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
Flippant use of "ethnic cleansing" Dear Editor, I would like to suggest that David Curry NOT dare to say that we face "almost a kind of ethnic cleansing in our church," (Ethnic Cleansing Feared in Church, September...
Category: October 1999, Letters
Positively alarming Dear editor, I find the statement, "Text calls Anglicans to Accept Pope's Primacy?" (Anglican Journal, June 1999) positively alarming. As a baptized, confirmed, regular church member, I feel many...
Category: September 1999, Letters
Open table a scandal
Dear editor,
Canon Harold Percy needs to rethink his understanding of communion (May Journal). To paraphrase St. Paul, is it not a means of sharing in the body (and blood) of Christ (I Corinthians...
Category: June 1999, Letters
Dialogue discredited
Dear editor,
The April article, Bishop Ingham Outlines Plans to Lobby Group, seems designed to discredit the process of dialogue on same-sex unions in the Diocese of New Westminster.
Based...
Category: May 1999, Letters
'Open table' needed
Dear editor,
I was disappointed to read of the Toronto bishops' decision described in the article Toronto Puts Controls on Eucharistic Hospitality (March Journal). Though I understand that our...
Category: April 1999, Letters
INTERNATIONALLY, Canada is largely viewed as a boring country - safe but boring. Such a view is also held about the church here by others in the Anglican Communion. Last year gave observers a chance to take a wide...
Category: March 1999, Letters
Spong returns Fitz's volley Dear editor, I find it fascinating that the retired Bishop of South Carolina, Fitzsimons Allison, cannot talk about theology without attacking me (Heresy Still Alive and Well Today, in the...
Category: March 1999, Letters
Northern eucharist
Dear editor,About a year and a half ago, my wife and I moved to Grimshaw, a small town in northern Alberta in the Diocese of Athabasca. Although for many years we have been Baptists, we chose to attend St....
Category: January 1999, Opinion and Editorial, Letters
Healing continues
Dear editor, I would like to comment on your November editorial.
First, the church's concern over residential school abuse is not just about how the church will survive the bad...
Category: December 1998, Letters