Silence is something like one’s good health. It is most prized when abruptly taken away, most cherished when suddenly recovered, when, as with the rush of light, we suddenly realize that we have been deprived of it for a long time. Then as it returns, a wealth of rediscovered feelings comes with it. Silence begins as something external and it becomes a state of being.
The most tempting mistake when one looks at an event like the 1994 genocide in Rwanda is to think that if you talk to all
Some books seem to bite off more than they should attempt to chew. When it works, the book becomes magisterial, something that captures a topic
This marks the final editorial by Vianney Carriere, who is now General Synod’s acting director of communications (see story in Canada). THE PRIMATE has called
It might be possible – or relatively easy – to feel sympathy for the house of bishops’ failure after three days of discussion, to come
Montreal The Ecclesiastical Province of Canada, which earlier this year broke new ground and gained international attention by electing its archbishop by e-mail, has rescinded
It seems fair, doesn?t it, that at the end of a long, painful trek through a wilderness, there be a clear sense of direction and
Federal Public Works Minister Ralph Goodale has agreed to take an offer by the Anglican group negotiating with Ottawa over liability for native residential schools
A survey conducted by the Environics consulting firm that describes how Canadian Anglicans feel about their church and details the issues they think important shows
The Environics survey of how Anglicans feel about several major issues (which is reported elsewhere in this edition) is described in its subtitle as “A
Canon John Rye, mission coordinator for Africa and the Middle East, shown in Madagascar during his last official trip before retirement. Watching John Rye at
Let us pray for Rowan Williams. The primate of Wales, appointed 104th Archbishop of Canterbury inherits the spiritual helm of a communion that at first
THE letters to the editor that appear in the Anglican Journal are a representative sample of those received over the weeks leading up to publication.
THIS EDITION OF the Journal goes to press as the world watches a rapid and deathly serious escalation in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. As of this
THE SECOND page of the Anglican Journal last month included standard “head and shoulders” photographs of the three men reputed to be the most likely
THE DISCUSSION that has swirled around the remarks the primate, Archbishop Michael Peers, addressed to a New Year’s Day congregation in Ottawa actually reflects a
The Church enters a new year in the saga of residential schools lawsuits and seemingly endless talks with the federal government aimed at finding some
ONE OF THE strengths of the way in which the Anglican church is governed lies in a process for elections to boards and committees that
The Council of General Synod has approved an amendment to the 2002 budget to allow the Anglican Journal to move up to a base size
What we call the beginning is often the end And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start
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