Leigh Anne Williams, Author at Anglican Journal

Primate to visit diocese of Yukon

Leigh Anne Williams — Fri, 26 Jun 2015 15:12:00 +0000

When Archbishop Fred Hiltz celebrates Canada Day the sun will rise in Whitehorse at 3:35 a.m. and won't set until 10:33 p.m., but the primate of the Anglican Church of Canada may need those long hours of daylight to see and do all that his hosts have planned throughout the diocese of Yukon.

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Getting to know one another

Leigh Anne Williams — Wed, 17 Jun 2015 00:54:00 +0000

It took the Rev. Canon Rod BrantFrancis and the Rev. Lisa BrantFrancis 19 hours to drive from their parish in northern Quebec to their new companion parish in Toronto for the first time in April, but the story of these two parishes coming together actually has its beginnings much farther away.

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Church bells ring for residential school survivors, reconciliation

Leigh Anne Williams — Sun, 31 May 2015 21:01:00 +0000

Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There's a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in

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Companion relationships tell a different story

Leigh Anne Williams — Mon, 25 May 2015 20:40:00 +0000

Bishop David Torraville of the diocese of Central Newfoundland first met Bishop Francis Loyo of the diocese of Rokon, South Sudan, at Lambeth in 2008, and they established a companion relationship between their dioceses. The two bishops have also built a friendship ...

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Listening will ‘open hearts’

Leigh Anne Williams — Fri, 22 May 2015 19:16:00 +0000

Dixie Bird grew up and has worked with youth on the Montreal Lake reserve in northern Saskatchewan. She now lives in Prince Albert, Sask., and will be a delegate to General Synod 2016 as one of the representatives of the Anglican Council of Indigenous Peoples.

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New damage and disease threaten Nepal

Leigh Anne Williams — Wed, 13 May 2015 17:24:00 +0000

Two weeks before the May 25 deadline set by the Canadian government for matching donations given to registered charities for earthquake relief in Nepal, the Primate's World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) announced that Anglicans had so far donated $167, 937.

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New director brings ‘strong strategic skills’

Leigh Anne Williams — Tue, 12 May 2015 19:38:00 +0000

Meghan Kilty, the newly hired communication director for the Anglican Church of Canada, has been researching ways that communications can support community resiliency.

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Church should focus on mission, not maintenance

Leigh Anne Williams — Tue, 05 May 2015 20:54:00 +0000

Presenting a report from the Vital and Healthy Parishes project with Eileen Scully, director of Faith, Worship and Ministry for General Synod, the Rev. Jay Koyle told the Council of General Synod (CoGS) that the crisis of the church in decline has been misdiagnosed and requires a different approach for treatment.

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Small surplus despite lower revenues

Leigh Anne Williams — Tue, 05 May 2015 18:51:00 +0000

General Synod was able to transfer a surplus of $400,000 to its contingency fund, thanks largely to higher investment performance, according to the report from the financial management committee presented on May 2 to the Council of General Synod (CoGS) by committee chair Archbishop Colin Johnson.

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Commission to produce theological reflection

Leigh Anne Williams — Tue, 05 May 2015 16:42:00 +0000

The Primate's Commission on the Doctrine of Discovery, Reconciliation and Justice has spent time "in thoughtful, political and theological reflection" on the nature of the doctrine of discovery and is currently working on developing a theological reflection on the doctrine that can be shared with the rest of the church.

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