May 1, 2008 Learning lessons about the high cost of faith in Sudan

We bounced along one of the red dirt roads that crisscross south Sudan, our Land Cruiser’s shocks damaged by the many, many potholes. We were on our way to the rural village of Pacong from Rumbek, the capital of the Lakes State –...

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April 1, 2008 Turning a page, adding a page in Canada’s history book

When you think about it, the numbers are rather daunting. Anyone who has followed the issues surrounding the old Indian boarding school system – and especially members of the churches that staffed the schools – is familiar with...

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March 1, 2008 Commission is best forum for finding truth about schools

If it had been meant as a test, then a passing grade could be given to the staff and volunteers who agreed to represent the church in a difficult meeting with a group of protestors who had announced only a day earlier that they...

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February 1, 2008 Will the church be proud of its conduct in latest crisis?

Grace. Patience. Charity. Generosity. Leaders, clergy and lay members of the Anglican Church of Canada will need all of these virtues in the coming months. The commentary on p. 5 and more than half of the letters to the editor in...

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January 2, 2008 A few New Year’s resolutions for the church in 2008

The beginning of the calendar year is often a time to resolve to do things differently, to do better; it’s a clean slate, a fresh start, a time to reinvent oneself (just ask the gyms and the weight loss industry). We vow to...

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December 1, 2007 Communication must be transparent, timely and accurate

Although it passed with little fanfare last spring, the Anglican Church of Canada endorsed a document entitled Vision and Principles of Communications. Drafted by the national church’s communications and information resources committee and commended by the Council of General Synod (CoGS) for use across the Canadian church, these guiding principles assert first and foremost that “how we communicate is as important as what we communicate.”

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November 1, 2007 We remember because we are called to do so

The theme of remembrance weaves its way throughout this issue of the Anglican Journal. The theme is certainly obvious in photographs and stories about wars and the military (past and present), but also in the mention of a series...

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October 1, 2007 When will church learn lessons about abuse scandals?

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)...

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September 4, 2007 Where are the next examples of women in leadership?

The news came as a complete surprise to many church observers: Victoria Matthews, the bishop of Edmonton and the first woman to be elected to the Canadian episcopate, announced she was resigning as diocesan bishop, effective Nov....

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July 3, 2007 Synod issues end in a question mark, not a period

There was a distinct feeling (and some evidence) midway through the June meeting of General Synod that most members wanted to decide, finally, the all-consuming matter of whether the church should bless the relationships of gay...

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