COGS Briefs
Anglican Journal
April 1, 2001
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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”
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
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
Berlin The World Council of Church has launched a Decade to Overcome Violence in the shadow of controversy over whether violence to end violence and
New York Episcopal Bishop Christopher Epting of Iowa has been appointed deputy for Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations for the Episcopal Church in the United States.
Jerusalem Violence on the West Bank and Gaza is putting the health of Palestinians at risk and creating extra pressure for the two hospitals run
Last year’s two direct mail appeals for donations to the Anglican Journal have met with unprecedented success. Readers responded to appeals in June and September
Michael Peers A FEW WEEKS ago some works of art were stolen from a provincial legislature, and a local radio show interviewed the legislature’s curator
Anglicans in other parts of the world are bewildered by the residential schools crisis in Canada. Many also share in the effects of budget cuts