Epiphanies – Anglican Journal https://anglicanjournal.com/tag/epiphanies/ National News from the Anglican Church of Canada Tue, 07 Feb 2023 22:05:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.7 https://anglicanjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/AJ-logo-01.svg Epiphanies – Anglican Journal https://anglicanjournal.com/tag/epiphanies/ 32 32 170042892 New issue of Epiphanies focuses on assumptions https://anglicanjournal.com/new-issue-of-epiphanies-focuses-on-assumptions/ https://anglicanjournal.com/new-issue-of-epiphanies-focuses-on-assumptions/#respond Thu, 17 Dec 2020 15:03:02 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=166375 With the global COVID-19 pandemic turning life on its head, 2020 turned out to be a year of shattered assumptions. The latest issue of Epiphanies, the digital magazine produced by the Anglican Journal team, considers a few of the assumptions that might have underpinned our expectations of this year—as well as those that may become […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/new-issue-of-epiphanies-focuses-on-assumptions/feed/ 0 166375 ‘All my relatives’ https://anglicanjournal.com/all-my-relatives/ https://anglicanjournal.com/all-my-relatives/#respond Wed, 16 Dec 2020 14:15:56 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=166260 In Canada, just which nations are treaty nations? As the calendar year 2020 slowly winds down, closing a year that some of my younger relatives are calling “the worst year of our lives,” I thought I would reflect on the challenges that we have faced and continue to face as Indigenous Christians in Canada. My […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/all-my-relatives/feed/ 0 166260 ‘The colonizing instinct is all over us’ https://anglicanjournal.com/the-colonizing-instinct-is-all-over-us/ https://anglicanjournal.com/the-colonizing-instinct-is-all-over-us/#comments Wed, 16 Dec 2020 12:40:22 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=166264 A podcast with Matthew Townsend and Graham Singh Is colonialism in the past? The Rev. Graham Singh, priest at St. Jax in Montreal and executive director of the Trinity Centres Foundation—which helps “transform church properties for community impact”—doesn’t seem convinced. In this podcast conversation, Matthew Townsend, editor of the Anglican Journal and Epiphanies, talks with […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/the-colonizing-instinct-is-all-over-us/feed/ 1 166264 Hindsight is 20-40 https://anglicanjournal.com/hindsight-is-20-40/ https://anglicanjournal.com/hindsight-is-20-40/#respond Wed, 16 Dec 2020 11:39:08 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=166257 A column series last January in The Anglican Journal invited young leaders in the Anglican Church of Canada to offer their thoughts about the future. We asked them to revisit their assumptions after a tumultuous year.

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/hindsight-is-20-40/feed/ 0 166257 Virtual unknowns https://anglicanjournal.com/virtual-unknowns/ https://anglicanjournal.com/virtual-unknowns/#respond Wed, 16 Dec 2020 10:38:37 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=166253 As the church moves many of its functions onto social media, what kinds of feeds might feed us? If you surveyed parishes in the Anglican Church of Canada in 2019, you would have seen a wide variety of social media involvement from church to church. Many parishes had Facebook pages, though many did not. Few […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/virtual-unknowns/feed/ 0 166253 Preach it! https://anglicanjournal.com/preach-it/ https://anglicanjournal.com/preach-it/#comments Wed, 16 Dec 2020 09:00:34 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=166249 When it comes to sermonizing, Canadian Anglicans hold diverse opinions

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/preach-it/feed/ 1 166249 Considering communion https://anglicanjournal.com/considering-communion/ https://anglicanjournal.com/considering-communion/#comments Wed, 16 Dec 2020 08:00:58 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=166246 A Eucharist that embraces a pandemic The pandemic has delivered uncomfortable restraints on the central act of our faith: the ceremony Jesus gave so that we might live in faith, hope and love until he comes again. In the midst of our many conversations about this, I was startled to read Alexander Schmemann’s prophetic words […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/considering-communion/feed/ 1 166246 Finding joy in our challenged assumptions https://anglicanjournal.com/finding-joy-in-our-challenged-assumptions/ https://anglicanjournal.com/finding-joy-in-our-challenged-assumptions/#comments Wed, 16 Dec 2020 07:00:40 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=166244 When life is stable and all its interlocking parts are running relatively smoothly, we simply assume it will always be that way. We make plans for the future based on present expectations. Then suddenly our lives are turned upside down by something unexpected. The plans are jettisoned, and all our assumptions are in doubt. What […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/finding-joy-in-our-challenged-assumptions/feed/ 1 166244 Blurred visions https://anglicanjournal.com/blurred-visions/ https://anglicanjournal.com/blurred-visions/#respond Wed, 16 Dec 2020 06:00:00 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=166238 2020 shattered our assumptions. What will 2021 bring? If you’ve heard someone use the phrase “20/20 vision,” you’ve probably gathered that they meant perfect vision—the ability to see something complex in crystal clarity. To optometrists, however, 20/20 vision merely implies normal visual acuity when tested at a distance of 20 feet. As the American Optometric […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/blurred-visions/feed/ 0 166238 Epiphanies turns focus to ‘Planning & Change’ https://anglicanjournal.com/epiphanies-turns-focus-to-planning-change/ https://anglicanjournal.com/epiphanies-turns-focus-to-planning-change/#respond Fri, 31 Jul 2020 16:48:51 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=165441 As the world changes dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic, how will the Anglican Church of Canada plan for changes of its own? Epiphanies, the digital magazine produced by the staff of the Anglican Journal, takes a deep dive into strategic planning in its Summer 2020 issue. Available on the Anglican Journal website, this special edition […]

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