May 2025 Archives - Anglican Journal https://anglicanjournal.com/tag/may-2025/ National News from the Anglican Church of Canada Thu, 29 May 2025 13:44:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://anglicanjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/AJ-logo-01.svg May 2025 Archives - Anglican Journal https://anglicanjournal.com/tag/may-2025/ 32 32 170042892 Panel outlines six paths to ‘big change’ in church https://anglicanjournal.com/panel-outlines-six-paths-to-big-change-in-church/ Mon, 28 Apr 2025 15:51:34 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=212949 The church is approaching a time of important decisions—one which Anglicans can and should embrace with hope, Archbishop Anne Germond, acting primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, told Council of General Synod (CoGS) in her opening remarks March 7.

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]]> 212949 Anglican-assisted refugee founds group for LGBTQ+ asylum seekers https://anglicanjournal.com/anglican-assisted-refugee-founds-group-for-lgbtq-asylum-seekers/ Mon, 28 Apr 2025 14:11:49 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=212937 Several years ago, Emel was homeless, lonely and uncertain about the future.

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]]> 212937 What does Easter mean to you? https://anglicanjournal.com/what-does-easter-mean-to-you/ Tue, 22 Apr 2025 19:32:20 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=212868 For me it is resurrection and salvation. It is names known and hope restored. It is springtime and greening. It is conversation and forgiveness. It is Christ’s peace within us. It is Christ the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last who pledged a new creation where pain and sorrow are banished, and […]

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]]> 212868 Rising up in new life and beauty https://anglicanjournal.com/rising-up-in-new-life-and-beauty/ Mon, 14 Apr 2025 15:41:00 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=212818 FEATHER: Almighty, Creator God, we the children of your creation lift our prayers of thanksgiving for the continued presence of your Spirit in all things around us; we thank you for the change of seasons and the warming winds which caress our faces.

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]]> 212818 Harper, Kerr-Wilson, Lehmann and Walsh-Shaw chosen as candidates for next primate https://anglicanjournal.com/harper-kerr-wilson-lehmann-and-walsh-shaw-chosen-as-candidates-for-next-primate/ Fri, 04 Apr 2025 18:42:29 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=212783 The Order of Bishops has chosen four nominees for this June’s election of the next primate of the Anglican Church of Canada.

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]]> 212783 Rod BrantFrancis elected bishop of Moosonee https://anglicanjournal.com/rod-brantfrancis-elected-bishop-of-moosonee/ Fri, 28 Mar 2025 14:18:52 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=212702 The newly reinstated diocese of Moosonee has elected the Rev. Rod BrantFrancis, a Mi’kmaq priest currently ministering to a Mohawk parish in Ontario, as its first bishop in a decade.

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]]> 212702 Bishop Lesley Wheeler-Dame of Yukon to retire in October https://anglicanjournal.com/bishop-leslie-wheeler-dame-of-yukon-to-retire-in-october/ Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:53:05 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=212672 Bishop Leslie Wheeler-Dame of the diocese of Yukon will retire Oct. 24 this year, she announced in a letter to the diocese dated Feb. 26. On Oct. 24 she will reach 70, the mandatory retirement age for bishops in the Anglican Church of Canada. In an interview with the Anglican Journal, Wheeler-Dame said she felt reluctant to leave the position amid a period when the diocese is showing promising signs of renewal. Still, she added, she will not be leaving its service, instead planning to serve in Ministry of Presence, a program in which retired Anglicans volunteer to serve as non-stipendiary congregational leaders to supplement the diocese’s limited number of stipendiary clergy. 

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]]> 212672 Anglican Award of Merit recipients for 2025 announced https://anglicanjournal.com/anglican-award-of-merit-recipients-for-2025-announced/ Tue, 18 Mar 2025 17:57:16 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=212646 Five individuals have been named to receive the Anglican Award of Merit, the Anglican Church of Canada’s highest award for lay people. Council of General Synod voted March 7 to approve the names of those the Anglican Award of Merit Committee had recommended receive the award in 2025: Canon (lay) Ian Alexander, Nancy Hurn, Teresa […]

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]]> 212646 CoGS votes to keep printing Journal—as journalistic entity—for at least three years https://anglicanjournal.com/cogs-votes-to-keep-printing-journal-as-journalistic-entity-for-at-least-three-years/ Fri, 14 Mar 2025 19:02:57 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=212634 The Council of General Synod (CoGS) has voted to continue the print publication and journalistic mandate of the Anglican Journal for another three years at least, putting to rest at least temporarily the possibility of shutting it down, making it online-only or converting it to a corporate communications organ.

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]]> 212634 The Rev. Chad McCharles elected bishop of Saskatoon https://anglicanjournal.com/the-rev-chad-mccharles-elected-bishop-of-saskatoon/ Fri, 14 Mar 2025 13:30:11 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=212626 When he initially got the call to let his name stand for bishop of Saskatoon, the Rev. Chad McCharles, a Manitoba priest and part-time school bus driver, said his first impulse was “a hard no.”

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