More than 20 Chinese religious prints and paintings depicting the Buddhist and Daoist concepts of heaven or hell as well as deities worshipped by believers
A dozen people, many of them homeless or mentally ill, approach Vancouver street priest Rev. Matthew Johnson on a typical walkabout. Rev. Matthew Johnson of
The diocesan council of New Westminster has offered to provide payroll services to clergy of four dissenting parishes in the diocese to enable them to
The popular Ask & Imagine leadership program for young Anglicans received a grant in early December from the Lilly Endowment Inc., an American foundation that
One of the more significant items on the agenda of the General Synod in June (and likely on the agenda of the meeting of all
The Episcopal Church’s presiding bishop, Katharine Jefferts Schori, and a group of bishops announced in early December a proposal that would result in the appointment
Growing up in Calgary in the 1970s, members of a punk rock band called the Hot Nasties, we were misfits. Punks are always misfits, and
Maybe Thumper’s mother was wrong. The commonplace phrase that is traced back to the little bunny’s mother in Bambi goes thusly: “‘If you can’t say
In November, we asked Anglican Journal readers what signs of hope they saw in the church, in this time of shrinking membership and declining revenues.
The annual Week of Prayer for Christian Unity will be celebrated Jan. 21 to 28 in Canada with the theme Be Opened. The theme’s Scripture
David Ashdown, bishop of the diocese of Keewatin, presided for the second time last fall at a rite of solemn re-internment of century-old human remains
The Canadian chapter of Mothers’ Union (MU), has launched a Web site, www.mothersunioncanada.ca. MU, which the Arcbishop of Canterbury once referred to as the “fifth
With picturesque church buildings behind them, members of the Joint Anglican-Lutheran Commission met recently in Mahone Bay, N.S., to mark five years of full communion
For a second year in a row, Anglicans, Lutherans and Roman Catholics will not gather to renew their baptismal vows during this month’s Week of
Tokyo (ENI)-A grouping of Japanese churches and Christian organizations has protested North Korea’s nuclear weapon test but would like to see the United States have
The diocese of Fredericton has presented a $50,000 cheque to the HIV/AIDS campaign of the Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) from funds raised
Season of peace Across desert, jungle, plains, mountains, forests, towns and cities, Christians pause in the rush and bustle of everyday life to visit, to
Jerusalem A Lutheran Holy Land leader who was shocked to encounter school children begging by the road side has pleaded for Palestinians, Israelis and the
Keisha Castle-Hughes, as Mary, brings food to children in The Nativity Story. Before the film’s release, an evangelical group and the distributor arranged for special
Christmas Presence, a CD produced by the Holy Trinity Church Band in Calgary, won a Covenant Music Award on Oct. 27 for best seasonal album