Posted in Anglican Church of Canada, Anglican Crisis on Apr 30th, 2009
The Diocese of New Westminster has this article on the closing of non-viable parishes: Our founders came almost exclusively from the British Isles, and opened parishes in the same pattern as in the old country: a small parish one could walk to in every village or neighbourhood. They had no idea of the multicultural society [...]
Posted in Prayer on Apr 29th, 2009
A letter from The Rev. David Curry, Rector of Christ Church, regarding the swine flu outbreak at King’s-Edgehill School, Windsor, Nova Scotia: Dear Friends in Christ, As you are aware, King’s-Edgehill School has been in the proverbial eye of the storm with respect to the swine influenza. I would ask for your prayers as we [...]
Posted in Anglican Communion, Anglican Crisis, Anglican Network in Canada on Apr 28th, 2009
From the Journal: The Anglican Network in Canada (ANiC) has been approved as one of 28 dioceses and dioceses-in-formation in the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA), which is comprised of 12 church organizations that have broken with the Anglican Church of Canada and The Episcopal Church over theological differences around human sexuality. The ACNA [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 27th, 2009
Read the whole thing here. Dr. Peter Toon, priest and theologian, passed away on the evening of the feast of St Mark the Evangelist, in San Diego, California, where he and his wife have resided for the last months.
Posted in Anglican Communion, Anglican Network in Canada on Apr 25th, 2009
Note from Bishop Don: We have just concluded the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) Leadership Council meeting in Dallas. I’m pleased to tell you that the Leadership Council has reviewed all applications for membership and has approved ANiC as a diocese in ACNA. We are one of the 28 dioceses and dioceses-in-formation approved. As [...]
Posted in Anglican Communion on Apr 24th, 2009
Ann Holmes Redding, the Episcopal (USA version of Anglican) priest who thought she could be a priest and a Muslim at the same time, is to be interviewed during the last half hour of The Current this morning. I thought this might be of interest to some of our readers.
Posted in Anglican Church of Canada, Anglican Crisis on Apr 23rd, 2009
From here: In response to a call for clarification of the status of entities who self identify as being Anglican, it was noted that the Archbishop of Canterbury has stated in writing that his office and the Anglican Communion Office recognize one ecclesial body in Canada as a constitutive member of the Communion, The Anglican [...]
Posted in Anglican Church of Canada, Anglican Crisis on Apr 23rd, 2009
Archbishop Michael Peers, former primate has launched the fourth volume of his history of bishops in the ACoC. This part is interesting, in that it is a clear case of an historian placing the stamp of his own prejudice on his work by suppressing facts that are not to his liking: For the first time, [...]
Posted in Anglican Network in Canada on Apr 22nd, 2009
For those who missed the interview with Charlie Masters in Faith Today, it is now online here: Twenty-seven parishes have left The Anglican Church of Canada in recent years to form the Anglican Network in Canada (ANiC). Together with a coalition of about 100,000 conservative Anglicans in the United States and Canada (The Common Cause [...]
Posted in Anglican Church of Canada on Apr 22nd, 2009
The ACoC’s bid to become the Sears of the Christian world. From here: The Anglican Church of Canada will launch a gift catalogue next year as part of a fundraising program that will allow donors to select items for their own purchase or designate them as gifts for recipients. I’m looking forward to purchasing a [...]
Posted in Anglican Communion, Anglican Network in Canada on Apr 21st, 2009
Pastor Rick Warren, Metropolitan Jonah, the Rev. Dr. Todd Hunter to Address ACNA Assembly Three Christian leaders, Pastor Rick Warren, Metropolitan Jonah, and the Rev. Todd Hunter have agreed to be among those addressing the organizing Assembly of the Anglican Church in North America scheduled for June 22-25 at St. Vincent’s Cathedral in Bedford, Texas. [...]
Posted in Anglican Church of Canada, Anglican Crisis, Anglican Network in Canada on Apr 21st, 2009
Received by email. The letter is also available with useluf references and footnotes here in PDF format: April 16, 2009 To Bishop James Cowan, Executive Officer Bruce Bryant-Scott and Diocesan Council: This is an open letter to explain why I have felt it necessary to leave the Anglican Church of Canada. I hope that the [...]
Posted in Anglican Communion on Apr 21st, 2009
I couldn’t decide what to excerpt – here is the whole thing, from TimesOnline: New life, New Spirit [by] John Sentamu, the Archbishop of York For me Easter is a time of joy. Happiness doesn’t quite do Easter justice. In the gloom of job losses, the shock and grief following the recent earthquake in Italy, [...]
Posted in Anglican Network in Canada on Apr 21st, 2009
It was all in good fun though. Go take a look!
Posted in Anglican Network in Canada, Church Year on Apr 21st, 2009
April 6, 2009 My dear ANiC Sisters and Brothers, While I realize that numbers in themselves can be deceiving, it still gives me a certain joy to realize that when I use this salutation today it involves so many more clergy and congregations than it did when I sent Easter Greetings just one year ago. [...]
Posted in Anglican Network in Canada on Apr 21st, 2009
From the latest ANiC Newsletter: On April 12, Bishop Don welcomed St John’s Sudanese Anglican Church into the ANiC family. With 5000 Sudanese in the Greater Vancouver area, many with an orthodox Anglican background, there is clearly a need to plant a Sudanese Anglican church. The Rev Emmanuel Sadarak is pastoring this new congregation which [...]
Posted in Anglican Church of Canada on Apr 20th, 2009
It seems that “Most Rev. Dr. Katharine Jefferts Schori Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church” is going to be the guest speaker at the clergy retreat in Rupertsland. I’d say that is a pretty good indication of the future direction of the diocese. Update – here’s another interesting event from the Rupert’s Land website: Fully [...]
Posted in Anglican Church of Canada, Anglican Communion on Apr 19th, 2009
Last Friday, some recent remarks by Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori were reported: JESUS is a way, but not the only way to salvation, the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, the Most Rev Katharine Jefferts Schori has told members of the Diocese of Quincy. […] In response to a question from the [...]
Posted in Anglican Communion, Anglican Crisis on Apr 17th, 2009
National Post on recognition for the ACNA The move to create a new conservative Anglican jurisdiction in North America got an enormous boost yesterday as bishops representing three-quarters of the faith’s worldwide adherents said they would recognize the breakaway faction in defiance of the wishes of the established churches of Canada and the United States. [...]
Posted in Anglican Communion, Anglican Crisis on Apr 17th, 2009
From the Church Times THE GAFCON Primates have recognised the new Anglican Church in North America (ACNA), they announced in London yesterday. The move is hardly a surprise. When conservative Anglicans met in Jerusalem last May for the Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON), they called for the formation of an “orthodox” Church in the United [...]
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