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From the Journal: “My first reaction was just a real sense of wanting it all to be over and crawling in a hole and pulling the covers over my head,” says Peter Gibb, the People’s Warden at St. Saviour’s Anglican Church in Victoria. That was his feeling when a report from the diocesan transformation team [...]

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From VOL: The Archbishop of the Anglican Church of North America said today that “if orthodox Anglicans do what we are sent to do, what we will become is the ancient future movement of the 21st Century church attracting a rising generation of believer leaders abounding in the love of Jesus Christ broken. “This could [...]

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From the Anglican 1000 site: Anglican1000 is an initiative of the Anglican Church of North America to raise up Anglican congregations and communities of faith across North America to reach people with the transforming love of Jesus Christ. During his investiture, Archbishop Bob Duncan made the astonishing, prophetic call for 1000 new works during his [...]

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From the Times Colonist: What do the Conservatory of Music, Belfry Theatre, Ballet Victoria and the Canadian College of Performing Arts all have in common? They’re all located in former churches. And in a year or two, 10 more Greater Victoria church properties could be sold or leased, holding opportunity for creative new uses. Elsewhere, [...]

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From the ANiC Newsletter: The Anglican Relief and Development Fund Canada (ARDFC) has been granted charitable status by Revenue Canada so it can now receive donations and issue receipts for income tax purposes.  ARDFC undertakes carefully selected and monitored relief and development projects with partner dioceses in the Global South. ARDFC is thrilled to announce [...]

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I’ve just updated the Blogroll, changed some stuff, removed stale blogs and added a few. Go take a look though them – there’s the well known Anglican blogs, plus the Canadian Anglican blogs you’re just not going to hear about anywhere else. New on the list is The Scriptorium by Church of the Good Shepherd [...]

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Among the motions passed at yesterday’s annual meeting of the Parish of Christ Church, Windsor, Nova Scotia, was an endorsement of the Anglican Communion Covenant. Preamble: In the current distresses of the Anglican Communion and in the attempts to find a mechanism to hole the communion together, the Archbishop of Canterbury has sponsored an ‘Anglican [...]

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Received via e-mail: On Monday, March 15, 2010 at 7 PM at Trinity Church, 321 Main Ave, Halifax Essentials Nova Scotia invites you to come to participate in Planning for General Synod The Rev. Canon Dr. Brett Cane, chair of ACA (formerly Anglican Essentials Federation), will be with us for the evening and has a [...]

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From here. The Anglican Church in Canada – once as powerful in the nation’s secular life as it was in its soul – may be only a generation away from extinction, says a just-published assessment of the church’s future. The report, prepared for the Anglican Diocese of British Columbia, calls Canada a post-Christian society in [...]

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There have been comments suggesting that this briefing paper is “slanderous”. Very well. Here is the full text. Please feel free to point out any inaccuracies that you can find. Background Paper Private Members Motion: “That this Synod express the desire that the Church of England be in communion with the Anglican Church in North [...]

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Lorna Ashworth presents her motion and the reasons for her motion. And she does it very well:

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is here: Today, the General Synod, the national assembly of the Church of England, meeting in London February 8-12, affirmed the Anglican Church in North America’s desire “to remain within the Anglican family.” The Most Rev. Robert Duncan, archbishop of the Anglican Church in North America, thanked Mrs. Lorna Ashworth of Chichester for bringing the [...]

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309 to 69, 17 abstentions. Here is the motion: That this Synod, aware of the distress cause by recent divisions within the Anglican churches of the United States of America and Canada, (a) recognise and affirm the desire of those who have formed the Anglican Church in North America to remain within the Anglican family; [...]

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From here: Introductory letter preceding letter to Toronto Bishops: Dear friends, The invitation to Bp. Robinson to preach at St. James’ Cathedral called, we believe, for a response. The following letter was sent to the five members of the College of Bishops of the Diocese of Toronto and the Dean of the Cathedral. As you [...]

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Read it all here. There was speculation that Archbishop Rowan Williams was going to get tough in his Presidential Address. To me, he still sounds more like an academic giving his class a mild scolding than a leader about to take action. And in the Communion?  There is an undoubted good in the independence of [...]

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From Christianity Today: The Bishop of Winchester has said a motion asking the Church of England to affirm it is in communion with the Anglican Church of North America is not an attack on The Episcopal Church in the US (TEC). The motion, put forward by Lorna Ashworth, is to be debated on Wednesday by [...]

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From the Telegraph: Leading conservative clergy have declared their support for a motion at this week’s General Synod which would ally the Church with the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA). This was formed in opposition to the consecration of Gene Robinson, the first openly homosexual bishop, and the actions of liberals in the Episcopal [...]

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