The name of St. Nicholas is commonly associated with the Christmas season, but popular imagination is likely to picture him less as a saint wearing bishop’s robes and more as a plump, jolly man in a bright red suit.
Dozens of ordained women from the Anglican Church of Canada and the Episcopal Church gathered together Oct. 8-10 for the Leading Women conference, an all-women meeting at the Mundelein Seminary in Chicago that sought to encourage women in church leadership.
Welcome … Home, the National Youth Project (NYP) for 2018-2020 focused on homelessness and affordable housing, is moving ahead with a new website and multiple new resources available online.
Active members of the Canadian Forces (CF) have the benefit of military chaplains, including many Anglican chaplains, to provide pastoral and spiritual care to them and their families. But what happens when those members leave the military?
Earlier this year, Indigenous midwives from Canada, Mexico and Peru came together for two gatherings as part of a three-year pilot project, in which PWRDF is providing more than $100,000 to facilitate the exchange of knowledge by midwives in all three countries.
Produced by a volunteer committee from the Hymn Society, an ecumenical non-profit association that seeks to promote congregational singing, Songs for the Holy Other includes almost 50 “queer hymns” by and for individuals who identify with the LGBTQ+ community and their allies.
Anglicans casting a ballot in Canada’s federal election on Oct. 21 will find a range of ecumenical resources to help them learn more about the issues and converse with candidates.
Among the various display booths spread throughout the Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre at General Synod 2019, guests and delegates passed one that bore testament to a new spirit of collaboration between two prominent Anglican seminaries in Toronto.
An amended motion for a constitutional review passed on the last day of General Synod 2019, setting the stage for a thorough examination of the body’s governance structures.
General Synod’s failure to pass a resolution to amend the marriage canon to expressly allow solemnization of same-sex marriage, followed by a communiqué from the House of Bishops effectively commending diocesan-based decisions on the matter, has triggered a wave of responses across the Anglican Church of Canada.
Graves in the northern Arctic, as in most places, are dug six feet deep.
A succession of resolutions brought by the Faith, Worship, and Ministry (FWM) Coordinating Committee, along with recognition for the Canadian Council of Churches, passed at
An effort to remove a prayer for conversion of the Jews from the Book of Common Prayer (BCP) and to replace it with one for
The Anglican Journal’s Matt Gardner offers this comprehensive glimpse of the aftermath of General Synod’s failure to pass an amendment to the marriage canon—with an exploration of what might come next and prayers from delegates here in Vancouver.
The Anglican Church of Canada will maintain its traditional definition of marriage after a vote to amend the marriage canon failed to pass at General
The signing of the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement (IRSSA) was a tumultuous experience for the Anglican Church of Canada—one that transformed the church’s relationship
“We, all of us, are living in the economy that is described in the Book of Revelation as the prelude to God’s intervention in human history, in a final and definitive way.”
Vancouver When it came to delegate preparation at the 42nd General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada, it’s fair to say that young people
The lives of Indigenous children who died in residential schools are now woven into the very fabric of ministry at St. Hildegard’s Sanctuary.
Stories of trauma and survival were central to the latest meeting of the Tri-History Conference, an international gathering of Anglican and Episcopal historians and archivists that took place from June 18-21 at Trinity College and Wycliffe College.
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