Alpha organizers are planning an Alpha Millennium Day of Prayer across Canada on April 29 in an effort to expand the Alpha program as a
AS LENT approaches, we begin to reflect on how best we might use this special time in our church year. All the five books reviewed
A PLEASANT THING happened this week. I received a lovely note from a parishioner saying thanks for some small thing that I had done, that
Rev. Bill Cliff, Very Rev. Peter Wall and Rev. David Pickett rehearse with accompanist Angus Sinclair. FOR THREE YEARS, three priests of the Diocese of
Three Anglican priests from British Columbia attended protests and an interfaith service at the World Trade Organization meetings in Seattle late last year. The actions
Brown A former general secretary of the Canadian Council of Churches with a PhD in Islamic Studies has been hired as the Anglican Church of
British Prime Minister Tony Blair has accepted a report on reforming the House of Lords that calls for an increase in the number of spiritual
JOHN Freeman’s recent ordination in Monrovia, Liberia was a joyous event, as it typically is in the life of any new deacon. What makes his
The Supreme Court of Canada has agreed to hear an appeal in Trinity Western University’s dispute with the British Columbia College of Teachers. The dispute
RICHARD Hooker is often called the presiding genius of Anglicanism. But the most formative theologian of the Anglican way is a distant figure to many
Patricia Smith and Anne Elliott encourage people to create sacred spaces in their homes and offices. This “blessing fountain” with shells and stones honours sea
100 years ago: March 1900 Canadian Churchman reported that the Season of Lent is with us again with its solemn, earnest, yet hope- inspiring voices
INDIVIDUAL spiritual growth has always been an “assumed” part of Christian life, (I sometimes think we belong to “The Church of the Basic Assumption”) and
Healing Through PrayerHealth Practitioners Tell the StoryIntroduction by Peter Downie; several contributors168 pages paper $18.95Anglican Book Centre1 55126 229 0 JESUS’ supernatural healings were a
Canadian Volunteers in Mission meet in Tanzania. Back row, from left, David and Patricia Dunnill, Barry Campbell, Olwen Elliott, Iain Elliott. Front row, from left,
Denzel Washington plays `Hurricane’ Carter, who was wrongly jailed for murder. IT BEGINS as a movie about boxing and ends up as a parable of
THE FIRST question to be asked about this new study Bible is why the publishers of the widely used New Oxford Annotated Bible believe there
A former altar boy is suing the Anglican Church of Canada, two of its priests and two parishes for alleged sexual abuse. Glenn Alan Johnson,
More than half of Canada’s bishops have signed a statement condemning violence against homosexuals and calling for gays and lesbians to be treated with dignity
Canada’s faith leaders have banded together to call for the elimination of a federal “head tax” that places heavy financial burdens on immigrants and refugees.