discipleship Archives - Anglican Journal https://anglicanjournal.com/tag/discipleship/ National News from the Anglican Church of Canada Tue, 07 Feb 2023 22:08:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://anglicanjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/AJ-logo-01.svg discipleship Archives - Anglican Journal https://anglicanjournal.com/tag/discipleship/ 32 32 170042892 Liturgist Paul Gibson transformed worship as leading force behind BAS https://anglicanjournal.com/liturgist-paul-gibson-transformed-worship-as-leading-force-behind-bas/ https://anglicanjournal.com/liturgist-paul-gibson-transformed-worship-as-leading-force-behind-bas/#respond Thu, 27 Jan 2022 14:11:59 +0000 https://www.anglicanjournal.com/?p=170284 Gibson was a professor at Trinity College, a recipient of the Cross of St. Augustine—an award from the Archbishop of Canterbury for outstanding service to the worldwide communion—and a liturgist for the Anglican Church of Canada, best known for his work on the Book of Alternative Services (BAS). He died on Jan. 14 after a prolonged illness with Parkinson’s disease.

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/liturgist-paul-gibson-transformed-worship-as-leading-force-behind-bas/feed/ 0 170562 To find life on a day like this https://anglicanjournal.com/to-find-life-on-a-day-like-this/ https://anglicanjournal.com/to-find-life-on-a-day-like-this/#respond Mon, 01 Nov 2021 13:00:16 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=169326 For many years, I have been troubled by the inability of non-Indigenous people and institutions to receive and grasp the full reality of the pain and challenges of Indigenous life in this land. Statistics and stories are acknowledged with sympathy, but the realization of what this might mean seems completely elusive.

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/to-find-life-on-a-day-like-this/feed/ 0 169326 Artifacts of the future https://anglicanjournal.com/artifacts-of-the-future/ https://anglicanjournal.com/artifacts-of-the-future/#respond Mon, 30 Nov 2020 13:34:14 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=165976 There are many things that make the Four Corners area of the southwestern United States a wonderful place. Among the most powerful is the constant presence of artifacts from the past: human-made, physical remnants of the Anasazi peoples who lived there long ago. Their glorious, advanced culture is never far from view, seen in the […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/artifacts-of-the-future/feed/ 0 165976 N.L. ‘Coffee Table’ discipleship moves online during pandemic https://anglicanjournal.com/n-l-coffee-table-discipleship-moves-online-during-pandemic/ https://anglicanjournal.com/n-l-coffee-table-discipleship-moves-online-during-pandemic/#comments Sat, 04 Apr 2020 17:10:08 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=163501 On Wednesday nights in Lent, members of the Parish of St. Michael and All Angels in St. John’s, N.L., and a couple of neighbouring parishes gather for a discipleship group in a local coffee shop. Lately, though, concerns about COVID-19 and the importance of social distancing made those kind of gatherings impossible, so they took […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/n-l-coffee-table-discipleship-moves-online-during-pandemic/feed/ 1 163501 The challenges and opportunities before us https://anglicanjournal.com/the-challenges-and-opportunities-before-us/ https://anglicanjournal.com/the-challenges-and-opportunities-before-us/#comments Thu, 16 Jan 2020 17:30:22 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=162241 It is very clear that the future for our church is challenging.

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/the-challenges-and-opportunities-before-us/feed/ 4 162241 Demographic, cultural changes key to declining church membership: Sociologist of religion https://anglicanjournal.com/demographic-cultural-changes-key-to-declining-church-membership-sociologist-of-religion/ https://anglicanjournal.com/demographic-cultural-changes-key-to-declining-church-membership-sociologist-of-religion/#comments Thu, 02 Jan 2020 19:45:57 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=162255 Shifting immigration patterns and broader social changes are key factors in declining membership within the Anglican Church of Canada, according to a sociologist who studies religion in Canada. But while many Protestant denominations face similar challenges, growing congregations also exist within these traditions that share a number of common features.

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/demographic-cultural-changes-key-to-declining-church-membership-sociologist-of-religion/feed/ 1 162255 Education and formation: A new frame for a new world https://anglicanjournal.com/education-and-formation-a-new-frame-for-a-new-world/ https://anglicanjournal.com/education-and-formation-a-new-frame-for-a-new-world/#comments Wed, 23 Oct 2019 12:00:18 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=161347 A simple and heartfelt acceptance of the present reality of the church’s relationship with the broader culture would bring massive, transformational changes to our educational efforts.

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/education-and-formation-a-new-frame-for-a-new-world/feed/ 2 161347 ‘We are called to something greater’: Church leaders seek discipleship and renewal as 42nd General Synod opens https://anglicanjournal.com/we-are-called-to-something-greater/ https://anglicanjournal.com/we-are-called-to-something-greater/#comments Thu, 11 Jul 2019 15:49:05 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=160047 “We, all of us, are living in the economy that is described in the Book of Revelation as the prelude to God’s intervention in human history, in a final and definitive way.”

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/we-are-called-to-something-greater/feed/ 5 160047 MacDonald calls for discipleship as heart of future Indigenous church https://anglicanjournal.com/macdonald-calls-for-discipleship-as-heart-of-future-indigenous-church/ https://anglicanjournal.com/macdonald-calls-for-discipleship-as-heart-of-future-indigenous-church/#respond Thu, 09 Aug 2018 19:22:02 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=156780 Prince George, B.C. If an Indigenous expression of the Anglican Church of Canada is to be effective, it will be by putting Jesus at the centre of everything it does, and creating disciples rather than mere church members, National Indigenous Anglican Bishop Mark MacDonald told the ninth Indigenous Anglican Sacred Circle Wednesday, August 8. “We […]

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