saint benedict's table

A sermon by Bishop Donald Phillips from  Ash Wednesday, March 2, 2022. Bishop Don and several people from All Saints Church joined with the saint ben's community to mark the beginning of Lent. The primary text for this sermon is  Joel 2.1–2, 12–17 . Subscribe to the show wherever you listen to audio and recommend this episode to your friends. We invite you to rate us or write a review of what...

A sermon by Jamie Howison from  February 27, 2022, which we observed as Transfiguration Sunday. The text for this sermon is    Luke 9:28-36 . Subscribe to the show wherever you listen to audio and recommend this episode to your friends. We invite you to rate us or write a review of what we are doing on Apple Podcasts . Reviews help others join the conversation. * * * This podcast is created at sai...

A podcast conversation with Bishop Joey Royal from the Diocese of the Arctic, exploring some of what characterizes life in the Arctic and life as part of the Anglican communion for folks in the far north.    Please visit the web post for this podcast , where you'll find a bit of extra material on Bishop Royal's work in the Arctic. You can also go directly to the website of the Diocese of...

A sermon by Jamie Howison from  February 20, 2022, on 1 Corinthians 15:35-38, 42-50 and Luke 6:27-38 . Subscribe to the show wherever you listen to audio and recommend this episode to your friends. We invite you to rate us or write a review of what we are doing on Apple Podcasts . Reviews help others join the conversation. * * * This podcast is created at saint benedict’s table , a congregation of...

A podcast from March 2012, featuring Archbishop Mark MacDonald . We had invited Mark to join us at this ideaExchange session, to share some of his own story and to speak to the place of Indigenous people within the life of the Anglican Church of Canada. At the time, Mark MacDonald was the Indigenous Bishop of the Anglican Church of Canada, and has since been made Archbishop of that community.    P...

A sermon by Beth Downey Sawatzky from  February 13, 2022, based on Jesus' "Sermon on the Plain" from Luke 6:17-26 . Subscribe to the show wherever you listen to audio and recommend this episode to your friends. We invite you to rate us or write a review of what we are doing on Apple Podcasts . Reviews help others join the conversation. * * * This podcast is created at saint benedict...

A sermon by Jamie Howison from  February 6, 2022, with the readings for the evening  being 1 Corinthians 15:1-11 and Luke 5:1-11. Subscribe to the show wherever you listen to audio and recommend this episode to your friends. We invite you to rate us or write a review of what we are doing on Apple Podcasts . Reviews help others join the conversation. * * * This podcast is created at saint benedict’...

Over the course of this winter and spring, we're offering a short series of ideaExchange sessions, exploring what it is about being in an urban space that has helped our expression of church to thrive. For this first session, we turned to Travis and Stephanie Unger of Many Rooms Church Community,   which is based in an area of the city just a kilometre and a half from us, but in many ways exi...

A sermon by Jamie Howison from  January 30, 2022, with the readings for the evening  being 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 and Luke 4:21-30a . Subscribe to the show wherever you listen to audio and recommend this episode to your friends. We invite you to rate us or write a review of what we are doing on Apple Podcasts . Reviews help others join the conversation. * * * This podcast is created at saint benedi...

One of our long-time saint ben’s people headed away this past summer, on a three year journey to Ukraine, working as the Peace Engagement Coordinator for Europe with the Mennonite Central Committee. Hopefully you had the opportunity to listen to our November 5, 2021 conversation with Andrea Shalay, because now we're offering a second conversation in this ongoing occasional series. In this pod...

A podcast from the Summer of 2015, featuring Kate Bowler introducing us to her 2013 book, BLESSED: A History of The American Prosperity Gospel. It was not that long after that session that Kate  was unexpectedly diagnosed with Stage IV cancer at the age of 35, and her pitch battle with that cancer began. That journey is chronicled in her books Everything Happens for a Reason (and other lies I’ve l...

A sermon by Jamie Howison from  January 23, 2022, with the readings for the evening  being 1 Corinthians 12:12-31 and Luke 4:14-21 . Subscribe to the show wherever you listen to audio and recommend this episode to your friends. We invite you to rate us or write a review of what we are doing on Apple Podcasts . Reviews help others join the conversation. * * * This podcast is created at saint benedi...

A music podcast featuring two songs recently recorded for our new online songbook project. First up is Larry Campbell's "Let Us Return," followed by Charles Garinger's "Prayer of Humble Access." Both songs were recorded by Rob Kwade at his home studio, with additional musical support from Rachel Titterton, Mark Holmes A' Court, Tatianna Friesen, and of course Rob...

A sermon by Jamie Howison from  January 16, 2022, with the readings for the evening  being 1 Corinthians 12:1-11 and John 2:1-11 .  The sermon references the reflections of Makoto Fujimura on the art of Kintsugi , which you can see more about by clicking here .  Subscribe to the show wherever you listen to audio and recommend this episode to your friends. We invite you to rate us or write a review...

A sermon by Jamie Howison from  January 9, 2022, which we marked as the Feast of the Epiphany. The readings for the evening  were  Isaiah 60:1-6 and Matthew 2:1-12 .  Subscribe to the show wherever you listen to audio and recommend this episode to your friends. We invite you to rate us or write a review of what we are doing on Apple Podcasts . Reviews help others join the conversation. * * * This...

A reflection piece by Jamie Howison, as we face the newest wave of COVID-19. This podcast also includes Jenny Moore's song "Be Our Light," and to see the lyrics of that song head to the podcast web post on our site . Subscribe to the show wherever you listen to audio and recommend this episode to your friends. We invite you to rate us or write a review of what we are doing on Apple...

A sermon by Jamie Howison from  the Second Sunday in Christmastide, January 2, 2022. The readings for the evening  were Ephesians 1:3-14 and John 1:1-18, both of which are "big picture" texts on the meaning of the Incarnation. Due to awaiting a test for COVID-19, this sermon was preached from home. Subscribe to the show wherever you listen to audio and recommend this episode to your frie...

A sermon by Jamie Howison from December 26, 2021, which we marked as "the Feast of Stephen." The readings for the evening  were Acts 6.8–7.2, 51–60 and Matthew 23.34–39. This was our first Sunday since July, 2021, in which we were again shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with only nine people present in the building.  Subscribe to the show wherever you listen to audio and recommend...

A sermon by Jamie Howison from Christmas Eve, 2021, with the readings for the evening being  Isaiah 9:2-7 and Luke 2:1-20. This was the first liturgy since July, 2021, in which we were again shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic.  Subscribe to the show wherever you listen to audio and recommend this episode to your friends. We invite you to rate us or write a review of what we are doing on Apple...

A music podcast featuring the song "We Come,"  written by Jim Croegaert and performed at home  by Anass Quinten. This is a particularly appropriate song for the season of Advent, with its themes of waiting and longing. If you'd like to see our whole catalogue of music podcasts, that link is available on the podcast post for this song. You can also find the full catalogue of these mu...

Back in 2013 we released a series of six podcasts for the Advent season, sponsored by the Anglican Church of Canada. This episode reprises one of the two podcasts Steve Bell did for this series, and it seemed a good thing to re-release it this year, as the world continues to struggle with the COVID-19 pandemic. This podcast series was inspired by a resource we produced in 2012 called In Days to Co...

A sermon by Jamie Howison from Sunday December 19, 2021. The Sunday was marked as the Fourth  Sunday in the season of Advent, and the readings were Micah 5:2-5a  and Luke 1:39-56 . Subscribe to the show wherever you listen to audio and recommend this episode to your friends. We invite you to rate us or write a review of what we are doing on Apple Podcasts . Reviews help others join the conversatio...

The third and final Ancient/Future podcast of select readings from our November 29, 2021 book event. In this episode we feature a presentation by John Badertscher on his book Ten Steps on Freedom Road , and a reading by Adeline Berg from her book The Orange Couch on Wheels . For a podcast page of the various readings, go to this link . To see the roster of readers or watch the video recording of t...

A sermon by Jamie Howison from Sunday December 12, 2021. The Sunday was marked as the third  Sunday in the season of Advent, and the readings were Zephaniah 3:14-20 and Luke 1:26-38 . Subscribe to the show wherever you listen to audio and recommend this episode to your friends. We invite you to rate us or write a review of what we are doing on Apple Podcasts . Reviews help others join the conversa...

A special Ancient/Future podcast of select readings from our November 29, 2021 book event. In this episode we feature a reading from Jamie Howison from his 2021 book A Kind of Solitude , and a presentation by Samantha Klassen on her comic  book, The Threads of Vocation . Copies of Samantha's comic are available from the church for just $5, with an earlier online edition available by clicking...