July 1, 1998 Mohawk chapel to be restored

A two-year campaign has been launched to raise $850,000 for restoration of Christ Church, Her Majesty's Royal Chapel of the Mohawks in Deseronto, on eastern Ontario's Bay of Quinte. Heritage Canada has committed $425,000,...

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July 1, 1998 Canada briefs

Journal names new staff writer Kathy Blair has been appointed the Anglican Journal's full-time staff writer. Ms. Blair joined the paper June 1. Until then, she was editor of Canadian Employment Law Today, a...

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July 1, 1998 Canada briefs: Ecclesiastical Province of British Columbia and Yukon

Residential schools lawsuit underway A B.C. Supreme Court ruling that the United Church of Canada and the federal government are liable for sexual assaults committed on more than 30 former native residential...

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July 1, 1998 Canada briefs: Ecclesiastical Province of Rupert's Land

Weather man to soul man Howard Thornton, a CBC Regina weather man who has been in broadcasting for more than two decades recently took early retirement and began preparations for a new calling in ordained ministry. Mr....

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July 1, 1998 Canada briefs: Ecclesiastical Province of Ontario

Masters program coming to Ottawa This past academic year, for the first time, students in the Anglican Studies program at Saint Paul University, Ottawa, were able to participate in a Masters of Pastoral Theology program...

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July 1, 1998 Canada briefs: Ecclesiastical Province of Canada

Monks demand silence The tiny monastery of Nova Nada in Yarmouth County will close its doors by Advent if local logging operations don't stop. The contemplative monastery attracts about 500 visitors a year for retreats in...

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May 1, 1998 Synod to assess if '95 strategy working

How is the church doing? Three years ago, General Synod approved a new strategic plan for the church as it readies itself for the 21st century. Essentially, the plan proposed that General Synod concentrate on the programs ...

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May 1, 1998 Navy takes Anglican priest on board to Gulf

It's not every day that a member of the clergy works on a vessel, let alone a warship on station off the coast of Iraq - but Padre Andrew Cooke is doing just that. The mild-mannered Anglican minister is making an important...

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May 1, 1998 Gay-straight 'marriages' proposed

A book maintaining that homosexual men should be free to marry heterosexual women has brought a storm of criticism down on the author, an instructor at Vancouver's evangelically inclined Regent College, from both liberal and ...

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May 1, 1998 Essentials appears part of landscape

In an indication that the Essentials Movement has both come of age and become an established part of the Anglican landscape, more than 1,000 Anglicans took part in worship and workshops, as well as listening to speakers at a...

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