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 →
Let us light a candle in the darkness – Entering Advent together
As the days grow shorter in the Northern Hemisphere, and the darkness falls earlier in the interior of British Columbia, Canada’s most western province, the lovely hymn by the former Dean of Canterbury Cathedral (and the host of The Garden Congregation for almost two years) Dr. Robert Willis, the text and music of Let us... Continue Reading →
Goodbye Garden Congregation
The text below is updated from a previous version. If all good things must end, then the impending conclusion of broadcasts from the Deanery Garden of England's Canterbury Cathedral illustrates Chaucer’s dictum accurately. While faith, hope and love endure forever Anglican Dean Robert Willis’ global online worship broadcasts will originate for the last time on... Continue Reading →