ATC Schedule 2025

Conference Theme: Hope Which Does Not Disappoint

St. Paul’s Church, 125 Main St., Sackville, NB

Monday, June 23rd to Thursday, June 26th · 2025

Conference Preacher:
The Rev’d Dr. Walter Hannam, Vicar, St. Bartholomew’s Anglican Church, Toronto

Monday, June 23rd

5:30 p.m. Evensong St. Paul’s Church

6:00 p.m. Barbeque hosted by St. Paul’s

7:30 p.m. Paper One: Ancient Greece, by Andrew Griffin

Responder: Drew Badgley

Tuesday, June 24th

8:00 a.m. Matins St. Paul’s Church

10:00 a.m. Paper Two: The Old Testament, by Dr. Daniel Driver

Responder: Patricia Robertson

2:00 p.m Paper Three: The New Testament, by Dr. Matthew Vanderkwaak

Responder: Justin Wollf

5:30 p.m. Service of Holy Communion: St. Ann’s Westcock

Ticketed dinner, hosted by St. Ann’s (directly following Mass)

Wednesday, June 25th

8:00 a.m. Matins St. Paul’s Church

10:00 a.m. Paper Four: The Medieval Period, Dr. Luke Togni

Responder: Aidan Ingalls

1:30 p.m. Book Club “Hope Which Does Not Disappoint”, hosted by Elizabeth King (details below)

7:00 p.m. Paper Five: The Reformation, by The Rev’d Dr. Gary Thorne  

Responder: The Rev’d Dr. Thomas Curran

Reception in the Rectory (directly following talk)

Thursday, June 26th

8:00 a.m. Matins St. Paul’s Church

10:00 a.m. Paper Six: “Robert Crouse over the years,” by Dr. Neil Robertson

Panel Discussion with all the Presenters (directly following final talk)

The Conference concludes at approximately 12 noon

The Book Study: “Hope Which Does Not Disappoint”

led by Elizabeth King

Fr. Robert Crouse’s address to the 1994 Montreal Essentials Conference

alongside a selection of psalms and the Epistle of St James.

"The reasoning relates to Dante. In Paradiso 25 Dante meets St James, who questions him on the nature of hope. Beatrice states of Dante that “there is no child of the Church Militant so full of hope”, and Dante goes on to explain to St James that the roots of this hope in him lie in his reading of the psalms and the Epistle of St James.”

[Reading Links will be provided]