Diana Swift

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    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.

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Evolution Weekend honours evolutionist Charles Darwin and seeks to reconcile science and faith. Photo: Patche99z, Wikimedia Commons

Faith versus science: a false dichotomy

Feb. 12 marks the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth, and for the seventh consecutive year, thousands of Christian churches and non-Christian groups across the

Concordia University College is the venue for new courses in living the Gospel in words and actions. Winterforcemedia.

Cathedral College teaches missional skills

Last October, All Saints’ Cathedral College in Edmonton launched a virtual campus designed to help laity and clergy update their missional skills for today’s complex

Christianity is world’s largest religion

Photo: Jacob Gregory As of 2010, Christianity is the world’s largest religion, claiming nearly 2.2 billion adherents, says Global Christianity, a new report from the

Hats for the homeless

Photo: Vitaly Titov & Maria Sidelnikova Teenage boys contentedly knitting? Absolutely, when the well-being of homeless people in chilly Winnipeg is at stake. In December,

Test your ecclesiastical IQ!

A. Hesychasm refers to… 1. An eastern church tradition of quiet mystical prayer 2. A heresy concerning Christ’s divinity originating with the third-century biblical critic

The accidental Anglican

Archbishop Thabo MakgobaPhoto: courtesy of Thabo Makgoba The Most Rev. Thabo Makgoba, Archbishop of Cape Town and Metropolitan of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa,

Do-it-yourself (DIY) wills

Photo: Peter Nadolski Some people prefer to bypass the cost and time of the law office altogether and complete their wills on their own with

Faith and politics

Dennis Gruending’s recently released Pulpit and Politics: Competing Religious Ideologies in Canadian Public Life examines the growing competition between progressives and conservatives of faith for

Where there’s a will…

A lot of people think they don’t need a will. Wrong. That’s one of the most common misconceptions around estate planning, according to Pamela Earle,

“God” particle found?

Geneva’s Large Hadron Collider is closing in on the particle that creates mass. Photo: CERN Scientists at the 17-mile-long Large Hadron Collider in Geneva are

New coordinator for ecumenical relations

On Jan. 2, the Anglican Church of Canada appointed Archdeacon Bruce Myers, missioner of communications in the diocese of Quebec, to a one-year, part-time position

The war on poverty

“When people are getting hurt, it’s incumbent upon us to stand strong for them and to speak for them,” says Ottawa’s Bishop John Chapman (above).

Photo: Peter Nadolski

Do-it-yourself (DIY) wills

Some people prefer to bypass the cost and time of the law office altogether and complete their wills on their own with fill-in-the-blanks kits you

Where there’s a will…

A lot of people think they don’t need a will. Wrong. That’s one of the most common misconceptions around estate planning, according to Pamela Earle,

Armenian prelate praises genocide bill

Paris memorial to victims of Armenian genocide, including Armenian composer Komitas Vardapet Photo: Artak Davtian, Wikimedia Relations between Christians and Muslims in France could take

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