The Anglican Church of Canada’s Indigenous ministries department has highlighted the importance of ongoing conversation by giving laptop computers to nine community leaders in order to strengthen communications among Indigenous Anglicans.
What do young Indigenous Anglicans want from their church? According to a youth panel at the eighth National Anglican Sacred Circle in Port Elgin, Ont., the answer is pretty clear: engagement with issues that matter in their own lives.
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC) may not have the same residential school history that the Anglican Church of Canada does, but its national bishop, Susan Johnson, has committed her church to walking together in partnership with Indigenous Anglicans.
On August 21, the provincial caucuses of the eighth National Anglican Sacred Circle appointed four new members to the Anglican Council of Indigenous Peoples (ACIP), and reappointed four members currently serving.
In 2014, the Anglican Council of Indigenous Peoples (ACIP) released a statement entitled Where We Are Today: Twenty Years After the Covenant, A Call to the Wider Church, that spoke to the ongoing crisis in Indigenous communities.
“We’re not going to talk about statistics: we all know them,” said Canon Ginny Doctor, Indigenous Ministries co-ordinator for the Anglican Church of Canada, to a plenary on suicide prevention at the eighth National Anglican Sacred Circle. “Many in this room have been touched by suicide; we know that there is a lot of healing to be done.”
It is a story that is sadly all-too-familiar around the world: a pastoral people who lived on the land for generations have had their spirituality stripped from them and their traditional territories taken away by a colonizing power, and their descendants are now trying to recover a sense of identity and political agency in the face of strong resistance from the dominant society.
In June this year, Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) presented 94 Calls to Action in response to the damage done to Indigenous communities by the Indian residential school program. But which of these calls resonated most deeply with Indigenous Anglicans?
In a keynote address to the eighth Sacred Circle on August 18, Canon Robert Kereopa of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia stressed the importance of healthy partnership models for Indigenous churches moving toward self-determination.
In order to help bring others to a place of health, leaders must first be healthy themselves.
Across the Anglican Church of Canada, the Book of Alternative Services and the Book of Common Prayer are the liturgical foundation for Sunday morning services. But at St. Christopher’s Anglican Church in Burlington, Ont., the traditional liturgy is getting a reboot.
The Rev. Robert Daniel MacRae, first secretary of the Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF), former rector of St. John the Divine Anglican Church in Victoria, B.C. and archdeacon of Juan de Fuca, diocese of British Columbia, died on August 1 after a short illness. He was 82.
On August 7, the Anglican Church of Canada’s Indigenous bishops attempted to chart a course between the liberal/conservative binary on the question of whether the church should practice same-sex marriages in their statement to the commission on the marriage canon.
On Wednesday, August 5, Bishop Dennis Drainville, 12th bishop of the diocese of Quebec, announced that he will likely retire in 2017.
On July 23, Canada’s federal court ruled that by denying refugees from countries deemed to be “safe,” the Canadian government was violating their Charter rights.
It is a Tuesday afternoon in downtown Burlington, Ont., and a small group of people are waiting outside a portable building in the parking lot of St. Christopher’s Anglican Church.
It has been an issue for almost a hundred years, but this summer Winnipeggers have decided that it is time for the Ojibwa/Ontario Saulteaux First Nation of Shoal Lake Band #40 to get its due, and Anglican voices have been some of the loudest advocating for change.
Viewed from the street, Chuck Kalnin’s North Kamloops bungalow doesn’t look much different from any of the other houses on his block.
Bishop Duncan Douglas Wallace, 10th bishop of the diocese of Qu’Appelle, passed away in Regina from cancer on June 22 following a short illness.
In a nine-page contribution submitted to the Anglican Church of Canada’s commission on the marriage canon earlier today, the Anglican-Roman Catholic Dialogue of Canada (ARC) warns that changing Canon 21 to allow for same-sex marriages would “weaken the very basis of our existing communion, and weaken the foundations upon which we have sought to build towards fuller ecclesial communion.”
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