November 1, 2002 A ritual to cancel the effects of a blessing?

Dear editor, Those opposed to the blessing of same-sex couples have a simple recourse: to curse them. There need be nothing malicious or uncharitable about this. The aim is simply to cancel the effects of the blessing and...

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November 1, 2002 Celebrating a pastoral and prophetic voice

Dear editor, While reading the letters to the editor, I often feel like the rubber-neckers who slow to peruse a car crash. It continues to astonish me how many people are willing parade their ignorance publicly. I prefer to...

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October 1, 2002 No point in obtaining Eucharist by deceit

Dear editor, Having read several times over the last month the letter from your Prague correspondent (Anglicans incognito, June 2002), I cannot dispel my initial reaction to it, which was to find its thrust disturbing. ...

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October 1, 2002 Avoiding public displays of internecine strife

Dear editor, I quote from your September editorial: ?Enter, then, Rowan Williams. He is deemed in many ways to be the antithesis of his predecessor. He is described as a man of high intellect...? You seem to be calling...

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September 1, 2002 Orthodox view of God termed ‘encouraging’

Dear editor, It was with surprise and relief that I read the text of a "Doctrine of God" statement approved by Anglican primates in April, which appeared in the June edition of the Anglican Journal. That the primates would...

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June 1, 2002 Letters to the editor

The following letters were received in response to Archbishop Michael Peers' statements on conflict in Israel and Palestine as published in the National Post, the Anglican Journal and on the General Synod Web site. Some were...

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June 1, 2002 Letters to the editor

Religion is not provable Dear editor, Why do practicing Christians persist in writing letters to the editors of both religious and secular papers claiming that if one looks up a certain verse in the Bible it will prove...

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May 1, 2002 Homosexuality a divine plan?

Dear editor, In his letter to the March Anglican Journal Rev. M. J. J. Collier asks, "How can any church attempt to bless that which God himself has declared an abomination?" Modern scholarship has accepted the fact that...

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May 1, 2002 Letters to the editor

Ingham praised Dear editor, The condensed version of Michael Ingham's essay, "The Episcopate" (March, 2002), is excellent. The bishop of New Westminster has proposed a clear way for the church at all levels to...

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April 1, 2002 Adoption of warship troubles reader

Dear editor, As I read the February Journal, I found one news blurb deeply troubling: I wondered why any church would "adopt" a warship. Adopting a warship is an act that allows national values and issues to compromise...

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