December 1, 2005 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 with all letters....

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December 1, 2005 Remember accountability

Dear editor, Re: Religious leaders vow to help end global poverty (October Journal). "You always have the poor with you." John 12:8. The aim of reducing extreme world poverty by one half by the year 2015, while a noble...

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November 1, 2005 Why people 'forget' the church

Dear editor, Churches, local and national, possibly receive few bequests not, as your October editorial suggests (Do people simply forget the church?), because their members have not thought about leaving...

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November 1, 2005 Don't write Canadian church off as erring child

Dear editor, I deplore the Anglican Consultative Council's preoccupation with the differences within the church rather than concentration on the faith that unites us (Anglican council censures Canada, U.S.; September...

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October 1, 2005 Grateful to be Anglican

Dear editor, I am so weary of reading letters to the Journal which are full of complaints about the Anglican Church. I must confess that I am eternally grateful to be an Anglican. It was Richard Hooker who set the Anglican...

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October 1, 2005 'Why re-open residential schools pact?'

Dear editor, As a small, struggling rural parish, we accepted the residential schools agreement reached by the government and the national church, albeit with some discussion and financial concerns. Our parish's share of the...

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September 1, 2005 Nature does abhor a vacuum

Dear Editor, As a successor and former colleague of mine in the role of editor of this newspaper, you would likely subscribe to the aphorism that one David Harris in the world of Anglican journalism is sufficient. And...

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September 1, 2005 Justice for the women of Ciudad Juarez

Dear editor, I read with deep sadness the story, Observers describe free trade 'disaster' (May). The accompanying photo on page one states that the bodies of eight women were found in a cotton field and that in recent times, 350...

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June 1, 2005 Can we all please watch our language?

Dear editor, In reading the Anglican Journal and in conversation with other Anglicans recently, I have become increasingly disheartened by the language that is being thrown around in news reports, in letters to the editor, and...

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June 1, 2005 Sad that interpretation of Bible divides the church

Dear editor, Re: Loss of focus (April letters). This letter affirms the authority of the Word of God as the basis of our faith – that the Bible is the enduring Word of God. This view has been stated repeatedly in...

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