Four parishes in the diocese of New Westminster will be tapping alternative energy sources – the sun and the wind – after receiving a $50,000 Green Building Grant from the Real Estate Foundation of B.C. and the...
Category: March 2006, Canada
Members of the Canadian Council of Churches (CCC) and the National Council of Churches (NCC) in the United States met recently to lay the groundwork for an international biotechnology conference in 2007 that will gather...
Category: March 2006, Canada, World Council of Churches
A group of dissident churches has ceased using the name "Anglican Communion in Canada" in compliance with an order from Corporations Canada to change its corporate name following a petition filed by the Anglican Church of...
Category: March 2006, Canada, Sexuality debate
Even a simple trip like a family vacation needs a destination, a map, a vehicle to get there and an evaluation. ("Next time, let's not rent a place called Scorpion Villa.") Recently, General Synod commissioned reports on...
Category: March 2006, Editorial
Dear editor, Thank you so much for Peter Moon's article about Capt. Fraser Harvey (Army chaplain jumps in feet first after his flock, Jan. 27 story, www.anglicanjournal.com).
How delightful to read of an...
Category: March 2006, Letters
The Anglican Journal welcomes letters to the editor. Preference is given to letters under 200 words. All letters are subject to editing for length, grammar and clarity. Please include a mailing address with all letters....
Category: March 2006, Letters
In light of the continuing interest in my presentation on declining church membership to the house of bishops last October, and the controversy it is generating, I think some clarification is in order.
I have been...
Category: March 2006, Opinion and Editorial
John Kenneth Galbraith once remarked that the main function of economic forecasting was to make astrology appear as a reputable science. The same could be said of other types of projections, including predictions of the...
Category: March 2006, Opinion and Editorial
The Primate's World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) has appointed Adele Finney as acting executive director during executive director Cheryl Curtis' maternity leave, effective March 7, 2006. Ms. Curtis will be on...
Category: March 2006, Appointments, PWRDF
Judy Steers, program director of Ask and Imagine, a leadership course for youth, has been named co-ordinator of youth initiatives at the national Anglican church office in Toronto, effective March 1.
The part-time...
Category: March 2006, Appointments, Youth