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A Preferential Option for the Migrant? Anglican Theology and Global Migration

In 2017, I was invited to deliver the keynote address to the Society for the Study of Anglicanism and reflect on Anglican theology and global migration. The Journal of Anglican Studies has recently published the result. You can read the whole article online. Here’s a snippet. I have sometimes asked my students if, in looking at the […]

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Renewing the Church: Bible, Eucharist, Prayer, and Leadership

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Every week I write a note to the community at Montreal Diocesan Theological College. This week’s is posted here:During my recent leave, I read through a new report from Renewal Works, an organization in the American Episcopal Church that works for congregational renewal and church growth. The report is based on a survey they conducted

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Halloween, All Saints, and All Souls: An Autumnal Triduum

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I write a weekly note to the community of Montreal Diocesan Theological College. This week’s is about our liturgical calendar. When used in a liturgical context, the word Triduum (from the Latin “three days”) often refers to the holiest period of the church’s year, that beginning on the evening of Maundy Thursday and ending on

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The good news of Easter in the midst of the religion of consumption

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“Easter will continue to be an important part of our marketing strategy,” the man from Cadbury’s said. I didn’t find that very reassuring.

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My 7-year-old niece has discovered the best way to resist Trump

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So my niece had another idea: “Can we make friends with some refugees?”

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5 things to read in preparation for a Christian response to a Trump presidency

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In less than three weeks, Donald Trump will be the president of the United States. As I think about how Christians are called to live in the midst of this global moment of increasing populism, authoritarianism, and nationalism, these are some of the texts I find myself returning to.

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Not Losing Heart: Praying for the Kingdom of God

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“Then Jesus told them a parable about their need to pray always and not to lose heart.” -Luke 18.1 To look around the world today, it’s very easy to lose heart. People are drowning as they cross the Mediterranean in rickety boats to Europe. A once-fine Syrian city is being bombed into rubble. An oppressive

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Hillbilly Christianity

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The presidential candidacy of one Donald J. Trump has driven members of the coastal elite looking for explanations for his success: who is voting for this guy? This summer, many members of the media thought they found an answer in a book by J.D. Vance: Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis.

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Praying for Paris—and everywhere else?

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More than other comparable events, the recent terrorist attacks in Paris have led to a critical appraisal of our response. In the midst of expressions of prayer and support, there’s been a consistent thread that has said, essentially, Why don’t we care when this happens in the rest of the world? People point to a bomb attack in

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Aylan, an icon of our times

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Many Christian traditions, including my own, have a practice of praying with icons. By contemplating an image, we are led into deeper truths and prayer. But icons aren’t just things we find in churches. They’re in the world around us. The image of Aylan, the young migrant child who drowned off the coast of Greece,

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