Two large groups of Anglicans from the diocese of Calgary traveled to Chile last fall on a two-week work project called Blessings to Chile. They helped demolish an old church and build a new one at the parish of La Ascension in...
Category: February 2003, Canada
Bishop James Njegovan of Brandon and retired Dean Jack Greenhalgh were awarded honorary doctor of divinity degrees in November by St. John's College at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg. Dean Greenhalgh retired last year from...
Category: February 2003, Canada
An exhibit of photographs from Indian residential schools at the National Archives of Canada has been extended to Sept. 1, 2003. The show, entitled Where Are The Children? Healing the Legacy of the Residential Schools was...
Category: February 2003, Canada
The diocese of Rupert's Land recently hosted a delegation of 11 people from the diocese of Central Buganda in Uganda, including Bishop Jackson Matovu. The group included healthcare workers, teachers, an agriculture officer and...
Category: February 2003, Canada
The diocesan council in New Westminster has authorized spending up to $12,000 to investigate problems with moisture in the walls and ceilings of six churches. The problem is the same as that found in condominiums built during the...
Category: February 2003, Canada
Archbishop Michael Peers, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, last November told a panel discussion in Toronto that an unprovoked attack on Iraq would fail St. Augustine's test of a "just war." The discussion, entitled...
Category: February 2003, Canada
My family and I used to sit in the narthex, wedged into one of two rows of pews with other families with small children - an area we parents call the petting zoo. The interior back wall of the church is mostly glass, so the young...
Category: February 2003, Editorial
I am celebrating a 50th anniversary of a great moment in the process of becoming an adult - receiving my driver's licence.
At the time I was learning to drive, I was in university taking Psychology 100.
In those days much...
Category: February 2003, Grace Notes, Archbishop Michael Peers
Dear editor,
After reading the letters to the editor in response to the October 2002 article, "Let the little children come," I felt compelled to write.
I am the mother of two children, ages 14 years and 20 months. I have...
Category: February 2003, Letters
Let us gladly assume collective responsibility
Dear editor,
I am writing to express my strong support for the agreement our church has made with the federal government to settle the residential schools claims against us. ...
Category: February 2003, Letters