Retired bishop Allan A. Read of the Diocese of Ontario and his wife Beverly have been effectively adopted into the Mohawk Nation, reports their daughter-in-law
LAST YEAR’S Lambeth Conference will unfortunately be remembered for its failures. In an effort to appease militant forms of Islam, particularly in Africa, the bishops
Quebec-born vocalist Celine Dion has become a huge worldwide commercial smash throughout this decade. Therefore, it made perfect sense when one of the most market-savvy
Aboriginal children on Northern Vancouver Island have begun learning their language of Kwak’wala in school. But they can’t speak it at home with their parents,
THE YOUNG teen chewed a fingernail while typing with one finger. She seemed a bit apprehensive about being online, but game to give it a
The Anglican Church of Canada has finalized a deal that will see it get a brand new national office space, effectively free of charge. In
IN NORTHERN Ontario, where logging, mining and tourism are the key industries, and there are several linguistic and cultural groups, the Diocese of Keewatin has
John Malkovich plays himself, caught up in the strangest of circumstances in Being John Malkovich. SOMETIMES there’s a film with a premise so weird that
ILEAFED THROUGH Joyful Noise and knew right away that I needed a copy. Ann Turner has put together traditional music that has inspired people of
Dr. Wendy L. Fletcher-Marsh has been appointed dean of the Vancouver School of Theology, effective July 1, 2000. Dr. Fletcher-Marsh is currently an associate professor
A former lay worker at a Toronto-area church has been charged with violating his bail conditions stemming from sexual assault charges laid last year. Richard
If church bureaucrats narrowly avoided stepping into a mess, federal civil servants haven’t. After losing ? badly ? a tax case involving nearly 50 ministers
Native people had their languages and culture taken from them, along with ways of resolving disputes they had developed over millenia, which had nothing to
After losing 46 of 49 cases this year in the Tax Court of Canada regarding clergy housing tax deductions, the federal government is proposing new
The small, predominantly Anglican community of Moose Factory, Ont., continues to mourn the loss of eight members in a boating accident, the worst mass tragedy
A group of Carmelite monks who left Nova Scotia temporar-ily because of logging noise are not returning. The logging rights to land surrounding the monks?
STEPHEN LEACOCK once wrote a macabre story about a futuristic Christmas dinner, a warning against the fast-food revolution that he foresaw.Before frozen food and microwaves
IN BASEBALL, they talk about five-tool players ? players who can run with speed, field their position flawlessly, throw the ball with strength and accuracy,
‘perished as though they had never been’ IN THE ENGLISH VILLAGE of Lane End, 30 miles from London, I recently dedicated the village’s new granite