Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, is asking Canadian Anglicans to join him in prayers for the many victims of the mass shooting in Orlando, Florida, over the weekend-and for advocates of LGBTQ rights within and outside the church.
Issuing iPads loaded with a special app instead of binders at General Synod next month promises not only to save trees, but keep members connected in new ways as well, organizers say.
In a nod to changing times, the Anglican Church of Canada’s latest report on physician-assisted dying, rather than opposing the practice, recognizes it as a reality.
After serving as the Anglican Church of Canada’s interim director of Resources for Mission (RfM) for two and a half years, Monica Patten announced her departure May 31.
Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, says he hopes a prayerful spirit will prevail at General Synod this July, despite the tensions likely to be stirred by discussions of, and voting on, same-sex marriage.
General Synod 2016 will not be asked to vote for or against adopting the proposed Anglican Covenant when it meets this July. Instead, a draft motion directs Council of General Synod (CoGS) to “continue to monitor developments related to the Anglican Covenant.”
The Rev. Clarke Raymond, a former high-level staffer at the Anglican Church of Canada’s national office, is being remembered for his decades of contributions to the national church.
Is doubt just the opposite of faith? Or is it more complicated?
Spurred by a desire to leave as light a footprint as possible on God’s creation, a Manitoba couple has designed and built a completely off-grid home.
When Anne Lamott found herself, at age 31, a self-loathing drug and alcohol addict, it was the idea of “radical self-love,” as expressed by Henri Nouwen and writers like him, that allowed her to turn a corner on her life, the 62-year-old American writer told a Toronto audience last week.
When it comes to hospitality events at General Synod this July, diversity will be the overriding theme, an organizer says.
For Sandi Austin, the attraction of becoming an oblate was more than the idea of living life by a rule.
About 23 years ago, says Archbishop David Moxon of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia, he and the local Roman Catholic bishop made an agreement that still makes him feel hopeful.
As evacuees from Fort McMurray contemplate waiting weeks before they can return to their fire-ravaged city, Anglicans are continuing to reach out in support.
Not long ago, some Anglican Church Women (ACW) members in the diocese of New Westminster began to doubt the value of their Northern Bales program, which has seen large packages of mostly used clothing shipped north to help the needy in Yukon every year since the late 1940s.
A self-described former street kid has been elected bishop of the diocese of Central Newfoundland.
On August 1 last year, the Rev. Randy Murray stuck a handwritten sign in the park-like front lawn of Metropolitan United Church in downtown Toronto. The sign read: Talk To A Priest! / confidential / non-judgemental / free.
As accounts of chaos and destruction emerge from firestorm-stricken Fort McMurray, Alta., Anglicans across Canada are responding with help including financial aid, practical assistance and prayers.
The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) has announced two aid packages to help people stricken by drought in Ethiopia and earthquake victims in Ecuador.
As the one-year anniversary of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s release of its 94 Calls to Action approaches this June 2, some Anglican dioceses and parishes are finding their own ways of recognizing the church’s role in the Indian residential school system and striving for reconciliation with the victims of that system.
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