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Lutheran synod accepts same-sex ruling
The Eastern Synod Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC) has accepted “with deep regret” the ruling by its National Church Council that
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.
View all postsThe Eastern Synod Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC) has accepted “with deep regret” the ruling by its National Church Council that
Archdeacon Harry Hilchey had recently written about his years in minstry. One of his favourite biblical texts, Archdeacon Harry Hilchey once said, was “Jesus went.”
Canterbury Center in Dominica offers a vacation with a difference. Rev. Dave Conway, an American priest, has come up with a novel idea that is
A recent conference of the Assembly of First Nations warned that former residential school students who opt for litigation face a long wait: the last
Across desert, jungle, plains, mountains, forests, towns and cities, Christians pause in the rush and bustle of everyday life to visit, to give, to worship
Music is an important part of worship at General Synod. There are certain constants whenever General Synod, the governing body of the Anglican Church of
A majority of Ontario clergy in six major Protestant denominations, including Anglicans, are lonely and unfulfilled, exhausted from working long hours and are suffering a
Mississauga, Ont.It will be a tight and very busy General Synod in Winnipeg in 2007, since the meeting is scheduled to be a day shorter
Mississauga, Ont. General Synod, the church’s national office, will not exercise an option to move the Anglican Book Centre back into a new building on
Mississauga, Ont. The fate of the 106-year-old Anglican Book Centre (ABC), the oldest bookstore in Toronto, was sealed by the Council of General Synod (CoGS),
From North, South, East and West, there are more beliefs and traditions that unite rather than divide people, especially around the meaning of Christmas. The
Archdeacon Harry Hilchey served as the national church’s General Secretary from 1979 to 1987. (Editor’s note: This story, which first appeared Monday, Nov.20, has been
Archbishop Terry Finlay (right) may not officiate at weddings. Archbishop Terence Finlay, the retired bishop of the diocese of Toronto and metropolitan (senior bishop) of
Finlay Archbishop Terence Finlay, the retired bishop of the Anglican diocese of Toronto and metropolitan (senior bishop) of Ontario, has acknowledged he officiated at a
Kecia Larkin (pictured with Stephen Lewis), was the first aboriginal woman in Canada to acknowledge that she has AIDS. She is now an HIV/AIDS activist.
“It was like someone turned on the tap and forgot to turn it off,” Lillian Fleck describes the floods that came last spring in eastern
Oshwegan, Ont. Church leaders, including Archbishop Andrew Hutchison, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, joined native and non-native Caledonia and Six Nations residents on
We are unable to land our aircraft in the town of Tisdale, Sask., as a flock of pigeons and crows refuses to budge from the
The Anglican Journal held up a mirror to its readership recently and found a group that is, in the main, quite fond of the church’s
Ten former students of Indian residential schools, among them former Keewatin bishop Gordon Beardy, took the podium on the last day of the Ontario hearing
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