Looking Back and Looking Ahead

by Deborah Gyapong

In 1990, I visited a nearby Baptist Church. I told Pastor Doug Ward that I was a maverick and a heretic and had never been able to sign on the dotted line to join any church. "Maybe this church is big enough for you," the pastor said. And thank God, he did. Because if anyone had tackled my various Gnostic heresies head on, I would have left.

I spent ten years or so at Kanata Baptist Church, a parish with a seeker-friendly mission. Upon entering, I had had problems with the notion of three Persons in the Trinity, though none with the Divinity of Jesus. Through the love and care of this wonderful community, many of my heresies fell away. It was during my time with them that I realized I could no longer be a cafeteria Christian, picking and choosing what to believe. I hungered for an Apostolic faith. But where would I find that in its fulness?

It was then I came across the little Anglican Catholic Church of Canada's then Cathedral of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Ottawa. It is now the Sodality of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary as we were received into the Roman Catholic Church by Ottawa Archbishop Terrence Prendergast on April 15...

Read the rest at The Anglo-Catholic blog.