One of the many memorials during the summer for Archbishop Edward W. Scott - known simply as "Ted" in church and interfaith circles around the world - provided a glimpse into a phenomenon seldom seen outside the secular world:...
Category: September 2004, Editorial
One of the most jarring moments of General Synod 2004 came not during the debates, nor the lengthy election process, nor during a presentation on AIDS in Africa by a United Nations envoy, nor when nine bishops read to the...
Category: June/July 2004, Editorial
As the meeting of General Synod inches closer, plans are afoot to cope with the anticipated media interest. If the General Convention of the Episcopal Church in the United States (ECUSA) is any indication, a denominational...
Category: May 2004, Editorial
When it finally came, it seemed anti-climactic. There, in typically bureaucratic, church-style vernacular, was the resolution that could change the face of the Anglican Church of Canada. To be sure, the language of the...
Category: April 2004, Editorial
It is tax time in this nation and many Canadians are understandably consumed with questions about how their money -- taxes paid on everything they do, earn, purchase or consume -- is used by the government. Auditor-General Sheila...
Category: March 2004, Editorial
Dear editor, I recently read through the General Synod's publication outlining the framework for strengthening the church and serving God's world. While I am satisfied with the document itself, I am concerned with one...
Category: February 2004, Editorial
This church has AIDS. Elsewhere in this first issue of 2004, the Anglican Journal has coverage of how churches and others marked World AIDS Day, Dec. 1, last month. Sadly, the stories and images we were able to gather...
Category: January 2004, Editorial, HIV/AIDS
What a year.
December draws to a close 12 of the most exhilarating, astonishing and groundbreaking months in recent memory for the Anglican Communion.
All of us might wisely use Advent and Christmas to rest and...
Category: December 2003, Editorial
While last month heralded some new beginnings for indigenous Anglicans in Canada, recent events elsewhere might well be remembered as the beginning of the end for the Anglican Communion as we now know it.
First, the...
Category: November 2003, Editorial
Next month, in these pages, we would like to tell readers about the Oct. 7-10 meeting between the Anglican Council of Aboriginal Peoples (ACIP) and leaders of the Anglican Church of Canada. But our efforts to keep you, the...
Category: October 2003, Editorial