Posted in Anglican Church of Canada, Anglican Crisis on Jan 30th, 2009
From the Diocese of Toronto The bishops of the Diocese of Toronto are proposing to respond pastorally in the matter of committed same-sex relationships. In making their proposal, the bishops made it clear they are attempting to work within the national House of Bishops’ 2007 statement on sexuality. In that document, the Canadian bishops said [...]
Posted in Anglican Church of Canada, Anglican Communion, Anglican Crisis on Jan 30th, 2009
The Rt. Rev. William Anderson, Bishop of Caledonia, draws a parallel between the global financial crisis and the divisions now rending the Anglican Communion. Those who for years had been urging a more prudent approach to financial affairs were usually dismissed as too conservative, too cautious, and too outdated in their thinking. A great many [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 29th, 2009
(Update – I forgot the attribution – From the ANiC Newsletter) We offer our deepest sympathy to the Venerable Trevor Walters whose father recently passed away in England. Howard Lyndon Walters (known as Lyn) succumbed to lung cancer January 9, 2009. Trevor, who was at his father’s side when he died, says his father, aged [...]
Posted in Anglican Crisis on Jan 29th, 2009
An article by Rev. Prof. Stephen Noll. Read it all here The call for an Anglican Communion Covenant resulted directly from the Windsor Report (sec. 113-120), and the Windsor Report itself was a crisis response document. It is therefore not possible or desirable to evaluate any document that emerges from a drafting process without asking [...]
Posted in Just for Fun on Jan 28th, 2009
As an Ottawan, living through day 50 (!!!!!) of a bus drivers strike (and daydreaming of locking the mayor and the union head in a room with no food and water till they work it out), I found this item from the ANiC newsletter particularly funny: In response to the recent British atheists’ campaign of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 28th, 2009
I forgot to post this, and I was there and all… From the ANiC newsletter: Ordination of new priest Bishop Don ordained the Rev Karen Bergenstein to the priesthood in Ottawa on January 25th. She had been ordained to the deaconate last May. I’ve been promised pictures….
Posted in Anglican Church of Canada on Jan 28th, 2009
Philanthropy: Benevolent altruism with the intention of increasing the well-being of mankind, especially by charitable giving. When I saw that the ACoC had appointed a Director of Philanthropy, I thought, that’s interesting, I wonder who the ACoC is going to be giving its money to; and why would they need a director to do that? [...]
Posted in Anglican Crisis on Jan 27th, 2009
From Anglican Mainstream Now he’s telling the council that he doesn’t want them to think that The Episcopal Church and Canada are pariahs – but that all are in the firing line. He feels that The Episcopal Church has behaved “graciously” unlike other members of the Communion. Regarding the Covenant, he says the Church in [...]
Posted in Anglican Church of Canada, Anglican Crisis on Jan 27th, 2009
From the Times The Archbishops of the Anglican church worldwide are to debate the damaging effects of the row over homosexuality at a meeting in Egypt next week. The 39 Primates who head the 38 provinces of the Anglican Communion are meeting at Alexandria from Sunday where they will discuss how to get their churches [...]
Posted in Anglican Church of Canada, Anglican Crisis on Jan 26th, 2009
From the Journal: The Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has asked the primates (national archbishops) of five provinces, including the Anglican Church of Canada, to reflect on the impact that the current Anglican conflict over sexuality has had on the mission and priorities of their churches. Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of [...]
Posted in Anglican Crisis on Jan 26th, 2009
TEC and ACoC taking inspiration from the march of lemmings. From Lent and Beyond: Jan 10 Ending several years of restraint by the diocese of Colorado, Bp Robert O’Neill ordained a partnered lesbian. Jan 12 Bp Gene Robinson tells national newspaper, “I will be careful not to be especially Christian in my Prayer” for Obama [...]
Posted in Anglican Church of Canada, Anglican Network in Canada on Jan 23rd, 2009
The recently-retired bishop of the northern Ontario diocese of Algoma, Ronald Ferris, has left the Anglican Church of Canada to become one of the leaders of the Anglican Network in Canada (ANiC), a group of breakaway parishes opposed to such issues as the blessing of same-sex unions. ANiC has placed itself under the jurisdiction of [...]
Posted in Anglican Network in Canada on Jan 23rd, 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 23 January 2009 Bishop Ronald Ferris, recently retired Bishop of Algoma (in Ontario), has announced that, effective immediately, he will minister as part of the Anglican Network in Canada under the Primatial jurisdiction of Archbishop Gregory Venables, Primate of the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone. Bishop Ferris is the third Canadian [...]
Posted in Anglican Church of Canada, Anglican Essentials on Jan 23rd, 2009
So, yes it’s been quiet here for a while, not entirely due to your editors falling asleep either. I see the ever-irenic Mike Daley has been let out for good behaviour and is up and running again over here. As for us, I just picked up this Canadian Christanity article for your edification etc. LOOKING [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 19th, 2009
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Posted in Anglican Essentials on Jan 18th, 2009
All new and updated Essentials Calgary website can be found here. Thinking on that, feel free to add (in comments) other local chapter websites that may exist and I’ll put them in the blogroll.
Posted in Just for Fun on Jan 17th, 2009
Ok, so this may be an old chestnut, but I had never heard it before. From the ANiC Newsletter: Just for fun Elizabeth asked her Sunday School class to sketch a picture of their favourite Bible stories. She was puzzled by Bert’s picture, which showed four people sitting in a plane, so she asked him [...]
Posted in Anglican Church of Canada, Anglican Crisis on Jan 15th, 2009
The audio is here. It is about 2 hours long and the first speaker is Bishop Michael Bird, Bishop of Niagara. Of particular interest might be the following: 0:02:50. Bishop Bird says that he will be going to London, UK to explain how Niagara arrived at the place it has regarding SSBs. It has been [...]
Posted in Anglican Network in Canada on Jan 15th, 2009
FYI for those living up at the other end of the QEII…. Dear Friends in Alberta, The Venerable Charlie Masters will be one of the speakers at the “Contest for Truth” conference Jan 25 – 28 at Mill Woods Assembly, 2225 66 St., Edmonton, AB. http://www.mwpa.com/calendar.aspx?calID=140 Join us for 4 days of faith enriching messages! [...]
Posted in Anglican Crisis on Jan 14th, 2009
From here. The challenges of the 2009 budget The Bishop is seeking changes on the 2009 Budget because of challenges that must be addressed so that we can continue our obligations in payroll and with the bank. There have been both cost and losses in regard to the separated parishes, significant historical outstanding parish receivables, [...]
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