Leigh Anne Williams

  • Leigh Anne Williams joined the Anglican Journal in 2008 as a part-time staff writer. She also works as the Canadian correspondent for Publishers Weekly, a New York-based trade magazine for the book publishing. Prior to this, Williams worked as a reporter for the Canadian bureau of TIME Magazine, news editor of Quill & Quire, and a copy editor at The Halifax Herald, The Globe and Mail and The Bay Street Bull.

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Dancing Nfld. priests raise $92K

Rev. David Burrows, Parish of the Ascension, Mount Pearl, dances with Erika Wilansky. In an Atlantic variation on the television show Dancing with the Stars,

Sorrento director approved as APCI bishop

Bishop-elect Barbara Andrews Rev. Barbara Andrews, executive director of the Sorrento Retreat and Conference Centre in B.C. for seven years, has been elected suffragan bishop

Dead Sea Scrolls come to Canada

The Book of War, one of the scrolls that describes a ceremonial blessing to be recited after the final battle at the end of time.View

Marie Wilson, a former regional director of CBC North, and Chief Winton Littlechild, regional chief for the Assembly of First Nations.

New Truth and Reconciliation commissioners revealed

As Canadians prepare to mark the first anniversary of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s June 11 official apology to native people who suffered abuse as children in Indian Residential Schools, unofficial reports of the names of those chosen as a new chair and commissioners for the Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) appeared in the media.
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Journal readers respond generously

A front-page story about the plight of Francine Nijimbere, a 26-year-old woman from Burundi, in the May issue of the Anglican Journal has evoked an

Large bequest leaves church with 2008 surplus

Mississauga, Ont. General Synod’s deficit for 2008 might have been higher than the approved $1.3 million but, thanks to a generous bequest, the General Synod

PWRDF budget cut by $700,000

Curtis The Primate’s World Development and Relief Fund (PWRDF) has weathered the global economic storm so far but, preparing for tough times ahead, revised and

Kairos cuts staff and programs

Kairos, a Canadian ecumenical social justice organization, says it is dealing with major financial challenges by cutting five staff positions and restructuring its program areas.

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