A sermon preached on Sunday Feb 5, 2023 at St. George's Cathedral, Cape Town,South Africa by Fr Michael Lapsley SS, Canon for Healing and Reconciliation at St Georges. In 1990 Fr. Michael was sent a letter bomb by the apartheid regime. It was hidden inside two religious magazines. He lost both hands and the sight... Continue Reading →
Ellie Johnson: An Appreciation — One year after her death in 2022
A photo of Ellie Johnson talking with Bishop Willie Pwaisiho in the Solomon Islands in May 1996 On bookstore shelves it is the biographies which interest me most. The great stories of great people both entertain and inspire me, and I don’t think I am alone. When I say “great” people I don’t mean those... Continue Reading →
Papal Visit – One Woman’s Reflection: PART TWO – The Journey Home
Now retired, Barbara White Andrews was Bishop of the Territory of the People from 2009 – 2020. She expressed her hopes and intentions about the Papal visit in an earlier post here. When I left on my pilgrimage to witness Pope Francis’ historic apology to Canadian Residential School survivors, an “act of penance” for the... Continue Reading →
Let down, again
My heart is so very heavy today, again. While I make no claim to speak for all Canadian Anglicans, I do feel let down by some of our leaders who have made poor decisions around intimate boundaries and relationships. The latest resignation from our National Indigenous Archbishop Mark MacDonald, and prior to that our own... Continue Reading →