Anglican negotiators again met federal representatives in the Office of Indian Residential Schools Resolution last month, seeking ways to limit the legal liability of the Anglican Church of Canada, but no agreement was reached. ...
Category: April 2002, Canada
Rev. Cheryl Kristolaitis has been appointed chaplain at Luther College in Regina, as of August. The college is located in the Saskatchewan Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada and the Anglican diocese of Qu'Appelle....
Category: April 2002, Canada
Christ Church Cathedral in Ottawa held a celebration of full communion in February. Anglican Bishop Peter Coffin and Lutheran Bishop Michael Pryse led worship. At the diocese of Ottawa's synod last October, Rev. Barton Beglo,...
Category: April 2002, Canada
The board of directors of The Practice of Ministry in Canada met in February and March to consider a proposal to breathe new life into the troubled publication. "One of the issues was that the board members were local pastors...
Category: April 2002, Canada
The five Anglican bishops in the dioceses of British Columbia and the Yukon have organized an Anglican vocational conference for young people at Vancouver School of Theology, May 24-25. It is the first such conference. ...
Category: April 2002, Canada
Alice Mary-Elizabeth Cheatley, a resident of Winnipeg in the diocese of Rupert's Land who is a member of St. Alban Anglican church, was named to the Order of Canada in January. Ms. Cheatley has been involved in the field of...
Category: April 2002, Canada
THE SECOND page of the Anglican Journal last month included standard "head and shoulders" photographs of the three men reputed to be the most likely possibilities to succeed the Archbishop of Canterbury after a ponderous...
Category: April 2002, Editorial

IF, FOR SOME reason, you found yourself in circumstances where you could only attend one church service a year, what would it be? For me, there's no contest: the service that takes place in the night between Holy Saturday and...
Category: April 2002, Grace Notes, Archbishop Michael Peers
LAST MONTH, the Canadian Institute for Health Research (CIHR), the largest source of public funding for medical research in Canada, released its long-awaited guidelines on the use of embryonic stem cells for research. Needless to...
Category: April 2002, Faith and Ethics

Dear editor,
As I read the February Journal, I found one news blurb deeply troubling: I wondered why any church would "adopt" a warship. Adopting a warship is an act that allows national values and issues to compromise...
Category: April 2002, Letters