August 30, 2006 New generation site for Anglican youth

Young Anglicans across Canada now have an opportunity to interact electronically and learn more about church activities geared towards the youth through a new Web site, generation.anglican.caThe Web site aims to provide young...

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August 30, 2006 Seminary sells three campus buildings

The College of Emmanuel and St. Chad in Saskatoon announced it has sold three buildings on the University of Saskatchewan campus to the university for $1.1 million. “We believe that we have reached a good arrangement with the...

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August 30, 2006 Bible society offers online fun to children

The Canadian Bible Society has launched a new interactive Web site aimed at children – www.biblekids.ca. The Web site enables children to watch a short animated video on the story of Creation, allows them to “paint” illustrations...

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August 30, 2006 Diocesan course combats drug use

The youth ministry of the diocese of Saskatchewan has scheduled a six-week course this fall to help parents fight the battle against drugs in their homes and communities. The course, entitled How to Drug Proof Your Kids, will be...

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August 30, 2006 ‘Green synod’ urges eco-friendliness

The first “green” synod of the diocese of New Westminster has approved a resolution urging all its parishes to commit to cutting back their energy consumptions in churches and parish halls as a way of reducing harmful greenhouse...

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August 30, 2006 Virtual settlement

The Association for Manitoba Archives has launched a historical Web exhibit, Recorders of Community: The Archival Legacy of the Red River Settlement Churches 1818-1870. “Churches were central to the lives of settlers in this...

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August 30, 2006 U.S. meeting a glimpse of our possible future

The fractious meeting in June of the General Convention of the Episcopal Church in the U.S. (ECUSA) and the fallout since has given Canadian Anglicans a glimpse of the potential outcome of our own General Synod, which will take...

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August 30, 2006 Consider an electronic General Synod

Dear editor,Re: Dioceses question cost of Synod meeting (May issue). Given the projected expense on General Synod 2007 in Winnipeg and the possibility that the cost may be too high for some delegates to attend, why does the...

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August 30, 2006 Letters to the editor

Dear editor, Re: Archbishop reassures Jewish community (May issue). Archbishop Andrew Hutchison has tried to assure the Jewish community that the Anglican church has no intention of proposing disinvestments in Israeli companies. This gesture demonstrates good will toward Israel. Meanwhile, on page five of the same issue, writer Annette Graydon of the International Anglican Women’s Network quotes Rev. Joanna Graham (Bethlehem’s wall, May letters), “part of an Anglican delegation of women which visited the Holy Land ... upon the invitation of a Palestinian delegate of the Anglican Consultative Council” as calling Israel, “The serpent (that) has surrounded this holy place (Bethany).”

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August 30, 2006 Readers object to story

Dear editor,Re: New Anglican Foundation director named (June issue). I read with dismay and sorrow the news item announcing the appointment of John Wright, Dean Emeritus of Christ Church Cathedral, Victoria, as the new director...

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