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Many Christians reflect on questions of human dignity, personal identity, and social justice. What happens when you introduce a scientific angle, such as the bioethical questions raised by genetic research and technology?
Every six to eight years, delegates representing 590 million people from 150 countries meet to discuss cooperation, mutual support, and unity. They meet again this month at the 10th assembly of the World Council of Churches (WCC) in Busan, South Korea.
Delegates from cities across Canada and the US will gather in Phoenix, Ariz. next week to discuss issues facing First Nations people living in urban areas.
The idea was planted in 2009. Su McLeod—family ministry facilitator for the Diocese of British Columbia—attended a Truth & Reconciliation event at the University of Victoria. There, a conversation with Chief Bobby Joseph got her thinking about how to bring together Aboriginal and non-aboriginal young people.
Archdeacon Michael Thompson, General Secretary of General Synod, has written the following statement on behalf of the Anglican Church of Canada regarding recent violence in Peshawar and Nairobi.
For one week each summer, the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Havana hosts a music camp for children and young adults called the Campamento-Taller de Jovenes Episcopales (Episcopal Youth Camp & Workshop). Father Aurelio de la Paz Cot runs the camp for the Diocese of Cuba—an extra-provincial diocese within the Anglican Communion.
Faith, Worship, and Ministry’s hymnal supplement working group is seeking your input as it works to compile a collection of “new and new-er” hymns, praise choruses, songs, and other varieties of service music to help meet the needs of churches across Canada. The supplement would also be a way of testing out new material that could be included in a future hymnal, but would be mainly intended to provide newer material in interim between hymnal editions.
“Will you strive to safeguard the integrity of God’s creation, and respect, sustain and renew the life of the Earth?”
“I will, with God’s help.”
The word ‘stewardship’ can conjure up spectres of fundraising, finance committees, and sermons about tithing—but stewardship is about much more than money. Churches of all sizes and types need to become better stewards of the people that make them run—their time, talents, and energy.
Having a capable, trained midwife can be the difference between life and death for Indigenous mothers in Mexico. Before the Casa de la Mujer Indigena (CAMI) opened in 2006 in Chalchihuitán in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, 50 women were dying in childbirth each year in this community of fewer than 15,000 people.
As of January this year, that number has dropped to zero.
The Compendium of the Church Mice—General Synod’s free, year-long Sunday school curriculum—has all new content for the 2013-14 season.
A statement from the Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, Archbishop Fred Hiltz
Some support for the Anglican Appeal comes from parishes and dioceses, but most comes from individual donors. “There is a need to carry on God’s work, says one donor. “I like to support all the programs that the Anglican Appeal is supporting . . . Every program in some way or another helps many people to change their lives for the better.”
For Richard and Nancy Bruyere, it’s a full life.
Nancy was recently named suicide prevention coordinator for Western Canada and the Arctic by the national church’s Indigenous Ministries department, and Richard works full time as an engineer for Manitoba’s East Side Road Authority, building all-weather roads on the east side of Lake Winnipeg.
The following is a statement from Archbishop Fred Hiltz, Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Archbishop Michael Peers’ apology to the survivors of residential schools.