Ali Symons, Author at Anglican Journal https://anglicanjournal.com National News from the Anglican Church of Canada Fri, 17 Jun 2022 18:25:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://anglicanjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/AJ-logo-01.svg Ali Symons, Author at Anglican Journal https://anglicanjournal.com 32 32 170042892 ‘We’ll get you some dumplings’ https://anglicanjournal.com/well-get-you-some-dumplings-11146/ https://anglicanjournal.com/well-get-you-some-dumplings-11146/#respond Wed, 19 Sep 2012 04:00:00 +0000 http://localhost/anglicanjournal/index.php/article/well-get-you-some-dumplings-11146/ It’s a rainy morning at the port of Oshawa, Ont., and burly stevedores swarm around a huge ship from China, hoisting long poles of steel rebar up and out of the hold. But not everyone is there for the cargo. A man in a gold hardhat strides around the machinery, slapping backs and waving hello. […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/well-get-you-some-dumplings-11146/feed/ 0 91119 Palestinian urges Canadian churches to ‘tell the truth’ https://anglicanjournal.com/palestinian-urges-canadian-churches-to-tell-the-truth-10868/ https://anglicanjournal.com/palestinian-urges-canadian-churches-to-tell-the-truth-10868/#respond Mon, 04 Jun 2012 04:00:00 +0000 http://localhost/anglicanjournal/index.php/article/palestinian-urges-canadian-churches-to-tell-the-truth-10868/ Nora Carmi, a Palestinian Christian peace activist, came to Canada with a challenge for churches to “dare to tell the truth” about Israel’s oppression of Palestinians and to “stand with those who are oppressed.” Dressed in black with a silver cross at her throat, Carmi, 64, visited the national office of the Anglican Church of […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/palestinian-urges-canadian-churches-to-tell-the-truth-10868/feed/ 0 91130 Anglicans build first university in the Solomon Islands https://anglicanjournal.com/anglicans-build-first-university-in-the-solomon-islands-10789/ https://anglicanjournal.com/anglicans-build-first-university-in-the-solomon-islands-10789/#respond Wed, 16 May 2012 04:00:00 +0000 http://localhost/anglicanjournal/index.php/article/anglicans-build-first-university-in-the-solomon-islands-10789/ Archbishop David Vunagi, primate of the Anglican Church of Melanesia. Photo: Ali Symons Imagine building a university from scratch. In the Solomon Islands, the Anglican Church of Melanesia has taken on the enormous project of building the John Coleridge Patteson University—the nation’s first. Construction will begin later this year and the $9.5 (CAD) million university, […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/anglicans-build-first-university-in-the-solomon-islands-10789/feed/ 0 91136 Answered prayers https://anglicanjournal.com/answered-prayers-10729/ https://anglicanjournal.com/answered-prayers-10729/#respond Tue, 01 May 2012 04:00:00 +0000 http://localhost/anglicanjournal/index.php/article/answered-prayers-10729/ SHELLS AND BELLS “I feel happy when I see it,” says Archbishop David Vunagi of the liturgy that has evolved out of the vibrant Melanesian culture in the Solomon Islands, South Pacific. Photo: Ali Symons Worship is dazzling in the Solomon Islands. Warriors in grass skirts dance up the aisle. Four-part native harmonies ring loud. […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/answered-prayers-10729/feed/ 0 91122 My travels with +Fred https://anglicanjournal.com/my-travels-with-fred-10700/ https://anglicanjournal.com/my-travels-with-fred-10700/#respond Tue, 01 May 2012 04:00:00 +0000 http://localhost/anglicanjournal/index.php/article/my-travels-with-fred-10700/ Solomon Islands with Archbishop Fred Hiltz, Mar. 15-28. To get to the cocoa and fruit farm, Archbishop Fred Hiltz has to wade across a river. Under the hot midday sun, the shallow water feels like a bath, but the slippery brown stones make for slow going. The primate of the Anglican Church of Canada removes […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/my-travels-with-fred-10700/feed/ 0 91126 Sister Act https://anglicanjournal.com/sister-act-10730/ https://anglicanjournal.com/sister-act-10730/#respond Tue, 01 May 2012 04:00:00 +0000 http://localhost/anglicanjournal/index.php/article/sister-act-10730/ i dream of a dorm Youngest rape victims need a special wing, says Sister Doreen. Photo: Ali Symons It was 3:00 in the morning when a drunk man scaled the fence of the Christian Care Centre. He was looking for his wife and he had a weapon. Sister Doreen was ready for him. She caught […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/sister-act-10730/feed/ 0 91132 My travels with +Fred https://anglicanjournal.com/my-travels-with-fred-10676/ https://anglicanjournal.com/my-travels-with-fred-10676/#respond Tue, 17 Apr 2012 04:00:00 +0000 http://localhost/anglicanjournal/index.php/article/my-travels-with-fred-10676/ I was so sick on our Fiji stopover. There we were in the Nadi airport, on our way to the Solomon Islands, and I was throwing up in every available receptacle, excusing myself from my coworkers because, of course, this was a business trip. What could be more awkward? But Fred found me. I was […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/my-travels-with-fred-10676/feed/ 0 91128 Bishop Sperry treasured Inuit culture https://anglicanjournal.com/bishop-sperry-treasured-inuit-culture-10471/ https://anglicanjournal.com/bishop-sperry-treasured-inuit-culture-10471/#respond Wed, 15 Feb 2012 05:00:00 +0000 http://localhost/anglicanjournal/index.php/article/bishop-sperry-treasured-inuit-culture-10471/ The Right Rev. John (Jack) Reginald Sperry, former bishop of the Arctic, will be remembered as a spiritual mentor, linguist and lover of Inuit culture. He died Feb. 11 in Hay River, N.W.T., at age 87. Born 1924 in Leicester, England, Bishop Sperry served with the Royal Navy from 1943 to 1946 before emigrating to […]

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