December 1, 2007 Bringing message of hope in prison cells

At the Nanaimo Correctional Centre, a provincial jail for adult male offenders, the tradition is to have a Christmas Eve service for the men, sing carols and on Christmas Day the chaplain and possibly a few volunteers walk around...

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December 1, 2007 Gifts for seafarers

Robert Louis Stevenson wrote a very poignant poem about a sailor at sea battling the wind and weather as the ship fought its way out of a deep bay on Christmas day. The pathos of this poem, Christmas At Sea, is in the fact that...

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December 1, 2007 ‘There is goodness in the world’

We have a program called the Good Samaritan which links various churches in our community through outreach and social projects. It was developed to provide support to people who have slipped through the cracks of our social...

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December 1, 2007 The night in Bethlehem comes alive

Ten years ago we decided to invite local kids and their parents to a Christmas pageant in our church at 5:30 p.m. on Christmas Eve. We found a few narrative two-person dialogue Christmas stories and broke up the dialogue with...

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December 1, 2007 A special time for shut-ins, seniors in retirement homes

I am priest-in-charge of the ministry to seniors in Prince Edward County, diocese of Ontario. There are 12 nursing and retirement homes, which we serve in various ways. The three parishes in the county enthusiastically support...

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December 1, 2007 Ontario priest disciplined for marrying same-sex couple

A priest in the diocese of Ontario has been disciplined and had his licence to marry cancelled after he officiated at the wedding of a same-sex couple last August in a church in rural Ontario, where he is the incumbent. Rev....

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December 1, 2007 Conference urges bishops to allow gay marriage

A group of Canadian Anglicans on the liberal, or “progressive,” side of issues concerning homosexuality and the church have urged Anglican bishops to “proceed to (the) full inclusion (of gay and lesbian people) by providing access to all sacraments and sacramental rites of the church,” including marriage.

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December 1, 2007 Dissenting parishes consider payroll issue

Dissenting parishes consider payroll issue

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December 1, 2007 Former students sue Grenville

Former students of Grenville Christian College filed a class-action lawsuit on Oct. 17 that seeks $1 billion in damages as a result of abuse allegedly suffered at the school and names as defendants the now-closed school, the Anglican Church of Canada, two Anglican priests and the Community of Jesus, a Massachusetts-based organization.

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December 1, 2007 Video award

Topahdewin: The Gladys Cook Story, a documentary produced by Anglican Video, the Anglican Church of Canada’s national video department in Toronto, won a Redemptive Storyteller award at the Redemptive Film Festival, held Nov. 2-3...

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