“A life in Holy Orders is a life of holiness, visibility, presence, servant leadership, and commitment. And we who are called to this ministry are as human, frail, sinful and imperfect as anyone else on God’s earth. However, God calls us regardless,” said Bishop Denise Ferguson
“It’s interesting that in this little story, some of the first verbs associated with Jesus refer to him sitting among the teachers. listening to them and asking them questions,” says Archbishop Jeremy Greaves
“…for most of us, tension and ambiguity and mystery are not what we want from our religion. Advent invites us to see and speak truthfully; to struggle honestly with our troubled times,” says Archbishop Jeremy
“…It is important to walk through Advent slowly…There are so many characters and stories, so many political and social headlines and sidelines, so many details and rumours and machinations. There is so much going on that it is easy to be distracted and to miss what God is doing in the midst of it all,” says Archbishop Jeremy
“Fear has a great capacity to change the way we see the world — we imagine all sorts of things that are simply not there, and we miss all sorts of things that are there staring us right in the face!” says Archbishop Jeremy