Joelle Kidd, Author at Anglican Journal

Anglican-affiliated Thorneloe University fights to remain federated with Laurentian

Joelle Kidd — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 04:01:54 +0000

The president of Thorneloe University, a Sudbury, Ont. school affiliated with the Anglican Church of Canada, says an attempt by Laurentian University to end a 60-year-old federation agreement between the schools could seriously threaten its income and course offering. “No students means no tuition, which means no income,” Thorneloe University president Canon John Gibaut wrote […]

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‘Contemplative Knitting’ spins a vision of prayer—stitch by stitch

Joelle Kidd — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 04:01:50 +0000

Contemplative Knitting By Julie Cicora Publisher: Morehouse Publishing, 2021 168 pages ISBN: 9781640652620 Available through contemplativeknitting.com Knitting has been around for centuries, but it may be more popular than ever after the COVID-19 pandemic spurred widespread lockdowns in most of the world over the past year. Even former U.S. first lady Michelle Obama has taken […]

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COVID-19 claims retired Bishop Bedford-Jones

Joelle Kidd — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 04:01:20 +0000

Bishop Michael Bedford-Jones, a former suffragan bishop in the diocese of Toronto, died April 18 from complications related to COVID-19. Bedford-Jones and his wife, Bonnie, both contracted COVID-19 and were admitted to the ICU in Oshawa, Ont., the diocese of Ontario said in a series of email prayer requests March 31 and April 6. In […]

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Five years after the TRC report, reflections on reconciliation

Joelle Kidd — Wed, 05 May 2021 04:01:04 +0000

‘Every step … uncovers something else to do’ Five years after Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) released its final report and 94 Calls to Action as a response to the legacy of Canada’s Residential School system, the Anglican Church of Canada’s national Indigenous archbishop and reconciliation animator say progress on reconciliation has been mixed. […]

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Key documents of Indigenous Anglican church drafted

Joelle Kidd — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 14:06:13 +0000

The foundational documents of the planned Indigenous Anglican church have now been drafted, and Sacred Circle, the national gathering of Indigenous Anglicans, will be discussing them when it meets online June 10-12, National Indigenous Archbishop Mark MacDonald says. Sacred Circle, he says, has been working on a covenant (similar to a constitution) and a document, […]

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General Synod-funded research project addresses human trafficking in the pandemic era

Joelle Kidd — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 13:46:50 +0000

Since it was publicly identified in Wuhan, China, in late 2019, COVID-19 has claimed the lives of more than two million people worldwide. The global pandemic has had far-reaching effects in almost every area of our lives, and as many have said, has exacerbated previously existing issues of inequality around the globe. In the Asia […]

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Suffering from COVID-19— months after recovering

Tali Folkins — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 05:02:05 +0000

When she goes on long walks these days, Judy Carson, a member of St. Thomas’s Anglican Church, Shanty Bay, Ont., sometimes takes an oxygen tank with her to keep from getting out of breath.

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‘Canada needs healing’: Bishop Isaiah Beardy on Bill C-15 and UNDRIP

Joelle Kidd — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 21:59:41 +0000

In December 2020, the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada David Lametti introduced Bill C-15, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act, which, if passed, will require the government of Canada to align the country’s laws with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).

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AFC-funded program helps with homework

Joelle Kidd — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 05:00:37 +0000

The Anglican Foundation of Canada (AFC) has awarded $6,000 to a homework club for kids in downtown Toronto as part of its fall 2020 grant cycle. St. Jamestown Homework Club is a collaboration between three Toronto churches: Rosedale Presbyterian Church, St. Peter and St. Simon-the-Apostle Anglican Church and St. Andrew’s United Church. It has been […]

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Rethinking darkness and light

Joelle Kidd — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 05:00:46 +0000

Leaders in the Lutheran and United churches on language and anti-Blackness Adele Halliday still remembers conversations from a church she attended years ago. The congregation constantly associated whiteness with purity and goodness, and darkness with evil. They talked about people being “washed white” from the blackness of sin. Language is an important part of Christian […]

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