THE PROFILE OF the ‘average’ theological student has changed dramatically in recent years. Colleges and universities report an influx of older students, many beginning a
HOUSED IN A building named after the founder of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and using liberation theology as a jumping-off point, the principal of the
In the wake of a Vatican document that argued the Roman Catholic Church is the only true church, Pope John Paul told participants in a
Anglican bishops in southern Africa have agreed to undergo voluntary HIV/AIDS testing and to encourage clergy and lay leaders of their diocese to be tested
A different interpretation of the same data suggests conflicting conclusions about the quality of dental care Native children received at school. AFTER READING Ottawa Experimented
Two Anglican parishes in Burnaby, B.C., are considering joining with two Lutheran and two United churches to build a large Christian centre which would serve
100 years ago: November 1900 Canadian Churchman reported that France in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries went through a stage of profound irreverence. Courtiers, ecclesiastics,
The Church of England is considering installing cash machines in thousands of rural churches. Senior officials want to exploit the vacuum left by the closure
WHEN I WAS a boy, I was extremely impatient with the little afflictions of summer. With my pale complexion, I suffered from sunburn, but I
Tiger Woods’ recent triumphant appearance at the Canadian Open golf tournament in Oakville, Ont., provided an unexpected bonus for the Church of the Incarnation, right
Anglicans who choose to dip their bread into the common cup during the eucharist may believe they avoid sharing whatever bacteria fellow parishioners who sipped
Two U.S. priests say they have been authorized to form an Anglican Mission in America under the auspices of the provinces of Rwanda and South
The churches may have a powerful new ally in the form of a coalescing group of residential school survivors who plan to lobby the federal
General secretaries – the chief operating officers – from 31 of the 38 provinces in the Anglican Communion met in Toronto last August. A full
Nairobi DEATH is no stranger in Mozambique, the world’s poorest country, where the national health service covers only 15 per cent of the population. But
THE GRACE who gets saved in this offbeat English comedy is a widow (Brenda Blethyn) who lives on the coast of Cornwall. The film begins
THE EIGHTH bishop of Ottawa sounds almost apologetic as he concedes that life in his diocese, where he has spent much of the nearly 30
A Quebec businessman has filed suit against the Diocese of Quebec, Bishop Bruce Stavert, the Church Society in the diocese, accounting firm Pricewaterhouse-Coopers, and others,
A statement from the Vatican suggesting Anglican and other Christian churches are not “churches in the proper sense,” and certainly not sister churches of the
Oct. 28, 2000, St. John’s Church, York Mills, Toronto. Fidelity sponsors a presentation by Rev. Eric Beresford, consultant on ethics for General Synod, who will