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Diana Swift

  • Diana Swift

    Diana Swift is an award-winning writer and editor with 30 years’ experience in newspaper and magazine editing and production. In January 2011, she joined the Anglican Journal as a contributing editor.

ARTICLES

Tithing teaches boys to care

Simon Chambers turns Mark and Scott’s weekly allowances into lessons on living the Marks of Mission. Photo: Jocelyne Pasman As communications coordinator for the Primate’s

House of Bishops broaches structural reform

Episcopal Church of Cuba’s Bishop Griselda Delgado Del Carpio updated Canadian bishops on the struggles of the Cuban church at their spring meeting. Photo: Vianney

Birth control, Uzbekistan-style

Islam Karimov’s brutal regime is sterilizing young women without their consent. Photo: ANGLO Uzbekistan is sterilizing young women without their consent and sometimes, without their

Anglican province may be streamlined

“We should start from a presumption that greater cooperation among the dioceses is desirable,” said Archbishop Claude Miller. Photo: David Watts The lean-and-mean sort of

Scripture well respected in America

The King James Bible is most frequently read version in the U.S. Photo: Mike Flippo A recent poll reports that 82% of American hold the

Irish priests defend colleague against Vatican

The 800-member Association of Catholic Priests in Ireland has criticized Rome’s investigation of liberal priest Fr. Tony Flannery. Photo: William Murphy The fledgling body representing

Religion essential for convicts

State penitentiaries keep chaplains busy with convicts’ rehabilitation, according to a new poll. Photo: Steven Frame U.S. state penitentiaries are hives of religious activity, according

A formula for fresh expressions

MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE “We need to be more imaginative about what God is calling us to do,” says the Rev. David Male, VCP conference keynote

A Nobel for Mama Maggie?

U.S. congressmen have nominated Coptic Christian ministry leader Maggie Gobran for the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize. Affectionately known as Mama Maggie, the former Cairo university

Skills for mission

All Saints’ Cathedral College in Edmonton is committed to the five Marks of Mission of the Anglican Church of Canada. Last October, the college-a joint

Coaxing Christians

The 2012 biennial worship conference of the Anglican Church of Canada and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada aims to draw attendees out from behind

Parishioners protest

If the fourth of the five Marks of Mission seeks to transform unjust structures of society, how can Anglicans sit by while Canada exports cancer-causing

Killer buildings

Asbestos in Canadian public buildings is exposing children, the elderly and those in hospital to a carcinogenic material. Photo: Dewitt and Ilya Zlatyev Once considered

Treasured Inuit culture

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.

St. Basil the Great

From Armenia with love

Fr. Isahak Poghosyan, a priest in the Armenian Apostolic Church, is the Anglican Foundation’s 10th Saint Basil’s scholar. A recipient of the Order of the