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The Lord's Prayer, edited by Karen Stiller, senior editor of Faith Today, with a foreword by Professor Tom Power, is a collection of essays by Wycliffe College faculty. The essays ponder each line of this foundational prayer and guide us more deeply into a sense of God's holiness, a sense of our broken and redeemed selves, and a glimpse of his kingdom coming. The book is now available and may be purchased on the Wipf and Stock Publishers website.

As Wycliffe College gears up to mark the 500th anniversary of the start of the Protestant Reformation, we cannot help but turn our eyes to our own roots. And there's no better person to dig into the past than Thomas Power, Adjunct Professor of Church History, and Theological Librarian here at Wycliffe. Power says it's appropriate that the College marks the anniversary of the Reformation because Wycliffe's ideology, beliefs and values are rooted in that historic event. “Wycliffe College was founded in and stands by the tradition of the Reformers,” he explains. “Its reformed ethos is reflected

While scholars concur that there have been several reformations throughout church history, there is only one that people tend to think of when they refer to “The Reformation,” and that is the Protestant Reformation. It began in 1517 when a German monk and theologian named Martin Luther circulated his Ninety-Five Theses, which objected to certain practices by the Roman Catholic Church. Alec Ryrie is Professor of the History of Christianity at Durham University. This fall, he will be a featured guest as Wycliffe College marks the 500 th anniversary of that historic occurrence, by hosting a

Applications are now being accepted for the Doctor of Ministry (DMin) degree program at the Toronto School of Theology. The deadline for completed applications to be received by the DMin office is 4:30 pm (Eastern Standard Time), November 24, 2017. Updated information on TST colleges, programs, financial aid, and admissions procedures may be found at www.tst.edu under “Prospective Students”. Admission requirements for the DMin program may be found at www.tst.edu/prospective/doctor-ministry-admission-requirements. The online application form, along with application instructions and a list of

Last week, the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada announced the appointment of the Rev. Dr. Scott Sharman as animator for ecumenical and interfaith relations. Dr. Sharman is a Wycliffe graduate, and so we invited him to blog for us about his new role, which begins September 1, 2017, and how his Wycliffe education helped to prepare him for it.

On the Wycliffe blog this week, Dr. Catherine Sider-Hamilton shares some of the journey of learning and thinking that gave rise to her new book, The Death of Jesus in Matthew: Innocent Blood and the End of Exile.

Prospective students, current students and alumni of Wycliffe College and Toronto School of Theology, we would like to share some good news with you. The University of Toronto has recently been named no. 1 in Canada, and no. 11 internationally, for “Theology, Divinity & Religious Studies,” by the QS World University Rankings. This bodes well for the academic reputation of your degree, and for excellence in the Toronto School of Theology programs, including those of Wycliffe College. Toronto is also listed as one of the top three student-friendly cities in Canada.

We often hear the word "calling" used to refer to the strong sense of being directed by God to pursue a certain vocation, especially ministry. But how does that call occur? Talk to enough people who have experienced it, and you will realise that it is unique to the individual. In this blog post, Wycliffe graduate Philip Stonhouse relates the story of how his own calling led him out of a full-time acting career, into theological education, and on to ministry.

With Canada Day just around the corner, it is appropriate that this week's blog post would include the reflections of a Canadian professor recently returned from overseas. Wanda Malcolm writes of her time teaching a course at Cairo's Alexandria School of Theology that, " unlike many of the Christians who live in Egypt, I did not ever personally feel unsafe or at risk." Religious freedom and absence of persecution, just two of the things Canadian Christians can be thankful for as we celebrate our nation's 150th birthday.

In addition to sermon preparation, preachers also need to think through other practical considerations, such as deciding on what to wear before a preaching engagement. In this week's blog post, Robert Dean, a Wycliffe College alumnus, reflects on being clothed (or naked) in the pulpit, but he is speaking of something other than apparel. He notes that preachers in contemporary churches tend to default into models of preaching that aim at delighting hearers instead of nourishing congregations with serious biblical and theological teaching. Dean argues that "naked preaching," or being clothed