January 2026 Archives - Anglican Journal https://anglicanjournal.com/tag/january-2026/ National News from the Anglican Church of Canada Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:38:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://anglicanjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/AJ-logo-01.svg January 2026 Archives - Anglican Journal https://anglicanjournal.com/tag/january-2026/ 32 32 170042892 Cult of King Charles the Martyr reflects enduring political divisions https://anglicanjournal.com/cult-of-king-charles-the-martyr-reflects-enduring-political-divisions/ Mon, 26 Jan 2026 19:20:58 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=214616 A cult of martyrdom began forming around Charles Stuart—who, as reigning monarch of England, Scotland and Ireland, was known as King Charles I—almost immediately after his execution for high treason on Jan. 30, 1649.

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]]> 214616 Nursing the infant year on love and prayers https://anglicanjournal.com/nursing-the-infant-year-on-love-and-prayers/ Thu, 18 Dec 2025 16:28:27 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=214445 Creator God, in whom all have their beginning and end, we your children of creation lift our praise and thanksgiving for this season of renewal and beginning, as we look to the new year before us.

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]]> 214445 Like a winter forest, God draws the truth from us https://anglicanjournal.com/like-a-winter-forest-god-draws-the-truth-from-us/ Thu, 18 Dec 2025 16:23:01 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=214444 I have spent many hours on snowshoes. My first taste of snowshoeing was at age four or five in Fort Nelson, B.C. (Treaty 8 Territory). My father was serving there as a member of the Royal Canadian Army Pay Corps and was given training suitable to the environment.

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]]> 214444 Sometimes God calls us in extraordinary ways https://anglicanjournal.com/sometimes-god-calls-us-in-extraordinary-ways/ Mon, 15 Dec 2025 22:05:22 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=214401 Church history is a narrative of surprising conversions. In the earliest written strands, we have the dramatic “Damascus Road” experience of the violently zealous Saul where, by means of a supernatural, personal encounter with the risen Christ, he was transformed from a persecutor of the Christian way to a devoted adherent and apostle.

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]]> 214401 January 2026 letters to the editor https://anglicanjournal.com/january-2026-letters-to-the-editor/ Mon, 15 Dec 2025 21:49:55 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=214416 Quebeckers may have to act to protect religious freedom

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]]> 214416 Former general secretary Pollesel remembered as faithful servant https://anglicanjournal.com/former-general-secretary-pollesel-remembered-as-faithful-servant/ Wed, 03 Dec 2025 14:00:08 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=214318 Michele—also known as Michael—Pollesel, who served as general secretary of the Anglican Church of Canada from 2006 to 2011 and then as bishop of Uruguay, died Nov. 21 at the Ottawa Hospital after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 76.

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]]> 214318 ‘The problem is greed’: B.C. priest reports back from COP30 https://anglicanjournal.com/the-problem-is-greed-b-c-priest-reports-back-from-cop30/ Tue, 02 Dec 2025 20:57:32 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=214306 A Canadian Anglican priest who attended the 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP30, found ongoing obstacles to climate action in the form of greed—but also inspiration in organizing by the Christian community and Indigenous protesters.

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]]> 214306 Arson suspected in fire that destroyed historic Toronto church https://anglicanjournal.com/arson-suspected-in-fire-that-destroyed-historic-toronto-church/ Mon, 24 Nov 2025 21:11:30 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=214209 Toronto police and Ontario’s fire marshal are treating the June 2024 fire that destroyed the historic St. Anne’s Anglican Church as suspected arson.

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]]> 214209 Canadian Anglicans push back against cuts to refugee sponsorship, foreign aid in announced federal budget https://anglicanjournal.com/canadian-anglicans-push-back-against-cuts-to-refugee-sponsorship-foreign-aid-in-announced-federal-budget/ Fri, 14 Nov 2025 19:24:56 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=214101 When Mimi Merrill fled to Canada in 2003 as a student and refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo, it was 17 years before she saw her mother again.

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]]> 214101 Clare Burns resigns as chancellor of General Synod https://anglicanjournal.com/clare-burns-resigns-as-chancellor-of-general-synod/ Thu, 13 Nov 2025 19:00:50 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=214087 Canon (lay) Clare Burns has submitted her resignation as chancellor of General Synod and will step down from the position no later than Dec. 31.

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