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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ARTICLES

With this ring Elaine Vautour weds Anne Vautour.

Bullets over Broadway

On a chilly day in January, 2001, the Rev. Dr. Brent Hawkes became perhaps the most publicized clergyman in the world. On that day, Jan.

Four decades of Anglican-Roman Catholic dialogue

Last month, the national Canadian ARC Bishops’ Dialogue celebrated 40 years of bringing Anglican and Roman Catholics closer together. “The Canadian Anglican-Roman Catholic dialogue is

Milestones in Christian history

June 325 First Council of Nicaea Emperor Constantine invites 1,800 Christian bishops to meet in Nicaea in present-day Turkey. The council is the first attempt

Let us offer our prayers to the Source of all life and love." Photo: Nick Norman / National Geographic

Prayers for the planet

Today, the urgent issue of climate change is uppermost in the Anglican conscience-and soon it may be front and centre in lay prayers and intercessions.

Book Review: No big fish story, this

A once thriving coastal community on the Chukchi Sea is moved inland two miles because of flooding. A beloved grandmother drowns while crossing thin ice

Reason for the season: Tapping into moments of joy and goodwill. Photo: Michael Hudson

Christmastide

In this secular and multi-faith society, Christmas past and present still resonates deeply with Canadians. My proudest hour as a child was playing Magus Melchior

The Bishop's Gospel Choir of British Columbia in Victoria. Top row, centre: Bishop James Cowan with Mary Rogers, choir director, on his left. Photo: contributed

The sound of sacred music

For some, music is the most hallowed of all the human arts-the most spiritual and the most akin to the invisible yet somehow palpable presence

Always up for a challenge: Selma Doucet’s winning style. Photo: contributed

A septuagenarian powerhouse

Selma Doucet may be turning 75, but she’s showing no sign of slowing the whirlwind pace of church activity that takes her all over her

Call me Duke

Wellington (“Call me Duke”) Murray, 74, spent most of his working life as a troubleshooter for the vast New Brunswick Power Corporation. These days, the

Photos like this one of the Western Sunday School Caravan Mission won't be so easy to access, thanks to federal cuts announced in April. Photo: General Synod Archives P7804-50

Budget cuts threaten church archives

Church and secular archivists across Canada fear that funding cuts to Library and Archives Canada (LAC) will severely restrict their ability to acquire, preserve and

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