June 2025 Archives - Anglican Journal https://anglicanjournal.com/tag/june-2025/ National News from the Anglican Church of Canada Fri, 26 Sep 2025 20:34:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://anglicanjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/AJ-logo-01.svg June 2025 Archives - Anglican Journal https://anglicanjournal.com/tag/june-2025/ 32 32 170042892 Our leaders are called to be servants and helpers https://anglicanjournal.com/our-leaders-are-called-to-be-servants-and-helpers/ Wed, 28 May 2025 15:47:01 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=213097 FEATHER: Almighty God, Creator of all, today we give thanks and praise for the gift of your Holy Spirit, who guides and strengthens your children of faith. Your Spirit walks with us, in this season of new life and your promise revealed.

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]]> 213097 Carried away by wind and flame https://anglicanjournal.com/carried-away-by-wind-and-flame/ Wed, 28 May 2025 15:31:56 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=213090 This is my final column as your acting primate, a ministry for which I am deeply grateful to have been called to serve. It has been an honour and a sacred trust, and I thank you for the encouragement received and the prayers offered over the last nine months.

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]]> 213090 Get to know the primatial candidates https://anglicanjournal.com/get-to-know-the-primatial-candidates-2/ Tue, 27 May 2025 20:19:47 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=213073 The nominees for primate share their assessments of the present—and their hopes for the future

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]]> 213073 Sacred Circle to build framework of emergent Indigenous church https://anglicanjournal.com/sacred-circle-to-build-framework-of-emergent-indigenous-church/ Mon, 26 May 2025 20:54:59 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=213062 Sacred Circle, the main governing body of the Indigenous Anglican church, will continue to give shape to the emerging self-governing institution when it meets this August 5-10 in Calgary, Alta.

National Indigenous Archbishop Chris Harper says key topics will include working out the procedural structures needed to put its founding documents, Our Way of Life and the Covenant, into practice; discussing an equitable method of picking representatives to Sacred Circle from across Canada; analyzing the funding available to the Indigenous church; and potentially even choosing a new national Indigenous archbishop.

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]]> 213062 Primatial vote, future shape of church set to take centre stage at General Synod https://anglicanjournal.com/primatial-vote-future-shape-of-church-set-to-take-centre-stage-at-general-synod/ Wed, 21 May 2025 14:12:09 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=213041 Anglicans are gearing up for the next meeting of General Synod, which is set to take place June 23-29 at RBC Place in London, Ont. in the diocese of Huron and will include the election of the 15th primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, as well as an update from the primate’s commission on re-imagining the church.

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]]> 213041 Buying silence is a social sin the church cannot afford https://anglicanjournal.com/buying-silence-is-a-social-sin-the-church-cannot-afford/ Mon, 12 May 2025 14:10:32 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=213006 If the cruelty of silence took a shape, it would be the scold’s bridle.

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]]> 213006 Victor-David Mbuyi Bipungu elected bishop of Montreal https://anglicanjournal.com/victor-david-mbuyi-bipungu-elected-bishop-of-montreal/ Mon, 05 May 2025 13:32:32 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=212997 The Anglican diocese of Montreal has elected a Congolese Canadian and former Roman Catholic priest as its 13th bishop.

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]]> 212997 Beloved Bishop Robert Bennett remembered for people-first ministry https://anglicanjournal.com/beloved-bishop-robert-bennett-remembered-for-people-first-ministry/ Thu, 24 Apr 2025 19:43:50 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=212929 Friends and colleagues remember Bishop Robert Bennett, formerly of the diocese of Huron, as a caring, hilarious and deeply pastoral bishop who invariably put his relationships with parishioners first. Bennett died April 14 after a life touched by the love of his wife, Kathleen, their daughters Meghan and Jessica and countless Anglicans, an amazing number of whom Bennett always remembered by name, say his friends. 

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]]> 212929 ‘My challenge for people is to see the children they love in the children of Gaza’ https://anglicanjournal.com/my-challenge-for-people-is-to-see-the-children-they-love-in-the-children-of-gaza/ Thu, 24 Apr 2025 13:00:00 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=212876 From Jan. 29 to Feb. 27, Sarah Lalonde provided medical care at the European Gaza Hospital, a trauma centre located in the southern town of Al-Fukhari near the Egyptian border.

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]]> 212876 Safe church complaint—now resolved—was made against episcopal candidate, Montreal bishop says in correction of previous remarks https://anglicanjournal.com/complaint-now-resolved-was-made-against-one-or-more-episcopal-candidates-montreal-bishop-says-in-correction-of-previous-remarks/ Wed, 16 Apr 2025 19:33:01 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=212854 Bishop Mary Irwin-Gibson has corrected a previously reported statement that no formal complaints have been made against any of the candidates nominated to succeed her as bishop of Montreal after being asked by the Journal about a harassment complaint made against at least one of them in 2020.

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