In Worship and Action is both a key phrase from the Mission Statement of the Anglican Church of Canada, and the title of the annual Narrative Budget produced for 2008 by the Communications and Financial Management departments of General Synod.
Designer babies, nanotechnology, and genetically modified crops were a few of the topics covered at a Dec. 2-5 consultation in Johannesburg, South Africa. The Global Consultation for Genetics, New Biotechnologies, and the Ministry of the Church gathered 45 church representatives, scientists, young people, indigenous people, disabled people, and theologians to talk about biotechnology, defined as the industrial use of microorganisms or biological substances.
The Secretary General of the Anglican Consultative Council has announced that its quarterly magazine, Anglican Episcopal World, will cease publication after 36 years.
Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams had not endorsed an invitation by Southern Cone Primate Gregory Venables to offer oversight to dioceses outside that province, a spokesman for the Anglican Communion said December 10.
www.anglican.ca is 10 years old this week.
While there is disagreement about exactly how many people years are the equivalent of a website year, most would probably agree that the General Synod website is now mature.
The Episcopal Church marked the 400th anniversary of permanent English settlement in the Americas with a “counter-celebration” in Jamestown, Va., Nov. 1 to 3. The New Jamestown Covenant Summit was an opportunity for Aboriginals to tell their side of the story, that English settlement has been a complicated and often destructive presence for their peoples. National Indigenous Anglican Bishop Mark MacDonald was there to represent the Anglican Church of Canada.
Rev. Canon Dr John Saint Helier Gibaut, from the Anglican Church of Canada, will head the World Council of Churches (WCC) Commission on Faith and Order as of January 2008.
Recent events emanating from the Essentials (Network) conference may have caused confusion and concern among Canadian Anglicans.
Council convened at 9 a.m. for worship and Bible study.
Members reviewed the agenda for the day, structured around the Eucharist.
It is not so much a change in the strategy of how the church seeks out resources, as it is a quantum shift in how we position ourselves in the competitive world of fundraising. It is other things too.
Council convened at 8:30 for Bible study and in plenary at 9:30. Members reviewed the orders of the day.
The Council of General Synod, meeting in Mississauga, Ont., from Nov. 16 to 18 2007, has received with concern the news that Bishop Donald Harvey, has voluntarily relinquished, effective immediately, the exercise of ordained ministry in the Anglican Church of Canada, and intends to be received into the Province of the Southern Cone in South America. Bishop Harvey, retired Bishop of Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador has been a valued member of our church, and his decision is a source of sadness.
The triennium’s first regular meeting of the Council of General Synod opened at 8:45 with the Eucharist, celebrated by Archdeacon Michael Pollesel, General Secretary of General Synod.
Rev. Florence Ayban is a bold young minister from the Episcopal Church in the Philippines, and the first-ever international partner for the newly merged Partners in Mission and Ecojustice (PMEJ) Committee, now overseeing the mission and justice work of the Anglican Church of Canada.
Council of General Synod will meet for the first time this triennium at Queen of Apostles retreat centre in Mississauga, Ont., this weekend.