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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(L-R): The Rev. Cristiano Rojas, the Rev. Mateo Alto and the Rev. Urbano Duarte during their consecration as suffragan bishops in the diocese of North Argentina. Photo: Contributed

Three Indigenous bishops ordained in Argentina

Three Indigenous Anglican priests were ordained as bishops in Argentina last week, becoming the latest of a very small number of Indigenous Anglicans ever to have become bishops in the province of South America.

Mourners gather in Minneapolis to remember the 49 who were killed and the 53 who were wounded in the Pulse Nightclub shooting June 12 in Orlando, Fla. Photo: Fibonacci Blue/Wikimedia Commons

Hiltz requests prayers for Orlando shooting victims, LGBTQ community

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.

"I was very excited...to build relationships with Anglicans and encourage their generosity," said Monica Patten of her time as interim director of Resources for Mission. Photo: Marites Sison

Interim RfM director steps down

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.

The compass rose symbolizes the presence of the Anglican Communion around the world. Photo: anglicancommunion.org

No Anglican Covenant decision in 2016

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.”

Henri Nouwen’s gift to Anne Lamott

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.

Praying together on Ash Wednesday eventually led to New Zealand Roman Catholics and Anglicans collaborating in a number of different ways-including a joint mission that serves 7,000 people, says Archbishop David Moxon of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia, and Anglican co-chair of the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission (ARCIC). Photo: Tali Folkins

Reaping the benefits of Anglican-RC talks

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.

Members of the New Westminster Anglican Church Women (ACW) load northern bales for needy parishes in the Yukon. Clockwise from front-left are: Mary McIntyre, Vera Morgan, Susan Cummings, Lorraine Pentecost, Ann Adair-Austin, Audrey Hunter, Lesley Goodbrand and Marjorie Henry. Photo: Sheila Puls

ACW support for the North a long tradition

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.

The Rev. Randy Murray at the downtown Toronto park where he practised “guerilla ministry” for three and a half months. Among those he met were a homeless prostitute and a teen haunted by his past.

Where the church has no name

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.

More than 10 million people in Ethiopia are now threatened by famine, according to the UN. Photo: LWF/ACT Alliance

PWRDF announces aid for Ethiopia, Ecuador

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.

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