For the second year in a row, the Sisterhood of St. John the Divine (SSJD) is opening its doors to young women who want to spend a year “living in God’s rhythm.”
On April 8, 1917, Canon Frederick George Scott was preparing a service of Holy Communion to celebrate Easter Sunday in a YMCA hut in the French town of Ecoivres.
The Anglican Church of Canada’s new reconciliation animator, says the church needs to see reconciliation as a “gospel imperative” that transforms how the church operates.
Canon Cathy Campbell, a retired priest and former academic researcher on food security issues, will be the Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund’s (PWRDF) new representative on the board of Canadian Foodgrains Bank (CFGB).
At a day-long “creation care fair” held March 25 at St. Cuthbert’s Anglican Church in Toronto’s Leaside neighbourhood, Anglicans and community members had a chance to ask church and secular leaders about how they were responding to the challenge of climate change.
Ten more homes in the First Nations community of Pikangikum in Northern Ontario will have clean drinking water by theend of 2017 as a result of a joint effort by the Primate‘s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF), Habitat forHumanity Manitoba, and grassroots Anglican group Pimatsiwin Nipi.
Canadian Anglican leaders have upbraided Conservative Senator Lynn Beyak for her assertion that the report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was overly negative in its representation of the Indian Residential Schools system.
It’s one of the coldest days in March, and a bitter west wind whistles between the old community housing blocks of Toronto’s Regent Park neighbourhood, but Andrew Au and Dorothy Wong are focussed on the streetscape, on the incongruity of the new developments, the rush of the streetcars, the way pedestrians carefully navigate the slush and road salt on the narrow sidewalk.
Training new ordained ministers is a “critical need” in many Indigenous communities-but not one traditional seminary education can easily fill, says Bishop Lydia Mamakwa, of the Indigenous Spiritual Ministry of Mishamikoweesh.
The Anglican Church of Canada should “re-tool” its methods for assessing candidates for the priesthood to make the process more sensitive to context, says Bishop Bill Cliff, of the diocese of Brandon.
In a twist on the traditional practice of giving something up for Lent, Anglicans across Canada are pledging to make personal lifestyle changes to reduce greenhouse gas emissions—and challenging the federal government to match them by pursuing policy changes to fight climate change.
On January 11, Hiyab, Arsema and Kidisti* stood outside the Red Cross building on Randolph Avenue in Toronto, facing a hard decision.
Today, March 1, Christians around the world will engage in a ritual at least 1,400* years old: Ash Wednesday.
As dioceses struggle to provide adequate ministry to communities that cannot afford full-time priests, church leaders and theological colleges in the Anglican Church of Canada are exploring new ways to train priests and ministers locally, from mentorship programs to weekend classes to peer-to-peer learning.
As Anglican educators, bishops and clergy debate how theological education should be adapted to meet the needs of the 21st-century church, they should not lose sight of the fact that the final goal is to produce ministers with a “Christ-like character,” said Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada.
As the number of Anglicans in Canada decreases and churches close, the parish model-in which every church has a priest and every priest is full-time-is rapidly becoming a relic of the past. How can the Anglican Church of Canada train priests to serve in this new, more uncertain reality?
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An Anglican in Quebec’s Eastern Townships is standing up for mental health services for Anglophones, and calling on the church to play a greater role in supporting this work.
Refugee advocates speaking on behalf of several Christian and civil society groups say Canada should expand its refugee resettlement efforts following the Trump administration’s January 27 executive order attempting to suspend refugee acceptance to the United States for 120 days.
In a public statement released February 7, the Anglican diocese of British Columbia called on the government of Canada to increase its targets for refugee resettlement to allow at least 7,000 more refugees to enter the country this year.
When outsiders think of Quebec, they often fall back on the old stereotype of a province divided between the “two solitudes” of the English and the French.
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