September 1, 2009 Correction

Women’s Auxiliary and other groups, many of them from southern parishes, donated about $30 per year (not $30 per month as reported in the June issue) for a residential school student they only knew by name. The Journal regrets...

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September 1, 2009 Bureaucracy and mission

OLD CAL CAUGHT me off guard when he walked into my Journal office last week carrying two cups of coffee and exactly four Timbits. He said he wanted to check out my office before I vacated it.

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June 1, 2009 Like jars of clay

HIGH IN THE mountains of Guatemala, a young boy named Juan made a trip twice a day down a steep path to haul water from a stream. His father made a number of clay water jugs on his potter’s wheel many years ago and they were...

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April 1, 2009 Going where the action is

The middle-aged man at the next table overheard the conversation that Old Cal and I were having over coffee and muffins. We were talking about church and the lack of young people.“Which church are you from?” he asked. I told him...

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March 1, 2009 Epiphany and Lent in Edge habitat

THE INTERPRETIVE SIGN in Thomas and Ezekiel Jobe’s old meadow commanded my attention. In 1835, the Jobe family cleared for farmland part of a spit of sand and limestone that juts sharply into Lake Ontario. When the meadow was...

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February 1, 2009 Clinging to memory

THE DAMP WIND seemed to blow right through Old Cal as he made his way to the front entrance of the nursing home. He shook the snow off his long coat and rubbed his hands together vigorously to get them warm.Old Cal came to visit...

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January 5, 2009 Corrections

The December Journal  referred (page 6) to Donald Phillips, bishop of Rupert’s Land and acting metropolitan of Rupert’s Land, as archbishop. The story on the Anglican church’s Facebook page (page 8) had the wrong URL. It...

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January 5, 2009 Things that unite us

OLD CAL PUT down his copy of the Anglican Journal and shook his head. “We need to stop beating ourselves over the head with issues that divide us,” he said. “Sometimes I think that we’re too theological for our own good.”We had...

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December 1, 2008 Correction

A photo caption in Focus on Lambeth (September Journal, p. 3) should have identified Bishop John Chapman as being from the diocese of Ottawa.

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December 1, 2008 Encounter with God

Are you God?” Six-year-old Madison was staring up at Old Cal, her eyes filled with admiration. The question seemed quite logical to her. Over the past two weeks she had heard her dad refer to God as “the man upstairs,” and a dear...

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