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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Bible-based gardening

Photo: contributed Last summer, 32 downtown Winnipeg kids learned how to cultivate the earth. They used creation-centred biblical principles set out at a day camp

Test your ecclesiastical IQ!

The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children’s teeth are set on edge is from…1. Proverbs2. Judges3. Jeremiah4. Zechariah Epact is…1. The three

Rough justice

A MUSLIM woman in Manila reads about the death of the Al-Qaeda leader on May 1. In the U.S., some took to the streets to

Celebrating the nativity

Creche aficionados, take note! And mark your fall calendars for Nov. 10-12. That’s when Toronto’s Cathedral Church of St. James will host an international conference

Should clergy perform marriages?

“There is no assumption there will be a resolution one way or the other,” said Archbishop Fred Hiltz.Photo:MNStudio A small group of bishops will lay

Covenant to help churches agree to disagree

Kearon With its usual faithful response to requests from the Anglican Communion, the Anglican Church of Canada is preparing materials for next year’s discussions of

A truly deep-south church

The Chapel of the Snows is the world’s southernmost dedicated religious building. If you’re wondering where to worship on your next trip to Antarctica, never

Monastics can teach worldly a thing or two

U.S. poet and Christian writer Kathleen Norris speaks at a recent Women’s Roundtable at St. John’s Convent in Toronto. Photo: Courtesy of Sisterhood of St.

A decade of full communion

Holding aloft a spade with a bright green pointed blade, Archbishop Fred Hiltz delivered a stirring May Day sermon at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in

Circumpolar Inuit set development conditions

A declaration on resource development principles was signed May 11 in Nuuk, Greenland. Photo: Imagix Mary Simon, national Inuit leader, welcomed the release of the

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