Ray Fletcher and I go back a long way, to the winter of 1983. We had both gone north to the Anglican Diocese of Yukon, Ray as a parish priest first in Atlin and later Dawson City. I arrived to join the Yukon Apostolate, an informal order of laity keen to serve the Church in... Continue Reading →
RIP Robert Willis
The former Dean of Canterbury Cathedral and founder of the “Garden Congregation” the Very Rev. Robert Willis - The following from The Church Times. THE former Dean of Canterbury the Very Revd Robert Willis died “suddenly and peacefully” in the United States on Tuesday. He was 77. In a message to Berkeley Divinity School, Yale,... Continue Reading →
The King of Instruments: A recital for the present age
Wikimedia commons The limits of patriarchal language notwithstanding, the pipe organ really is the King of Instruments. In physical size, in sound variety and capacity, in visual impact, in impressive console arrays, the English Cathedral organ (with variants all around the world) is impressive and majestic. My two earliest childhood memories were the sound of... Continue Reading →
The Arts, Indian Horse, and a Firestorm
Tuesday July 20, 2021 In today’s Morning Prayer with the garden congregation from Canterbury Cathedral Dean Robert began with a rather long list of pressing global concerns: The fatal deluge of flooding in Western Europe; the human rights abuses presently enacted on minority populations and young male adults in Burma/Myanmar; firestorms in the United States;... Continue Reading →