may 2022 Archives - Anglican Journal

Dodging a bullet: Anglican Church of Canada donors strong while charitable sector suffers

Sean Frankling — Mon, 02 May 2022 18:40:33 +0000

When the pandemic began, CanadaHelps, a charity that offers online donation solutions for churches and other charities, began work on an expanded version of its annual Giving Report, says Jacob O’Connor, the charity’s Senior Vice President of Charity, Engagement and Growth. “In light of the pandemic and what we were seeing on the ground with […]

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A changing church: A tale of two cookbooks

David Harrison — Mon, 02 May 2022 13:00:59 +0000

In 1972, the “Women’s Auxiliary for Outreach” at St. Margaret’s Anglican Church in New Toronto—a neighbourhood in southwest Toronto— published From Our Kitchen to Yours, a classic parish cookbook with the sort of recipes you might expect from the early 1970s: quick tomato aspic, salmon casserole, creamed pork chops, and tomato soup cake (to name […]

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‘Justice work is relational’ How full communion supports advocacy

Matthew Puddister — Mon, 02 May 2022 13:00:54 +0000

Faith communities may have lost some of the heft they once had in shaping public opinion in Canada—but ecumenism, including full communion between the Anglican Church of Canada and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC)—has allowed churches to partly make up for this by advocating for change in a single voice, say a pair […]

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Faith and making it through the whitewater

Archbishop Linda Nicholls — Mon, 02 May 2022 13:00:34 +0000

I like to have a clear path from the acknowledgment of a problem to its solution. If something is wrong, fix it. If it is complicated, lay out a plan with the steps needed. That approach works when the problem is understood and a solution can be seen—even if it may take some time to […]

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New hymn compilation awaits Anglican voices

Sean Frankling — Mon, 02 May 2022 13:00:03 +0000

Anglicans in Canada and around the world may find themselves singing some new hymns this spring. As this article was being written, Sing a New Creation, a supplement to the 1998 hymnal Common Praise, was set to be released— and was said to be already attracting interest both inside and outside the country. And what’s […]

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Church may have surplus of $3.6 million for 2021

Matthew Puddister — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 20:11:13 +0000

An unaudited financial statement released to Council of General Synod (CoGS) from the church’s financial management committee shows investment income helping propel General Synod to a surplus of about $3.6 million— on a total budget of $8.6 million—for 2021.

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‘What happened … was gravely wrong.’

Sean Frankling — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 15:41:07 +0000

The Council of General Synod (CoGS) has committed itself to improving the church’s practices in a range of areas including sexual abuse and journalistic governance in the wake of public allegations that senior church management failed to protect the identities of victims of alleged sexual assault by sharing last year an early draft of an […]

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