April 2024 Archives - Anglican Journal

Eternity’s light and the door of forgiveness

Joy Kogawa — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 15:00:22 +0000

Mama never lied. Her eyes were wide with shock as if she could not believe what she had just said. I don’t know what it took for her to speak. She said it was her fault. I couldn’t move. After some time—I don’t remember how long—I walked away from her, past Dad in his room lying in his cot, blanket up to his chin. He knew she had told me. His eyes registered this. I had to go through his room to reach the stairs to my attic room.

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Our call to humility in a time of sacred beginning

Archbishop Chris Harper — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 13:30:19 +0000

Creator God, we, the children of creation, lift our prayers of thanksgiving and praise as we take our beginning steps in this new Easter and the continuance of the season of spring. Humble our hearts and strengthen our spirits as we seek your face in the change of the world around us. Embolden us that we might invite and welcome you to guide and awaken us from the long slumber of our winter season of heart and mind. Open our eyes that we might see your light and peace, that we together, walking in truth and faith, might be drawn as one to new life and hope. May your word speak to our witness and ministry as we remember our beginning in you. This we pray in Christ, Amen.

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Living the gospel is listening—and responding

Archbishop Linda Nicholls — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 13:14:42 +0000

Recently I spoke with a group of new clergy at a post-ordination gathering. They are all in the early years of ministry and bring enthusiasm and energy to their desire to serve the gospel. I was envious as I recollected my own enthusiasm in ministry 39 years ago. However, I also recalled times when I was too sure that I knew the “right” way to do things and held too firmly to one perspective, missing the grace of needed nuances or of different ways of being or doing.

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‘This is one of the most emotionally charged times I have known’

Matthew Puddister — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 13:00:36 +0000

Rising tension and polarization in Israel amid Gaza war, Jerusalem priest says The surprise attacks by Hamas against southern Israel last Oct. 7, which involved the targeting of civilians and the taking of hundreds of hostages, and Israel’s subsequent attack on Gaza marked a dramatic new escalation in the Israel-Palestine conflict. By the time this […]

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‘Say Yes! to Kids Sunday’ aims to galvanize Anglican Foundation campaign

Matthew Puddister — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 13:00:20 +0000

The Anglican Foundation of Canada (AFC) will provide a spiritual focus for Say Yes! to Kids, its annual fundraising appeal for child and youth ministry, by encouraging parishes across the country to celebrate “Say Yes! to Kids Sunday” on June 2. A new liturgical resource is available at anglicanfoundation.org/sytksunday to help parishes observe Say Yes! […]

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No clear down trend in conversions: study

Sean Frankling — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 13:00:08 +0000

The most surprising thing about his recent study on faith formation among Canadians is that conversions don’t seem to be significantly on the decline, says Jeremy McClung, transitional director of the Institute of Evangelism at Wycliffe College.

The study, “Finding Faith in Canada Today,” found that among converts who had come to the faith as adults over the past 50 years, “there’s a little dip in the last 10 years, but not enough to see a trend at this point,” McClung says. “That was a shock to us. We thought we would see just a downhill slope.”

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Next up: a female Archbishop of Canterbury?

Matthew Puddister — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 20:54:57 +0000

It’s now ‘entirely thinkable,’ conference hears Thirty years after Victoria Matthews became the first woman to be ordained a bishop in the Anglican Church of Canada, has the time come for a woman to serve as Archbishop of Canterbury? The question arose during “Faithful to the Call,” a Feb. 26 online conference honouring Matthews on […]

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John Ligertwood, longtime treasurer at General Synod, dead at 96

Matthew Puddister — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 20:44:31 +0000

The Anglican Church of Canada’s general treasurer for nearly four decades, John Ligertwood, died Nov. 16 after sustaining a head injury during a fall. He was 96 years old.

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