André Forget, Author at Anglican Journal

“We realized that actually if we pooled our experience, we could start to develop what looked like the framework for quite a comprehensive strategy to respond as a Communion,” says Rachel Carnegie, co-director of the Anglican Alliance. Photo: André Forget

Relief & development work promotes inter-religious harmony’

André Forget March 10, 2015

Rachel Carnegie is co-director of the Anglican Alliance, a position she has been in since 2014. Previously, she served as the Archbishop of Canterbury’s secretary for international development and as a parish priest. Before taking holy orders, she spent many years working in the international development world with organizations such as Save the Children and Unicef. The Anglican Journal had the opportunity to sit down with her while she was visiting the offices of the Anglican Church of Canada and talk about the purpose of the Anglican Alliance and its role in the Communion.

“I feel like a little kid at Christmas.” Drew Brown’s Analog Love in Digital Times has been nominated for a Juno Award for Contemporary Christian/Gospel Album of the Year. Photo: Seth Partridge

Anglican music director nominated for a Juno

André Forget March 6, 2015

Not many churches can say their music director is up for a Juno Award—but then, not many churches have Drew Brown working for them.

The Toronto native, who currently serves as creative arts director at Trinity Streetsville, in the diocese of Toronto, is one of five contenders in the category of Contemporary Christian/Gospel Album of the Year for his most recent release,Analog Love in Digital Times.

The Community of St. Anselm invites young Christians to spend “a year in God’s time at Lambeth Palace. Photo: Fæ/Wikimedia Commons

Young Christians invited to spend a year at Lambeth Palace

André Forget March 2, 2015

A new community will be taking root at Lambeth Palace in September, and it has just started accepting applications.

The Community of St. Anselm, named for the medieval intellectual and former Archbishop of Canterbury, is accepting applications from across the Communion from young people who want to spend “a year in God’s time” living at Lambeth Palace in prayer, study and spiritual discovery.

Irene Fraser, recently appointed a member of the Order of Canada, has spent many years advocating on behalf of Indigenous people. Photo: Supplied

Metis social justice advocate receives Order of Canada

André Forget March 2, 2015

Earlier this month, long-time indigenous rights leader Irene Fraser was recognized for her many years of work by investiture into the Order of Canada.

Kenton Lobe and Caroline Chartrand harvest their hand-pollinated squashes. Photo: Contributed

Gearing down in an age of speed

André Forget February 27, 2015

In the modern world, most of us live highly specialized lives. We generally assume that it is more efficient to trade our time for pay and then to pay other people for their time rather than doing things like growing food and making clothes ourselves.

Shakir Rahim, a graduate of the University of Toronto, asks the panellists to further explain a point about the reconciliation process. Photo: André Forget

Reconciliation goes beyond residential schools, says forum

André Forget February 26, 2015

The now-defunct Indian residential school system may be one of the most well-known examples of how imperialism has done deep damage to Canada’s First Nations, but it was only a symptom of a larger problem.

The Rev. Sam Rose and the Anglican Church of St. Michael and All Angels met in a funeral home chapel for four years before moving into their new building. Photo: André Forget

New church building a ‘command centre’ for ministry

André Forget February 24, 2015

The Rev. Sam Rose, rector at St. Michael and All Angels in St. John’s, Nfld., laughs as he tells an old joke about how many Anglicans it takes to change a light bulb. “Change?” says one of the Anglicans “My grandfather gave us that light bulb-why do we need to change it?”

Bishops from across the Global Anglican Communion will share “actions and theologies” that can helpfully respond to climate change. Photo: Mark VanOvermeire/Shutterstock

Eco-bishops’ gather in Cape Town for climate summit

André Forget February 23, 2015

From February 23^rd to 27^th, Bishop Jane Alexander of the diocese of Edmonton and National Indigenous Anglican Bishop Mark MacDonald will join 15 other bishops from across the Anglican Communion in Cape Town, South Africa, to discuss ways in which the Anglican Church can respond concretely to the issue of climate change.

While some Anglicans have affirmed the Supreme Court's ruling on assisted dying, others are concerned it may endanger the most vulnerable. Photo: Shutterstock

Anglicans divided over right-to-die ruling

André Forget February 11, 2015

Reactions to the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision to strike down the ban on assisted dying reveals just how diverse opinions on this subject are

The church remains "deeply committed to the ministry of accompanying people in their lifelong journey," says the primate, Archbishop Fred Hiltz in a statement on the Supreme Court ruling on doctor-assisted dying. File photo: General Synod Communications

Hiltz: Right-to-die ruling needs church’s ‘serious attention’

André Forget February 10, 2015

Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, issued a statement Tuesday night on the Supreme Court’s ruling on physician-assisted dying in which he called on Anglicans to “exhibit an unwavering resolve to include those most affected by our deliberations” in conversations around end-of-life issues.

The church’s end-of-life conversations must include the notion that “care is something which is exercised both toward the individual with whom we are dealing, but also in regards to the wider society and the implications of those actions for the well-being of all,” says task force chair, the Rev. Canon Eric Beresford. Photo: Shutterstock

Church’s response to assisted death ruling expected this spring

André Forget February 10, 2015

Following a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of Canada on Feb. 6 to strike down as unconstitutional the ban on assisted dying, the Anglican Church of Canada’s task force on end-of-life issues will release this spring a new document outlining the church’s response and guidelines for how Anglicans should work within the new legal reality.

Newfoundlanders still see church as part of their identity

André Forget February 4, 2015

The diocese of Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador is a place of contrasts. In its centre, St. John’s, wealthy property developers rub shoulders with fishermen and oil workers just back from Alberta’s Fort McMurray. In its farthest-flung regions, priests drive for hours to visit remote parishes in Labrador.

These contrasts are present, too, in the life of the church.

Migration is part of the cultural memory in Newfoundland, says Rev. Jonathan Rowe, curate at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist.

Migration a part of life in Newfoundland diocese

André Forget February 3, 2015

It is known colloquially as “the turnaround.”

Every few weeks, thousands of Newfoundlanders make the long commute to northern Alberta to work in the oil industry. They stay there for a “shift” of two to four weeks, and return to their families on their weeks off.

Darryl Dash of the Liberty Grace church plant in Toronto speaks at the Vital Church Planting conference. Photo: André Forget

Accepting uncertainty, embracing weakness

André Forget January 30, 2015

On the frosty morning of January 30, participants at the Vital Church Planting conference at St. Paul’s Bloor Street in Toronto took some time to explore the virtues of slowing down, accepting uncertainty and embracing weakness.

Christine Lynch, a student from Harbour Grace in her second year of the master of divinity program at Queen’s College, says studying in an ecumenical context has widened her perspective. Photo: André Forget

Ecumenism alive and well in Newfoundland

André Forget January 21, 2015

Students and faculty of Queen’s College in the diocese of Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador kicked off the annual Week of Prayer for Christian Unity with an interdenominational service featuring a sermon from Archbishop Martin Currie of the Roman Catholic archdiocese of St. John’s.

The Rev. Betty Harbin and diocese of Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador bishop Geoff Peddle. Photo: André Forget

After 22 years, priest returns to Newfoundland parish

André Forget January 20, 2015

The parish of Torbay/Pouch Covein the diocese of Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador celebrated theinstallation of a new priest yesterday in the person of Rev. BettyHarbin, but it turns out that the new priest isn’t that new, after all.

Newfoundland church welcomes Hiltz for 200th anniversary

André Forget January 19, 2015

January 18, 2015 may have been a day for important anniversaries in the small town of Upper Island Cove in the diocese of Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador, but it was a day that focused just as much on the future as on the past.

(L-R) General Synod archivist Nancy Hurn, assistant archivist Laurel Parson and former general secretary Archdeacon Jim Boyles look at some of the photos from the General Synod archives relating to Indian residential schools. Photo: André Forget

Church submits residential school records to TRC

André Forget January 16, 2015

It has been a long process, but the Anglican Church of Canada will submit today its digital records relating to Indian Residential Schools-over 300,000 pages of documents-to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC).

Sister Elizabeth Rolfe-Thomas, who has just been elected Reverend Mother for the Sisterhood of St. John the Divine, has “never looked back” from her monastic calling. Photo: Contributed.

SSJD elects a new reverend mother

André Forget January 14, 2015

In early May, the Toronto-based Sisterhood of St. John the Divine (SSJD) will have a new reverend mother.

Sister Elizabeth Rolfe-Thomas, who has served as prioress (or assistant to the reverend mother) since 2008 and as novice director since 2003, was elected to replace the incumbent, Reverend Mother Sister Elizabeth Ann Eckert.

The resumption of US-Cuban relations "abounds in hope for a movement from hostility to hospitality, embargo to engagement, alienation to accompaniment," says the Metropolitan Council of Cuba. File photo: Ali Symons/General Synod Communications

Council praises ‘courageous leadership’ of Obama, Castro

André Forget December 23, 2014

??The Metropolitan Council of Cuba (MCC), which has overseen the Episcopal Church of Cuba since the embargo of 1960 made travel and communication between the Cuban church and the church in the United States almost impossible, has released a statement of thanksgiving for the normalization of American-Cuban relations.

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