Anthony Burton, bishop of the diocese of Saskatchewan, is one of five candidates in the election of a bishop for the diocese of San Diego in the Episcopal Church of the United States. Bishop Burton is on a slate of five...
Category: October 2004, Canada
A new chapter of Essentials, a coalition of Canadian Anglicans supporting conservative views on homosexuality and traditional Christianity, was formed recently in Brandon, Man. In a news release, Essentials Manitoba said...
Category: October 2004, Canada, Sexuality debate
The diocese of Keewatin 's office in Kenora, Ont., recently sent a letter to clergy asking them to participate in a Day of Prayer for Community Healing on Sept. 22 called by local native leaders in response to several recent...
Category: October 2004, Canada
Elsewhere on these pages is a letter from a now-former Anglican. The man, like many gays and lesbians before him and certainly some to follow, has left his church after too many years of discord and rejection. It is unknown...
Category: October 2004, Editorial
Do you think a prison is an appropriate place for a seminarian? During my years as a theological student I was assigned as part of my field education to a correctional facility in Brampton, Ont. A weekly requirement was a...
Category: October 2004, Opinion and Editorial, Archbishop Andrew Hutchison
Dear editor, I don't know how many times I have met parents who plan to hold off on a religious education for their children until they are old enough to choose for themselves. Their reluctance to embrace any religious...
Category: October 2004, Letters
Dear editor, As I read the September issue of Anglican Journal and our diocesan paper, Topic, the first hymn I learned in Sunday School, Jesus Bids us Shine, sprang to mind. Both papers displayed pure, clear lights glowing in...
Category: October 2004, Letters
Canon John Caird, a retired parish priest and founding member of the Anglican Editors Association, died Aug. 5 in Winnipeg after a 10-year battle with kidney cancer. Mr. Caird, born in 1939 in Edinburgh. He obtained a science...
Category: October 2004, Obituaries
"Here in this place, new light is streaming," began the first hymn of the opening eucharist as the Eastern Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC) met in a four-day convention at Brock University in St....
Category: October 2004, Concerning Lutherans
October is Breast Cancer Month. In a reflection written for Anglican Journal, Victoria Matthews, bishop of Edmonton, reflects on what sustains her as she lives with the disease. For more information on breast cancer, visit...
Category: October 2004, Opinion and Editorial