Leigh Anne Williams, Author at Anglican Journal

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Leigh Anne Williams joined the Anglican Journal in 2008 as a part-time staff writer. She also works as the Canadian correspondent for Publishers Weekly, a New York-based trade magazine for the book publishing. Prior to this, Williams worked as a reporter for the Canadian bureau of TIME Magazine, news editor of Quill & Quire, and a copy editor at The Halifax Herald, The Globe and Mail and The Bay Street Bull.

Archbishop Fred Hiltz will travel with Bishop Larry Robertson to visit parishes, including St. Christopher in Haines Junction. Photo: Reinhard Tiburzy

Primate to visit diocese of Yukon

Leigh Anne Williams - June 26, 2015

(L to R) The Rev. David Giffen and music director Kristen Hamilton, of Toronto's Church of the Transfiguration, with the Rev. Canon Rod BrantFrancis and the Rev. Lisa BrantFrancis of St. John the Baptist in Wemindji, Que. Photo: Heather Giffen

Getting to know one another

Leigh Anne Williams - June 16, 2015

Duty warden Till Heyde tolls the bell at Christ Church Cathedral Ottawa 22 times, marking the church’s #22days campaign for healing and reconciliation. Photo: Art Babych

Church bells ring for residential school survivors, reconciliation

Leigh Anne Williams - May 31, 2015

Bishop David Torraville, diocese of Central Newfoundland, spends some time with children before the Sunday church service at St. Alban’s Cathedral, Dar es Salaam. Photo: Andrea Mann

International News

Companion relationships tell a different story

Leigh Anne Williams - May 25, 2015

Dixie Bird (right) with Archbishop Fred Hiltz at the 2012 Sacred Circle. Photo: Anglican Video

Listening will ‘open hearts’

Leigh Anne Williams - May 22, 2015

Lutheran World Relief, a member of the ecumenical aid organization ACT Alliance, distributes emergency supplies to people in Nepal, but an LWF report says the need for tarpaulins to shelter people who have been displaced from their homes far exceeds the number distributed. Photo: Courtesy of ACT Allliance

International News

New damage and disease threaten Nepal

Leigh Anne Williams - May 13, 2015

Meghan Kilty, the new communication director for the Anglican Church of Canada, said her experience with the church has been both "a personal and professional journey." Photo: Contributed

New director brings ‘strong strategic skills’

Leigh Anne Williams - May 12, 2015

The Rev. Jay Koyle, congregational development officer from the diocese of Algoma, and The Rev. Eileen Scully, director of General Synod’s faith, worship and ministry department. Photo: Leigh Anne Williams

Church should focus on mission, not maintenance

Leigh Anne Williams - May 5, 2015

Alex Starr, representing the Ecclesiastical Province of British Columbia and the Yukon, looks at the numbers during a presentation of the General Synod budget at the spring meeting of CoGS. Photo: Marites N. Sison

Small surplus despite lower revenues

Leigh Anne Williams - May 5, 2015

The Rev. Andrew Wesley (left) and Archbishop Terence Finlay, co-convenors of the Primate's Commission on the Doctrine of Discovery, Reconciliation and Justice. Photo: Leigh Anne Williams.

Commission to produce theological reflection

Leigh Anne Williams - May 5, 2015

Clickers-handheld electronic devices-have the effect of turning votes into secret ballots, says Deputy prolocutor Cynthia Haines-Turner, “which is not where we have been or the way we work.” Photo: Leigh Anne Williams

To click or not to click

Leigh Anne Williams - May 4, 2015

General Synod chancellor Canon (lay) David Jones. Photo: Leigh Anne Williams

‘Governance follows mission’

Leigh Anne Williams - May 4, 2015

Members of the Council of General Synod - (L to R) the Rev. Canon Terry Leer, province of Rupert's Land; Tannis Webster, province of Rupert's Land and Haroldine Neil Burchert, province of Ontario- enjoyed a little fresh air during group discussions of proposals from the Anglican Council of Indigenous Peoples. Photo: Marites N. Sison

CoGS members consider ACIP proposals

Leigh Anne Williams - May 2, 2015

"In the promised gift of the Spirit, the disciples are called to trust...I think it is the call to the followers of Jesus now," Archbishop Fred Hiltz said during his reflection at the spring meeting of Council of General Synod. Photo: L. Williams

Primate focuses on challenges of ‘work of the Spirit’

Leigh Anne Williams - May 1, 2015

International News

Jerusalem ministry transforms Ottawa priest

Leigh Anne Williams - April 23, 2015

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