Clarion: Journal of Spirituality and Justice

Paschal Message 2007 by Archbishop Lazar

Paschal Message of
Archbishop Lazar (Puhalo)
Abbot of the Canadian Orthodox Monastery
of All Saints of North America (OCA).

PASCHA 2007

This is foremost in the saving ekonomy in the flesh: to bring human nature into unity with itself and with the Saviour, having destroyed the evil cleavage, to renew the original unity, just as the best physician, by applying treatments, again binds together a body which has been broken in many places" (St Basil the Great, Ascetic Rules, Ch.18).

Song of Faith (United Church 2006)

We find God made known in Jesus of Nazareth,
and so we sing of God the Christ, the Holy One embodied.

We sing of Jesus,
   a Jew,
   born to a woman in poverty
   in a time of social upheaval
   and political oppression.
He knew human joy and sorrow.
So filled with the Holy Spirit was he
that in him people experienced the presence of God among them.
We sing praise to God incarnate.

Delivering a Bit of 'Joy' to the Heart by Lloyd Jersak

Martha, Higgins, Princess, Logan, King, Henry are€“ the arteries of the heart of Winnipeg'€™s inner city. On the evening of December 12, 2006 a rusty little delivery truck loaded with knitted mitts, toques, scarves and kneehighs slowly crept down Henry Avenue toward Princess Street. On either side of Henry Avenue was a tall pagewire fence protecting flat roof buildings and vehicles. Several streetlights on tall poles lit up the street and cast shadows at various angles in front of the truck.

George Grant and the Anglican Church of Canada: A 20th Century Prophet by Ron Dart

"Liberalism was, in origin, criticism of the old established order. Today, it is the voice of the establishment."     George Grant

Part I 

The inside flap on the recent book about George Grant, Athens and Jerusalem: George Grant’s Theology, Philosophy, and Politics (2006), says this: ‘George Grant (1918-1988) has been called Canada’s greatest political philosopher. To this day, his work continues to stimulate, challenge, and inspire Canadians to think more deeply about matters of social justice and individual responsibility. However, while there has been considerable discussion of Grant’s political theories, relatively little attention has been paid to their theological and philosophical underpinnings’. There is little doubt, in short, that Grant was the most important Christian public intellectual in Canada in the later half of the 20^th century, and for those who take their faith with some intellectual seriousness, much can be learned from George Grant the prophet, theologian, philosopher and engaged thinker.