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Giving back to the gracious other: a Lenten prayer

Archbishop Linda Nicholls — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 22:00:40 +0000

The last few months have been hard. Although I am an introvert—and introverts have had a built-in advantage during pandemic restrictions—I have had enough of uncertainty and lockdowns. I know I am not alone in that sentiment!

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‘Wisdom! Be attentive’

Daniel Tatarnic — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 22:00:31 +0000

I've learned from the school of hard knocks that there are things you best learn on your knees. Wisdom is one of those things.

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‘Worship on the land is the fundamental experience of Arctic Christians’

Matthew Puddister — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 22:00:16 +0000

Worship on the land has always been part of life in the Arctic. It is, Bishop Joey Royal said, “baked into Arctic Christianity, because the people in this land up until the last century or so were nomadic and lived in family groups on the land.”

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Pandemic challenges hospital chaplains

Matthew Puddister — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 12:04:05 +0000

A pair of Anglican and Lutheran hospital chaplains open up on a “new world” of exhaustion—and life-giving work transcending conventional boundaries.

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Seeing through the pandemic’s haze

Archbishop Linda Nicholls — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 12:00:18 +0000

I left home very early that morning to prepare for the 8 a.m. Eucharist at the parish I served, driving in a dense fog. As I approached the church, I began to detect unusual shapes on the lawn where there should not be any! I was concerned, as we had a special service planned for […]

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On steering past the spireas—and surrendering our burdens

Michelle Hauser — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 12:00:01 +0000

The myriad attempts to back out of my long, narrow driveway are embarrassingly comical.

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Surplus seen for 2021, but uncertainty ahead

Matthew Puddister — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 14:00:53 +0000

The church is headed toward a healthy surplus for 2021, CoGS heard at its November meeting. But the financial outlook for 2022 and beyond will be highly unpredictable until the pandemic’s effect on the church is known with more clarity, the council was told.

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‘Realistic hope’ needed as church weighs pandemic’s toll, primate says

Matthew Puddister — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 14:00:44 +0000

The pandemic has left its mark on the church in many ways—including, possibly, a permanent decrease in in-person attendance—and new spiritual resources will be needed as the church continues to emerge from it, Archbishop Linda Nicholls, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, told the Council of General Synod (CoGS) Nov. 5.

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2022 CLAY gathering postponed until August 2023

Matthew Puddister — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 17:34:09 +0000

The next Canadian Lutheran Anglican Youth (CLAY) gathering, originally set to take place in summer 2022, will be postponed until August 2023.

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Honouring life’s final stage

Amy MacLachlan — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 14:00:23 +0000

High rates of COVID-19 infection and death in Canada’s long-term care homes have drawn increased attention to their quality of care, and have spurred announcements by provincial and federal governments of new measures intended to improve it, including billions of dollars in new spending.

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