Closed meeting defended Dear editor, I write first, as one who shares your convictions on the importance of protecting the democratic nature of our institution and the maintenance of transparency, and second, as the...
Category: March 2001, Letters

Dear editor, The picture of the Madonna and Child in the Anglican Journal December issue, is rather unusual and probably offended some people. And yet this unusual depiction of the Virgin Mary and Jesus has a lot to say...
Category: February 2001, Letters
Expertise comes first Dear editor, Foster Carter, in his letter in the Dec. 2000 issue (Volunteer Lawyers), suggests that "our legal counsel" should step forward and offer services on a pro bono basis as a solution to the...
Category: February 2001, Letters

Dear editor, I WAS PLEASED to read Hymie Rubenstein's letter in the November Journal in which he points out the singular anomaly of the church's eagerness to repeatedly apologize for the alleged sins of our forefathers, but...
Category: January 2001, Letters
Foundation sorry Dear editor, Thank you for the coverage of the Anglican Foundation. We have served the Anglican Church throughout Canada with all of our strength. We have also been most grateful for the support we...
Category: January 2001, Letters
'Wasteland of mediocrity' is remembered with affection Dear editor, In my peripatetic retirement I seem to meet up with the Journal later every month. In the October issue I see that in the opinion of one of the luminaries...
Category: December 2000, Letters
Defending the cup Dear editor, I read with much interest the article New Report Asserts Common Cup Is Safe. In defense of the cup being safer than the hand, I think one must step back just a few minutes prior to the...
Category: December 2000, Letters
Dear editor, IT WAS with great disappointment that I learned that Archbishop Percy O'Driscoll of the Diocese of Huron requested Archdeacon Jim Boyles, General Secretary of the Anglican Church, not to send to Huron parishes a...
Category: November 2000, Letters
Moral bankruptcy? Dear editor, So the Diocese of Cariboo is about to close the shop, General Synod is reeling and some dioceses are saying in effect, not our responsibility. I am much in sympathy with the editorial in...
Category: November 2000, Letters
Remorse, guilt the proper response Dear editor, Re: Bishops Lobby Government Ministers (September Journal). Shame. Any priest who openly boasts no remorse or guilt over the systematic, widespread abuse of Native people...
Category: October 2000, Letters