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Who do you say that I am’

With advent and Christmas approaching, we have reached that time of year when secular commercial interests will again bombard the public with unimagined fantasies to

Sisters choose leader

Bishop Ralph Spence blesses Sr. Marguerite May at her installation as the head of the Sisters of the Church in Oakville, Ont. Sr. Margaret (rear)

Synod speaker sparks debate

Quebec Members of the ecclesiastical province of Canada debated the choice of the senior bishop of the Episcopal Church of the United States (ECUSA) as

New beginnings for a sometimes-divided church

While last month heralded some new beginnings for indigenous Anglicans in Canada, recent events elsewhere might well be remembered as the beginning of the end

When personal faith and theology meet

Every now and then an exceptionable book appears in the market place and such is After the Locusts, Letters from a Landscape of Faith ,

Pope notes difficulties on gay clergy issue

A strengthening of relations but also the recognition of new problems marked the first official visit of Archbishop Rowan Williams, the head of the Anglican

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A thank you from a frequent traveller

I am writing these notes in a retreat house in the foothills of the Rockies and have spent some of the time in self-examination, (something

What price unity’ asks Irish primate

Here, reprinted courtesy of the Church of Ireland Gazette (www.gazette.ireland.anglican.org), is an excerpt of an essay by the Archbishop of Armagh and senior primate of

Facing chronic illnesses with hope

Grace Casselman’s Knocked Off My Knees is a good source of education for someone diagnosed with lupus but, more importantly, it is a personal story

Stories for wee readers

Very small children love stories and also love a book to call their own. Bible for Me by Andy Holmes, illustrated by Ralph Voltz (Tommy

Primates see threat to unity

From left, Archbishop Remi Joseph Rabenirina, Church of the Indian Ocean; Archbishop Samuel Ndayisenga, Episcopal Church of Burundi; Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams. LondonWhile declaring

WCC campaign on violence targets U.S.

GenevaThe United States is to be the focus of an ecumenical church campaign against violence, the main governing body of the World Council of Churches

His blue heaven

A priest in the diocese of Edmonton has agreed to let the church’s Sunday school children dye his hair blue if they can match his

Fewer in New West pews

Average church attendance in the diocese of New Westminster is down again for the second time in as many years. The diocese reports that 8,167

Quebec crab fishers face grim future

Registered nurse Mary Spingle prepares for an evening service at St. Peter’s church in Old Fort Bay Blanc-Sablon, Que.Rev. Douglas Painter is cordial but grim.

Churches broach election

Bishops in the province of Ontario are wading into secular politics and have issued a pamphlet to help Anglicans ask questions of their local candidates