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Ministry is all downhill

Rev. Jack Greenhalgh, chaplain at Big White Ski Resort, in British Columbia’s interior, baptizes Spencer David Loyd, son of resort employees James and Brenda Loyd,

Church figures honoured

Canon Roderick A. Robinson, of the diocese of Caledonia, and Janet Somerville, former general secretary of the Canadian Council of Churches (CCC), were named in

David Crawley continues the quest

Annie Dillard is my favourite contemporary writer. Her work is impossible to categorize. She has an astounding eye for the intricacies of nature, but she

Aid agencies respond to Iran quake

A Hungarian Baptist Aid medical team in Bam, Iran, works under palm trees for shade during the day and by reflector light at night. Responding

A journey worthy of Ulysses

Cold Mountain is a small story set against a huge backdrop of events and the nurturing sweep of landscape and nature. At the outset of

Turning a page on a churchman’s career

The Peers family in a 2001 photo (from left): Dorothy; Richard (with son William atop), his wife Jeanette Revet (with daughter Emma); Michael; Valerie; Nga

Light’s on as new bishop

Light Parishes in the former British Columbia diocese of Cariboo will once again have a bishop. Now called the Anglican Parishes of the Central Interior

Three parishes close

Three of the six Anglican parishes in Niagara Falls, Ont. are facing closure. With dwindling attendance, St. Stephen’s church voted to disestablish last November and

Arctic supports ACiNW

September’s meeting in Yellowknife of the diocese of the Arctic’s executive committee saw this resolution passed: “That this executive affirm the stand taken by the

Government silence condemned

Johannesburg South African church leaders have condemned their government’s silence on atrocities committed by Zimbabwe ‘s rulers against political opponents, equating the situation in their

Believing there is a better way

The Human Right to Peaceby Douglas RocheNovalis 271 pages, $24.95 At the end of this month it will be Lent again and, as always, I

New network for dissenters

Bishops of the Episcopal Church in the United States (ECUSA) who dissented from decisions by last summer’s General Convention endorsing the consecration of a gay

Kairos launches ambitious agenda for peace

Participants at Kairos roundtable on human rights and global security included (left) Gerry Barr, CCIC; Monia Mazigh, wife of Maher Arar, recently released from a

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