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St. Matthias parishioners vote to join ANiC
Anglican Journal
Mar. 9, 2009
A majority of parishioners from St. Matthias Anglican Church in Victoria, B.C. voted March 8 to leave the Anglican Church of Canada and join the Anglican Network in Canada (ANiC), a conservative body opposed to same-sex blessings and more liberal interpretations of Scripture. Read the story.
A bishop and his campaign for the poor
The Right Rev. Colin Johnson of the Anglican Toronto diocese leads through example
by Stuart Laidlaw
Faith and Ethics Reporter
Toronto Star
Mar. 8, 2009
Dinners in the Johnson household have always been noisy affairs, full of debates about God or curfew time for the kids. But they begin in silence. Complete silence. "My wife is a Quaker," explains Toronto Anglican Bishop Colin Johnson of his spouse, Ellen. Read the story.
Anglican Churches in the Americas meet to talk about mission
by Leigh Anne Williams
Anglican Journal
Mar 6, 2009
Delegates from the Anglican Church of Canada recently met with their counterparts from other Anglican Communion provinces for the first Conference of the Anglican Churches in the Americas in Mutual Responsibility and Mission in San José, Costa Rica. Read the story.
2009 Sacred Circle to consider new province
by Ali Symons,
General Synod Web
Mar. 6, 2009
The Rev. Gloria Moses and the Ven. Sidney Black, co-chairs of the Anglican Council of Indigenous Peoples, at the 2005 Sacred Circle. No one ever really knows what ideas will arise from Sacred Circle. It's a unique time and space when Canadian Aboriginal Anglicans can meet, pray, worship, and dream about the future. This year Sacred Circle will meet in Port Elgin, Ont. from August 9 to 15, with the theme "The Mighty Wind of the Spirit: the New Beginnings." Read the story.
Anglican Church of Melanesia elects new archbishop
Melanesian Messenger
Anglican Communion News Service,
Mar. 6, 2009 -
The Anglican Church of Melanesia has a new archbishop. He is the Rt Rev David Vunagi who is currently the bishop of the Diocese of Temotu in Solomon Islands. Bishop Vunagi was elected to the highest Episcopal position within the Anglican Church by the Provincial electoral board on the afternoon of March 4th at Tetete Ni Kolivuti; headquarters of the Sisters of the Church east of Honiara. Read the story.
Ottawa diocese appoints committee to consider ‘blessings’
Niagara bishop meets with Archbishop of Canterbury
Anglican Journal
Mar. 5, 2009
The bishop of the diocese of Ottawa, John Chapman, has appointed a doctrine and worship committee to determine whether same-sex unions can be blessed on a limited basis in the diocese. If the committee recommends that such blessings be allowed “in the spirit of experiential discernment,” Bishop Chapman said it would only be offered in one parish, St. John the Evangelist, an inner city parish which has long advocated for the rights of gays and lesbians. Read the story.
Council of General Synod receives funds for May meeting
Anglican Journal
Mar. 4, 2009
The spring meeting of Council of General Synod (CoGS), which was nearly cancelled due to a lack of funds, will take place as planned in May, dealing with a wide range of issues as it prepares for General Synod in June 2010. CoGS will meet May 8 to 10 at Queen of the Apostles retreat centre in Mississauga, Ont. Read the story.
‘Womanist’ theologians examine faith from black female prism
by Chris Herlinger
Ecumenical News International
Mar. 3, 2009
New York: Womanist theologians – female African American theologians who view the Christian faith from the prism of the experience of black women – are celebrating two decades of work of a movement that has gained increasing prominence in U.S. religious and academic circles. Read the story.
Anglican Women Theological Educators meet in Canterbury, England
‘It is an injustice to deprive women of the possibility of theological education.’
Anglican Communion News Service
Mar. 3, 2009
Meeting at the International Study Centre, Canterbury, England, 23 February – 2 March 2009, as a group of about 35 Anglican women theological educators, we received the challenge that our task was to help ‘change the world’. Mindful of the comment of Max Warren that, ‘It takes the whole world to know the whole Gospel’, we affirm that it is essential that women’s theological perspectives are explored and shared as part of our commitment to proclaim ‘the whole Gospel’. Women were present from Aotearoa/New Zealand, Argentina, Brazil, China, Fiji, Hong Kong, India, Jamaica, Kenya, Mexico, Myanmar, Philippines, South Africa, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States of America and Zambia. We were sorry that last minute visa problems prevented women from Pakistan and Tanzania being with us. We were also joined throughout the consultation by Bishop Duleep de Chickera of Colombo, Sri Lanka. Read the story.
Anglican diocese to defy ban, perform same-sex blessings
by Charles Lewis
National Post
Mar. 3, 2009
The Diocese of Ottawa has said it will perform same-sex blessings, becoming the first Canadian Anglican diocese to make such a move since a ban was imposed on the practice by the international church. The diocese said it is developing a liturgy and protocol for the rite and once they are created it will start performing the ceremonies for gay couples on a limited basis. But critics of same-sex blessings say those steps will widen the schism in the Canadian church. Read the story.
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