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World Council of Churches seeks stewards

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The next meeting of the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches will be held in August and September, 2002, in Geneva, Switzerland. There will be a group of young people from all over the world participating in the meeting as stewards. You could be one of them!

Dr. Shahla Anand

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Dr. Anand’s writings include: Magnificent Quest, a biography of her grandfather Isa Charan Sada, a preeminent Milton scholar who had translated Milton’s Paradise Lost & Regained and Samson Agonistes into Urdu poetry; A Potpourri of Thoughts on English Literature; and a treatise on Milton’s Paradise Lost and the Emblem Tradition titled Of Costliest Emblem.

"A Hymn for the Golden Jubilee"

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Andrew Gant, Organist, Choirmaster and Composer to Her Majesty’s Chapel Royal Dear Friends Three hundred years ago the Chapel Royal Organist, Henry Purcell, and Poet Laureate, John Dryden, wrote odes and anthems to mark the various events in the lives of their royal patrons. This year the current holders of their posts, Andrew Motion and … Continued

Language under cyber-attack?

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THE WRITTEN word first appeared in Egypt and Samaria about 3200 BCE. English as we might recognize it was in use by about the 16 th century. The use of written language was a skill reserved to the elite for most of that time. The ability to read and write has only been truly widespread for about 100 years. Given all of this, it is perhaps no wonder that we seem to live in constant fear of its loss.

'In Christ we see not the love of power, but the power of love'

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New Year in Canterbury, as in so many towns and cities, is a busy time for bargain hunters. Here too, the January sales started in December. As with so much of modern life, people are in a great rush to get ahead, to get things done. But New Year is also a chance to take stock, to look beyond the next shop window further into the future and deeper into ourselves. It’s a time to examine the forces shaping our lives. And the power we have – or lack – to shape them ourselves.

'Truth suppressed always takes its revenge'

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The following is a lengthy excerpt of the Primate’s sermon at Christ Church Cathedral, Ottawa on Jan. 1, 2002. Because the original presentation was spoken, the text has been edited for clarity of reading, but not for content. Thanks to Brian Sarjeant, editor of Ottawa’s diocesan newspaper, Crosstalk, who provided a written transcript from which this version has been created.

PWRDF names refugee advocate as first president

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The incorporated Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund has named an advocate for refugees as first president of its board of directors. Janet Dench, head of the Canadian Council for Refugees, is a former member of the primate’s fund committee, when PWRDF was still a department of Anglican Church of Canada. She is now faced with the challenge of heading the board of directors of a not-for-profit corporation.

BAS-CLEF Canadian French liturgies approved

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While most attention at General Synod 2001 was focused on healing and reconciliation between native and non-native Anglicans, a set of documents important to another part of the church was quietly approved. These documents, the culmination of many years of work, are a set of liturgies for use in French language settings.

Solomon Islands: News Year’s greeting

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Warm New Years greetings. I write from Florida where I have had a pleasant Christmas with my parents (both going strong at 82), my sister and nieces. I?ll be here another week before going on to Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria, Sydney and Brisbane, with side trips to Fredericton, Boston and, perhaps, elsewhere. I?ll arrive back in Auki on February 10th.

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