October 2015 Letters
Understanding the impact of the Doctrine of Discovery
I am encouraged by Marites N. Sison's editorial ('What do they want now?' May 2015, p. 4)....
September 2015 Letters to the Editor
One rule for readers and another for contributors?
I refer to your editorial and the statement re: letters (Dear editor..., June 2015, p. 4): "A...
Two St. Luke’s
In regard to the article, Knitting nonagenarian, April 2015 , please be advised that there are two St. Luke's Anglican churches in London, Ont.
Mary...
Do we respect the dignity of every human being or just some of them?’
In the Feb. 2015 Anglican Journal, prominence is given to an article regarding the urging of the Inter-Anglican Standing Commission on Unity, Faith and...
Life everlasting
Re: Dying well (Letters, Feb. 2015, p. 4). Could somebody, a fellow Christian, explain to me what "dying well" is?
Is it possible that...
Low wages, ‘unrealistic’ wants at the heart of poverty
I liked the article on the need to press the government to develop better plans for dealing with poverty here in Canada (Faith groups back anti-poverty campaign, April 2015, p. 1). So often we focus on those far away, forgetting the suffering near us.
May 2015 Letters to the Editor
(These letters were first published in the May 2015 issue of the Anglican Journal.)
Hospice volunteer gives new meaning to dying well
Colin Proudman (Dying Well,...
Why ‘check in with the Pharisees’?
Re: Don't change canon, says commission (Feb. 2015, p.1). Somehow the world did not end in 2005 when the Canadian government made it the...
Full of hot air
Since the Supreme Court made it illegal to discriminate against the gay community, the Anglican church has managed to do absolutely nothing. Lots of...
Shallow Journal
I am writing as a Christian with a M.Div and who served eight years in Africa as a missionary. It is of great concern...
Don’t compromise on promise
The ongoing struggle around the church acknowledging the marriage of same-sex couples is disheartening, to say the least.
A strength of the Anglican church historically...
Leave Canon 21 alone
Re: Don't change canon, says commission (Feb. 2015, p. 1). It never fails to amuse me that the amount of time wasted about proposed...
Holy mystery
Holy mystery
Mathew Zachariah's excellent letter, No eucharists alike (Feb. 2015, p. 5) speaks of the faithful, "looking at words in the Book of Alternative...
Defending Israel
Re: Anti-Zionism doesn't mean anti-Semitism . The destruction in Gaza was not "wanton," but carefully targeted to minimize civilian losses, most of which were...
The right thing to do
Re: Don't change canon, says commission (Anglican Journal, Feb. 2015, p.1). So the Inter-Anglican Standing Commission on Unity, Faith and Order (IASCUFO) does not...