June 2024
June 2024 Issue
Primate to reach mandatory retirement age in October; General Synod to elect new primate in 2025
Written by
Sean Frankling
Two vacant positions filled in Indigenous Ministries
Two key Indigenous Ministries staff positions have been filled with the hiring of the Rev. Rosalyn Elm as coordinator and Krista Pura as program associate. …
Written by
Matthew Puddister
The Chosen: Writers approach task with ‘fear and trembling, but also anticipation’
Fleshing out the gospel accounts of Jesus’ disciples, the TV series The Chosen adapts the bedrock of Christianity as a high-production-value drama. To do so, …
Written by
Sean Frankling
‘A sense of the person’: Intimacy seen as vital in fragmented landscape of online media
Second in a two-part series The Rev. Daniel Brereton, incumbent at St. John’s Dixie Anglican Church in Mississauga, Ont., has more than 10 times the …
Written by
Matthew Puddister
Beyond the pew: trying to reach Canadians at a time of waning familiarity with Christianity?
As the Anglican Church of Canada sets the church up for a renewed focus on evangelism with a discipleship and evangelism task force, it faces …
Written by
Sean Frankling
Conference to examine inclusivity in liturgy
Meeting in Regina this summer for the first time since before the pandemic, the National Worship Conference will examine how church liturgy and worship practices …
Written by
Sean Frankling
We’re good, right? Rethinking a foundational era and idea
Two cheers for the Enlightenment, the great European intellectual movement of the 17th and 18th centuries. It bequeathed very real and substantial improvements in the …
Written by
Wade Rowland
Thoughts on a change of season
On Sept. 15 I am beginning a transition of vocation after almost 39 years of ordained ministry. I will still be an ordained bishop but …
Written by
Archbishop Linda Nicholls
A call to ‘lift up the feather of prayer and love’
Creator God, we the children of your creation lift our prayer for those whose voices have been silenced, for those lost to the struggles of …
Written by
Archbishop Chris Harper
Conference explores discipleship and church vitality
During You Are Leaven, conference attendees discussed definitions of spiritual formation, talked about how to promote it and participated in hands-on workshops teaching skills designed …
Written by
Sean Frankling
Interfaith climate activists arrested at RBC sit-in protest
Toronto police arrested nine interfaith climate activists, including an Anglican deacon, at a downtown Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) branch April 9 during a sit-in …
Written by
Matthew Puddister
Decolonizing hopes emerged at 1963 Anglican Congress—but Global North still dominates Communion, MRI at 60 conference hears
Held as a wave of decolonization swept the former British Empire, the 1963 Toronto Anglican Congress proclaimed the commitment of the worldwide Anglican Communion to …
Written by
Matthew Puddister
Primate to retire Sept. 15
Archbishop Linda Nicholls, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, plans to retire effective Sept. 15, she announced April 9. In a letter to the …
Written by
Sean Frankling
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