Need for reverence applies to Anglicans too Dear editor, As the Anglican co-chair of the Anglican/Lutheran Joint Working Group, I would like to thank William Portman for his Opinion in the May Journal (Dealing With...
Category: September 2000, Letters
Talk to the staff Dear editor, Your report (Sins of the Fathers, May Journal) is flawed, to say the least. Ten former students were quoted, but only one former staff member. When Mr. Napier called me, I told him the...
Category: September 2000, Letters
BOARDING SCHOOLS have been the scourge of our people - and it appears the effects will linger for some time yet. Boarding schools attracted pedophiles, sadists, and other misfits who preyed on helpless Indian children. ...
Category: June 2000, Letters
Call a referendum Dear editor, Since Bishop Michael Ingham seems determined to overturn certain tenets of the Anglican Church by preparing to accept forms of marriage between same sex couples, I believe there is one...
Category: May 2000, Letters
Borg wrong on divorce Dear editor, The article, Theologians Debate Authority, Interpretation of Scripture, (January Journal) attributes to New Testament scholar Marcus Borg the idea that the teachings of Jesus on divorce...
Category: March 2000, Letters
Cash out reserves Dear editor, My church! My church! How I love it, and how I hate it! When I read January's headline, Collection Plate Cash Won't Go to Litigation Bills, I felt ashamed and angry at what seemed to me...
Category: February 2000, Letters
Appalled by comments
Dear editor,
I am appalled by the comments attributed to the dean of the Diocese of Calgary, Robert Pynn in Theologian Convicted of Sex Offences in U.S. (October Journal.)
He argued...
Category: December 1999, Letters
Pay what's due
Dear editor,
The foundations of Canadian Indian policy were laid down in 1837 on the twin corner stones of European racial supremacy and military and industrial supremacy. Together they provided a...
Category: December 1999, Letters
Dear editor,
The director of the Primate's World Relief and Development Fund, Andrew Ignatieff, unfairly represents World Vision's international aid and development projects (Primate's Fund Director Challenges World...
Category: December 1999, Letters
Walk the walk Dear editor, I know Lynn Bauman and have appreciated his work among us. I also cannot imagine the agony that he and his family must be living in. However, I was deeply distressed by the presumptuous...
Category: November 1999, Letters