225. I was sent at age five to a monastery to be educated by the Benedictines. I was always large for my age and my fellow pupils called me the dumb ox.
FOR AS LONG as I can remember I have had a fairly vivid fear of catastrophic death. Whether this fear sits at a healthy or unhealthy level I do not know, but I imagine most people have it to some degr...
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I was born on Dec. 16, 1775, in the Hampshire village of Steventon, where my father was the Anglican parish priest.
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BELIEVE IT or not, there is a lot for Christians to celebrate in 2025. Can you guess what crucial event in church history occurred 1700 years ago? What important theologian was born 800 years ago? And...
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WHEN a young child was asked what a saint was, the youngster replied, “Saints are people the light shines through.” In the Apostles’ Creed we declare: “I believe in …...
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OUR weekly Bible study group has embarked on a study of saints that has proven remarkably refreshing. We usually study Scripture and had just finished a close reading of the book of Jonah but thought...
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THE FEAST of Epiphany on January 6 is associated with the visit of the Magi to see the child Jesus, when God “showed forth” the Messiah to Gentiles who had come, attracted by his light. Ho...
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LONG SHADOWS fell across the rifle range the morning of October 12th, 1915. The place was Schaerbeek, Belgium. The time was World War I. The German prison chaplain spoke quietly to the woman in front...
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THE INCARNATION – that the Divine Word took on flesh and dwelt among us – must be one of the most distinguishing and central doctrines of the Christian Faith. The reality of the Incarnatio...
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