April 2025 Archives - Anglican Journal https://anglicanjournal.com/tag/april-2025/ National News from the Anglican Church of Canada Mon, 28 Apr 2025 17:31:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.7 https://anglicanjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/AJ-logo-01.svg April 2025 Archives - Anglican Journal https://anglicanjournal.com/tag/april-2025/ 32 32 170042892 Looking for God in ‘the devils’ gospels’ https://anglicanjournal.com/looking-for-god-in-the-devils-gospels/ Mon, 31 Mar 2025 18:57:47 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=212727 If God is truly the Almighty and the basis of our existence, Christopher Gasson says, then everything anyone can say about life and the world will tell us more about God’s nature—to the point, he believes, that “we can find God in works that are savagely opposed to God.”

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]]> 212727 Prayer and new life in the time of the Goose Moon https://anglicanjournal.com/prayer-and-new-life-in-the-time-of-the-goose-moon/ Mon, 31 Mar 2025 18:49:07 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=212724 FEATHER: Almighty, we the children of your creation lift up to you our hearts, voices and needs. Hear us as we walk these uncertain days, when so much in our world is changing so fast that we cannot seem to grasp the truth in, or comprehend the depth of, our reality; thus we respond emotionally […]

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]]> 212724 Where is God amid the evil of our time? https://anglicanjournal.com/where-is-god-amid-the-evil-of-our-time/ Mon, 31 Mar 2025 17:48:22 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=212718 “But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles.” (Isaiah 40.31) Where is God now? Where is God in the mess of the world around us? Where is God amid the deep evil and hate-filled speech of our time Where is God when we are battered by […]

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]]> 212718 A ‘coffin Anglican’ on finding connection in a secular age https://anglicanjournal.com/a-coffin-anglican-on-finding-connection-in-a-secular-age/ Wed, 26 Mar 2025 15:13:22 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=212690 Nudged toward oneness Imagine yourself in my position. Seven years ago I, a lifetime non-believer, surrendered to a student’s invitation and joined her at her church in a small wooded area in a suburb of Vancouver. I had researched the church: its mother church was the Dutch Reformed Church (renamed the Protestant Church in the […]

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]]> 212690 Parishes struggle with money woes, uncertainty https://anglicanjournal.com/parishes-struggle-with-money-woes-uncertainty/ Mon, 24 Mar 2025 18:07:15 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=212680 Many parishes in the Anglican Church of Canada are finding themselves torn between their own desire to survive and their obligation to support the higher structures of the church, says Ed Willms, a parishioner at All Saints Anglican Church in Huntsville, Ont.

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]]> 212680 Arctic diocese forms development corporation to offer housing, community spaces on church land https://anglicanjournal.com/arctic-diocese-forms-development-corporation-to-offer-housing-community-spaces-on-church-land/ Wed, 19 Mar 2025 17:27:22 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=212654 Moving forward with a plan nearly 40 years in the making, the diocese of the Arctic has announced the formation of a body tasked with redeveloping buildings on church-owned land into housing and multiuse community centres.

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]]> 212654 The church and Donald Trump https://anglicanjournal.com/the-church-and-donald-trump/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 18:03:27 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=212543 Amid the rising international tensions and overwhelming flood of executive orders under the new Trump administration, it is the duty of Anglicans in Canada to speak up for the marginalized and vulnerable, says Canon Maggie Helwig, rector of St. Stephen-in-the-Fields Church in Toronto.

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]]> 212543 Primatial nominees to be announced in April https://anglicanjournal.com/primatial-nominees-to-be-announced-in-april/ Thu, 20 Feb 2025 21:34:39 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=212439 The list of nominees to become the next primate of the Anglican Church of Canada will be announced April 3, General Secretary Archdeacon Alan Perry said in a Feb. 14 statement laying out the timeline for the primatial election process. Electing a new primate is a major agenda item at the upcoming meeting of General […]

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