December 1, 2006 Council settles wording on doctrine question

Delegates to General Synod 2007 will face this resolution in six months: “That General Synod accept the conclusions of the Primate’s Theological Commis-sion that the blessing of same-sex unions is doctrine but is not core doctrine in the sense of being creedal.”

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December 1, 2006 Primate suggests all bishops may be invited to Lambeth

Archbishop Andrew Hutchison, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, says that he is inclined to believe that the Archbishop of Canterbury will invite all bishops to the 2008 Lambeth Conference, regardless of their stances on the contentious issue of sexuality.

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December 1, 2006 Conference manager gives bishops a preview of 2008 Lambeth meeting

Canadian bishops said they want to focus on relationships at the next Lambeth Conference, the decennial meeting of the world’s Anglican bishops, which will be held in Canterbury, England at the University of Kent from July 16 to Aug. 4, 2008.

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December 1, 2006 Dinner raises funds for Forces bishop

During the bishops’ four-day meeting at a retreat house outside Toronto, they traveled into the city for Archbishop Andrew Hutchison’s second fundraising dinner, called Breaking Bread with +Andrew: Dinner and Conversation With...

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December 1, 2006 Ottawa’s bishop will retire after General Synod 2007

The bishop of the diocese of Ottawa, Peter Coffin, who is 60, has announced his retirement in July 2007, a move that has surprised many Anglicans. He will step down after next year’s meeting of General Syn-od, the church’s...

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December 1, 2006 Clergy struggling with identity and feelings of loneliness, exhaustion

A majority of Ontario clergy in six major Protestant denominations, including Anglicans, are lonely and unfulfilled, exhausted from working long hours and are suffering a “critical crisis of identity,” with most feeling like a...

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December 1, 2006 Arctic dean adds fundraiser to unusual resume

In an unusual move, the diocese of the Arctic has appointed a cathedral dean who most recently was a priest at a church that is not in communion with the Anglican Church of Canada.Rev. James C. Barlow arrived in Iqaluit, Nunavut,...

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December 1, 2006 Journey of a lifetime

The latest recipient of the Anglican Foundation’s St. Basil the Great Scholarship, Dean Walter Raymond of the diocese of Quebec, spent four months this year among the Armenian Orthodox of the Middle East in what he called “the...

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December 1, 2006 Churches carry on fight against HIV/AIDS

The diocese of Fredericton has presented a $50,000 cheque to the HIV/AIDS campaign of the Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) from funds raised by the bishop and parishioners who walked for miles across the diocese to raise awareness about the disease and to sign up sponsors.

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December 1, 2006 Toronto Anglican wins prestigious Giller Prize

Vincent Lam, an active Anglican from Toronto, has won the prestigious 2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize for excellence in English-language Canadian fiction. Mr. Lam, a parishioner of St. Stephen-in-the-Fields, received a $40,000 prize...

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