Letters to the Editor

I feel sorry for the former congregants of St. John the Evangelist in Thorold, Ont., who found that the liturgy and structure of the Anglican

The newly revised Roman Catholic Apostles’ Creed that includes the assumption that Jesus goes to hell is not news to those familiar with the Book

The editorial Choosing Life [April 2012, p. 4] tells a heart-breaking story of untreated mental illness resulting in the suicide of a young mother. One

With reference to J. Neilson’s letter to the editor [Copycats? March, p. 5], may I point out that the Roman Catholic Apostles’ Creed is the

Diana Swift’s article [Transforming a broken church, March p. 7] was truly inspirational. The Anglican Church of Canada needs dozens more similar stories if we

I would like to thank Diane Swift for her articles on asbestos [Parishioners protest, April 2012, p.1, and Killer buildings, April 2012, p 3]. I

The headline Killer buildings [April, p. 3] was catchy. It was also alarmist and misleading.In the early 80s, my company was considering the purchase of

A word of appreciation for Bishop Mark MacDonald’s column, Why be a Christian? [April 2012, p. 4. I thoroughly support the response of his Lakota

To grow or not to grow? That is the question. And rightly so. I attended a compline service the other evening-lovely music, soft lighting, serene

In your April 2012 issue, there were two articles describing the efforts of to stop Canada’s involvement in asbestos because of health-related risks [Parishioners protest,

Why is the Anglican church losing members of their congregations? The answer is that the Anglican church is not consistent.Is God all or isn’t he?

I was very glad to see an insert on religious orders of the Anglican Church of Canada in the February edition of the Anglican Journal.

In the Letters to the editor [More lay people, please, Feb. 2012, p. 6,], John Laidlaw suggests that the church sometimes seems to exist for

It seems to me that the usual Anglican anxiety about the (declining) state of the church and George Sumner’s letter (Spiritual new wave, Jan. 2012,

In February, CBC news reported that the CSIS (Canadian Security Intelligence Service) is reversing its policy of discarding information obtained through torture.  Now it will

Re: The war on poverty [Feb. 2012, p. 10]During the 1930s, members of the Antigonish Movement helped thousands of Nova Scotians lift themselves out of

In the March issue of the Montreal Anglican [p. 4] a picture with the caption read in part, “More than 40 women priests from across

I am still chuckling over John Laidlaw’s letter (More lay people, please, Feb. 2012, p. 6). He did mean it as a joke, didn’t he,

The Rev. Gordon Maitland, in his article The Golden Jubilee of the BCP (Mar. 2012, p. 10), states that the primate in 1962 was Archbishop Howard