As a student first of history and now of library and archival science, I am acutely aware of an existential crisis currently ongoing in both fields.
Nobody writes letters anymore.
American historian David A. Bell once cautioned that “few subjects are more dangerous than war to discuss in a dry, abstract manner, without a sense of the human costs involved-without hearing the screams, seeing the bodies, and smelling the powder and the blood.”
Stretching all the way from the dining room to the plenary area, the display booths lining the halls at the Sheraton Parkway Toronto North Hotel & Suites represent a plethora of organizations and causes as diverse as those gathered together for the Anglican Church of Canada’s General Synod 2016. A total of 48 displayers are present at this year’s synod, with space having sold out before the beginning of the event.
In their joint address to General Synod on the subject of the April 2016 meeting of the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) in Lusaka, Zambia, Anglican Church of Canada delegates Bishop Jane Alexander and Suzanne Lawson drew particular attention to what they described as the ACC’s resounding commitment to a new evangelism and, more specifically, the concept of intentional discipleship.
Tucked away on the lower level of the Sheraton Parkway North Toronto Hotel & Suites, the Newmarket Room has been transformed into a place of quiet, prayerful respite amidst the bustle and noise of the 41st General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada.
“It was all-encompassing, it was a wonderful address, very sensitive to the issues facing our church today, not just the marriage canon proposal, but all the major challenges that are facing the world and how important it is for the church itself to make a stand and to speak for Christ and for Christ’s church in the world especially.” -Bishop Robert Hardwick, diocese of Saskatchewan
On September 26, the Community of the Sisters of the Church (CSC) will gather at St. Cuthbert’s Anglican Church in Oakville, Ont., to celebrate its 125th anniversary in Canada.
St. Andrew’s Anglican Church, located in the Yukon’s historic Fort Selkirk, was slated to undergo a major restoration this summer, but the project has hit a snag.
In a photograph, Zaida Bastos, Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) program manager at the Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF), and a group of proud, smiling farmers in Rugombo, Burundi, are holding up freshly picked eggplants. What is not readily apparent in the picture is that the farmers are HIV-positive.
The village of Ohsweken in Six Nations of the Grand River, Ont., recently played host to the second Music for the Spirit summer day camp, which three Anglican Church of Canada agencies co-sponsored with other faith groups and charitable organizations.
“We live in a world full of hate. I live in Pequeñas Rosas, in Honduras, which is close to El Bordo. El Bordo is one of the most dangerous places, because they kill you, attack women, and follow you when you aren’t looking.”
The mingling of Richard Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyries with the laughter of excited children is, on the surface, something of an odd combination. Emanating as they are from St. Peter’s Anglican Church on a Monday morning in downtown Hamilton, Ont., the sounds are stranger still.
The Rev. Judith Alltree is fond of using the phrase “the ministry of small gestures” to describe her work.
Canadian sculptor Timothy Schmalz’s life-sized bronze statue, Jesus the Homeless, did not have the most auspicious of beginnings. The oft-controversial piece, which depicts Jesus as an all-but-anonymous homeless person curled beneath a blanket on a park bench, spent close to a year stranded in Schmalz’s studio after it was first cast.
Three board members representing Nepalese Canadian Community Services (NCCS), a Toronto-based not-for-profit organization, visited the offices of the Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) on June 4 to deliver a cheque for $13,075.25 bound for earthquake relief in Nepal.
In the wake of the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Nepal on April 25, Nepalese Canadian Community Services (NCCS), a Toronto-based not-for-profit, has partnered with the Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) in an effort to aid the Himalayan nation of 27 million.
As part of the Anglican Journal‘s 140th anniversary milestone, I was tasked with sifting through the newspaper’s substantial archives in search of stories significant to the history of the Anglican Church of Canada, and to the history of the Journal itself.
Council of General Synod (CoGS) members on May 1 took part in a workshop on the subject of anti-racism and, more specifically, white privilege.
Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, and Bishop Susan Johnson, national bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC), have issued a joint statement in anticipation of Earth Day 2015, to be observed April 22.
Parishioners from four different Anglican churches in the diocese of Niagara embarked on a mission trip to the Dominican Republic in late February this year.
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