Vancouver Island priests inhibited

Ven. Sharon A. HaytonThe two priests of St Mary of the Incarnation, in Victoria (Metchosin) were inhibited late Friday afternoon by Diocesan Archdeacon, the Venerable Bruce Bryant-Scott.

The Venerable Sharon Hayton, rector, (pictured) and the Rev Andrew Hewlett, assistant priest, received notice late Friday afternoon (February 15), that disciplinary action was being commenced against them although no charge was given under the Church’s canons. Read more

The Nature of Worship – by D B Knox

David Broughton Knox in 1956Church Society has made available on its website a classic 1957 article by Dr Broughton Knox on Worship –

“The Reformers taught that faith is worship and is the basic way of acknowledging God’s essential character of self-giving. The application of this doctrine to the private devotional life is straightforward. Every day brings its opportunities of trusting God, and so acknowledging that He is trustworthy, that He is indeed a God of love. So all life becomes worship and there is no divorce between Sunday and the weekday.”

Read the whole article on the Church Society website (pdf file). DBK was Principal of Moore College for 26 years.