Tali Folkins

  • Tali Folkins joined the Anglican Journal in 2015 as staff writer, and has served as editor since October 2021. He has worked as a staff reporter for Law Times and the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal. His freelance writing credits include work for newspapers and magazines including The Globe and Mail and the former United Church Observer (now Broadview). He has a journalism degree from the University of King’s College and a master’s degree in Classics from Dalhousie University.

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A blind Haitian woman (left) and her friend seek shelter in a church the night Hurricane Matthew struck Haiti October 4. Photo: Khodabande/UNICEF

PWRDF reassures donors after Red Cross criticized on Haiti

In Haiti and elsewhere, on-the-ground assessments and regular inspection of partner agencies’ documents are among the safeguards The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) has in place to ensure donations from Canadians will be well-spent, officials with the relief and development agency say.

Asia Bibi, a Christian Pakistani, has been on death row in Pakistan since 2010 after being accused of insulting the Prophet Mohammed. Her final appeal hearing is scheduled Thursday, Oct. 20. Photo: A Call for Mercy

52 countries still outlaw blasphemy—including Canada

We may be living in what Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor (and many others) have called a secular age, but that doesn’t mean governments around the world have stopped trying to control the religious behaviour of their citizens.

Renel Ginol and son, Renelson, inspect their home in Jérémie, Haiti, which was destroyed by Hurricane Matthew Oct. 4. Photo: UNICEF/Moreno Gonzalez

PWRDF launches appeal for Haiti

The Anglican Church of Canada’s relief and development agency is asking for donations to support the people of Haiti as they attempt to cope with the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew.

Bishop Rob Hardwick (left) and his son, Robert (right), with members of St. Mary's parish in Whitewood, Sask., one of 18 churches he visited during his "pedalling pilgrimage of prayer." Photo: Lorraine Hardwick

Bishop raises $22,000 cycling across Saskatchewan

Sometime before he was about to embark on his cross-province bicycle ride this June, Bishop Rob Hardwick, of the diocese of Qu’Appelle, was approached by someone wanting to know what the point of it was.

National Indigenous Anglican Bishop Mark MacDonald, left, and Bishop Lydia Mamakwa, of the Indigenous Spiritual Ministry of Mishamikoweesh, during the opening worship at General Synod 2016. Photo: Art Babych

Indigenous bishops criticize same-sex marriage vote

In the wake of July’s vote on same-sex marriages at General Synod, Indigenous Anglicans intend to “proceed towards self-determination with urgency,” the Anglican Church of Canada’s three Indigenous bishops say.

Archbishop John Privett, metropolitan of the ecclesiastical province of British Columbia and Yukon, gives a presentation on the report of the Commission on the Marriage Canon in September 2015. Photo: André Forget

Privett re-elected metropolitan of B.C. and Yukon

Archbishop John Privett, who has served as metropolitan of the ecclesiastical province of British Columbia and Yukon since 2009, has been unanimously re-elected for another seven-year term.

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