Kristin Jenkins, Author at Anglican Journal https://anglicanjournal.com National News from the Anglican Church of Canada Tue, 16 Jun 2020 21:23:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://anglicanjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/AJ-logo-01.svg Kristin Jenkins, Author at Anglican Journal https://anglicanjournal.com 32 32 170042892 Choosing Door Number Two https://anglicanjournal.com/choosing-door-number-two/ https://anglicanjournal.com/choosing-door-number-two/#respond Fri, 22 Feb 2013 21:14:00 +0000 http://localhost/anglicanjournal/index.php/article/choosing-door-number-two/ When my grandmother's chronic indigestion turned out to be cancer of the pancreas, she was flabbergasted.

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/choosing-door-number-two/feed/ 0 103495 Let’s keep the lines of communication open https://anglicanjournal.com/lets-keep-the-lines-of-communication-open-11240/ https://anglicanjournal.com/lets-keep-the-lines-of-communication-open-11240/#respond Thu, 01 Nov 2012 04:00:00 +0000 http://localhost/anglicanjournal/index.php/article/lets-keep-the-lines-of-communication-open-11240/ Why does the blind man sing with such joy? In the hurly-burly of downtown Toronto’s busy Bloor-Yonge subway station, he stands alone during rush hour. He cannot see the stern faces of the commuters pushing past him. He seems as oblivious to their tension as they are to his music. He sways slightly, his face […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/lets-keep-the-lines-of-communication-open-11240/feed/ 0 103561 The road less travelled https://anglicanjournal.com/the-road-less-travelled-11165/ https://anglicanjournal.com/the-road-less-travelled-11165/#respond Mon, 01 Oct 2012 04:00:00 +0000 http://localhost/anglicanjournal/index.php/article/the-road-less-travelled-11165/ Every weekend when I get home to Belleville, Ont., my 85-year-old mother picks me up at the train station. She drives a little blue Chevy puddle-jumper whose licence plates read Rookie (pronounced ROO-key). It was a nickname my father gave her many moons ago. Maybe it was because her name is Ruth. Maybe it was […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/the-road-less-travelled-11165/feed/ 0 103532 The Readership Survey Report https://anglicanjournal.com/the-readership-survey-report-11078/ https://anglicanjournal.com/the-readership-survey-report-11078/#respond Sat, 01 Sep 2012 04:00:00 +0000 http://localhost/anglicanjournal/index.php/article/the-readership-survey-report-11078/ Thank you to the 4,185 readers who took the time to fill out our national readership survey. Your feedback-which at 2.9% of the total readership is “statistically significant,” by the way-has given us much food for thought. Importantly, it has given us what we need to make the Journal’s unique communications ministry of the Anglican […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/the-readership-survey-report-11078/feed/ 0 116281 A breath of fresh air https://anglicanjournal.com/a-breath-of-fresh-air-11040/ https://anglicanjournal.com/a-breath-of-fresh-air-11040/#respond Tue, 14 Aug 2012 04:00:00 +0000 http://localhost/anglicanjournal/index.php/article/a-breath-of-fresh-air-11040/ Like everyone who works at the Anglican Journal, I look forward to my summer holidays all year long. After 10 issues of the newspaper and all the myriad demands of a busy website, the entire staff is oh-so-ready. Left unchecked, the relentless pace of life on the career path, combined with personal responsibilities and commitments, […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/a-breath-of-fresh-air-11040/feed/ 0 103490 Our story as we choose to tell it https://anglicanjournal.com/our-story-as-we-choose-to-tell-it-10824/ https://anglicanjournal.com/our-story-as-we-choose-to-tell-it-10824/#respond Fri, 01 Jun 2012 04:00:00 +0000 http://localhost/anglicanjournal/index.php/article/our-story-as-we-choose-to-tell-it-10824/ In your hands, you are holding a little piece of history. With the June 2012 issue of the Anglican Journal, we are making sweeping changes (well, as sweeping as you can in 12 pages) to the way we present the news, the olds and the in-betweens. Our aim is to both isolate and link major […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/our-story-as-we-choose-to-tell-it-10824/feed/ 0 103516 You can go home again https://anglicanjournal.com/you-can-go-home-again-10712/ https://anglicanjournal.com/you-can-go-home-again-10712/#respond Tue, 01 May 2012 04:00:00 +0000 http://localhost/anglicanjournal/index.php/article/you-can-go-home-again-10712/ The year was 1976. I wore Frye boots, a jean skirt and waist-length hair that fell over my left shoulder in a single braid. I had just graduated from the University of Western Ontario with a degree in English. Now, I was moving to Toronto after landing a much-coveted job at Maclean-Hunter, then one of […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/you-can-go-home-again-10712/feed/ 0 103547 Choosing life https://anglicanjournal.com/choosing-life-10566/ https://anglicanjournal.com/choosing-life-10566/#respond Sun, 01 Apr 2012 04:00:00 +0000 http://localhost/anglicanjournal/index.php/article/choosing-life-10566/ I was only half awake as I settled into the back of the cab, but there was no mistaking the cigarette smoke. Fair enough, I thought to myself. I kept you waiting. It was my weekly taxi ride to the VIA Rail station, to catch the train from Belleville to Toronto. The driver had the […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/choosing-life-10566/feed/ 0 103497 Family matters https://anglicanjournal.com/family-matters-10467/ https://anglicanjournal.com/family-matters-10467/#respond Thu, 01 Mar 2012 05:00:00 +0000 http://localhost/anglicanjournal/index.php/article/family-matters-10467/ Vanessa and Charlie Photo: contributed I LIKE TO TELL my one and only child that she’s my pride and joy. And she is. Despite a rather rough start in life, Vanessa has blossomed into a beautiful, capable young woman with a kind and gentle spirit. Last fall, she graduated from Dalhousie University with an Honours […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/family-matters-10467/feed/ 0 103502 (Don’t) curb your enthusiasm https://anglicanjournal.com/dont-curb-your-enthusiasm-10357/ https://anglicanjournal.com/dont-curb-your-enthusiasm-10357/#respond Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:00:00 +0000 http://localhost/anglicanjournal/index.php/article/dont-curb-your-enthusiasm-10357/ Andy Rooney of 60 Minutes fame died recently at the age of 92. A curmudgeon to the end, he took great delight, every Sunday night on the television newsmagazine, to point out all the things in life that just don’t make sense. From the war on Iraq to the size of blueberries pictured on the […]

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