100 years ago: April 1900 Canadian Churchman reported that we may smile at some of the forms taken by the movement on behalf of the rights of women; but two things are quite certain, first, that women have not had their...
Category: April 2000, Opinion and Editorial
Episcopal projectiles welcome here Dear editor, In his comments regarding the consecration of two conservative American priests in Singapore (Consecrations Spark Outrage, March Journal), Primate Michael Peers says, ?Bishops...
Category: April 2000, Opinion and Editorial
Calendar The Montreal Alpha Conference, the first French Alpha conference in North America takes place on April 8 and 9 with Marc Florence de Leyritz. The conference is designed to provide practical, effective, and proven ways...
Category: April 2000, Opinion and Editorial
WHEN ANGLICANS and Roman Catholics have so much in common, why can't we come together - not just to be friends, not just to go steady, but to be one again? Our liturgies are now almost the same. Our bishops and clergy now...
Category: February 2000, Opinion and Editorial
I BEGAN this column on a Sunday morning, when I probably should have been getting myself and my family ready for church, but a flu bug has me convinced I shouldn't inflict myself on anyone else. But what about still...
Category: February 2000, Opinion and Editorial
RELIGION WAS THE motivating factor in everything we did ? without religious institutions and churches, I would not be here today." For anyone who forgets or ignores the impact of religion on governments and people's lives,...
Category: January 2000, Opinion and Editorial
I BELONG TO that small group of precise calculators who insist that Jan. 1, 2000, is not the beginning of the third millennium (who ever heard of a millennium ending after 999 years?), and therefore not the first year of the 21st...
Category: January 2000, Opinion and Editorial
THE BEGINNING of a new year, of a new century, of a new millennium is a good time to think about new directions and new initiatives. I'm thinking that this would be a good time for us in the Anglican Church of Canada to be...
Category: January 2000, Opinion and Editorial
Don't blame lawyers Dear editor, Your article, Collection Plate Cash Won't Go To Litigation Bills (December Journal) reports some bishops wanted to take steps to ensure that parishioners' donations "won't end up with...
Category: January 2000, Opinion and Editorial
LAST YEAR'S Lambeth Conference will unfortunately be remembered for its failures. In an effort to appease militant forms of Islam, particularly in Africa, the bishops abandoned gay and lesbian Christians. We are seeing the...
Category: December 1999, Opinion and Editorial