https://anglicanjournal.com/indigenous-bishop-preaches-hope-future-ecumenical-service/ National News from the Anglican Church of Canada Mon, 16 Oct 2017 18:04:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://anglicanjournal.com/indigenous-bishop-preaches-hope-future-ecumenical-service/#comment-2705 Mon, 16 Oct 2017 18:04:08 +0000 http://anglicanjournal.com/?p=151474#comment-2705 I find it interesting that Bishop MacDonald asserts that “Most of us were raised to believe Canada is a special place where we didn’t do things like those countries south of us,” given that the Bishop was himself born, raised and spent the majority of his clerical career in the United States. I cannot imagine that Canadian superiority was a common topic for discussion in the Bishop’s childhood home in Duluth.. I am not saying that the Bishop is entirely wrong in his observations (though his assertion that knowledge of God — if he means knowledge of Christ — predated the arrival of the Gospel in the Americas is deeply troubling and in fact echoes Mormonism). His suggestion that he, too, was raised just like the rest of us Canadians might be said to be just a matter of hyperbole, but it seems to me that in the matter of reconciliation especially, we could do with much less hyperbole and a lot more honesty, if we are ever to truly understand the truth.

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