Columns

On May 13th, the 40th day after Easter, the church will celebrate the Feast of the Ascension of Christ.  In the revised common lectionary, this ...

Why is it that children are so much better behaved for everyone besides their parents? And why can they be so kind to others and ...

It is the custom in many of our churches to have a renewal of the baptismal covenant at Easter, particularly if we hold the Easter ...

When my children were small, and we had recently moved to St. John’s, our family became members of the church of St. Mary the Virgin ...

Back in 2016, on the eve of our marriage, Kate and I considered where we might take a honeymoon. We lived in Rochester, New York, ...

Living life, even on a good day, is hard. Suffering is a non-negotiable component of the human condition. Too many people spend too much of ...

At the end of February, I caught a cold. I didn’t have a cough or a fever, but I had a runny nose and felt ...

That is a question I have had come up in Bible study several times, and it is always fascinating to hear the debate around the ...

The title for this column is hardly original; it’s a phrase that has been used for a long time, often quoted from the Roman writer ...

It’s April and most of us have finished, or are in the process of completing, our annual tax returns for CRA. That includes putting together ...