inequality Archives - Anglican Journal https://anglicanjournal.com/tag/inequality/ National News from the Anglican Church of Canada Tue, 07 Feb 2023 22:07:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://anglicanjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/AJ-logo-01.svg inequality Archives - Anglican Journal https://anglicanjournal.com/tag/inequality/ 32 32 170042892 ‘We can name the evil that is racism’: A conversation with Archbishop Thabo Makgoba https://anglicanjournal.com/we-can-name-the-evil-that-is-racism-a-conversation-with-archbishop-thabo-makgoba/ https://anglicanjournal.com/we-can-name-the-evil-that-is-racism-a-conversation-with-archbishop-thabo-makgoba/#comments Mon, 01 Feb 2021 05:00:38 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=166959 The struggle against anti-Black racism is a common thread in the history of North America and South Africa. During the apartheid era, the Anglican Church of Southern Africa played a major role in supporting the movement to end the official system of racial discrimination. While apartheid officially ended three decades ago, racism continues to plague South Africa today alongside persistent economic and social inequality.

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/we-can-name-the-evil-that-is-racism-a-conversation-with-archbishop-thabo-makgoba/feed/ 1 166959 ‘Be invitational in our desire to see change’ https://anglicanjournal.com/be-invitational-in-our-desire-to-see-change/ https://anglicanjournal.com/be-invitational-in-our-desire-to-see-change/#comments Thu, 03 Sep 2020 14:13:59 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=165545 Early in June, Archbishop and Primate Linda Nicholls described the COVID-19 pandemic as a “changed circumstance”: the latest in a long series of changes throughout the history of the Anglican Church of Canada that have periodically compelled the church to examine its past assumptions and “ways of being and doing.” The primate’s statement was one […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/be-invitational-in-our-desire-to-see-change/feed/ 1 165545 ‘Who lives? Who dies? Who tells your story?’: Hamilton and the politics of representation revisited https://anglicanjournal.com/who-lives-who-dies-who-tells-your-story-hamilton-and-the-politics-of-representation-revisited/ https://anglicanjournal.com/who-lives-who-dies-who-tells-your-story-hamilton-and-the-politics-of-representation-revisited/#comments Wed, 05 Aug 2020 17:54:59 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=165458 July 2020 will be remembered for many reasons, but for fans of musical theatre like me, it will be treasured as the time when the film of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s blockbuster show Hamilton: An American Musical was released on Disney’s video streaming service. Hamilton opened on Broadway in February 2015; from its earliest days it has […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/who-lives-who-dies-who-tells-your-story-hamilton-and-the-politics-of-representation-revisited/feed/ 3 165458 Jubilee in the pandemic? https://anglicanjournal.com/jubilee-in-the-pandemic/ https://anglicanjournal.com/jubilee-in-the-pandemic/#comments Thu, 23 Apr 2020 14:24:36 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=163874 As finances tighten for millions of Canadians, Anglicans call for levelling the playing field—and perhaps conducting our business in new ways. To explain his understanding of the biblical concept of Jubilee, the Rev. Jeffrey Metcalfe uses an analogy with the board game Monopoly. According to the rules of Monopoly, one player wins by buying up […]

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