Tag: opera

  • Light on Silence: A podcast preview

    Light on Silence: A podcast preview

    Last September, I attended the wedding of friends in Morden, Manitoba. It was a picturesque prairie day as my wife and I drove the highways past beautiful crops ready for harvest and scattered farmhouses, some with children playing happily in the yard. As we drove along, preparing to celebrate love, I thought for the first…

  • A cry for ‘no revenge’

    A cry for ‘no revenge’

    Stephanie Martin had often led practises with the Pax Christi Chorale at Calvin Presbyterian Church in Toronto. But during one practice in 2015 she was drawn to a plaque on the north wall of the sanctuary honouring nurse Mary Agnes ‘Nan’ MacKenzie, “who after three years of service lost her life by the torpedoing of…