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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Meet Winnipeg’s little drummer boy

The “Little Drummer Boy” video 16-year-old Sean Quigley made on a snowy walking trail has gone viral on YouTube. Photo: YouTube A Winnipeg high school

Curbside haiku for Christmas

More than 200 colourful traffic signs have appeared at New York City’s busy, high-accident hubs urging caution-in haiku . Photo: New York City DOT Just

Recalling Christ's words as he took the cup of wine at the Last Supper, the new Roman missal speaks of Christ's blood being "poured out for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins."

Christ’s death: for all or for many?

In its renewed faithfulness to the Latin Vulgate, the new third edition of the Roman Missal has changed the wording in the mass around the

Almond

Author’s novels help churches

Quebecker Paul Almond, Anglican lay minister and author of the proposed 10-book Alford Saga, wants to use his historical novels to help Anglican churches in

Test your ecclesiastical IQ!

“They were as fed stallions in the morning: everyone neighed after his neighbour’s wife.” This edgy biblical citation is from… 1. Leviticus2. Isaiah3. Ezekiel4. Jeremiah5.

Kokkonen

Christians urged to fight antisemitism

Friends of Yad Vashem-Israel’s official memorial to the Jewish victims of the Nazi Holocaust-Dr. Susanna Kokkonen brings the message of responsibility to Christian audiences. “Although

Competencies for ordination are an emerging item on the agenda of the house of bishops. Photo: Zvonimir Atietic

A wide-ranging agenda for House of Bishops

When Anglican and Lutheran bishops of every theological stripe met in Niagara Falls recently, topics ran the gamut from open table and confirmation to human

The remains of beloved animals find a home in Ontario churchyard

A final resting place for pets

Today, animal companions are widely considered family members, and in deference to the deep bond between people and their pets, a London, Ont., church has

For the second year, a multi-artist triptych will be on display during Advent at Toronto’s St. George the Martyr Church. Photo: Rev. Simon Bell

Triptych for Advent adorns church

Last year, Christmas visitors to St. George the Martyr Church in Toronto’s downtown core were met by an unusual seasonal adornment: a triptych painted by

The Most Rev. John Boissonneau, auxiliary Roman Catholic bishop of Toronto, with the new Roman missal. Photo: Michael Swan/The Catholic Register

Roman missal to change at Advent

The Roman Catholic Mass may soon sound a little more…well, Anglican. With the first Sunday in Advent and the new liturgical year just around the

Trooper Clarence McFarland, age 18, at home in New Brunswick on leave from training in Dundurn, Sask., 1944.

Oh, what a difference they made

Read the Anglican Journal’s Special Report on the Military Chaplaincy here In September 1939, 18-year-old Sid Irwin had his bags all packed for divinity school

More and more tribal leaders are thinking that the time has come for indigenous peoples in Canada to have their own political party. Photo: Marites N. Sison

Time for a First Nations provincial party?

Chief Wallace Fox of Saskatchewan’s 5,000-member Onion Lake Cree Nation has ressurected the concept of a First Nations provincial party, an idea that emerged in

All Saints Bread Kitchen will recruit trainees from a heavily populated city-run housing project at the corner of Toronto's Sherbourne and Dundas streets. Photo: Marie C. Fields

Let them eat bread!

The staff of life. Jesus’ gift to the poor. The body of Christ. Small wonder that All Saints Church, located on the mean streets of

(L to R): Sally Keeble, director of Anglican Alliance, and Mahjabeen Chowdhury, PWRDF Asia-Pacific program coordinator. Photo: Marites N. Sison

Advocacy for development

First proposed at the 2008 Lambeth Conference, the Anglican Alliance is an international initiative for development, relief and advocacy. Uniting partners across the Anglican Communion,

The Fellowship of Christian Farmers in Canada has sent many farmers to assist projects in countries from Albania to India. Photo: Szefei/Shutterstock

Evangelism and agriculture

From the Book of Jeremiah to Galations, the biblical metaphor of sowing and reaping has been a recurring fixture of Christian teaching. And so, Toronto’s

South African church unique

The Most Rev. Thabo MakgobaPhoto: Courtesy of Anglican Church of Southern Africa The Most Rev. Thabo Makgoba, Archbishop of Capetown and Metropolitan of the Anglican

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

Luke LaRocque builds relationships with youngsters in Malawi. Photo: contributed

Town and country

‘Whether travelling on the minibus to another city or playing with children in our neighbourhood, I saw firsthand that true development is not just about

Photo: Leah-Anne Thompson

Teaching the teachers

Think back to your own public school days. Your primary-grade teachers were most likely female-maybe even proverbial spinsters-and the principals male. In high school, the

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