The Primate on the web: 'One of another in Christ'
What unites Canadian Anglicans? Since his election as Primate last June, Archbishop Fred Hiltz has criss-crossed the country listening to the diverse groups that make up the Anglican church.
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A go-getter comes to terms with mortality
Growing old and getting sick. We can fight back with yoga, vitamins, and lots of leafy greens, but how can we face these realities gracefully and with spiritual honesty? Sister Thelma-Anne McLeod, Sisters of Saint John the Divine, has some wisdom to share. This wise Anglican nun has written a book on the subject: In Age Reborn, By Grace Sustained: One Woman’s Journey Through Aging and Chronic Illness (ABC Publishing, October 2007).
Gladys Cook documentary wins U.S. award
A documentary by Anglican Video, Topahdewin: The Gladys Cook Story, has won a Redemptive Storyteller award at the Redemptive Film Festival, Virginia Beach, Va. The video follows the life of a 74-year-old Aboriginal woman, Gladys Cook, a survivor of the residential schools system. A public screening will be held tonight, Nov. 2, at the Regent University School of Communication and the Arts.
A letter to the Church from the House of Bishops
The following is a message to the people of the Anglican Church of Canada from the House of Bishops, who met this week in London, Ontario:
New Primate makes traditional visit to Lambeth
Archbishop Fred Hiltz, Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, paid a traditional call on Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams on Oct. 16. It is a tradition for new Anglican leaders of provinces to visit the archbishop, the titular head of the worldwide Anglican Communion, at his home in Lambeth Palace.
Intertwining mission and justice at first PMEJ meeting
Fall is committee season at the Anglican Church of Canada, when teams of volunteer Anglicans meet to guide the work of particular departments of the national office. One meeting was totally new this year; the “Partners in Mission” and “Ecojustice” committees used to work separately, but now the two have been merged into the complete “Partners in Mission and Ecojustice” (PMEJ) committee, which met for the first time from October 12 to 14.
Bishop Mom
How does it feel to be the only two people in Canada who have a “Bishop Mom?” Pretty proud, we must say. It’s an awesome thing, to be elected to a leadership position by your peers.
Take Action for the International Week to End Poverty
Take action today as part of the International Week to End Poverty (October 14-21), an event supported by the Anglican Church of Canada and many other faith and justice communities across Canada.
New ELCIC National Bishop leads "in mission for others"
Bishop Susan Johnson wants to see her denomination turned inside out. The new National Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC), who was ordained and installed in Winnipeg on September 29, wants to turn her church’s focus away from its internal concerns and instead focus on being “In Mission for Others.”
New National Bishop of ELCIC ordained, consecrated, and installed
Amid the roar of thunderous applause filling the sanctuary of Lutheran Church of the Cross, Winnipeg, Rev. Susan C. Johnson was acclaimed as the fourth National Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC) on September 29, 2007.
House of Bishops meeting in New Orleans
The Joint Standing Committee of the Anglican Consultative Council and the Primates of the Anglican Communion have now submitted their Report on The Episcopal Church House of Bishops of Meeting in New Orleans.
ECUSA House of Bishops: Statement and response
In accordance with Our Lord’s high priestly prayer that we be one, and in the spirit of Resolution A159 of the 75th General Convention, and in obedience to his Great Commission to go into the world and make disciples, and in gratitude for the gift of the Anglican Communion as a sign of the Holy Spirit’s ongoing work of reconciliation throughout the world, we offer the following to The Episcopal Church, the Primates, the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC), and the larger Communion, with the hope of “mending the tear in the fabric” of our common life in Christ.
Deepening Full Communion: Lutheran bishops for Anglican dioceses?
It was an accidental picnic that first got the Anglicans and Lutherans of Carman, Man., together.
Lutheran pastor Jim Halmarson explained how 12 years ago the town double-booked the local park, so members of his congregation had to flip their burgers alongside the Anglicans. The afternoon of forced fellowship started a three-year process of closer relations, from joint worship services to eventually an amalgamated church, Grace St. John’s Anglican / Lutheran.
Building on 40 years of Anglican-Roman Catholic dialogue
On Friday 14 September, the Anglican Communion Office and the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity’s Information Service are releasing the definitive text of the report of the International Anglican Roman Catholic Commission for Unity and Mission (IARCCUM).
Bishop Ashdown to lead Council of the North
Bishop David Ashdown of the diocese of Keewatin is the new chair of the Council of the North, the group of financially assisted dioceses including nine northern dioceses, the Anglican Parishes of the Central Interior in B.C., and the archdeaconry of Labrador. Bishop Ashdown was elected at the council’s April meeting and will lead the next meeting in Edmonton, Sept. 20 to 22.