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Bishop Samuel RoseDecember 2021

A Gift For God This Christmas

As we know, Christmas is traditionally the time of gift-giving and gift-receiving. This tradition of giving and receiving comes from the story of the Wise ...
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The Rev'd Canon Jeffrey PettenColumns

What Are You Waiting For?

Besides this, you know what time it is, how it is now the moment for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to ...
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Archdeacon Gerald WestcottColumns

Advent and Tomorrow’s Church

With ongoing church decline, coupled with the behavioural changes consequent to almost two years of living with COVID-19 restrictions, the church is hopefully discerning those ...
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Emily RoweColumns

From the Editor

I want to wish you a very blessed Advent, and a Merry Christmas. It’s been another year full of ups and downs, and we are ...
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The Very Rev’d Catherine Short (left) and her friend and fellow priest, the Rev’d Tanya White, with the rafts and “one paddle each” that they had on their journey down the Humber River this past September.
The Very Rev'd Catherine ShortDecember 2021

Lessons Learned on The Humber River

We often speak of the difference between ‘religion’ and ‘spirituality.’ As an individual ordained to serve the Lord and the Church, it is impossible to ...
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Bishop John OrganDecember 2021

Christmas—Both Spiritual and Cultural

Christmas is a word that has cultural as well as spiritual meaning. Store shelves are beginning to fill with toys and other items marketed around ...
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Ronald ClarkeMelanie Clarke

Faith

When I was growing up in Chance Cove, Trinity Bay, I decided I wanted to become a doctor. At the age of ten, I broke ...
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The Rev’d Michael LiColumns

In The Beginning God

The simple statement: “In the beginning God” (Genesis 1:1a) suggests at least three negative statements. First, it denies atheism. Atheism is the view that God does ...
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The Rev'd Jonathan RoweColumns

Generation to Generation

Over the years, I have watched a lot of grandparents take their grandchildren to church with them. Often, they do so apologetically, saying, “If I ...
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Kevin SmithColumns

22 Points For Consideration

How did it get so late so soon? It’s night before it’s afternoon. December is here before it’s June. My goodness, how the time has ...
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