Sean Frankling

  • Sean Frankling’s experience includes newspaper reporting as well as writing for video and podcast media. He’s been chasing stories since his first co-op for Toronto’s Gleaner Community Press at age 18. He studied journalism at Carleton University and has written for the Toronto Star, WatchMojo and other outlets.

ARTICLES

Ins Choi performs in Son of a Preacherman at Vancouver's Pacific Theatre. Photo: Chelsey Stuyt Photography

‘Every family has their lore’: Ins Choi on calling, theatre and Son of a Preacherman

Son of a Preacherman is based on Choi’s experience growing up as the son of a Korean-Canadian pastor whose mother had promised God he would become the same—and his journey to working in theatre instead. This fall, Choi is bringing the show on a tour that will take it home to the city that inspired it and the church where it was first staged.

Archbishop Shane Parker, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, stands outside Church House, the church's national office, wearing a cross presented to a previous primate by residents of the Solomon Islands. Photo: Sean Frankling

Pursuing possibilities together: Primate reflects on a year of change

In June 2025, General Synod elected then-bishop of Ottawa, Shane Parker, as primate of the Anglican Church of Canada. One year into a triennium of significant change, the Anglican Journal sat down with Archbishop Parker to discuss the church’s progress so far and his experience leading it as primate.

A group of people rangling from young adults to retirees from a variety of ethnic backgrounds sit around round tables, deep in conversation. The Council of General Synod called for a task force to gather information on how NDAs are used across the Anglican Church of Canada, its dioceses and other denominations. Photo: Sean Frankling

Task force to study church NDA use

The new task force is charged with studying practice and ethics surrounding NDA use, following up on work from 2025’s General Synod.

Groups of three to five members of CoGS from diverse backgrounds sit around circular tables, talking. At the head of the room, a screen displays a slide from a powerpoint presentation showing the text Where do we go from here?

Task force to consider church AI policy

Church leaders agreed they need more information on generative AI technologies to draft guidelines on how they should or should not be used.

Three young white people stand outdoors with grass, trees and low buildings in the background. One is a young man with short brown hair, a beard and glasses. The second is a young woman with a brown pony tail. And the third his a taller young man with shoulder length blonde hair, a beard and glasses.

National Youth Council terms of reference approved by CoGS

Task force chair Paige Keller, a youth member of CoGS from the ecclesiastical province of Ontario, said she and the task force “hope that this work reflects an ongoing commitment to creating space for young people to participate more fully in the life, leadership and discernment of our church.”

Members of the Jews Say No to Genocide coalition arrive at a 2024 event described as a discussion against antisemitism and hate at the Pride of Israel Synagogue, where they were denied entry and police dragged several members away from the building. Photo: Lauren Moses Brettler

Anti-hate bill draws doubts from religious communities

Several religious groups and civil liberties organizations are expressing concerns about Bill C-9, the Combatting Hate Act, which the House of Commons passed in its third and final vote on March 25.

Families play a game at a summer camp run by Karis Disability Services, the charity partnering with the diocese of Niagara to consult on their disability theology study process. Canon David Anderson, chair of the diocese's learning group, describes their camps as a source of many lessons about how to build communities of belonging. Photo: Victoria Gravesande

Diocese of Niagara begins disability theology work

A study group in the diocese of Niagara seeks to initiate a conversation about disability and belonging in the diocese, which proponents say can begin a transformation in the way people with disabilities relate to the church.

Idlout’s smile conveyed warmth, welcome and a sense of humility that made anyone feel like family, says former Bishop of the diocese of the Arctic David Parsons. Photo: General Synod Archives

Paul Idlout: Hunter, bishop, brother

The Anglican Church of Canada’s first Inuit bishop, Paul Idlout, lived through a period of massive change in the Arctic that affected his people’s way of life, their relationship to the settler nation of Canada and their position within the Anglican Church of Canada.

With the Cathedral's tax bill paid off, Pryor says work is in progress to more efficiently heat and insure its one-of-a-kind, high-ceilinged structure--and ways to deepen its relationships with parishioners. Photo and 3D tour: Majid Khodabnandehloo/Red Maple Film Studio

Arctic cathedral’s tax bill paid, exemption restored

St. Jude’s Cathedral in Iqaluit has paid a tax bill, which had previously threatened the cathedral’s financial stability, with the help of several parishes from across the diocese of the Arctic and elsewhere in Canada, diocesan Bishop Alexander Pryor says. 

Transformation Task Force co-chair Canon (lay) Andrew Stephens-Rennie, flanked on the left by fellow co-chair Canon (lay) Janet Marshall, says the groups affected by the church’s transformation must be consulted as decisions are made. Photo: Matthew Puddister

National church could support diocesan networks, primate says

General Synod will likely shift toward supporting programming developed and delivered across diocesan networks rather than delivering that programming itself, says Archbishop Shane Parker, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada.

George Cadman received the Anglican Award of Merit (medal pictured) in 2023 for his work as chancellor of the diocese of New Westminster. Photo: Courtesy of the diocese of New Westminster

Meet General Synod’s new chancellor, George Cadman

Cadman, who spoke with the Anglican Journal in January, became the national church’s chancellor—a volunteer officer of General Synod who provides advice on both secular and church law—on Jan. 1.

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