August 30, 2006 U.S. meeting a glimpse of our possible future

The fractious meeting in June of the General Convention of the Episcopal Church in the U.S. (ECUSA) and the fallout since has given Canadian Anglicans a glimpse of the potential outcome of our own General Synod, which will take...

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June 1, 2006 Council and church need to ask hard questions

Something has to give. The church’s national office reported recently to the Council of General Synod (CoGS), its governing body, that for the third year in a row the church ended the year with a deficit. While this is nothing...

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May 1, 2006 Synod questions must be answered

Just over a year from now, the meeting of General Synod, the church’s triennial gathering, will begin in Winnipeg with an opening worship service. Some of the 30 dioceses have already crunched the numbers and determined that ...

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April 1, 2006 How should we say 'thank you'?

Both the Anglican Journal and the Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund had record  years in their fundraising in 2005 (see Record year for Journal Appeal, March issue, and story in this issue, Record giving to...

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March 1, 2006 We've got the map. Who's got the car?

Even a simple trip like a family vacation needs a destination, a map, a vehicle to get there and an evaluation. ("Next time, let's not rent a place called Scorpion Villa.") Recently, General Synod commissioned reports on...

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February 1, 2006 The story behind the story of church membership

We would like to offer some clarification for our fellow scribes, many of whom picked up on a December Anglican Journal story that detailed a presentation at last fall's meeting of the house of bishops about declining ...

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January 1, 2006 New year begins with an apology, and possibilities

With this issue of the Anglican Journal, we begin a new year of publishing, but it is oddly difficult to say farewell to 2005. It was a good year for the Journal. As we marked our 130th anniversary – 130th! – we...

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December 1, 2005 Trying to resist the temptations of excess

Mushrooms in puff  pastry. An unlikely symbol of excess, but there they lie in my freezer, a reminder of last Christmas when I went a bit overboard. Our page three feature this issue is about alternatives to what has...

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November 1, 2005 Church's reputation for transparency takes a hit

In the end, it will probably amount to a small black mark on the church's reputation for transparency. Management at General Synod, the Anglican Church of Canada's national office in Toronto, last summer commissioned a...

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October 1, 2005 Do people simply forget the church?

A stroll through the obituary page of the Globe and Mail can be instructive when one is a member of a non-profit organization like the Anglican Church of Canada. One is not necessarily looking for members of the faithful who...

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