January 1, 2007 Mission trip will build Grenada chapel

The Grenada Reconstruction Project, which will build a chapel on the site of the former St. Luke’s Anglican Primary School that was completely destroyed in 2004 during Hurricane Ivan, is organizing another mission to Grenada....

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January 1, 2007 Mothers get wired

The Canadian chapter of Mothers’ Union (MU), has launched a Web site, www.mothersunioncanada.ca.MU, which the Arcbishop of Canterbury once referred to as the “fifth instrument of unity” in the Anglican Communion,  has more...

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January 1, 2007 Unity service hits snag

For a second year in a row, Anglicans, Lutherans and Roman Catholics will not gather to renew their baptismal vows during this month’s Week of Prayer for Christian Unity; differences over the thorny issue of homosexuality were...

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January 1, 2007 Pension changes

The diocesan council of New Westminster has offered to provide payroll services to clergy of four dissenting parishes in the diocese to enable them to remain in the Anglican Church of Canada’s pension and benefits plan. At its...

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January 1, 2007 Settlement fund grows

The Anglican Church of Canada has collected about $18.7 million from its national office and 30 dioceses to cover potential damages sought by former students of the now-defunct Indian residential schools. As of Sept. 30, 2006,...

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January 1, 2007 Solemn ceremony

David Ashdown, bishop of the diocese of Keewatin, presided for the second time last fall at a rite of solemn re-internment of century-old human remains at Chipiy Naya, Split Lake, Man.In the fall of 2005, high floodwaters...

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January 1, 2007 Hilchey was church’s former General Secretary

One of his favourite biblical texts, Archdeacon Harry Hilchey once said, was “Jesus went.” Jesus went to people. He reached out to people. He didn’t wait for them to come to him. Archdeacon Hilchey, who died on Nov. 17, sought to...

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January 1, 2007 If you can’t say anything nice, we’ll listen anyway

Maybe Thumper’s mother was wrong. The commonplace phrase that is traced back to the little bunny’s mother in Bambi goes thusly: “‘If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all.”Sometimes the not-so-nice things need to...

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January 1, 2007 Clergy malaise is due to unrealistic expectations of them

Your article on clergy dissatisfaction, discontent, almost despair, raises an important issue (Clergy struggling with identity and feelings of loneliness, exhaustion, December Journal). Although I spent only a fraction of my full-time ministry in parish work, I consulted with and observed numerous parishes and clergy over decades, and I believe the survey has missed the main cause of the malaise: multiple and utterly unrealistic expectations of the clergy.

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January 1, 2007 Letters to the editor

Archbishop’s actions shake my loyalty to church Dear editor,As Archbishop Terence Finlay hoped (Archbishop weds lesbian couple, November Anglican Journal), I have reflected carefully on his decision to marry his lesbian friends...

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