Is it:
a) entirely appropriate;
b) more than a little patronizing;
or c) a bit of both
that first female Archbishop of Canterbury will be enthroned on Feast of Annunciation? ⚓️
www.anglicannews.org/news/2025/10...
a) entirely appropriate;
b) more than a little patronizing;
or c) a bit of both
that first female Archbishop of Canterbury will be enthroned on Feast of Annunciation? ⚓️
www.anglicannews.org/news/2025/10...
Installation of the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury | Anglican Communion News Service
Anglican Communion News Service
www.anglicannews.org
October 28, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Is it:
a) entirely appropriate;
b) more than a little patronizing;
or c) a bit of both
that first female Archbishop of Canterbury will be enthroned on Feast of Annunciation? ⚓️
www.anglicannews.org/news/2025/10...
a) entirely appropriate;
b) more than a little patronizing;
or c) a bit of both
that first female Archbishop of Canterbury will be enthroned on Feast of Annunciation? ⚓️
www.anglicannews.org/news/2025/10...
I can still:
*name the starting line-up of the 1992 & 1993 Blue Jays
*remember where I was when Joe Carter caught the final out in 1992 and hit the walk-off homer in 1993
I have been waiting 32 years for tonight.
*name the starting line-up of the 1992 & 1993 Blue Jays
*remember where I was when Joe Carter caught the final out in 1992 and hit the walk-off homer in 1993
I have been waiting 32 years for tonight.
October 25, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I can still:
*name the starting line-up of the 1992 & 1993 Blue Jays
*remember where I was when Joe Carter caught the final out in 1992 and hit the walk-off homer in 1993
I have been waiting 32 years for tonight.
*name the starting line-up of the 1992 & 1993 Blue Jays
*remember where I was when Joe Carter caught the final out in 1992 and hit the walk-off homer in 1993
I have been waiting 32 years for tonight.
in my part of church world, overriding concern is cost of insurance—and it's problem we all face in world of climate change, as ample but mostly ignored news reporting is making clear
so I tried to think from the place of Christian faith about how to respond ⚓️
open.substack.com/pub/riskingc...
so I tried to think from the place of Christian faith about how to respond ⚓️
open.substack.com/pub/riskingc...
The wicked problem of insurance
Managing risk in an individualistic world
open.substack.com
October 23, 2025 at 2:47 PM
in my part of church world, overriding concern is cost of insurance—and it's problem we all face in world of climate change, as ample but mostly ignored news reporting is making clear
so I tried to think from the place of Christian faith about how to respond ⚓️
open.substack.com/pub/riskingc...
so I tried to think from the place of Christian faith about how to respond ⚓️
open.substack.com/pub/riskingc...
Reposted
Profile: Who is Sarah Mullally, the next Archbishop of Canterbury?
MadsDavies takes a deep-dive into the next Primate of All England’s background
Read the full in-depth profile at churchtimes.co.uk
#sarahmullally #nextABC #Archbishop106
MadsDavies takes a deep-dive into the next Primate of All England’s background
Read the full in-depth profile at churchtimes.co.uk
#sarahmullally #nextABC #Archbishop106
Profile: Who is Sarah Mullally, the next Archbishop of Canterbury?
Madeleine Davies looks into the next Primate of All England’s background
www.churchtimes.co.uk
October 3, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Profile: Who is Sarah Mullally, the next Archbishop of Canterbury?
MadsDavies takes a deep-dive into the next Primate of All England’s background
Read the full in-depth profile at churchtimes.co.uk
#sarahmullally #nextABC #Archbishop106
MadsDavies takes a deep-dive into the next Primate of All England’s background
Read the full in-depth profile at churchtimes.co.uk
#sarahmullally #nextABC #Archbishop106
I usually resist hot-takery like the plague but couldn't resist offering these 5 thoughts on the new Archbishop of Canterbury, Sarah Mullally
riskingchurch.substack.com/p/a-new-arch... ⚓️
riskingchurch.substack.com/p/a-new-arch... ⚓️
A new Archbishop
Hot-takery on the new appointment to the see of Canterbury
riskingchurch.substack.com
October 3, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I usually resist hot-takery like the plague but couldn't resist offering these 5 thoughts on the new Archbishop of Canterbury, Sarah Mullally
riskingchurch.substack.com/p/a-new-arch... ⚓️
riskingchurch.substack.com/p/a-new-arch... ⚓️
Hear hear, I say
"Reviving postal banking may not be flashy project that seems to excite Carney. But shouldn’t protecting Canadian workers from ravages of gig economy & using national network to provide banking services...also qualify as form of nation-building?"
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
"Reviving postal banking may not be flashy project that seems to excite Carney. But shouldn’t protecting Canadian workers from ravages of gig economy & using national network to provide banking services...also qualify as form of nation-building?"
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Linda McQuaig: Postal banking once made Canada Post profitable — and could again
Providing banking services to rural and low-income Canadians through post offices would be a Canada-first form of nation-building for the people.
www.thestar.com
September 30, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Hear hear, I say
"Reviving postal banking may not be flashy project that seems to excite Carney. But shouldn’t protecting Canadian workers from ravages of gig economy & using national network to provide banking services...also qualify as form of nation-building?"
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
"Reviving postal banking may not be flashy project that seems to excite Carney. But shouldn’t protecting Canadian workers from ravages of gig economy & using national network to provide banking services...also qualify as form of nation-building?"
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
"And war broke out in heaven; Michael and his angels fought against the dragon..." (Rev. 12:7)
The start of my favourite season of the church year, from now until Advent as the readings just get more and more apocalyptic—perfect companion to the shortening days ⚓
The start of my favourite season of the church year, from now until Advent as the readings just get more and more apocalyptic—perfect companion to the shortening days ⚓
September 29, 2025 at 5:53 PM
"And war broke out in heaven; Michael and his angels fought against the dragon..." (Rev. 12:7)
The start of my favourite season of the church year, from now until Advent as the readings just get more and more apocalyptic—perfect companion to the shortening days ⚓
The start of my favourite season of the church year, from now until Advent as the readings just get more and more apocalyptic—perfect companion to the shortening days ⚓
Canada marks Truth & Reconciliation Day this week. I'll be talking reconciliation & pilgrimage with author, teacher, and pastor Matthew Anderson.
Join us for this online conversation about importance of settlers "unsettling" ourselves.
Details in this link: montrealdio.ca/courses/matt... ⚓
Join us for this online conversation about importance of settlers "unsettling" ourselves.
Details in this link: montrealdio.ca/courses/matt... ⚓
Meet the Author: Matthew Anderson, The Good Walk
Matthew Anderson joins Principal Jesse Zink to discuss The Good Walk and how pilgrimage can guide us toward reconciliation.
montrealdio.ca
September 29, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Canada marks Truth & Reconciliation Day this week. I'll be talking reconciliation & pilgrimage with author, teacher, and pastor Matthew Anderson.
Join us for this online conversation about importance of settlers "unsettling" ourselves.
Details in this link: montrealdio.ca/courses/matt... ⚓
Join us for this online conversation about importance of settlers "unsettling" ourselves.
Details in this link: montrealdio.ca/courses/matt... ⚓
a reflection for the commemoration of Lancelot Andrewes
"The life of the classroom and the life of ministry are not alien to one another; instead, each enriches the other. Our study is helping us become more fully who God has called us to be."
montrealdio.ca/lancelot-and... ⚓️
"The life of the classroom and the life of ministry are not alien to one another; instead, each enriches the other. Our study is helping us become more fully who God has called us to be."
montrealdio.ca/lancelot-and... ⚓️
Lancelot Andrewes and the integration of scholarship and prayer
Dear friends, As the weather turns and the school year shifts into a new gear, I find myself thinking about the integration between the life of study and scholarship, so much in evidence at the colleg...
montrealdio.ca
September 26, 2025 at 3:32 PM
a reflection for the commemoration of Lancelot Andrewes
"The life of the classroom and the life of ministry are not alien to one another; instead, each enriches the other. Our study is helping us become more fully who God has called us to be."
montrealdio.ca/lancelot-and... ⚓️
"The life of the classroom and the life of ministry are not alien to one another; instead, each enriches the other. Our study is helping us become more fully who God has called us to be."
montrealdio.ca/lancelot-and... ⚓️
the @churchtimes.bsky.social asked me to offer a few thoughts on the challenges awaiting the next Archbishop of Canterbury from a global perspective—this is what I came up with ⚓
www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...
www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...
Whole world is in the next Archbishop’s hands
What might global Anglicans expect from a new Primate of All England, Jesse Zink asks
www.churchtimes.co.uk
September 22, 2025 at 1:05 PM
the @churchtimes.bsky.social asked me to offer a few thoughts on the challenges awaiting the next Archbishop of Canterbury from a global perspective—this is what I came up with ⚓
www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...
www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...
sang yesterday in church Fosdick's, "God of grace and god of glory" and was struck anew by this line
"Save us from weak resignation to the evils we deplore"
"Save us from weak resignation to the evils we deplore"
September 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
sang yesterday in church Fosdick's, "God of grace and god of glory" and was struck anew by this line
"Save us from weak resignation to the evils we deplore"
"Save us from weak resignation to the evils we deplore"
a little in the midst of the sea of Internet content in last few days has been reviews of Dan Brown's new book, "The Secret of Secrets"
some great writers turning all their literary skill to wondering how it is that this can be so popular
here's one: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
some great writers turning all their literary skill to wondering how it is that this can be so popular
here's one: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown review – weapons-grade nonsense from beginning to end
Code-breaking hero Robert Langdon is back for another conspiracy thriller, featuring underground laboratories and new thoughts on the nature of consciousness
www.theguardian.com
September 10, 2025 at 12:44 PM
a little in the midst of the sea of Internet content in last few days has been reviews of Dan Brown's new book, "The Secret of Secrets"
some great writers turning all their literary skill to wondering how it is that this can be so popular
here's one: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
some great writers turning all their literary skill to wondering how it is that this can be so popular
here's one: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
first day back from holiday: 63 e-mails sent thus far
August 25, 2025 at 8:08 PM
first day back from holiday: 63 e-mails sent thus far
contrast between Church of England response to assisted suicide and #Anglican Church of Canada's is striking
CofE vocal in its opposition—bishops & synod—& is actively supporting alternative approach
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
also this: episcopalnewsservice.org/2025/07/16/c... ⚓️
CofE vocal in its opposition—bishops & synod—& is actively supporting alternative approach
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
also this: episcopalnewsservice.org/2025/07/16/c... ⚓️
Church must ‘turn back’ public opinion on assisted dying, says archbishop
Stephen Cottrell tells General Synod assisted dying means assuming ‘authority over death that belongs to God alone’
www.theguardian.com
July 17, 2025 at 7:43 PM
contrast between Church of England response to assisted suicide and #Anglican Church of Canada's is striking
CofE vocal in its opposition—bishops & synod—& is actively supporting alternative approach
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
also this: episcopalnewsservice.org/2025/07/16/c... ⚓️
CofE vocal in its opposition—bishops & synod—& is actively supporting alternative approach
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
also this: episcopalnewsservice.org/2025/07/16/c... ⚓️
Integrated great feedback to produce version 2.0 of free discussion guide for "Faithful, Creative, Hopeful: 15 Theses for Christians in Crisis-Shaped World"
Here's a free resource to help your group get into the talking about Christian witness in a polycrisis world. Online at www.jessezink.com ⚓
Here's a free resource to help your group get into the talking about Christian witness in a polycrisis world. Online at www.jessezink.com ⚓
July 11, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Integrated great feedback to produce version 2.0 of free discussion guide for "Faithful, Creative, Hopeful: 15 Theses for Christians in Crisis-Shaped World"
Here's a free resource to help your group get into the talking about Christian witness in a polycrisis world. Online at www.jessezink.com ⚓
Here's a free resource to help your group get into the talking about Christian witness in a polycrisis world. Online at www.jessezink.com ⚓
I don't get to preach every Sunday but this year I've been invited to preach in March when the Prodigal Son was the lectionary text and now this Sunday when the Good Samaritan is the gospel text.
I feel like I've won the homiletical lottery—and am grateful to those who share their pulpit with me
I feel like I've won the homiletical lottery—and am grateful to those who share their pulpit with me
July 10, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I don't get to preach every Sunday but this year I've been invited to preach in March when the Prodigal Son was the lectionary text and now this Sunday when the Good Samaritan is the gospel text.
I feel like I've won the homiletical lottery—and am grateful to those who share their pulpit with me
I feel like I've won the homiletical lottery—and am grateful to those who share their pulpit with me
6 members of Congress vote to gut any semblance of climate action one week
Then next week write to Canadian ambassador to complain about wildfire smoke
You can't have it both ways
www.cbc.ca/news/world/c...
Then next week write to Canadian ambassador to complain about wildfire smoke
You can't have it both ways
www.cbc.ca/news/world/c...
Canadian wildfire smoke ruining Americans' summer, says letter from Congress members | CBC News
Canadian wildfire smoke is travelling south and making it difficult for some Americans to enjoy their summer, says a letter from six members of Congress to Canada's ambassador in Washington.
www.cbc.ca
July 10, 2025 at 1:20 PM
6 members of Congress vote to gut any semblance of climate action one week
Then next week write to Canadian ambassador to complain about wildfire smoke
You can't have it both ways
www.cbc.ca/news/world/c...
Then next week write to Canadian ambassador to complain about wildfire smoke
You can't have it both ways
www.cbc.ca/news/world/c...
Brief remarks made by Shane Parker, bishop of Ottawa & primate-elect of #Anglican Church of Canada, are worth listening to
I found the theme of insulation to be helpful, pointed, and generative of further theological reflection—will be thinking some more about this
www.youtube.com/live/TF_B1Q2... ⚓️
I found the theme of insulation to be helpful, pointed, and generative of further theological reflection—will be thinking some more about this
www.youtube.com/live/TF_B1Q2... ⚓️
Election of the 15th Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, General Synod 2025
YouTube video by The Anglican Church of Canada
www.youtube.com
June 27, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Brief remarks made by Shane Parker, bishop of Ottawa & primate-elect of #Anglican Church of Canada, are worth listening to
I found the theme of insulation to be helpful, pointed, and generative of further theological reflection—will be thinking some more about this
www.youtube.com/live/TF_B1Q2... ⚓️
I found the theme of insulation to be helpful, pointed, and generative of further theological reflection—will be thinking some more about this
www.youtube.com/live/TF_B1Q2... ⚓️
#Anglican Church of Canada this week is considering a motion to spend down some of its remaining historic assets on... restructuring governance.
I say no, but it does raise question: if church is to spend down its assets, what should it spend them on?
riskingchurch.substack.com/p/to-spend-2... ⚓️
I say no, but it does raise question: if church is to spend down its assets, what should it spend them on?
riskingchurch.substack.com/p/to-spend-2... ⚓️
To spend $2-million or not to spend $2-million...
...that is the question
riskingchurch.substack.com
June 23, 2025 at 2:06 PM
#Anglican Church of Canada this week is considering a motion to spend down some of its remaining historic assets on... restructuring governance.
I say no, but it does raise question: if church is to spend down its assets, what should it spend them on?
riskingchurch.substack.com/p/to-spend-2... ⚓️
I say no, but it does raise question: if church is to spend down its assets, what should it spend them on?
riskingchurch.substack.com/p/to-spend-2... ⚓️
The post you didn't know you needed: a dive into reports issued in advance of General Synod of #Anglican Church of Canada: statistician's report no one will talk about, next steps on the Anglican Journal, and an intriguing ecumenical report on ecclesial apologies ⚓️
substack.com/home/post/p-...
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Looking to General Synod 2025
Highlights and silences from pre-filed reports
substack.com
June 20, 2025 at 7:43 PM
The post you didn't know you needed: a dive into reports issued in advance of General Synod of #Anglican Church of Canada: statistician's report no one will talk about, next steps on the Anglican Journal, and an intriguing ecumenical report on ecclesial apologies ⚓️
substack.com/home/post/p-...
substack.com/home/post/p-...
The Bay—self-proclaimed "iconic" department store—goes out with whimper this week, laying off thousands, ending long-term disability & pension payments to those in need & much else
but private equity owners got rich(er) off their ownership before it collapsed
www.thestar.com/business/hud...
but private equity owners got rich(er) off their ownership before it collapsed
www.thestar.com/business/hud...
Hudson’s Bay to close all its stores and terminate 8,000 employees by June 1
Hudson’s Bay said that it will have terminated about 8,347 employees by June 1, when it completes the liquidation of more than 80 stores across Canada.
www.thestar.com
May 27, 2025 at 4:14 PM
The Bay—self-proclaimed "iconic" department store—goes out with whimper this week, laying off thousands, ending long-term disability & pension payments to those in need & much else
but private equity owners got rich(er) off their ownership before it collapsed
www.thestar.com/business/hud...
but private equity owners got rich(er) off their ownership before it collapsed
www.thestar.com/business/hud...
lots of talk about how "no one" reads Anglican Journal, newspaper of the #Anglican Church of Canada
but my experience of last 24 hours is that you write one letter to the editor & number of people who then call or write you is pretty remarkable
(three cheers for beleaguered church press!)
⚓
but my experience of last 24 hours is that you write one letter to the editor & number of people who then call or write you is pretty remarkable
(three cheers for beleaguered church press!)
⚓
May 27, 2025 at 2:49 PM
lots of talk about how "no one" reads Anglican Journal, newspaper of the #Anglican Church of Canada
but my experience of last 24 hours is that you write one letter to the editor & number of people who then call or write you is pretty remarkable
(three cheers for beleaguered church press!)
⚓
but my experience of last 24 hours is that you write one letter to the editor & number of people who then call or write you is pretty remarkable
(three cheers for beleaguered church press!)
⚓
My hope—and it is a slender one right now—is that Mark Carney might be a bit more open about his Catholic faith and how it influences the Canadian economy he is trying to build—he's got the background for this and a potential ally in Leo XIV open.substack.com/pub/riskingc...
The faith of Mark Carney
A voice for value(s) at a fraught global moment?
open.substack.com
May 26, 2025 at 11:24 PM
My hope—and it is a slender one right now—is that Mark Carney might be a bit more open about his Catholic faith and how it influences the Canadian economy he is trying to build—he's got the background for this and a potential ally in Leo XIV open.substack.com/pub/riskingc...
A couple of great lines here:
"In a cruel, nonsensical context, one response to the nonsense is to perform quixotically."
"My title is associate professor of Christian ethics. My specialty could be described as a sustained performance of nonsense."
www.christiancentury.org/features/cal...
"In a cruel, nonsensical context, one response to the nonsense is to perform quixotically."
"My title is associate professor of Christian ethics. My specialty could be described as a sustained performance of nonsense."
www.christiancentury.org/features/cal...
A call to solidarity at Duke
At graduation, we faculty members looked at one another across the aisle, wondering which of us would be, in the university president’s words, “pruned and...
www.christiancentury.org
May 26, 2025 at 3:49 PM
A couple of great lines here:
"In a cruel, nonsensical context, one response to the nonsense is to perform quixotically."
"My title is associate professor of Christian ethics. My specialty could be described as a sustained performance of nonsense."
www.christiancentury.org/features/cal...
"In a cruel, nonsensical context, one response to the nonsense is to perform quixotically."
"My title is associate professor of Christian ethics. My specialty could be described as a sustained performance of nonsense."
www.christiancentury.org/features/cal...
for various reasons, I've been back into Tolkien recently in a big way—I've read him many times but this time am reading (& positively inhaling) "The Battle for Middle Earth" by @frutledge.bsky.social—a captivating revealing of Tolkien's hopeful apocalyptic vision; speaks very much to this moment
May 21, 2025 at 2:47 PM
for various reasons, I've been back into Tolkien recently in a big way—I've read him many times but this time am reading (& positively inhaling) "The Battle for Middle Earth" by @frutledge.bsky.social—a captivating revealing of Tolkien's hopeful apocalyptic vision; speaks very much to this moment