Mary Frances Schjonberg, Episcopal News Service, Author at Anglican Journal https://anglicanjournal.com National News from the Anglican Church of Canada Mon, 16 Aug 2021 12:00:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://anglicanjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/AJ-logo-01.svg Mary Frances Schjonberg, Episcopal News Service, Author at Anglican Journal https://anglicanjournal.com 32 32 170042892 Church ‘cannot, will not walk away’ from reconciling role in global conflict, Archbishop of Canterbury tells UN https://anglicanjournal.com/church-cannot-will-not-walk-away-from-reconciling-role-in-global-conflict-archbishop-of-canterbury-tells-un/ https://anglicanjournal.com/church-cannot-will-not-walk-away-from-reconciling-role-in-global-conflict-archbishop-of-canterbury-tells-un/#respond Thu, 30 Aug 2018 16:25:00 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=156949 Churches are on the front line of mediation efforts across the world, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby told the United Nations Security Council August 29, in part because they are often “the only functioning institutions in a fragile or pre-conflict situation.”

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/church-cannot-will-not-walk-away-from-reconciling-role-in-global-conflict-archbishop-of-canterbury-tells-un/feed/ 0 156949 Washington National Cathedral prepares to help family, nation honour McCain https://anglicanjournal.com/washington-national-cathedral-prepares-to-help-family-nation-honour-mccain/ https://anglicanjournal.com/washington-national-cathedral-prepares-to-help-family-nation-honour-mccain/#comments Wed, 29 Aug 2018 18:14:43 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=156932 Washington National Cathedral may be the site of state funerals and national memorial services and celebrations, but it is also a worshipping community whose members come to the cavernous building on the highest hill in Washington, D.C., to mark the significant moments of their lives. And that is why on September 1, the morning’s funeral for Sen. John McCain will be followed that afternoon by a wedding. 

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/washington-national-cathedral-prepares-to-help-family-nation-honour-mccain/feed/ 1 156932 ‘Living stones’ of Al Ahli Arab Hospital build a ministry of healing, witness in Gaza https://anglicanjournal.com/living-stones-of-al-ahli-arab-hospital-build-a-ministry-of-healing-witness-in-gaza/ https://anglicanjournal.com/living-stones-of-al-ahli-arab-hospital-build-a-ministry-of-healing-witness-in-gaza/#respond Tue, 10 Apr 2018 15:50:53 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=154935 Healing comes in many forms, and Al Ahli Arab Hospital’s medical ministry combines every day with Christian witness to provide the people of the Gaza Strip with an example of the love of Christ in action. That example is set in an area whose Christian population is dwindling. Suhaila Tarazi, the hospital’s director general, estimates […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/living-stones-of-al-ahli-arab-hospital-build-a-ministry-of-healing-witness-in-gaza/feed/ 0 154935 Episcopal Church challenged to repent for when it failed to protect victims of sexual exploitation, abuse https://anglicanjournal.com/episcopal-church-challenged-repent-failed-protect-victims-sexual-exploitation-abuse/ https://anglicanjournal.com/episcopal-church-challenged-repent-failed-protect-victims-sexual-exploitation-abuse/#respond Fri, 26 Jan 2018 17:47:01 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=153818 Presiding Bishop Michael Curry and the Rev. Gay Clark Jennings, president of the House of Deputies, issued a call Jan. 22 for the Episcopal Church to spend Lent and beyond examining its history and its handling or mishandling of cases of sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse. The two say in a letter to the church that recent […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/episcopal-church-challenged-repent-failed-protect-victims-sexual-exploitation-abuse/feed/ 0 153818 Episcopalians offer help as California fires rage https://anglicanjournal.com/episcopalians-offer-help-california-fires-rage/ https://anglicanjournal.com/episcopalians-offer-help-california-fires-rage/#respond Mon, 16 Oct 2017 20:10:33 +0000 http://anglicanjournal.com/?p=151580 Episcopalians in Northern California continue to monitor the growing wildfires in their neighbourhoods while finding ways to help their communities deal with the ongoing and expanding disaster. The Rev. Jim Richardson, priest-in-charge at Church of the Incarnation in hard-hit Santa Rosa, told Episcopal News Service October 12 that he knows of parishioners, including those with […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/episcopalians-offer-help-california-fires-rage/feed/ 0 151580 Preachers offer comfort, challenge and humour in the face of Harvey https://anglicanjournal.com/preachers-offer-comfort-challenge-humour-face-harvey/ https://anglicanjournal.com/preachers-offer-comfort-challenge-humour-face-harvey/#respond Fri, 08 Sep 2017 14:44:01 +0000 http://anglicanjournal.com/?p=150919 Sometimes, it is the simplest words that work the best.

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/preachers-offer-comfort-challenge-humour-face-harvey/feed/ 0 150919 Teaching bishops to be bishops https://anglicanjournal.com/teaching-bishops-bishops/ https://anglicanjournal.com/teaching-bishops-bishops/#respond Thu, 29 Jun 2017 18:09:36 +0000 http://2017.anglicanjournal.com/?p=128143 Quebec Bishop Bruce Myers, in the Class of 2016, represents a growing trend for the college: welcoming bishops from elsewhere in the Anglican Communion. There are currently four Canadian bishops participating. And the session at Roslyn was the last for El Salvador Bishop David Alvarado from the Anglican Province of Central America.

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/teaching-bishops-bishops/feed/ 0 128143 Episcopalians, Methodists propose full-communion agreement https://anglicanjournal.com/episcopalians-methodists-propose-full-communion-agreement/ https://anglicanjournal.com/episcopalians-methodists-propose-full-communion-agreement/#respond Thu, 18 May 2017 20:14:00 +0000 http://2017.anglicanjournal.com/articles/episcopalians-methodists-propose-full-communion-agreement/ A group of Episcopalians and Methodists has released its proposal for full communion between the two denominations.

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/episcopalians-methodists-propose-full-communion-agreement/feed/ 0 127153 Trump’s immigration policies force reduction of Episcopal Church’s refugee resettlement network https://anglicanjournal.com/trump-s-immigration-policies-force-reduction-of-episcopal-church-s-refugee-resettlement-network/ https://anglicanjournal.com/trump-s-immigration-policies-force-reduction-of-episcopal-church-s-refugee-resettlement-network/#respond Thu, 06 Apr 2017 19:25:00 +0000 http://2017.anglicanjournal.com/articles/trump-s-immigration-policies-force-reduction-of-episcopal-church-s-refugee-resettlement-network/ Episcopal Migration Ministries will reduce the size of its 31-member affiliate network by six in 2018 because of changing U.S. policy that will reduce the number of refugees to be resettled in this country annually by more than half.

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/trump-s-immigration-policies-force-reduction-of-episcopal-church-s-refugee-resettlement-network/feed/ 0 127152 In the bleak midwinter, Standing Rock Episcopal ministry is changing https://anglicanjournal.com/in-the-bleak-midwinter-standing-rock-episcopal-ministry-is-changing/ https://anglicanjournal.com/in-the-bleak-midwinter-standing-rock-episcopal-ministry-is-changing/#respond Wed, 01 Feb 2017 17:40:00 +0000 http://localhost/anglicanjournal/index.php/article/in-the-bleak-midwinter-standing-rock-episcopal-ministry-is-changing/ Episcopalians in and around the Standing Rock Sioux Nation Reservation are seeing their ministry change as the camps formed by water protectors along the Missouri River protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline are slowly closing. The temperature in the area may have climbed to 40 degrees on Jan. 30 but it is still the bleak midwinter in North Dakota and […]

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