Daybreak House, a six-unit building in Calgary that provides accommodation for refugees in transition, faces an uncertain future after it sustained damage in heavy spring rains, reported Nina Chiba, co-ordinator for the refugee...
Category: October 2007, Canada
Police and parole officers in British Columbia are looking into the activities of former Anglican priest Ralph Rowe, a convicted pedophile, according to the Surrey Leader newspaper. Mr. Rowe lived in Surrey, B.C., between 1998...
Category: October 2007, Canada

Frances Gardner Best Somerville, wife of Archbishop David Somerville – retired archbishop of the diocese of New Westminster and metropolitan (senior bishop) of British Columbia and the Yukon – died Aug. 16 at the age of 91. She had been suffering from dementia.
Category: October 2007, Obituaries
Despite the high-profile controversy over church-run native residential schools in the last decade, it seems that certain quarters in the church still have some lessons to learn about: 1) their work with vulnerable groups; and 2)...
Category: October 2007, Editorial
Dear editor,Re: Ecclesiastical provinces to be reviewed (www.anglican.ca news story, June 25, 2007)“It was noted that in 1971 there was an average of 38,249 Anglicans in each diocese…. By 2001 the number had dropped to 21,...
Category: October 2007, Letters
Was Grenville school Anglican or not?
Dear editor,Re: Church denies that closed, controversial school was Anglican (Sept. 6 www.anglicanjournal.com news story).
On Aug. 31, Archdeacon Wayne Varley, executive officer of the...
Category: October 2007, Letters
Editor’s note
In recent years, the letters to the editor at the Anglican Journal have dealt overwhelmingly with two subjects: the role of gay and lesbian members in the Anglican church and whether the church should bless the...
Category: October 2007, Letters
You’re a young Anglican who would like to become more involved in your church – both locally and nationally. Where to begin? Try logging on to generation.anglican.ca and you’ll find a wealth of information. For starters, it...
Category: October 2007, generation.anglican.ca
In his 1985 volume, God in Creation, Jurgen Moltmann wrote: “The alienation of nature brought about by human beings can never be overcome until men find a new understanding of themselves and a new interpretation of their world in...
Category: October 2007, Concerning Lutherans
The photograph of Rev. Michael Batten blessing solar panels at St. David’s Church, Vancouver, was taken by photographer Drew Eves-Lethbridge.
Category: October 2007, Opinion and Editorial