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A Lenten Rendering

re’nder v.t. 1. Give in return (render thanks, good for evil). 2. (arch.) Give back; hand over, deliver, give up, surrender, (render to Caesar the

A memorable Holy Saturday service

In the Solomon Islands last year, Archbishop Michael Peers baptized a baby girl named Dorothy Peers in honour of his wife. IF, FOR SOME reason,

ABC clerk pleads guilty

A former sales clerk at the Anglican Book Centre in Toronto, Daniel Bishop, pleaded guilty to one charge of defrauding the nationally known bookstore and

Ecumenical meeting

Nairobi (Staff)-Ecumenism continued apace with an international meeting in Nairobi in January of Anglicans and Baptists. The Anglican Church of Canada’s director of faith, worship

Popular curriculum is replaced

After 15 years working with the familiar and popular Whole People of God curriculum, Sunday school educators have a new resource. In many ways, the

Controversy delays vote for new bishop

A lay delegate to the Episcopal Church of Cuba’s 93rd synod casts a ballot, as seminary students observe. Havana The bishop of Cuba has postponed

Right wing condemned

San Antonio, Texas The executive council of the Episcopal Church in the United States has passed its strongest condemnation yet of Anglican Mission in America,

Parishioner honored

Alice Mary-Elizabeth Cheatley, a resident of Winnipeg in the diocese of Rupert’s Land who is a member of St. Alban Anglican church, was named to

ABC book is well-prepared manifesto

ALL WHO MINISTER is certainly an unthreatening title. Even the sub-title, “New Ways of Serving God’s People,” sounds innocent. But the parts of this book

Closed centre still gets calls

It’s a February afternoon in the General Synod library. The phone rings and the caller is seeking a video from the national church’s long-closed resource

Celebration

Christ Church Cathedral in Ottawa held a celebration of full communion in February. Anglican Bishop Peter Coffin and Lutheran Bishop Michael Pryse led worship. At

Child abuse probed

Sydney (ENI)-Australia’s Anglican Church has announced an enquiry into child abuse in church institutions amid continuing criticism of the country’s constitutional head of state –

Cubans want to return to ECUSA

Special on Cuba In February, the primate, Archbishop Michael Peers, went to Havana for the 93rd synod of the Episcopal Church of Cuba. He attended

College award honors first woman priest

Florence Li Tim-Oi at a 1987 service on her 80th birthday. Renison College at the University of Waterloo, has created an award in memory of

Vocational conference

The five Anglican bishops in the dioceses of British Columbia and the Yukon have organized an Anglican vocational conference for young people at Vancouver School

Anti-terrorism law may hamper NGOs

NGO executives say Canada’s anti-terrorism law threatens their support of demonstrations such as this one against racism. Christian and secular non-governmental organizations (NGOs) involved in

Marga Buhrig

Marga Buhrig, a former president of the World Council of Churches (WCC) and one of Switzerland’s pioneering feminist theologians, died in February. She was 86.

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