Jamie Howison's sermon for the 2nd Sunday in Eastertide, on Psalm 13 and John 20:19-31. This sermon was offered on the fifth Sunday that our community was unable to gather in the church building, due to the Covid-19 pandemic. There were just five of us present to lead the liturgy and provide the music, with a much larger congregation being gathered through Facebook Live. The full service is available as a video on our website . Subscribe to the show wherever you listen to audio and recommend thi...
Apr 20, 2020•15 min
A music podcast featuring Gord Johnson's setting of verses from the second chapter of Paul's epistle to the Philippians, "O What Love". This version also features Steve Bell and Larry Campbell, and was recorded for inclusion in our Good Friday audio-visual meditation in this year when we were unable to gather in the church building for that liturgy. For the lyrics of the song and to comment on this podcast, please visit the webpost . Stay up to date on how the church is dealing with these unprec...
Apr 16, 2020•9 min
Rachel Twigg's sermon for Easter Sunday on Colossians 3:1-4 and Matthew 28:1-10. This sermon was offered on the fourth Sunday that our community was unable to gather in the church building, due to the Covid-19 pandemic. There were just five of us present to lead the liturgy and provide the music, with a much larger congregation being gathered through Facebook Live. The full service is available as a video on our website . Subscribe to the show wherever you listen to audio and recommend this epis...
Apr 13, 2020•15 min
A music podcast featuring "Easter Eve" by Alana Levandoski, from her 2010 E.P. Hymns from the Desert . To explore Alana's other work and projects please go to her website , where you'll also be able to read about the new album she's currently working on. To read the lyrics for "Easter Eve" and to get a little more background on this music podcast, please head to the post on our website . Stay up to date on how the church is dealing with these unprecedented events on our For A Time Like This web ...
Apr 11, 2020•5 min
A music podcast featuring Gord Johnson's setting of "Before the Ending of the Day", offered as a little gift on peace during a Holy Week unsettled by the covid-19 pandemic. This version is a simple home-recored one originally done in 2009 as part of our Beautiful Mercy book and CD project. Stay up to date on how the church is dealing with these unprecedented events on our For A Time Like This web page. There you will find resources, words of encouragement and more podcasts. Subscribe to the show...
Apr 07, 2020•6 min
Jamie Howison's sermon for Palm Sunday on Philippians 2:5-11 and Matthew 21:1-11. This sermon was offered on the third Sunday that our community was unable to gather in the church building, due to the Covid-19 pandemic. There were just five of us present to lead the liturgy and provide the music, with a much larger congregation being gathered through Facebook Live. The full service is available as a video on our website . Subscribe to the show wherever you listen to audio and recommend this epis...
Apr 06, 2020•12 min
Due to the suspension of all liturgies and gatherings in our diocese, we have been unable to gather for the past three Wednesdays in our Lenten series of stories of call and vocation. We did, however, arrange to have a conversation with Lynn Stevens and John Badertscher about their shared story. John is a retired Professor of Religious Studies from the University of Winnipeg, and recently the author of Ten Steps on Freedom Road , while Lynn is a retired United Church of Canada minister. Comment ...
Apr 03, 2020•24 min
Jamie Howison's sermon on John 11:1-45, for the Fifth Sunday in Lent. This sermon was offered on the second Sunday that our community was unable to gather in the church building, due to the Covid-19 pandemic. There were just five of us present to lead the liturgy and provide the music, with a much larger congregation being gathered through Facebook Live. The full service is available as a video on our website . Subscribe to the show wherever you listen to audio and recommend this episode to your...
Mar 30, 2020•12 min
Due to the suspension of all liturgies and gatherings in our diocese, we have been unable to gather for the past two Wednesdays in our Lenten series of stories of call and vocation. We did, however, arrange to have Danielle Morton record her presentation remotely. Danielle is a member of saint benedict's table, one of our team leaders to our participation in the "Communities of Calling" initiative of the Collegeville Institute , and the Spiritual Life Facilitator & Coordinator of Commuter Pr...
Mar 27, 2020•18 min
This is one of the ongoing special editions of the saint benedict’s table podcast. As we all face the uncertainties of a global pandemic, we sense that For A Time Like This we need to come closer as the body of Christ, even if we are not able to do so in person. In this episode, the Right Reverend Geoff Woodcroft, Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Rupert's Land delivers his second brief message to the church, offering words of both encouragement and challenge. Bishop Geoff commends a brief video...
Mar 24, 2020•8 min
Rachel Twigg's sermon on John 9:1-41, for the Fourth Sunday in Lent. This sermon was offered on the first Sunday that our community was unable to gather in the church building, due to the Covid-19 pandemic. There were just five of us present to lead the liturgy and provide the music, with a much larger congregation being gathered through Facebook Live. The full service is available as a video on our website . Subscribe to the show wherever you listen to audio and recommend this episode to your f...
Mar 23, 2020•12 min
Due to the suspension of all liturgies and gatherings in our diocese, we were unable to gather this past Wednesday for our Lenten series of stories of call and vocation. We did, however, arrange to interview our scheduled speaker, The Rev’d Vincent Solomon. Vincent is a member of Norway House Cree Nation, a priest of the Anglican Church of Canada, and the Urban Indigenous Ministry Developer for the Diocese of Rupert’s Land. In that role, he also serves as the priest and pastoral leader to Epipha...
Mar 20, 2020•19 min
Archbishop Linda Nicholls, the Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, speaks with Jamie Howison about the difficult days we are enduring and what lies ahead for people of faith. She reminds us that for a time like this we must remember that nothing can separate us from the love of God. Stay up to date on how the church is dealing with these unprecedented events on our For A Time Like This web page. There you will find resources, words of encouragement and more podcasts. Comment on this episod...
Mar 17, 2020•17 min
Jamie Howison's sermon on John 4:5-42, for the Third Sunday in Lent. This sermon was preached into a critical context, as our Bishop had only recently called for the suspension of all church gatherings as of Monday March 16, due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Comment on this episode on our website . 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 ...
Mar 16, 2020•16 min
“Contagion is real, but it doesn’t just work for viruses. It works for kind words and generous thoughts, and acts of selflessness and honesty." Taffy Brodesser-Akner, New York Times -- -- -- For A Time Like This looks at how Christians came to be known as contagious people. Sharing love and compassion as fast as illness spread from person to person. That call to love our neighbour as ourselves remains key to who we are as people of the cross. With insight from Rodney Stark and music by Jenny Moo...
Mar 15, 2020•13 min
This is the first of several special editions of the saint benedict’s table podcast. As we all face the uncertainties of a global pandemic, we sense that For A Time Like This we need to come closer as the body of Christ, even if we are not able to do so in person. In this episode, the Right Reverend Geoff Woodcroft, Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Rupert's Land delivers a brief message to the church. He outlines his directives to the parishes of his diocese and offers words of hope and challen...
Mar 14, 2020•7 min
For the 2020 Lenten season, we’re presenting a series of five evening sessions featuring various members of our community telling stories related to their own sense of calling or vocation. For this second episode in the series, Sharon Cadigan shares a highly personal story that begins in what she describes as a “dark night of the soul,” and is marked by both learning and insight and by loss and grief. In the end it is the story of a person who has learned to answer a call not simply to some part...
Mar 13, 2020•17 min
In this episode Jamie Howison engages a conversation with the vibraphonist and composer Chris Dingman. John Weber of National Public Radio has called Chris, “A true virtuoso on the vibes,” and described him as, “An extremely gifted young composer, bandleader, recording artist, and much sought-after sideman.” He is also someone who brings a rather unique vision as to how music can be a source of peace and restoration, even through the hardest of days. Find out more about Chris Dingman by heading ...
Mar 11, 2020•27 min
Rachel Twigg's sermon on Psalm 121, Numbers 21:5-9 and John 3:1-17, for the 2nd Sunday in Lent. Subscribe to the show wherever you listen to audio and 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 the Anglican Church of Canada in Winnipeg , where we’ve been making great audio since 2006. Listen to other recent episodes on our website and see our e...
Mar 09, 2020•12 min
For the 2020 Lenten season, we’re presenting a series of five evening sessions featuring various members of our community telling stories related to their own sense of calling or vocation. In this first episode we have two speakers, each addressing how creation care has become a part of their sense of Christian calling. The first speaker is Zoe Matties, the Manitoba program director for A Rocha Canada , an international Christian environmental group writing a new story of possibility and hope in...
Mar 06, 2020•18 min
In this episode Jamie Howison shares a conversation with Ike Sturm, bassist and composer, and the Music Director for the Jazz Ministry at St Peter’s Church in Manhattan. Downbeat Magazine awarded Ike’s Jazz Mass album four and a half stars, describing it as “an excellent work that melds jazz and the mass genre together extremely well,” and noting that it “exudes serenity, peacefulness and a still calmness.” To find out more about Ike Sturm and to listen to samples of his work with his duo projec...
Mar 04, 2020•35 min
Jamie Howison's sermon on Matthew 4:1-11, for the 1st Sunday in Lent. Subscribe to the show wherever you listen to audio and 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 the Anglican Church of Canada in Winnipeg , where we’ve been making great audio since 2006. Listen to other recent episodes on our website and see our entire catalogue of almost ...
Mar 02, 2020•14 min
For centuries the Christian church has organized the year into liturgical seasons. In so doing, it makes sacred the ordinary time of a twelve-month calendar. By sanctifying our hours and days this way the church traces the mystery of salvation and the course of salvation history. Lent is the forty-day liturgical season stretching from Ash Wednesday through to Easter Eve. In this episode of our year-long series about the church seasons, Jamie Howison introduces us to what lies ahead. If you are c...
Feb 26, 2020•3 min
For centuries the Christian church has organized the year into liturgical seasons. In so doing, it makes sacred the ordinary time of a twelve-month calendar. By sanctifying our hours and days this way the church traces the mystery of salvation and the course of salvation history. Not every denomination observes the church calendar. Even within the Anglican communion there is some confusion about what these seasons and feast days are all about. In this episode Jamie Howison introduces the idea of...
Feb 25, 2020•7 min
A sermon by Rachel Twigg on Matthew 17:1-9 from February 23, 2020, the last Sunday before the beginning of Lent. Subscribe to the show wherever you listen to audio and 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 the Anglican Church of Canada in Winnipeg, where we’ve been making great audio since 2006. Listen to other recent episodes on our websi...
Feb 24, 2020•12 min
In this episode Jamie Howison interviews Archbishop Linda Nicholls, the Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada. Archbishop Nicholls was elected to the office of Primate at the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada, held in July 2019. At the time of her election she was serving as Bishop of the Diocese of Huron, and prior to that as Area Bishop of the Trent-Durham region in the Diocese of Toronto. She also has almost twenty years of ministry experience as a parish priest in the Diocese...
Feb 20, 2020•32 min
A sermon on Matthew 5:21-37 by Jamie Howison, offered on February 16, 2020 at saint benedict's table. This podcast is created at saint benedict’s table , a congregation of the Anglican Church of Canada in Winnipeg . We’ve been podcasting since 2006 and put a renewed focus on this ministry in 2019. Our goal is to provide rich and stimulating audio resources to the wider church and engage topics and issues relevant to the concerns and questions of the larger culture in which we live....
Feb 17, 2020•14 min
Jamie Howison speaks with Malcolm Guite, a priest, chaplain to Girton College in Cambridge, theologian, musician and poet. The author of not only theological books but also numerous collections of poetry, Malcolm’s latest book is After Prayer: New sonnets and other poems, published in November 2019 by Canterbury Press. In an endorsement for the 2012 Sounding the Seasons collection, the former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams commented, “These pieces have the economy and pungency of all go...
Feb 15, 2020•22 min
A sermon by Jamie Howison on Isaiah 58:1-12 and Matthew 5:13-20 , offered on February 9, 2020. * * * This podcast is created at saint benedict’s table , a congregation of the Anglican Church of Canada in Winnipeg . We’ve been podcasting since 2006 and put a renewed focus on this ministry in 2019. Our goal is to provide rich and stimulating audio resources to the wider church and engage topics and issues relevant to the concerns and questions of the larger culture in which we live....
Feb 10, 2020•15 min
A sermon for Candlemas - The Feast of the Presentation of the Lord - on Luke 2:22-40, offered by Rachel Twigg on February 2, 2020. This podcast is created at saint benedict’s table , a congregation of the Anglican Church of Canada in Winnipeg . We’ve been podcasting since 2006 and put a renewed focus on this ministry in 2019. Our goal is to provide rich and stimulating audio resources to the wider church and engage topics and issues relevant to the concerns and questions of the larger culture in...
Feb 03, 2020•16 min
