As Canada reels from the fourth wave of COVID-19, provinces have been implementing rules that require people to have proof of their vaccination status to enter certain businesses and other venues.
Finding solace in the wake of grief and loss, providing help to those in need, and seeking to right wrongs are themes that pervade the October issue of the Anglican Journal.
The plumes of smoke over Lytton, B.C. were an “apocalyptic” sight for Melanie Delva. But what the Anglican Church of Canada’s reconciliation animator remembers most from June 30—the day her home and all her possessions were destroyed by the fire, the day Lytton burned to the ground—are the sounds.
If a frequent metaphor for reconciliation in Canada is Indigenous and non- Indigenous people walking together, Anglicans and Lutherans are sharing that journey as full communion partners—and playing a complementary role in each other’s work.
The summer of 2021 saw many changes, revelations and transformations affect the Anglican Church of Canada and Canadian society as a whole, which are reflected in the September issue of the Anglican Journal.
The full communion partnership between the Anglican Church of Canada and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada is both influenced and influencer when it comes to models for ecumenical partnerships.
The 10th Indigenous Anglican Sacred Circle took place online from July 14 to 17, with the theme “Returning Home: Remembering the Lost”. Delegates mourned those who had died while forging ahead with discussion of the Covenant and Our Way of Life—foundational documents that will determine the shape of the emerging Indigenous church.
The diaconate has a vital role to play for the church in transformative times, Anglican deacons across Canada heard at their latest triennial conference—the first ever held online.
For nearly half a century, Nancy Dyson and Dan Rubenstein rarely spoke about their experience as childcare workers at the Alert Bay Student Residence, better known as St. Michael’s Indian Residential School.
Reflecting on our past and future in full communion Much hard work preceded the signing of the Waterloo Declaration in 2001. It officially established a
The message of Jesus is a profoundly radical one for the Rev. Cheri DiNovo.
Anglican leaders in Canada have joined bishops across the Anglican Communion in calling for a Canadian company to halt oil drilling in the Kavango Basin—an
The establishment of the Indigenous Spiritual Ministry of Mishamikoweesh, the church’s first Indigenous diocese, in June 2014 was a watershed moment for Indigenous self-determination within the Anglican Church of Canada—and Archbishop David Ashdown played an indispensable role in it.
On June 2, the Rev. Vivian Seegers, founder and gathering priest of Urban Aboriginal Ministry (UAM) in the diocese of New Westminster, died at Vancouver General Hospital from complications due to COVID-19. She was 62.
The Rev. Canon Virginia “Ginny” Doctor, coordinator of Indigenous Ministries and a major architect of the self-determining Indigenous church, died on May 26. She was 71 years old.
A pandemic that has brought death, illness and disruption will likely also prevent the Council of General Synod (CoGS) from completing its goals for the
The Anglican Foundation of Canada (AFC) is seeking to help young people thrive after the COVID-19 pandemic with a new fundraising campaign that the foundation is calling its most ambitious yet.
As the pandemic persists, Anglicans across Canada continue to adapt life- and death-defining liturgies.
The Rev. Jonas Allooloo, who found himself homeless last October two years after his retirement, has moved into a small one-bedroom apartment in the city with his wife Meena.
On the frigid Sunday morning of Dec. 6, young Anglicans from the diocese of Ottawa gathered in a parking lot to help dozens of homeless youth heading into a long pandemic winter.
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