December 1, 2008 Moratorium allows for time to create a way forward

PEACE on earth, and a moratorium.As we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, the great reconciler, we also live with the daily reality that reconciliation within the Anglican Church of Canada seems tentative at best. We have...

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November 1, 2008 The federal election is over but our work has just begun

There. That's done. That seems to be the reaction of many after casting their votes in the Oct. 14 federal election. We’ve performed our civic duty and now we are done with politics for a few months or years. We weighed party...

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October 1, 2008 An Anglican presence at the Vancouver Winter Olympics

What is the relationship between religion and the Olympic Games?If you were to ask the organizing committee of the Beijing Summer Games, they would tell you that there should be absolutely no relationship at all. Church and state...

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September 1, 2008 Letters to the Editor

The Anglican Journal welcomes letters to the editor. Preference is given to letters under 200 words. All letters are subject to editing for length, grammar and clarity. Please include a mailing address. Reaction mixed on actions...

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September 1, 2008 The Anglican Church is going through a reformation

THE ANGLICAN COMMUNION is alive and vibrant. It has survived another Lambeth Conference, a bit bruised, battered and fragmented. Bishops at Canterbury rallied around pertinent issues of social justice, poverty and the...

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June 1, 2008 History shows the church can change, and it will survive

'Glacial’ is a term occasionally used to describe the pace of change in the church. Certainly, to people who are advocates for change, the wait can feel like an eternity.But, others remind us, change usually happens in God’s good...

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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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