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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May 1, 2007 Keeping everyone at the table, for as long as possible

Rowan Williams said on his recent visit to Canada that his job as Archbishop of Canterbury – the spiritual  leader of the world’s 77 million Anglicans – is to get people around the table and keep them there as long as...

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April 1, 2007 Church’s decisions must be mindful of context

Who’s driving the bus?” The question was posed by a member of the Council of General Synod (CoGS) at its meeting last month. She was musing aloud about the requests and demands made by the churches’ primates (senior bishops of a national or multinational church) at their February meeting in Tanzania. The primates called on all provinces in the Anglican Communion to examine a proposed covenant and to respond within a fixed time period.

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March 1, 2007 Letters to the editor

A lonely effort to present alternative viewpoint Dear editor,I write in response to Geoff Woodcroft (ADR work is about ‘wholeness and brokenness,’ February letters) and in support of Bernice Logan. He writes that “that if Ms....

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March 1, 2007 Archbishop’s visit is a show of good faith

The recent announcement came as a surprise to many, that the Canadian House of Bishops would be joined at their meeting in April by their international leader, Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The news was...

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February 1, 2007 A new day for indigenous Canadian Anglicans

A new year marked a new day  for Canadian Anglicans who are Cree, Inuit, Ojibway, Oji-Cree, Dene, Inuvialuit, Slavey, Dogrib, Blood, Haida, Peigan, Sioux – indeed, for all aboriginal Anglicans.As reported elsewhere in this...

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January 1, 2007 If you can’t say anything nice, we’ll listen anyway

Maybe Thumper’s mother was wrong. The commonplace phrase that is traced back to the little bunny’s mother in Bambi goes thusly: “‘If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all.”Sometimes the not-so-nice things need to...

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December 1, 2006 Let us hope for imagination for the new ABC

In The Story of My Life, a new musical that premiered in Toronto last month, the majority of its scenes take place in a bookstore – a place that the protagonists, friends named Tom and Alvin, call a “marvelous magical modular...

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November 1, 2006 Where do you see signs of hope in the church?

All that remains now to seal the future of the Anglican Book Centre, the Toronto-based bookstore of the Anglican Church of Canada, is just one vote by the decision makers that comprise the Council of General Synod (CoGS).By the...

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October 1, 2006 Survey provides a snapshot of Journal readers

You know the province – the one whose inhabitants would be most likely to appreciate and explore so-called “alternative” forms of spirituality, like labyrinths, meditation and yoga. It’s that province out west. No, not that...

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