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.
One week after winning 17 church media awards stateside, the Anglican Journal received 16 awards from the Canadian Church Press (CCP) —including first prize for general excellence—at an event in Toronto, Friday, April 29.
Bishop Stephen Andrews, of the diocese of Algoma, has been named the next principal of Wycliffe College, the Toronto theological school announced last week.
This summer’s Canadian Lutheran Anglican Youth (CLAY) gathering will be packed to the rafters, an organizer says-partly because more Anglicans will be attending than ever before.
Friends and family are remembering Rita Lee Chiu-sister of the Rev. Florence Li Tim-Oi, the first female Anglican priest-for her humility, her generosity and her love of people and God.
As Queen Elizabeth II celebrates her 90th birthday today, April 21, Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, joined many others around the world in congratulating her.
With Earth Day approaching Friday, April 22, the heads of the Anglican Church of Canada and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC) are echoing an appeal, made at an international church conference last fall, for urgent action against climate change.
A Vancouver rectory is set to become one of the newest of a number of intentional communities recently planned or launched by Anglicans in Canada.
Some bishops have expressed concern about the possibility that some priests may go ahead and marry gay couples in the event that a resolution changing the marriage canon to allow same-gender marriages is rejected at General Synod this summer, said Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada.
This year, five people are being honoured with an Anglican Award of Merit, which recognizes lay people for their outstanding contributions to the life and work of the Anglican Church of Canada.
The future of our planet depends on our re-embracing belief in entities such as angels, a Halifax professor says.
With a decision on same-sex marriage approaching at the Anglican Church of Canada’s General Synod this summer, a national social media-based group has formed to push for a “yes” vote.
Representatives from two of the Anglican Church of Canada’s global partners-the Anglican Episcopal Church of Brazil and the Episcopal Church of Cuba-will be in attendance when General Synod meets this July.
Hannah Roberts Brockow is a therapeutic musician. She regularly visits two palliative care wards in her adopted hometown of Montreal—one for adults and one for children—to play her instrument, a harp, to the patients there. The music, she says, helps relieve people’s anxiety and ease their pain in their final days.
It’s official-tablets will replace binders at General Synod this summer.
Not all meetings of Council of General Synod (CoGS) are about sitting at tables and listening. On Thursday, March 10, sock-footed CoGS members moved across a massive map of Canada spread out on the floor as they took part in an interactive workshop recently designed by national office staff.
A total of 17 more charges have been laid against a North Vancouver priest charged last month with a series of sexual assault offences allegedly committed in the 1980s.
While the House of Bishops has said that the upcoming vote to allow same-sex marriage in the Anglican Church of Canada is unlikely to get the number of votes it needs from their order, Archbishop Fred Hiltz said it is not a clear-cut division.
It was out of consideration for the rest of the church and not an attempt to influence or pre-empt the process at General Synod that the House of Bishops made public the unlikelihood of their order voting to allow same-sex marriage at General Synod this summer, say some bishops.
A draft resolution that will be presented to General Synod this summer changing the Anglican Church of Canada’s marriage canon to allow same-sex marriage is “not likely” to get the number of votes it needs from bishops, according to a statement sent by the House of Bishops to Council of General Synod (CoGS), and released publicly Monday, February 29.
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