May 1, 2007 Philosopher awarded Templeton Prize

Charles Taylor, a Canadian philosopher whose work focuses on contemporary concerns about religion and secularism, and who recently began exploring the spiritual connection to violence, has won the 2007 Templeton Prize.

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April 17, 2007 Williams bemoans loss of listening to Scripture

The Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has lamented what he called the lack of “rootedness” in the Anglican approach to Scripture and said “we’ve lost quite a bit of what was once a rather good Anglican practice of reading the Bible in the tradition of interpretation.”

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April 2, 2007 Solomon Islands bear brunt of tsunami

Terry Brown, the bishop of Malaita in the Church of Melanesia, and the rest of his diocese are “all fine” following a massive underwater earthquake that triggered a tsunami in the Solomon Islands. Early reports put the death toll at 15 and rising.

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April 1, 2007 Women priests ‘not a church-dividing issue’

An international Anglican-Orthodox commission on theological dialogue has wrapped up 18 years of work with a statement that, in part, has some application to the current controversies about homosexuality, said John Gibaut, a professor at Saint Paul University in Ottawa and a member of the commission.

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March 1, 2007 Churches gather to promote unity among Christians

From local churches in Abbotsford, B.C., giving their offerings to a local drop-in centre for youth at risk and to an AIDS charity in Africa, to inter-faith services among church leaders in Asia, Europe and the Middle East,...

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March 1, 2007 Jesus is a softie

The Holy Huggables collection, which includes talking versions of Moses, Jesus and Esther, is the inspiration of Cliff and Laureen Rockwood of Boston. They had been looking for a doll that would teach their daughter “basic values from the Bible.” Grey-haired Moses recites the Ten Commandments.

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February 22, 2007 Canadian Anglicans weigh in on primates' warning to U.S. church

The Canadian church was hardly mentioned in the communiqué that ended the Feb 15-19 meeting of Anglican primates in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, but the church’s General Synod, will wrestle with questions of sexuality in June and that fact was much on the minds of Canadian observers.

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February 21, 2007 Dispute over homosexuality not over yet, says Archbishop of Canterbury

Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has said that the creation of a pastoral council to provide oversight to dissenting churches and congregations in the U.S. is “an interim solution that will certainly fall very far short of resolving all the disputes that are before us” but was nonetheless one that would “provide a way of moving forward with integrity.”

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February 20, 2007 Archbishop Hutchison says church must look 'seriously' at primates’ request

The Anglican primates’ directive for the U.S. church to unequivocally bar same-sex blessings and gay bishops is something that the Canadian church “will have to look at seriously,” according to Archbishop Andrew Hutchison, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada.

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February 19, 2007 Anglican leaders say U.S. church must bar same-sex blessings, election of gay bishops

Primates of the Anglican Communion have given the U.S. Episcopal Church until September 30 to “make an unequivocal common covenant” that its bishops will not allow same-sex blessings in their churches and that it would not consent to the election and consecration of a bishop living in a same-sex union “unless some new consensus on this matter emerges” across the Anglican world.

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