Decision-makers met last week to continue their planning for progress plans for the Lambeth Conference 2008.
The conference ‘Design Group’, appointed by Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, spent five days from April 16 to 20 working on looking the conference structures, purposes, issues and programme.
Welcome to the next article of IN PLENARY, a feature that we hope will help Anglicans to appreciate and understand the complex issues that will be before General Synod in June, and also allow you to comment on those issues and to converse with other Anglicans from across the country.
The House of Bishops met at Mount Carmel retreat center in Niagara Falls from Tuesday April 17 to Friday April 20. We write this letter to the Canadian Church so that Anglicans will know what we did and how the meeting was for us. As has been our custom for the last while, we devoted the first part of our days together to prayer and Bible study.
Canadian Anglican bishops have nominated four from among their number to be candidates in the election of a successor to Archbishop Andrew Hutchison, Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada.
The Canadian Anglican House of Bishops begins the business portion of its last meeting before General Synod in Niagara Falls, Ont., today.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan WIlliams, has told an audience of theological students that both intensely liberal and ultra conservative readings of the Bible are ‘rootless’ and are limited in what they can contribute to the life of the church. In the Larkin Stuart lecture, delivered today at an event hosted jointly by Wycliffe and Trinity theological colleges in Toronto, Dr Williams said that Christians need to reconnect with scripture as something to be listened to and heard in the context of Jesus’s invitation to the Eucharist and to work for the Kingdom.
Welcome to the next article of IN PLENARY, a feature that we hope will help Anglicans to appreciate and understand the complex issues that will be before General Synod in June, and also allow you to comment on those issues and to converse with other Anglicans from across the country.
What follows is an email received from Bishop Terry Brown of the Anglican diocese of Malaita in the Solomon Islands where a powerful earthquake and tsunami occurred last weekend. His note indicates that both the damage and the death toll are substantially higher than reported by the western media. Bishop Brown is a former mission coordinator for the Partnerships department of General Synod.
Andy Seal, Canadian Director of Augsburg Fortress Publishers assumed interim management of the Anglican Book Centre’s Church House store this week, pending formal completion of a deal that should see Augsburg Fortress take over the store by early summer.
Faces & Ministries, a new General Synod publication available on the web and in print this week, describes the myriad ministries carried out from the Anglican church’s national office and presents the people behind the work.
An earthquake measuring 8.1 struck 345 km northwest of the Solomon Islands’ capital Honiara at 07:40 local time Monday (20:40 GMT Sunday). The powerful earthquake caused a tsunami and there have been reports of damage and death in the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea.
The Anglican Council of Indigenous Peoples has added its voice to those urging Prime Minister Stephen Harper to reconsider the government’s decision not to apologize to former students of Indian Residential Schools.
What follows is a statement by Archdeacon Michael Pollesel, General Secretary of General Synod, in light of the Anglican Journal’s coverage of a discussion on stewardship at the recent meeting of the Council of General Synod.
On behalf of the Anglican Church of Canada, I am writing to convey to you my strong disappointment and sadness at your refusal to offer an apology to Aboriginal Canadians who are former students of Indian Residential Schools, and to their families, as reported this morning in The Globe & Mail.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has said that the churches of the Anglican Communion must be safe places for gay and lesbian people. His comments come in a welcome to an interim report on the Anglican Communion’s Listening Process, a commitment to listen to the experience of homosexual people. Archbishop Williams warns that the challenge to create the safe space for their voices to be heard and for their dignity to be respected is based on a fundamental commitment of the Communion.