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Posted Date : 2024-06-30 01:10:00

Fire guts art-filled Toronto church

By Sue Careless A SUNDAY MORNING FIRE has destroyed one of the most beautiful churches in Canada. The four-alarm blaze early on June 9 gutted St...

Posted Date : 2024-02-04 19:20:00

Open Doors 2024 Watch List highlights Persecution of sub-Saharan Christians

By Fiona André IN ITS ANNUAL LIST detailing countries of concern when it comes to persecution of Christians, the watchdog organization Open...

Posted Date : 2024-02-04 19:15:00

Calvin Robinson stirs passions at Mere Anglicanism

By Douglas LeBlanc SPEAKING at Mere Anglicanism, a conference sponsored by a diocese that ordains women to the priesthood, priest and conservative...

Posted Date : 2024-02-04 19:10:00

Africa: Catholic bishops in Africa reject same-sex blessings

VATICAN CITY (AP) – In the greatest rebuke yet to Pope Francis, the Catholic bishops of Africa and Madagascar issued a unified statement on Jan....

Posted Date : 2024-02-04 19:00:00

The Soul’s Lenten Pilgrimage

Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. –Matthew 4:1 By Robert D. Crouse IN THE...

Posted Date : 2024-02-03 22:30:00

Signs of Hope

A YOUNG FRIEND of mine has a troubled, addicted roommate who is asking to go to church with her. Another young man I know, who is spiritually grounded...

Posted Date : 2024-02-03 21:55:00

Comment: Jews tend to be ready for anything – but this?

BY RON CSILLAG THERE’S THE OLD SAW about the famous Jewish violinist who was asked why he chose the violin over, say, the piano. “If yo...

Posted Date : 2024-02-03 21:25:00

Who Am I? Defining Identity and Self in an Age of Faulty Anthropology

“Speaking the Truth in Love: The Church and the Challenge of the New Morality” was the theme at this year’s Mere Anglicanism Confere...

Posted Date : 2023-12-30 12:40:00

The Holdovers

The Holdovers Director: Alexander Payne Genre: Comedy, Drama Starring: Paul Giametti, Da’Vine Joy Randolph & Dominic Sessa &...

Posted Date : 2023-12-23 13:15:00

Church of England: Same-Sex blessings advance after narrow Synod vote

Bu Francis Martin AFTER MANY HOURS of intense debate, the Church of England’s General Synod on Nov. 15 narrowly approved a proposal by its bi...

Posted Date : 2023-12-23 13:10:00

Jacob Worley’s journey continues

Jacob Worley’s journey continues By Sue Careless SOME CANADIAN Anglicans were heartened to learn that a priest that they fe...

Posted Date : 2023-12-23 13:10:00

Church of England: CEEC offers alternative spiritual oversight after same-sex vote

By Francis Martin THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND Evangelical Council (CEEC) will offer alternative spiritual episcopal ministry for clergy and congregations...

Posted Date : 2023-12-23 13:00:00

“We Three Kings” – The Carol that Preserved a Tradition

Glorious now behold him arise, King, and God, and Sacrifice, Alleluia! Alleluia! Earth to the heavens replies. By Richard White...

Posted Date : 2023-12-23 12:55:00

A Special Christmas message from the TAP team

IT WAS A JOY to bring you independent news, features and commentary over the past year. We have been serving Canadian Anglicans since 2004 – and...

Posted Date : 2023-12-23 12:55:00

Professor fired by Christian college

(Staff) A PROMINENT Canadian evangelical scholar, speaker and author has been fired by a Christian university on the east coast after a lengthy invest...

Posted Date : 2023-12-23 12:40:00

At the Eaton Centre, December 2023

By Vanilla Black A proud tree stands storey upon shopping- mall storey tall, set ablaze by red lights. Its image captured by pilgrims flockin...

Posted Date : 2023-11-21 23:10:00

On Pilgrimage with Robert Crouse

By Sue Careless ROBERT CROUSE was one of the great spiritual mentors and contemplative theologians of the twentieth century. Now a collection of...

Posted Date : 2023-11-21 23:10:00

Sermon for the First Sunday in Advent

“And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep.” (Romans 13:11) By Colin Nicolle ON SOME level,...

Posted Date : 2023-11-21 23:05:00

Serving in the high Arctic

Padre Chris VanBuskirk has been an Anglican reserve Chaplain with the Canadian Armed Forces for almost 14 years. He is the rector of St George’s...

Posted Date : 2023-11-21 23:00:00

Prioritize mental health, not MAID, say Canadians

OTTAWA, ON – MORE THAN eight in ten Canadians agree that euthanasia and assisted suicide eligibility “should not be expanded without impro...

Posted Date : 2023-11-21 22:50:00

An Appeal for Peace

There have been many statements issued concerning the Israeli-Hamas war. We think this one from the Church of England’s House of Bishops offers...

Posted Date : 2023-11-21 22:45:00

Restricting Military chaplains

By Sue Careless A NEW directive for military chaplains that came down one month before Remembrance Day could spell the end of open displays of reli...

Posted Date : 2023-11-21 22:35:00

Marc Chagall and the Bible

By Sue Careless Since my childhood, [the Bible] has filled me with a vision about the fate of the world and inspired me in my work.... I see the ev...

Posted Date : 2023-11-21 22:00:00

TAP Interview: Nicholas Nicolaidis

TAP: There are already several professional choirs in Toronto, so what niche are you hoping the Trinity Bach Project will fill? NN: Yes, there are...

Posted Date : 2023-11-21 22:00:00

Breaking down barriers to Bach

By Sue Careless A RECENT POLL of 174 living composers called J.S. Bach the “greatest composer of all time.” That would make Bach the Sh...

Posted Date : 2023-09-25 23:45:00

Angels Among Us

By Christopher Samsom ANGELS are one of the stranger elements in many Bible stories. Yet it seems important to God to tell us about these...

Posted Date : 2023-09-25 23:40:00

Tribute: Tim Keller (1950-2023)

“We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ...

Posted Date : 2023-09-25 23:30:00

Michael Peers (1934-2023) – 11th Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada

By Sue Careless ONE OF THE longest-serving leaders in the Anglican Church of Canada (ACoC) has died. Michael Geoffrey Peers, who served a...

Posted Date : 2023-09-25 23:25:00

A Dispatch from the Atlantic Theological Conference

By Amy Bird I SNEAK into the church hall at St. Peter’s Cathedral, Charlottetown. It turns out all the chairs have been set up faci...

Posted Date : 2023-07-29 21:30:00

Christ the King

By David Smith THE GOSPELS teach us that Jesus is Lord, that having risen and ascended, he rules over heaven and earth. In the Nicene Creed we say...

Posted Date : 2023-07-29 21:05:00

Interview with Bishop Joey Royal

TAP: You and your diocesan bishop, David Parsons, were the only Anglican Church of Canada bishops at GAFCON, although ANiC Bp. Dan Gifford was also in...

Posted Date : 2023-07-29 19:10:00

The Watchmaker’s Daughter: The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie ten Boom

By Larry Loftis William Morrow, an imprint of Harper Collins 2023 Reviewed by Sue Careless I MUST CONFESS that I had not heard the...

Posted Date : 2023-07-20 00:00:00

General Synod – two governance issues

By Jason G. Antonio This year’s General Synod has punted to 2025 two major governance motions that arose in 2019 — after delegates fail...

Posted Date : 2023-07-20 00:00:00

Some early observations at General Synod

By Sue Careless WHILE most Canadians were preparing to relax and enjoy the long Canada Day weekend, over two hundred Anglicans were gathered in Cal...

Posted Date : 2023-07-20 00:00:00

Gender Transition Liturgies approved

By Sue Careless At its General Synod held in Calgary, Alberta, on June 30, the Anglican Church of Canada authorized “Pastoral Liturgies for J...

Posted Date : 2024-02-04 19:20:00

Open Doors 2024 Watch List highlights Persecution...

By Fiona André IN ITS ANNUAL LIST detailing countries of concern when...

Posted Date : 2024-02-04 19:15:00

Calvin Robinson stirs passions at Mere Anglicanism

By Douglas LeBlanc SPEAKING at Mere Anglicanism, a conference sponsored by a diocese that ordains...

Posted Date : 2024-06-30 01:10:00

Fire guts art-filled Toronto church

By Sue Careless A SUNDAY MORNING FIRE has destroyed one of the most beautiful churches in Canada....

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a source of intellectual, biblical and spiritual renewal.

THE DIOCESE OF BRANDON has a new bishop-elect. On Nov. 25th the Ven. Rachael Parker was chosen on the second ballot by 21 clergy and 28 laity. She succeeds Bp Willliam Cliff who served the diocese for seven years from 2016–2023 and who is now Bishop of Ontario

Posted Date : 2024-02-03 22:10:00

Ottawa to delay expansion of MAID for mental illness

(Staff) HEALTH Minister Mark Holland says Canada is not ready to expand eligibility for assisted death to people whose only medical condition is a mental illness.

He said the Liberal government agrees with the conclusion of a joint parliamentary committee report, released on Jan. 29, that more time is needed before such an expansion can happen. The report concluded that fundamental issues around the expansion have not yet been resolved.

Posted Date : 2024-02-03 22:00:00

Gospel Hospitality in a Fractured World

THE NEW Testament word for hospitality philo-xenia is a wonderful concept because it means the love of the xenia, the foreigner, the outsider. It’s a far more daring concept than friendship philia, which is the love of your own kind, your kindred. Philo-xenia is the fruit and mirror of the gospel, where God welcomes us, the outsider, the foreigner

Posted Date : 2024-02-03 21:50:00

Death is part of life, but euthanasia should not be

Ephraim Radner, professor emeritus of historical theology at Wycliffe College in Toronto, is author of A Time to Keep: Theology, Mortality, and the Shape of a Human Life (Baylor, 2016). An Anglican cleric, he has served as a missionary in Burundi and Haiti, and taught and pastored in the United States. He spoke with Faith Today’s Bill Fledderus about death and birth, and why he views it as essential for Christians to oppose medically assisted dying.

Posted Date : 2024-02-03 21:20:00

ANGLICAN MIND

The Anglican Planet (TAP) seeks to serve the worldwide Anglican Communion as
a source of intellectual, biblical and spiritual renewal.

Posted Date : 2024-02-04 19:00:00

The Soul’s Lenten Pilgrimage

IN THE GOSPEL LESSON for this first Sunday in Lent, we have Saint Matthew’s account of the temptations of Jesus. This lesson is clearly intended to establish in our minds the meaning and the message of the Lenten season, and we should examine it with careful attention. And perhaps before we do that, it would be useful to think for a moment about the background and context of the story.

Posted Date : 2024-02-03 22:30:00

Signs of Hope

According to Jonathan Haidt’s and Greg Lukianoff’s book The Coddling of the American Mind, the spike in anxiety and depression is also related to “Great Untruths” that have spread across our culture, but are especially powerful among current college students born 1995 or later – Generation Z and Generation Alpha. These “Untruths” relate to Fragility, Emotional Reasoning and an Us vs. Them understanding of the world. Haidt and Lukianoff may be on to something.

Posted Date : 2023-12-23 13:05:00

God Has Spoken

HAVE YOU EVER been envious of the shepherds that first Christmas night – when they had all those angels speaking to them, telling them about God – or felt how wonderful it would have been to be Mary and have God speak directly to you about his plans for your life?

Posted Date : 2023-12-23 13:00:00

“We Three Kings” – The Carol that Preserved a Tradition

IN THE FALL of 1857 New York City was still reeling from the failure of the New York City branch of the Ohio Life Insurance Co. Other banks crashed and over 5,000 businesses went under. Meanwhile, a still rather new Episcopal college was training its students for the priesthood in the Anglo-Catholic tradition. It was struggling. But a young musician at the college, with an artistic flare, was about to unveil one of the best-loved Christmas carols – a carol that would surely lift the spirits of many.

REVIEWS

The Anglican Planet (TAP) seeks to serve the worldwide Anglican Communion as a source of
intellectual, biblical and spiritual renewal.

Posted Date : 2023-12-30 12:40:00

The Holdovers

CHRISTMAS FILMS often come all sugar-coated and candy-cane sweet. But not The Holdovers. Think, instead, bleak midwinter and bittersweet. Instead of Home Alone it is rather a school-alone movie as a woeful handful of students at a boys’ private prep school in New England are left behind as their classmates and faculty cheerfully depart for the Christmas holidays. Only one teacher, a grumpy Classics instructor (Paul Giametti) is left behind to supervise them

Posted Date : 2023-12-23 13:00:00

New Books for the New Year

Posted Date : 2023-09-25 18:30:00

On Foot to Canterbury: A Son’s Pilgrimage

I MUST ADMIT from the onset that I am “totally hard-wired” for this book. Ken Haigh’s On Foot to Canterbury: A Son’s Pilgrimage covers so many areas of personal interest – hiking, English history, Anglican history, nature – that it’s hard for me not to become absorbed with his journey

Posted Date : 2023-08-14 21:20:00

Winter Reads

Curl up with a mug of cider or hot chocolate and enjoy some of these new titles, which our West Coast reviewers recommend.

Posted Date : 2023-07-31 18:15:00

Little Prayers for Ordinary Days

FOR their spiritual formation children need Bible story books but they also need prayer books suited to their young age. There are certainly some classics out there and a new one has just joined their ranks

Posted Date : 2023-07-29 19:10:00

The Watchmaker’s Daughter: The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie ten Boom

I MUST CONFESS that I had not heard the term “historical espionage thriller” before, but now that I have read The Watchmaker’s Daughter, it applies perfectly. Larry Loftis’ book is a page-turner – you can’t put it down but it is also historically accurate. This is not historical fiction but the true story of a remarkable Christian woman, Corrie ten Boom.

Posted Date : 2023-06-01 00:00:00

Seven for Summer

It’s sandal weather and our West Coast reviewers, who can dip their toes in the Pacific, have some summer reads for us.

Fire guts art-filled Toronto church

Open Doors 2024 Watch List highlights Persecution of sub-Saharan Christians

Calvin Robinson stirs passions at Mere Anglicanism

Africa: Catholic bishops in Africa reject same-sex blessings

The Soul’s Lenten Pilgrimage

Signs of Hope

Comment: Jews tend to be ready for anything – but this?

Who Am I? Defining Identity and Self in an Age of Faulty Anthropology

The Holdovers

Church of England: Same-Sex blessings advance after narrow Synod vote

Jacob Worley’s journey continues

Church of England: CEEC offers alternative spiritual oversight after same-sex vote

“We Three Kings” – The Carol that Preserved a Tradition

A Special Christmas message from the TAP team

Professor fired by Christian college

At the Eaton Centre, December 2023

On Pilgrimage with Robert Crouse

Sermon for the First Sunday in Advent

Serving in the high Arctic

Prioritize mental health, not MAID, say Canadians

An Appeal for Peace

Restricting Military chaplains

Marc Chagall and the Bible

TAP Interview: Nicholas Nicolaidis

Breaking down barriers to Bach

Angels Among Us

Tribute: Tim Keller (1950-2023)

Michael Peers (1934-2023) – 11th Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada

A Dispatch from the Atlantic Theological Conference

Christ the King

Interview with Bishop Joey Royal

The Watchmaker’s Daughter: The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie ten Boom

General Synod – two governance issues

Some early observations at General Synod

Gender Transition Liturgies approved

Open Doors 2024 Watch List highlights Persecution...

Calvin Robinson stirs passions at Mere Anglicanism

Fire guts art-filled Toronto church

Not yet a TAP subscriber? Read these stories for free!

New Brandon bishop-elect

Ottawa to delay expansion of MAID for mental illness

Gospel Hospitality in a Fractured World

Death is part of life, but euthanasia should not be

ANGLICAN MIND

The Soul’s Lenten Pilgrimage

Signs of Hope

God Has Spoken

“We Three Kings” – The Carol that Preserved a Tradition

People

Death is part of life, but euthanasia should not be

TAP Interview: Nicholas Nicolaidis

Tribute: Tim Keller (1950-2023)

Michael Peers (1934-2023) – 11th Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada

Harry Antonides

Tribute: Brent Stiller 1963-2023

Thomas Fitches 1945 – 2023

Interview with Bishop Joey Royal

REVIEWS

The Holdovers

New Books for the New Year

On Foot to Canterbury: A Son’s Pilgrimage

Winter Reads

Little Prayers for Ordinary Days

The Watchmaker’s Daughter: The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie ten Boom

Seven for Summer

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