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


