Eric Beresford RECENT developments in the biological sciences, including genomics, the science of gene mapping and manipulation, have the potential to change human life in
CHURCH communications are a complicated business. We who attempt this craft are expected to be informative, erudite, even inspiring. Often, our jobs are made more
Bishop John Clarke of Athabasca The bishop who stirred controversy last summer with an admonition through the media that Anglicans stop “beating themselves up” with
Archbishop Terry Finlay FITTINGLY for an area dominated by a cosmopolitan and multicultural city, the diocese of Toronto’s Anglicans demonstrate a flare for activism and
Thompson Toronto A Toronto parish priest who was a youth worker for General Synod 20 years ago is returning to Church House as principal secretary
Vianney Carriere Toronto Vianney (Sam) Carriere, acting editor of the Anglican Journal since last August, has been confirmed as editor of the national newspaper and
London Ninian Smart, a teacher and author on comparative religion, has died at the age of 73. Mr. Smart, a Scot, called himself an “Episcopalian-Buddhist”
A boy in Barrio El Espino, Ahuachapan, El Salvador, helps dig out the ruins of what was once his family’s house, before the January earthquake
Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey holds a Rwandan child during a recent visit to Africa. London An increasingly time-consuming international and ecumenical role has led
Geneva (ENI, ACNS)-The central committee of the World Council of Churches wrapped up a nine-day meeting in February with reconciliation between conservative and liberal churches
Robert Martin, editor of The Diocesan Times, diocese of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, has resigned. He and his wife, Mary Martin, will move
Great Pilgrimages narrator Peter Downie, at Canterbury Cathedral. And smale fowles maken melodye, That slepen al the nyght with open ye, (So pricketh hem nature
Archbishop Richard Holloway It is time for the church to change, to leave behind a “dying mind-set” of authority over people’s private lives and become
Oxford Web Publications Ltd., the firm that printed the Anglican Journal and the Anglican Church of Canada’s 20 diocesan newspapers, said it was forced into
Canadian Anglican Eileen Scully of Waterloo, Ont., has been named to an international group of Anglican theologians with the mandate of preventing the Anglican communion
Dr. Arthur Peacocke London A British scientist who is also an Anglican priest has been awarded the 2001 Templeton prize for Progress in Religion. Arthur
Anniversary Emmanuella House of Prayer, in the diocese of Kootenay, celebrated its first anniversary as a retreat center last October. In the first year, visitors
ReconciliationSearching for Australia’s SoulBy Norman C. Habel198 pages, paper $19.95Harper Collins1-8637-1759-5 THE PHRASE “healing and reconciliation” has become popular as churches struggle in light of
Financial campaign Council of General Synod (CoGS) drew on the work of three recent consultations with about 100 Anglicans and decided to commission a study
Anglicab Bishop K.H. Ting China’s last Anglican bishop, K.H. Ting, may be moving a bit more slowly these days, but at the age of 85
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