January 1, 1999 Jubilee debt cancellation raises other concerns

John Dillon and other members of the Ecumenical Coalition for Economic Justice prepared this article on behalf of the Canadian Ecumenical Jubilee Initiative. Frank Gue raises important questions concerning the...

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January 1, 1999 Reflecting on Matthew before annual vestry meetings

It will soon be time in many of our congregations for the annual vestry meeting. In my conferences on congregational development and in my own congregation I try to remind people that when we gather to discuss...

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January 1, 1999 Temptations old and new

100 years ago: January 1899Canadian Churchman reported that in a time of strongly conflicting ideas and aims - and I suppose our own is such a time - there are obvious and special dangers very subtle, but very formidable, to wise...

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January 1, 1999 Letters to the editor

Northern eucharist Dear editor,About a year and a half ago, my wife and I moved to Grimshaw, a small town in northern Alberta in the Diocese of Athabasca. Although for many years we have been Baptists, we chose to attend St....

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November 1, 1998 Salary query degrading

100 years ago: November 1898 Canadian Churchman reported that it is the custom with some school boards when they advertise for assistant teachers, or even head masters, to request applicants mention the salary which they are ...

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November 1, 1998

The Acts of Jesus MICHAEL MCATEER HRISTIANS WHO complain that the Jesus Seminar has eviscerated the New Testament to such an extent that there's little left of the traditional Christ will find no comfort in this work. ...

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October 1, 1998 Christian mission to proclaim Gospel of love

NE OF THE resolutions of the Lambeth Conference in 1988 was to declare a Decade of Evangelism. Ten years later, critics claim that evangelicals have surged ahead, particularly in Africa and Asia, while more liberal mainline...

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October 1, 1998 Coming face to face with the effects of colonialism

EFORE COMING ON this Canada World Youth exchange to the Philippines, I never really understood the term "colonialism." In fact, I never really thought about it, even when I was learning about development in a high school...

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October 1, 1998 The way it was... as seen by the Churchman

100 years ago: September 1898 Canadian Churchman reported that there is too frequently an entire misconception of the relation of the clergyman's wife to the parish. She is looked upon by many as a kind of female curate from...

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October 1, 1998 Lay presidency issue heats up

The Diocese of Sydney, Australia's largest, is expected to vote in favour of lay presidency at its October synod, setting up one of the main criteria for the successor to Archbishop Harry Goodhew when he steps down in March of ...

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