January 1, 2007 Crowded schedule for Synod 2007

There are certain constants whenever General Synod, the governing body of the Anglican Church of Canada, meets every three years, said some church leaders who have previously attended many such gatherings.

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January 1, 2007 Church statistics hard to come by

How many Anglicans are there in Canada? How many Anglican priests? How many baptisms took place in Anglican churches in Canada last year? How many funerals?

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January 1, 2007 Signs of Hope ... in the form of a sparrow

In November, we asked Anglican Journal readers what signs of hope they saw in the church, in this time of shrinking membership and declining revenues. Paul MacLean reflects on the question below and other readers share their thoughts elsewhere on these pages.

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January 1, 2007 Award recognizes artist’s windows

Canadian stained glass artist Sarah Hall’s work in the Gwen Harris Music Building at St. Barnabas-on-the-Desert Episcopal Campus in Paradise Valley, Ariz., has been honoured with a Ministry and Liturgy 2006 Stained Glass Award. The project was published in Ministry and Liturgy magazine in November.

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January 1, 2007 Lutheran synod accepts same-sex ruling

The Eastern Synod Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC) has accepted “with deep regret” the ruling by its National Church Council that its synod’s approval of a resolution allowing a local option on the...

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January 1, 2007 AFN urges awareness of settlement details

The legal counsel for the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) has urged frontline workers working in reserves and native communities to make sure that former Indian residential schools students know that an “opt-out” period, which...

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January 1, 2007 'Street priest' meets his flock where they live

Rev. Matthew Johnson of St. James, Vancouver, has been serving as a “street priest” in the city’s downtown east side for more than a year-and-a-half. According to Topic, the newspaper of the diocese of New Westminster, for three...

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January 1, 2007 Some simple secrets behind successes in fundraising

In June, 2005, four burly firefighters in full gear carried St. John’s altar back into the church, bringing it home four years after fire gutted the building on Halloween, 2001. It was the start of a rededication ceremony and the culmination of a fundraising campaign that accomplished the impossible: a complete historical reconstruction of the second-oldest Anglican church in Canada.

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January 1, 2007 Resort attracts snowbirds seeking a vacation and a volunteer experience

Rev. Dave Conway, an American priest, has come up with a novel idea that is attracting a number of Canadian Christians looking for a way to escape winter: combine pleasure with service in the Dominica, the largest of the Windward...

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January 1, 2007 Five-year anniversary

With picturesque church buildings behind them, members of the Joint Anglican-Lutheran Commission met recently in Mahone Bay, N.S., to mark five years of full communion between the Anglican and Lutheran churches in Canada.

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