In 2015, the Rev. Benjamin Stuchbery was considering quitting school. He was in his second year at McGill university and had just declared his major
In 2008, Deanna Thompson broke her back. While she was recovering from the injury, she also went through radiotherapy treatment for cancer which made her
Archbishop of Canterbury calls church to unity, not unanimity as three African primates decline invitation Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby invited the primates of
Updated August 12 “I read a lot of science fiction. I thought it was science fiction at first,” said Canon Herbert O’Driscoll when Canon (lay)
Residential school survivors’ reactions ranged from reconciliatory, to cautiously skeptical to calling for more concrete action as Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby visited Ontario and Saskatchewan on a tour of apology.
Alla Gedz, a member of Christ Church, Kyiv, part of the Church of England’s Diocese in Europe tells her story of living through the Battle of Kyiv, from sheltering in her basement while artillery shook the neighbourhood to facing death threats at a checkpoint.
The Anglican Church of Canada’s national office recorded two consecutive multi-million-dollar yearly surpluses in 2020 and 2021, for a combined total of just over $8 million,
In a footnote to their open letter posted this February, #ACCtoo organizers Michael Buttrey and Carolyn Mackie blame the Anglican Journal governance policy General Synod adopted in 2019 for enabling the alleged breach of confidentiality and privacy for which the letter calls the church to account.
When the pandemic began, CanadaHelps, a charity that offers online donation solutions for churches and other charities, began work on an expanded version of its
Anglicans in Canada and around the world may find themselves singing some new hymns this spring. As this article was being written, Sing a New
On Thursday Feb. 17, Shane Parker, bishop of the diocese of Ottawa, took a walk through the area shut down by the Freedom Convoy protests
The Council of General Synod (CoGS) has committed itself to improving the church’s practices in a range of areas including sexual abuse and journalistic governance
The Council of General Synod (CoGS) is slated to discuss this week an open letter claiming senior church officials failed to protect the identities of
As this issue was heading to press in early March, the Omicron wave of COVID-19 seemed on the way out. Governments across Canada were loosening
Archbishop Linda Nicholls, Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, asked Anglicans to pray for the people of Ukraine this week as the news broke
Editor’s note: An earlier version of this story appeared on anglicanjournal.com Feb. 17. General Synod will not be meeting this summer. At a meeting Feb.
The Anglican Church of Canada has launched an online news platform allowing readers to access the websites of the Anglican Journal and diocesan newspapers from a single location, while also making it easy for the newspapers themselves to share each other’s articles.
The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) is distributing $80,000 to 14 Indigenous communities stricken by COVID-19’s Omicron variant in northern Manitoba and Ontario.
Gibson was a professor at Trinity College, a recipient of the Cross of St. Augustine—an award from the Archbishop of Canterbury for outstanding service to the worldwide communion—and a liturgist for the Anglican Church of Canada, best known for his work on the Book of Alternative Services (BAS). He died on Jan. 14 after a prolonged illness with Parkinson’s disease.
“In a time when we’re accustomed to fallen heroes, Desmond Tutu was the real thing,” recalls Michael Ingham, retired bishop of New Westminster.
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