
Does the church need to ‘regroup?’
Bishop Dennis Drainville Photo: Art Babych After a long and heated debate on Monday evening (Jun. 7), members of General Synod approved a resolution to
Marites (Tess) Sison was editor of the Anglican Journal from August 2014 to July 2018, and senior staff writer from December 2003 to July 2014. An award-winning journalist, she has more that three decades of professional journalism experience in Canada and overseas. She has contributed to The Toronto Star and CBC Radio, and worked as a stringer for The New York Times.

Bishop Dennis Drainville Photo: Art Babych After a long and heated debate on Monday evening (Jun. 7), members of General Synod approved a resolution to

Presiding bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori Photo: Art Babych At a June 8 press conference at General Synod 2010 in Halifax, U.S. Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts

Bishop Michael Ingham and Suffragan Bishop Linda Nicholls Photo: Art Babych Members of General Synod today approved canonical changes that define more clearly the sacramental

The Anglican Church of Canada’s governing body, General Synod, today agreed to add two nominees from the Anglican Council of Indigenous Peoples (ACIP) as full

PWRDF’s Suzanne Rumsey describes her upcoming 1,300-km fundraising bike ride.Photo: Art Babych From a video that offered a visual summary of 50 years’ worth of

General Synod wrestled with key issues around the way the church governs itself and approved, after considerable debate, a resolution reducing the size of the

In spite of cold temperatures, fog and light rain, delegates and visitors to General Synod 2010 here in Halifax officially began their triennial meeting tonight

Cynthia Patterson gives bannock slice to Jim Cullen. Photo: Art Babych Bev Murphy, Circulation Manager at the Anglican Journal booth. Photo: Art Babych Fiona Brownlee

Patsy Grant is a first-time General Synod delegate. Photo: Marites N. Sison Halifax This is Patsy Grant’s first General Synod and she is determined to

Bishop Miguel Tamayo talks to the Anglican Journal. Photo: Art Babych Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, has often described Miguel

The church needs to “start looking out to the world in very courageous ways…the Gospel calls us to be the church in the world.” –

Religious leaders from around the world are gathering in Winnipeg next month to urge the richest nations to boost their efforts to address poverty, climate

At the first major national event of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC), Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, will demonstrate the church’s support for the commission’s work and for survivors of abuse at residential schools.

Award of merit recipient Robert “Rob” Dickson Two social justice activists, a passionate advocate for philanthropy, a lawyer, and a business administrator are this year’s

From Halifax to Montreal in 18 days It was a gem of an idea that took Suzanne Rumsey back to the mid-70s, when she was

bishop-elect Tom Corston It will be a homecoming of sorts for Archdeacon Tom Corston, a senior aboriginal priest in the diocese of Algoma, who was

George Bruce A recent parish list update to facilitate a new fundraising venture in the diocese of Ontario has added an astonishing 1,639 new households,

Phyllis Creighton, a parishioner at St. Philip’s Anglican church in Toronto, was among the Anglicans at the Retreat on Climate Change as a Moral Issue

Bishop Godfrey Mdimi Mhogolo The bishop of the Tanzanian diocese of Central Tanganyika, Godfrey Mdimi Mhogolo, said efforts by Canadian Anglicans to support the education

BICYCLE BUILT FOR TWO: Suzanne Rumsey, who will cycle up to 100 km per day to raise awareness and funds for PWRDF, shares her love