September 2024 Issue

Leaving with a ‘heart overflowing with gratitude’

A prayer and offering for the Season of Creation

FEATHER (Prayer): Creator of all, the seasons stand to glorify your name through every passing moment and all creation lifts ...

Parish vows to rebuild historic Toronto church destroyed by fire—and keep it a home for Canadian art

Note: This article was updated with new information Aug. 30 and also includes some previously published content. First in a ...

‘The most mind-blowing “I don’t know” I’d ever heard’

The Rev. Ben Tshin is a priest at St. Paul’s Bloor Street in Toronto. Tshin says many of those who engage with St. Paul’s for ...

Commission asks: Time to axe General Synod, Journal?

‘Intentionally provocative’ documents broach deep restructuring of church Eliminating General Synod and the Anglican Journal are among a set of ...

Herbert O’Driscoll remembered as beloved writer, preacher and educator

Author, hymnist, liturgist and former dean of Vancouver’s Christ Church Cathedral Canon Herbert O’Driscoll died at home in Victoria, B.C. ...

Jasper wildfire destroys heritage church

A historic Anglican church in Jasper, Alta. is gone after a wildfire burned the nearly 100-year-old building to the ground ...

Barrie church hosts free health clinic for poor and marginalized

Hundreds of Barrie, Ont. residents have received health care they might otherwise not have received thanks to a free clinic ...
Members of the Moosonee synod gather in a circle to give thanks for God’s providence and their renewed hopes for the future as a diocese. Photo: George Cribbs

Moosonee votes to have its own bishop again

The synod of the diocese of Moosonee voted unanimously June 26 to elect a dedicated bishop for the first time in a decade—a milestone in ...

Bishop of the Arctic to retire at year’s end

Bishop of the diocese of the Arctic David Parsons has announced he will retire Dec. 31, 2024. In a career he describes as beginning with ...

Departing Nicholls reflects on trials and joys of primacy

Mississauga This article was updated August 29 to include material from the Anglican Journal’s September print edition. “The closer it ...

‘God is saying, “See, this is something beautiful”‘: Province of Rupert’s Land changes name to Province of the Northern Lights

After a vote with no objections at its 2024 synod, May 26-28, the ecclesiastical province formerly known as Rupert’s Land ...

Gaza ceasefire pilgrimage calls for ‘just peace’ in Israel and Palestine as universities respond to campus protests

Ottawa, Toronto and Kingston More than 120 Christians including national church leaders marched to Parliament Hill on May 22 for ...

Richard Reed elected 13th bishop of Saskatchewan

The Rev. Richard “Rick” Reed was elected the 13th bishop of the Anglican diocese of Saskatchewan after winning the fifth ...

Leases signed for joint national office space with United, Presbyterian churches

Construction ‘well underway’ on new facility, general secretary says It’s official; the national office of the Anglican Church of Canada ...
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