wildfires Archives - Anglican Journal https://anglicanjournal.com/tag/wildfires/ National News from the Anglican Church of Canada Tue, 01 Feb 2022 17:18:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://anglicanjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/AJ-logo-01.svg wildfires Archives - Anglican Journal https://anglicanjournal.com/tag/wildfires/ 32 32 170042892 Choosing life over consumption in a time of crisis https://anglicanjournal.com/choosing-life-over-consumption-in-a-time-of-crisis/ https://anglicanjournal.com/choosing-life-over-consumption-in-a-time-of-crisis/#respond Sat, 01 Jan 2022 14:00:33 +0000 https://www.anglicanjournal.com/?p=170125 “Multitudes [upon] multitudes in the valley of decision, for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.” (Joel 3:14) Whatever the original context of Joel’s prophecy, our time fits these words like no other.

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/choosing-life-over-consumption-in-a-time-of-crisis/feed/ 0 170125 ‘The climate conversation will define us’ https://anglicanjournal.com/the-climate-conversation-will-define-us/ https://anglicanjournal.com/the-climate-conversation-will-define-us/#comments Sat, 01 Jan 2022 14:00:28 +0000 https://www.anglicanjournal.com/?p=170106 I've been involved in the Anglican church’s response to the climate crisis for a few years now. At one point, early on, I proudly told my teenage daughter Hannah that I had said no to an invitation to sit on my diocese’s climate response committee. It is so important to role model not over-committing!

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/the-climate-conversation-will-define-us/feed/ 1 170123 To find life on a day like this https://anglicanjournal.com/to-find-life-on-a-day-like-this/ https://anglicanjournal.com/to-find-life-on-a-day-like-this/#respond Mon, 01 Nov 2021 13:00:16 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=169326 For many years, I have been troubled by the inability of non-Indigenous people and institutions to receive and grasp the full reality of the pain and challenges of Indigenous life in this land. Statistics and stories are acknowledged with sympathy, but the realization of what this might mean seems completely elusive.

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/to-find-life-on-a-day-like-this/feed/ 0 169326 ‘Heartbreaking’ devastation from California wildfires shows strength of community-church ties https://anglicanjournal.com/heartbreaking-devastation-from-california-wildfires-shows-strength-of-community-church-ties/ https://anglicanjournal.com/heartbreaking-devastation-from-california-wildfires-shows-strength-of-community-church-ties/#respond Thu, 02 Aug 2018 14:20:15 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=156710 The Rev. Carren Sheldon’s evening on July 26 was supposed to go something like this: Evening Prayer, dinner, compline, sleep. But after dinner, she returned to All Saints’ Episcopal Church in Redding, California, to find the neighborhood on the brink of disaster. Heat, wind and “bizarre weather patterns” fueled the sudden advance of a growing wildfire. “The sky […]

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