Anglican Journal back issues from December 2007:
Bishops hold line on moratorium
Dec 01, 2007; ... Church leaders worry about possible schism London, Ont. Canada's Anglican bishops, at their regular fall meeting, decided to leave in place a set of pastoral guidelines concerning church services for gay couples that stops short of blessings or marriage. They also expressed ...
Montreal synod votes yes to blessings
Dec 01, 2007; ... Montreal The annual synod of the diocese of Montreal has become the second to urge its bishop to allow clergy to bless previously solemnized civil marriages between same-sex couples. Like the bishop of Ottawa, whose diocese approved on Oct. 13 a similarly worded motion, the ...
Picture a holy moment
Dec 01, 2007; ... Recently, the Anglican Journal asked readers to submit their best photographs for Picture Your Faith, a new monthly feature on the Journal Web site, www.anglicanjournal.com. The goal of Picture Your Faith is to tell stories of faith through images; each month, the Journal will invite ...
Finances concern bishops
Dec 01, 2007; ... London, Ont. Several bishops criticized the national church's budget process, complaining that financial statements were only received just before the budget presentation at the General Synod governing convention last June. "There were two substantial budget documents at General Synod ...
Primate pays visit to Canterbury
Dec 01, 2007; ... London, Ont. Archbishop Fred Hiltz, in his new role as primate (national archbishop) of the Anglican Church of Canada, paid a courtesy call on Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams on Oct. 16 at Lambeth Palace in London, England, briefing him on a number of current Canadian issues, ...
Communication must be transparent, timely and accurate
Dec 01, 2007; ... EDITORIAL ALTHOUGH IT PASSED with little fanfare last spring, the Anglican Church of Canada endorsed a document entided Vision and Principles of Communications. Drafted by the national church's communications and information resources committee and commended by the Council of General ...
LETTERS
Dec 01, 2007; ... Women face internal barriers to leadership roles Dear editor, Your September editorial (Where are the next examples of women in leadership?) reveals interesting similarities with progress (or lack of it) by women in science. Many doors, barely ajar 40 years ago, have now opened ...
The long road behind ELCIC's first female national bishop
Dec 01, 2007; ... CONCERNING LUTHERANS WITH THE ELECTION last June of Rev. Susan Christine Johnson to national bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC), a 45-year history of women seeking ordination to the Lutheran Church was realized at the highest level. It began back in the ...
Quebec divided over financial questions
Dec 01, 2007; ... STAFF The diocese of Quebec is in turmoil over conflicting reports about whether there were irregularities connected with the accounting for the Church Society, the oldest missionary society in the Canadian church, which disburses funds from parishes and bequests in support of ministry ...
Top architecture award goes to newly-restored Toronto church
Dec 01, 2007; ... STAFF Toronto's St. Paul's church, Bloor Street, which completed a four-year, $23-million restoration and expansion project in 2006, recently received the Award of Excellence for the William Greer Architectural Conservation and Craftsmanship Award at the 33rd Annual Heritage Toronto ...
Churches warned about arson
Dec 01, 2007; ... STAFF An insurance company that specializes in churches and faithrelated groups is cautioning churches to take precautions since arson has become one of the most serious threats to places of worship. Ecclesiastical Insurance believes that most houses of worship do not take enough ...
APPOINTMENT
Dec 01, 2007; ... WCCs Faith and Order Canon John Gibaut, a priest from the diocese of Ottawa, has been appointed director of the World Council of Churches' (WCC) Faith and Order Commission in Geneva. His appointment is effective Jan. 2, 2008. Mr. Gibaut is a professor in the faculty of theology ...
Art installation provides window on conservation
Dec 01, 2007; ... STAFF The first photovoltaic art glass - which combines the ancient art of stained glass with the latest solar technology - was recently installed at Vancouver's Regent College, a graduate school affiliated with the University of British Columbia which offers an Anglican studies ...
Moxley elected diocesan bishop of NS and PEI
Dec 01, 2007; ... STAFF Bishop Susan Moxley, the suffragan, or assistant, bishop of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, was elected diocesan bishop on Oct. 20 in an episcopal election at All Saints Cathedral, Halifax. She was chosen on the first ballot, receiving 196 lay votes out of 265 ...
Primate has new link to PWRDF
Dec 01, 2007; ... STAFF Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, has been elected president of the board of directors of the Primate's World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF). Although PWRDF is named after the primate (or the church's national archbishop), it is the first ...
Retiring liturgist managed Common Praise hymnal project
Dec 01, 2007; ... STAFF Rev. Paul Gibson retires at the end of this month as coordinator for liturgy for the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC), a position which he held for about 20 years. As cb-ordinator for liturgy, Mr. Gibson's work involved monitoring liturgical revision and developments; he ...
Artist shines footlights on spiritual theatre scene in UK
Dec 01, 2007; ... SOME PEOPLE return from overseas crips with chocolates in their luggage; one Toronto dramatist brought back an entire musical about a chocolate magnate. Sally Armour Wotton, director of drama at St. John's York Mills in Toronto, traveled to the United Kingdom this year to explore the ...
Dissenting parishes consider payroll issue
Dec 01, 2007; ... STAFF Talks may resume between the Vancouver-based diocese of New Westminster and four dissenting parishes opposed to a more liberal stance on human sexuality after the diocesan council recently voted to extend the provision of payroll services to their clergy until April ...
The Creation Story: In Words and Sign Language
Dec 01, 2007; ... The Creation Story: In Words and Sign Language The Creation Story In Words and Sign Language John P. Audia Illustrated by David Spohn Toronto: Novalis, 2007 Hardcover ISBN 2-89507-842-4 I AM FIVE years old and just learning to read. When picked up this book, the first thing that I did ...
If the World Were a Village: A Book About the World's People
Dec 01, 2007; ... If the World Were a Village: A Book About the World's People If the World Were a Village A Book About the World's People (updated) David J. Smith Illustrated by Shelagh Armstrong Toronto: Kids Can Press, 2002, 2007 Hardcover ISBN 1-55074-779-7 I LIKE THE way this book explains the world ...
Mary/Moses
Dec 01, 2007; ... Mary Brian Wildsmith Oxford University Press Paper $17.95 ISBN-10: 0-19-272734-6 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-272734-3 THE COVER draws you to the book and makes you feel like you want to read it. On almost every page, there is an angel in the pictures, which reminds you that you are never alone. I ...
Ryan and Jimmy and the Well that Brought them Together
Dec 01, 2007; ... Ryan and Jimmy and the Well that Brought them Together Ryan and Jimmy and the Well that Brought them Together Herb Shoveller Toronto: Kids Can Press, 2006 Hardcover ISBN 1-55337-967-5 THIS STORY IS about a kid who raised enough money to build a well in Africa. It was built near a school ....
Ontario priest disciplined for marrying same-sex couple
Dec 01, 2007; ... A priest in the diocese of Ontario has been disciplined and had his licence to marry cancelled after he officiated at the wedding of a same-sex couple last August in a church in rural Ontario, where he is the incumbent. Rev. Michael Bury, rector of St. John the Evangelist church, in ...
Living the Christmas Story
Dec 01, 2007; ... A time to share God's love I AM THE deacon in the church of St. John the Evangelist in Leamington, Ont. My outreach ministry is as chaplain in Leamington District Memorial Hospital. Although my main ministry is to the patients, their families, and the staff, my call as a deacon includes ...
Conference urges bishops to allow gay marriage
Dec 01, 2007; ... London, Ont. A group of Canadian Anglicans on the liberal, or "progressive," side of issues concerning homosexuality and the church have urged Anglican bishops to "proceed to (the) full inclusion (of gay and lesbian people) by providing access to all sacraments and sacramental rites of ...
Corrections
Dec 01, 2007; ... * The Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the first Mormon temple built outside the United States, is in Cardston, Alta. * Rev. Charles Farnsworth served as headmaster of Grenville Christian College (GCC) from 1983 to 1997. * Canon Geoff Jackson, chair of ...
WCC welcomes better relations with Muslims
Dec 01, 2007; ... Geneva/Rome The head of the World Council of Churches, the Rev. Samuel Kobia, has welcomed an open letter by 138 Muslim scholars urging Christians and Muslims to seek common ground and he said the Geneva-based WCC is ready to help "It is significant in that it is signed by such a ...
Church leaders call for abortion review
Dec 01, 2007; ... ECUMENICAL NEWS INTERNATIONAL London To mark the 40th anniversary on Oct. 27 of Britain's 1967 Abortion Act that legalized abortion in specified circumstances, church leaders called for a reexamination of the situation. The department of health in Britain reported that in ...
'No urgency' to oust Zimbabwe bishop
Dec 01, 2007; ... ECUMENICAL NEWS INTERNATIONAL Harare Zimbabwe's High Court has ruled that diere is no urgency in hearing a case in which the Anglican Province of Central Africa is seeking the expulsion of Bishop Nolbert Kunonga of the Harare diocese, after he sought to withdraw his diocese from ...
CANADA BRIEFS
Dec 01, 2007; ... Video award Topahdewin: The Gladys Cook Story, a documentary produced by Anglican Video, the Anglican Church of Canada's national video department in Toronto, won a Redemptive Storyteller award at the Redemptive Film Festival, held Nov. 2-3 in Virginia Beach, Va. The film is the ...
Former students sue Grenville
Dec 01, 2007; ... Church named in class action Former students of Grenville Christian College filed a classaction lawsuit on Oct. 17 that seeks $1 billion in damages as a result of abuse allegedly suffered at the school and names as defendants the x now-closed school, the Anglican Church of Canada, two ...
Lambeth boycott 'sends wrong message'
Dec 01, 2007; ... Communion official briefs Canadians STAFF A boycott of next year's Lambeth Conference by bishops concerned about the issue of homosexuality "would affect the whole relationship of the Anglican Communion," said Rev. John Kafwanka, research/project officer in the London-based ...