
A worthy celebration that never happened
I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. Walt

I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. Walt

Archbishop Michael Peers, the Canadian Anglican Primate, has joined a growing chorus of religious leaders from around the world who question the wisdom of military

Vianney Carriere Founded A.D. 1914. Area of Diocese, 65,000 square miles; Population, 300,000; Anglican Population, 9,000; on Parish Rolls, 4,711; Clergy: Full-Time 11, Part-Time 9;

Waterloo, Ont. IT WAS THE synod where Canadian Anglicans and Lutherans crossed a centuries-old divide and joined hands in a series of moments that drew

Vianney Carriere WHEN PROTEST degenerates into mere theatre, it trivializes both the issues protested and, as amply demonstrated by events in Genoa this summer, it

The June edition of the Anglican Journal traditionally marks the close of the publication year and presages a couple of summer months when things slow

Members of the Melanesian Brothers at Tabalia. The brothers’ intervention in last year’s ethnic crisis has earned praise from all sides. Honiara It some ways,

Marion Pardy, Michael Peers and Telmor Sartison stand outside ruins of a bombed building in Gaza. It is a sad, sad country. Telmor Sartison, Bishop,

Vianney Carriere When the day comes, as it looks increasingly possible it might, that the sun rises on a landscape devoid of major churches as

Vianney Carriere PERHAPS Mother Church is in fact a child. Think of your church as a teen-ager, a difficult issue; frequently exasperating, often mischievous, often

Vianney Carriere THERE HAVE BEEN few events in recent memory that have stirred a greater number of complex issues than the case of Robert Latimer,

Vianney Carriere PERHAPS one of the more esoteric ways one can tell when a country is coming out of a recession is by looking at

JOURNALISTS know that a story is never told as effectively as by someone who was there. Interviewing witnesses, making phone calls, reconstructing events – these

The Anglican Journal looks different this month. The most noticeable change for you, the reader, is likely to be the newspaper’s smaller size; we are

THE YEAR’S last month is ever the most perplexing. What to make of this gift of dismal weather and awesome joy? Of long, dark, endless

Bishop Terry Brown of Malaita There is now hope that Bishop Patteson Theological College, the main Anglican school on the island of Guadalcanal in the

ARCHBISHOP Michael Peers, the Primate, is fond of looking at complex, sometimes seemingly hopeless situations, and then after delivering himself of a long, incisive analysis

For the first time, the Anglican Church is directly calling on its 700,000 members to exert pressure on their elected representatives in order to force

MY FATHER was an amputee. I know some things about what it is like to try and struggle through life with a less than perfect

Civil unrest and violence that has been escalating for months has forced the suspension of classes at Bishop Patteson Theological College on the island of