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There is a remembrance book online at http://www.johnstottmemorial.org. Also, from Christianity Today, Collected below is Christianity Today’s coverage of Stott’s life and ministry. Articles and sermons from our sister publications Books & Culture and Preaching Today are also included.

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From here: July 16, 2011 — All Saints Sandy Hill is a parish of about 120 people, more than half of whom you will find worshipping together in our lovely sanctuary on a Sunday morning, and nearly half of whom are regular, generous, identifiable financial supporters. Now, in 2011, we are nearing a tipping point. [...]

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Maybe it’s just me, but reading this letter gives me the impression it was written through clenched teeth. From here: On July 10, 2011 clergy of the Anglican Network in Canada (ANiC) who since May 2008 had been occupying the Anglican Church of Canada building on Guilford Drive in Abbotsford left that building to conduct [...]

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From the Abbotsford Times The congregation of Abbotsford’s Saint Matthew’s Anglican Church marched in a solemn procession along the city’s streets to a new home on Sunday. Diocesan Bishop Don Harvey led bishops, priests, deacons and clergy and hundreds of parishioners to Saint Matthew’s new worship facility at Grace Church on McMillan Road. The exodus [...]

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From WORLDMag.com Anglicanism has begun a global and North American reformation, according to Archbishop Robert Duncan of the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA), who recently delivered his annual state of the church address, describing the growth and challenges faced by orthodox Anglicans. Duncan serves as both head of the ACNA and bishop of the [...]

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From the National Post It was a historic moment in Ottawa as a subdued crowd of about 300 filed out of St. Alban’s Anglican Church on King Edward Avenue on Sunday, leaving behind a place where some have roots going back to Confederation. Founded in 1865, the church where Sir John A. Macdonald worshipped has [...]

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This is a rather confusing article; it seems to mix up the Anglican Church of Canada from which ANiC parishes have departed, with the broader Anglican Communion from which they haven’t. Read it all here: ST. JOHN’S Shaughnessy — the largest Anglican parish in Canada — is denying a seemingly persistent rumour that it has [...]

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Via email. Please restrict your comments on this thread to written prayers. Bishop Don asks the ANiC family to join him in praying for this urgent situation. He writes: Please pray for Ceridwen (Ceri*) Hynes and her family as she awaits the results of a biopsy to determine the nature of a mass discovered in [...]

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We usually restrict ourselves to Canadian Anglican issues here, but the Reformed Pastor’s latest post is worth a read. The Presbyterian Church of the USA has recently struck the “fidelity in marriage/chastity” requirement for ordination, and his take on the issue mirrors pretty precisely how I feel about the same issues in Canadian Anglicanism. You [...]

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From the Ottawa Sun: A storied congregation has gone from worshipping in the same building as Canada’s first prime minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, to a makeshift altar inside a theatre where it’s BYOB: Bring Your Own Bible. “Ultimately, a church is people,” said Rev. George Sinclair. More than 100 worshippers gathered at St. Alban’s [...]

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From here: About 250 members of an Abbotsford church are preparing to leave their location, following a Supreme Court of Canada ruling last week. Much of the congregation and clergy of St. Matthew’s Anglican Church, located at 2010 Guilford Drive, will now share space with the members of Grace Evangelical Bible Church, located at 2087 [...]

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ST. ALBAN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH WALKOUT ON SUNDAY JUNE 26 Background unique to Ottawa On Feb 16, 2008 at a specially called meeting of the parish, the church voted overwhelmingly to separate from the Diocese of Ottawa and realign with another branch of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The vote for the move was 79 in favour, [...]

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Thursday, June 23, 2011 OTTAWA – Sunday will mark the final poignant day of worship for the congregation of St. Alban’s Anglican Church. The leadership of the church was sued by the Diocese of Ottawa in May of 2010. To avoid going to Court, a mediated settlement was reached. This settlement involves a division of [...]

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Received by email: A PASTORAL LETTER FROM THE RIGHT REVEREND DONALD F. HARVEY BISHOP AND MODERATOR My dear friends in Christ Jesus: When the history of our Church is written, the date of June 16th will receive very special mention. It was on that day, nine years ago that a relatively few members of the [...]

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From here: Hamilton, Ontario, June 17, 2011 – Yesterday, the Supreme Court of Canada released a decision that it will not hear an appeal from four parishes of the Anglican Network in Canada who claimed ownership in the buildings and lands of four parishes of the Anglican Diocese of New Westminster. In November, 2010, the [...]

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A refreshing viewpoint, compared to the content of my last post: Before the decision was announced, David Short, Rector of St. John’s Shaughnessy (and Canon of St. Andrew’s Cathedral Sydney), released a pastoral letter to the congregation at St. John’s. “Friends, “The way we respond is a God-given opportunity to bear witness to Christ. As [...]

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The responses are, to my mind, laying it on a bit thick. But it is to be expected I suppose, and I am only glad that they do not speak for me any more. First, Michael Ingham: Dear Friends in Christ: By now you may have heard that the Supreme Court of Canada has dismissed [...]

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Anglican Network in Canada NEWS RELEASE Congregations Evicted from their Church Buildings FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 19 May 2011 Vancouver, BC – The trustees of four Vancouver-area Anglican Network in Canada (ANiC) parishes are preparing to vacate their church buildings after the Supreme Court of Canada dismissed their case and awarded legal costs to the Anglican [...]

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