Former students and staff as well as their families and friends are invited to the fifth reunion of the former Shingwauk Indian Residential School, Aug. 2-5, 2002. The theme is Shingwauk's Vision in the New Millennium. The...
Category: March 2002, Opinion and Editorial
On July 11, the final day of General Synod, a brackish editorial in the National Post suggested the Anglican church had "met its Waterloo" in Waterloo, Ont. It suggested the impending bankruptcy of several dioceses, and the...
Category: February 2002, Opinion and Editorial, Residential Schools
Vital issue
Dear editor, Your January editorial (Secrecy at CoGS seems a recurrent theme) raises a vital issue that not only darkens the procedure at CoGS, but is readily apparent in other areas of church life as well....
Category: February 2002, Opinion and Editorial, Letters
MY FRIEND Harry was somewhere in his late 70s when he died. He didn't know the exact year of his birth because his records were lost in a fire on his reserve when he was a baby. When Harry departed for the Happy Hunting Grounds...
Category: January 2002, Opinion and Editorial
Canon Malcolm Wilson, a volunteer chaplain with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, recently returned from a week's chaplaincy duty at the World Trade Center site in New York City. The following is excerpted from a report he...
Category: December 2001, Opinion and Editorial
SOME months ago at a family get-together an old friend asked me "Is it true what I hear about the death of the Anglican Church?" I was tempted to reply something benign like "Well, that is a little exaggerated!" But it is a...
Category: October 2001, Opinion and Editorial
The winner of this year's Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion is Arthur Peacocke. Dr. Peacocke's name was spelled incorrectly in the April edition. Also in the April edition, the word "Scottish" was misspelled in a...
Category: May 2001, Opinion and Editorial
LondonNinian Smart, a teacher and author on comparative religion, has died at the age of 73. Mr. Smart, a Scot, called himself an "Episcopalian-Buddhist" to demonstrate his feeling that no religion has a monopoly on the...
Category: April 2001, Opinion and Editorial
THE PROFILE OF the 'average' theological student has changed dramatically in recent years. Colleges and universities report an influx of older students, many beginning a second career, others wanting formal education to...
Category: November 2000, Opinion and Editorial
STUDYING for ministry at Arthur Turner Training School differs in several respects from courses of study in the south. For instance, students take days off to hunt for seal and caribou and fish for Arctic char. In a community...
Category: November 2000, Opinion and Editorial