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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Voices from the classroom

Here’s a sample of the results and related comments from respondents to a recent online poll of Canadian public school teachers, taken from The Voice

Bearing witness to the Marks of Mission

Songs, videos, art and a new Sunday school resource celebrate the ministry of ordinary Anglicans. Photo: Roxyfer/Shutterstock The Pied Piper taught us how powerful a

Toronto protesters pitch tents outside Cathedral Church of St. James as part of worldwide response to economic disparity. Photo: Peter Sinclair Snap 3D

Shantytown springs up next to cathedral

Toronto– Last Sunday, as the great organ boomed in the Cathedral Church of St. James, the park next door reverberated with live down-east fiddling. In

Where God wants her to be

The Rt. Rev. Mary D. Glasspool at her May 2010 ordination as the bishop suffragan of the diocese of Los Angeles. Photo: contributed Spending an

Test your ecclesiastical IQ!

Theopaschites refers to… 1. People who believe that God the Father suffered along with the incarnate Christ the Son. 2. An early Greek Christian theologian

What teachers are saying

Canadian public school teachers say they love their profession, but they are also aware of some very serious challenges emerging in the second decade of

How have teachers changed?

Increasingly, says OISE’s Dr. Janette Pelletier, “we see individuals with advanced knowledge, skills and experience choosing to enter the teaching profession. It is not simply

The cloistered life

In an era when some of us spend more time at our television and computer screens than there are hours in the day, and Canadians

Too many students?

When I was doing my third undergraduate year in classics at the University of Gottingen, Germany, I met a couple of young locals, Ute and

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

Photo: Forestpath

A farewell to structure

Modern compulsory public education originated in 19th-century Prussia—yes, with the folks who brought you spiked helmets and Iron Chancellor Otto von Bismarck. For Dr. Carlo

Dr. Susanna Kokkonen: The lessons to be learned are universal.

A Christian ambassador for the Holocaust

A Finnish-born Pentecostal Christian may seem like an unlikely roving ambassador for an Israeli Holocaust remembrance organization, but for the past three years, Dr. Susanna

Egypt bans religious discrimination

Egypt has amended its criminal code and has imposed a fine of at least U.S. $5,000 for discrimination based on “gender, origin, language, religion or

Padre Jack Barrett makes his rounds on the Hibernia oil platform. Photo: contributed

Platform souls

Lieutenant Jack Barrett was just coming off leave in March 2009 when he got a call from Pastor Edison Wiltshire, the head of Ezra Chaplaincy

On a mobile medical trip to the mountains near Jacmel, Haiti, Padre Shaun Turner greets and registers a young patient. Photo: Courtesy of Shaun Turner

The river became our cathedral

A few years ago, if you had told Captain Shaun Turner that he’d be sleeping on a groundsheet on a Haitian airstrip just after Christmas,

The TRTL home, above, has a shell-like profile that blends with the foothills of western Canada. Photo: New Vave

New take on traditional living

A team of students at the University of Calgary has designed a solar-powered home that produces as much energy as it consumes. The Technological Residence,

Bishop John Horden Photo: General Synod Archives

Psalms in Cree

In its first reprinting since 1995, Psalms and Hymns in the Cree Indian Language is now available in soft cover. The original compilation by the

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