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Anglican eyewitnesses escape Lytton ‘inferno’

Matthew Puddister — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 13:00:56 +0000

The plumes of smoke over Lytton, B.C. were an “apocalyptic” sight for Melanie Delva. But what the Anglican Church of Canada’s reconciliation animator remembers most from June 30—the day her home and all her possessions were destroyed by the fire, the day Lytton burned to the ground—are the sounds.

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Home at last: Retired dean finds housing as Anglicans raise funds in support

Matthew Puddister — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 18:52:46 +0000

The Rev. Jonas Allooloo, who found himself homeless last October two years after his retirement, has moved into a small one-bedroom apartment in the city with his wife Meena.

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‘A piece of the continent, a part of the main’

Archbishop Linda Nicholls — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 17:01:39 +0000

At Ash Wednesday we were invited “to observe a holy Lent by self-examination, penitence, prayer, fasting, and almsgiving, and by reading and meditating on the word of God.” Yet we have, in a sense, been in an extended Lent through the past year as the COVID-19 pandemic has invited us, through radical disruption of our lives, to examine ourselves and the world around us in light of the gospel.

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Ottawa youth join diocesan effort against homelessness

Matthew Puddister — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 15:45:29 +0000

On the frigid Sunday morning of Dec. 6, young Anglicans from the diocese of Ottawa gathered in a parking lot to help dozens of homeless youth heading into a long pandemic winter.

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March issue marks 12 months of disease and distancing

Tali Folkins — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 19:45:58 +0000

Although the virus that causes COVID-19 was publicly identified in late 2019, it wasn’t until last March that life began to change substantially for most Canadians. Since then, our lives have been transformed in many ways—if not by the disease itself, then by the myriad restrictions that have been placed on how we live. A […]

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‘We have to help one another to survive’: A conversation with Jonas Allooloo

Matthew Puddister — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 19:46:03 +0000

In December 2020, the Anglican Journal published “No room in the inn.” This article detailed how the Rev. Jonas Allooloo—former dean of St. Jude’s Cathedral in Iqaluit, Nunavut, and a key translator of the first Bible in Inuktitut—was effectively homeless two years after his retirement in January 2019.

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No room in the inn

Matthew Puddister — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 19:35:01 +0000

Two years ago, the Rev. Jonas Allooloo was dean of St. Jude’s Cathedral in Iqaluit, Nunavut, preparing to retire after more than four decades of work in the Anglican Church of Canada that included stints as a member of General Synod, participation in various national committees and work as a translator who helped produce the first Inuktitut Bible.

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Remembering Margaret Waterchief: ‘I saw in her the beauty of our people’

Matthew Puddister — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 16:27:34 +0000

On July 19, the Rev. Margaret Waterchief died at Peter Lougheed Hospital in Calgary from complications due to COVID-19. She was 88.

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Resurrection comes to Fort McMurray

Matthew Puddister — Fri, 10 Apr 2020 22:48:20 +0000

For almost four years, Fort McMurray has been recovering from the fire which, at the height of evacuation, forced more than 80,000 people to flee their homes. In the aftermath of the disaster, local churches played a vital role in helping the community rebuild.

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Around the dioceses, February 2020

Anglican Journal Staff — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 20:54:38 +0000

The signing of an agreement between James Settee College and the Vancouver School of Theology was a major topic at the latest meeting of the Indigenous Council for the Anglican diocese of Saskatchewan.

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