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We want your photos

The Anglican Journal wants to showcase the best of its readers’ photographs through its Web site, anglicanjournal.com. Each month, the Journal will invite submissions based

Bridge victims remembered at service

MinneapolisAn interfaith service of healing was held Aug. 5 at St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral in Minneapolis after the collapse on Aug. 1 of the Interstate

Corrections

Rev. Ephraim Radner was recently appointed professor of historical theology at Wycliffe College in Toronto. Letter writer Rev. Barbara Liotscos (Resistance to injustice, June/July letters)

Toronto suffragan bishop to retire in 2008

Bishop Michael Bedford-Jones, the area bishop of Trent-Durham, diocese of Toronto, has announced he will retire on or before Feb. 29, 2008. Bishop Bedford-Jones, who

But never, never on a Sunday …

Two quite different books on the history of Christianity are the subject of this month’s review. A Short History of Christianity, by Stephen Tomkins, lives

Primate’s Fund joins food organization

The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) has been accepted as a member of the Canadian Foodgrains Bank, a Winnipeg-based Canadian Christian organization of

Appeal helps Journal’s bottom line

Enclosed in this issue of the Anglican Journal is information about the 2007 Anglican Journal Appeal. As always, proceeds of the Appeal are split evenly

PWRDF aids flood victims in Bangladesh

The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) has contributed to relief efforts concerning the conflict in the Gaza Strip in the Middle East and

Grenville closes doors

Grenville Christian College, a private school in Brockville, Ont. that traces its heritage back to 1918, closed on Aug. 1. “Changing demographics, declining enrolment, and

Young Anglican follows vocation

Sister Amy Hamilton Sister Amy Hamilton is turning 30 this year and experiencing the same angst as any other twenty-something nearing that milestone. The only

Filmmaker’s last work left undone

Richard Stringer travelled to the Arctic for his film about his grandfather, Bishop Isaac Singer. Bishop Stringer was the first missionary in the western Arctic

We want your photos

Recently, the Anglican Journal asked readers to submit their best photographs for Picture Your Faith, a new monthly feature on the Journal Web site, anglicanjournal.com.

Images of General Synod 2007

(Left) Primatial candidates Bishop George Bruce, diocese of Ontario, and Bishop Fred Hiltz, diocese of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, outside Holy Trinity church,

Purification

Native elder Linda Blomme leads a smudging ceremony on the banks of Winnipeg’s Red River. Used to purify people and places before a sacred ceremony,

PWRDF donations up last year

Anglicans have continued to respond generously to the Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF), giving $5.243 million in donations and bequests in 2006. The

Network makes case for native clergy

The Anglican Indigenous Network has put itself on a new and firm bureaucratic footing in order to push forward on its number one concern –

AIDS program targets migrants

Migrant workers from Thailand perform at the 2007 AIDS Festival organized in Hong Kong by St. John’s Cathedral HIV Education Centre. The festival aims to

Lutherans reject same-sex blessings

Delegates of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada’s (ELCIC) 11th biennial National Convention rejected for the second time a motion allowing the blessing of same-sex

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