Churches broach election
Anglican Journal
October 1, 2003
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
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
Dear editor, Normally I avoid teasing my blood pressure by reading the letters to the editor in the Journal, but one managed to catch my
General Secretary Sam Kobia The World Council of Churches (WCC) is in a healthier financial position and is on the road to overcoming the difficulties
The Church Army in Canada has moved its national office to Saint John from Toronto. The move, which became official on Sept. 1, reunites the
The diocese of Ottawa will mark Nov. 23 as Settlement and Reconciliation Sunday. The announcement came from the diocesan Residential Schools Settlement Commission, which is
Evelyn Presley, co-ordinator of Ottawa’s diocesan ACW, helps seal one of 115 bales for churches in the North; the bales were valued at $69,000. Following
Mover Paul Griffith attaches the pipes to the organ at St. Andrew’s church in Kelowna, B.C., 11 days after it was removed due to the
Trinity’s Len Bulmer guides Sunday school children through a lesson. Aurora, Ont.Seasons of the Spirit, adopted by the Anglican Church of Canada as its recommended
Former South African Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu has commended Kenya’s attempt to confront its “painful” past through a truth commission, following the ousting of a
Dear editor, I write with respect to the tragic issues of abuse at the Indian residential schools (IRS) which operated for much of the last
Conservative primates, or national leaders, of the worldwide Anglican Communion are preparing to pressure the Archbishop of Canterbury this month to create a new province
TorontoA residential schools update will be sent to the Episcopal Church of the United States as its executive council members prepare to vote this fall
Bishop Duleep de Chickera urged the warring Sri Lankan government and Tamil Tigers to return to the negotiating table. New DelhiChurch leaders in Sri Lanka
The Songs of the Mothersby Joe Morris DossChurch Pub. Inc., NY317 pp, 46.25 Anglicans have always loved tranquillity and too often that has meant acquiescence
Next month, in these pages, we would like to tell readers about the Oct. 7-10 meeting between the Anglican Council of Aboriginal Peoples (ACIP) and
Several Anglicans in the Guelph, Ont., area were involved recently in the production of The Laramie Project, a play about homophobia. The production revolves around
Toronto A Toronto parish has performed what may be the first public blessing of a same-sex marriage in Canada’s largest diocese. Alison Kemper and Joyce
Steve Schuhpresident of Integrity Vancouver Organizers of an international conference scheduled for later this month hope not only to put homosexuality issues on the radar
I visited Turku, Finland, in 2000 for a meeting of the council of the Lutheran World Federation. A great moment of that meeting occurred when
The Church of England has followed Britain’s Methodists by approving a covenant to create closer links between the two churches. The covenant agreed to in