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PRAYER FOR PEACE
A message from Bishop Todd
The Right Rev'd Todd Townshend
Challenges and joys of General Synod
By Bishop Todd Townshend From June 27 to July 2 the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada met in Calgary,...
The Right Rev'd Todd Townshend
“Singing the Lord’s Song in a Strange Land”
Bishop's Charge to Synod, May 2023 – Future Direction
The Right Rev'd Todd Townshend
Discussing the present shape and future direction of our church
183rd Synod of the Diocese of Huron
The Right Rev'd Todd Townshend
'Singing the Lord's song in a strange land'
By Bishop Todd Townshend In the celebrations of Holy Week and Easter, God reveals the deep love that is continually...
The Right Rev'd Todd Townshend
Renewing of life in the wonderful mystery of God
By Bishop Todd Townshend The season of Lent is often taken as an opportunity to grow more deeply into a life of...
The Right Rev'd Todd Townshend
Acedia, or Living through a remaking of the Church
By Bishop Todd Townshend Despite the promise of a new year, many of us are already feeling exhausted. It’s nothing...
The Right Rev'd Todd Townshend
A season of promises, beginnings, and newness
By Bishop Todd Townshend After the season of Advent with its poetic focus on God’s future and God’s merciful...
The Right Rev'd Todd Townshend
Steadfast in faith, joyful in hope, untiring in love
By Bishop Todd Townshend “Be steadfast in faith, joyful in hope, and untiring in love all the days of your life . ....
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Taking responsibility for the truth
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
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Putting it into practice: “The Lambeth Calls”
By Bishop Todd Townshend Following on the Lambeth Conference this summer, I am encouraged by many of the outcomes....
The Right Rev'd Todd Townshend
‘We meet’: Lambeth Conference impressions
By Bishop Todd Townshend From July 25 to August 8 of this year, I was honoured to attend the Lambeth Conference in...
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Together on the Road with Christ - Bishop's Charge, Synod 2022
By Bishop Todd Townshend Peter saw a vision: “I was praying . . . and there was something like a large sheet coming...
The Right Rev'd Todd Townshend
Seeking a faithful equilibrium
Huron Synod wrapped up its 182nd session on Monday, May 16
The Right Rev'd Todd Townshend
Together on the road with Christ
By Bishop Todd Townshend This year, the beginning of April sees the end of the season of Lent and the beginning of...
The Right Rev'd Todd Townshend
There will be a future, and we are being summoned into it
I do not worry about communities in our diocese where the planning is being done one way or the other. The danger...
The Right Rev'd Todd Townshend
A good time for a clear-eyed, God-given kind of hope
By Bishop Todd Townshend Many organizations, including Anglican churches, spend part of January planning for the...
The Right Rev'd Todd Townshend
Together, we will find a newness in our future
By Bishop Todd Townshend In the first week of November, the clergy of our diocese gathered in Stratford for the...
The Right Rev'd Todd Townshend
Delta worries? Think: Alpha and Omega
By Bishop Todd Townshend By now, the COVID-19 pandemic has frayed the last nerves of most of the population. If it...
The Right Rev'd Todd Townshend
Letting the light in: Stories of Indigenous spirituality
By Bishop Todd Townshend Like everyone else, I am constantly learning as I walk with God as a disciple of Jesus. A...
The Right Rev'd Todd Townshend
Pastoral Letter: Response to the London terror attack
June 8, 2021 Dear people of God in the Diocese of Huron, After fifteen months of loss due to a new virus...
The Right Rev'd Todd Townshend
If we are surprised by the discovery of these precious children of God, we have not been listening well
June 6, 2021 Dear friends, It has been just over a week since the discovery of the bodies of 215 Indigenous...
The Right Rev'd Todd Townshend
Come, Holy Spirit, Come!
Synod 2021 Service Sermon, May 16, 2021
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Newness, possibility, hope – despite all of the evidence
By Bishop Todd Townshend On Good Friday, a public intellectual and scientist in the UK tweeted a short comment...
The Right Rev'd Todd Townshend
Gathered around Christ’s table and within God’s reign
By Bishop Todd Townshend One year ago, when the phrase “novel coronavirus” was fairly new to us, it had already...
The Right Rev'd Todd Townshend
Communion in the Body of Christ
About a year ago, we knew of the novel coronavirus that would cause COVID-19 but we didn’t know much about what it...
The Right Rev'd Todd Townshend
God’s creative work: Newness will come to us
By Bishop Todd Townshend Sometimes we go about our work in the church and everything seems to be withering on the...
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Maybe God wants us to be more like Mary
The seasons of Advent and Christmas remind us that we probably should not try to explain and define exactly what’s...
The Right Rev'd Todd Townshend
'I thank my God every time I remember you…'
By Bishop Todd Townshend Philippians 1: 3-6 I thank my God every time I remember you, constantly praying with...
The Right Rev'd Todd Townshend
Identity and Mission in Christ
Bishop Todd on the theme of Huron Synod gathering for 2020 By Bishop Todd Townshend The year of our Lord 2020 is...
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Bishop Todd’s message – On racism and the “Doctrine of Discovery”
Transcript of Bishop Todd Townshend’s video message for the week of June 14, 2020 By Bishop Todd Townshend Among...
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Seeing with the eyes of your heart enlightened
By Bishop Todd Townshend It is possible that you are reading this issue of the Huron Church News in...
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‘Do not hold on to me, but go and tell’
By Bishop Todd Townshend We have been through an unsettling time and we are still going through it. This battle...
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What are the Marks of God’s Mission?
By Bishop Todd Townshend In Part One of this reflection on Christian mission in our time, I suggested that we are...
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The marks of God’s mission: Part one
By Bishop Todd Townshend Thanksgiving and praise. This was my first response to our celebration on January 25 at...
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May God give us more than we deserve!
By Rev. Canon Dr. Todd Townshend, Bishop-Elect Grace to You, and Peace! To the church of God that is in Huron,...
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