April 2025

April 2025 Issue

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Looking for God in ‘the devils’ gospels’


Written by
Matthew Puddister


Prayer and new life in the time of the Goose Moon

FEATHER: Almighty, we the children of your creation lift up to you our hearts, voices and needs. Hear us as we walk these uncertain days, …

Written by
Archbishop Chris Harper


Where is God amid the evil of our time?

“But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles.” (Isaiah 40.31) Where is God now? Where is …

Written by
Archbishop Anne Germond
We are constantly being prompted to awareness of what Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor calls “cosmic connection,” the author writes. Image: Arvitalya Art


A ‘coffin Anglican’ on finding connection in a secular age

Nudged toward oneness Imagine yourself in my position. Seven years ago I, a lifetime non-believer, surrendered to a student’s invitation and joined her at her …

Written by
Graham N. Forst
Hazel Pritchett Harris, former rector’s warden at St. Michael and All Angels in St. John’s, Nfld., addresses parishioners at the church’s 2023 disestablishment service. Photo: Emily Rowe


Parishes struggle with money woes, uncertainty

Many parishes in the Anglican Church of Canada are finding themselves torn between their own desire to survive and their obligation to support the higher …

Written by
Sean Frankling


Arctic diocese forms development corporation to offer housing, community spaces on church land

Moving forward with a plan nearly 40 years in the making, the diocese of the Arctic has announced the formation of a body tasked with …

Written by
Matthew Puddister
Bishop Mariann Budde of The Episcopal Church’s diocese of Washington meets U.S. President Donald Trump after her sermon at Washington National Cathedral Jan. 21 Photo: Reuters/Kevin Lamarque


The church and Donald Trump

Amid the rising international tensions and overwhelming flood of executive orders under the new Trump administration, it is the duty of Anglicans in Canada to …

Written by
Sean Frankling


Primatial nominees to be announced in April

The list of nominees to become the next primate of the Anglican Church of Canada will be announced April 3, General Secretary Archdeacon Alan Perry …

Written by
Matthew Puddister

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