The Church Times has this report: UK Evangelicals ask conservative Primates to rethink: A GROUP of Evangelical bishops in the Church of England have written to conservative Primates urging them to rethink their objections to the Lambeth Conference. The group,…
The Anglican Covenant Design Group, chaired by the Archbishop of the West Indies, the Most Reverend Drexel Gomez, is currently meeting at the Anglican Communion Office in London. Provinces represented on the Covenant Design Group are: Ireland, Southeast Asia, Indian Ocean, USA, Canada, West Africa, Southern Africa, West Indies, England, as well as the Diocese of Ceylon (Sri Lanka), as well as Anglican Communion and Lambeth Palace staff.
In just a few months, these Canadian theological students will hop on planes to visit and learn about our worldwide Anglican family:
Jonathan Crane and his wife Megan are going to St. Vincent (West Indies).
Leonard Fraser will travel to Sri Lanka.
Chelsy Stevens and Elizabeth Vaughan are off to Belize.
And Kyle Wagner is going to South Africa.
What follows is the text of a letter written by Archbishop Fred Hiltz, Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, to Prime Minister Stephen Harper dealing with the federal government’s stance on Canadians sentenced to death in foreign jurisdictions.
Episcopal Café has the story, Rift amongst conservative Episcopalians is showing. In the first public sign of disagreement among theologically conservative clergy in the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh over the leadership of Bishop Robert W. Duncan Jr., 12 such rectors…
Fulcrum has published an article that also appears in this week’s Church of England Newspaper by Graham Kings entitled Substance and Shadow: Lambeth Conference and GAFCON. An extract: …What is being planned to happen at GAFCON? No mention is made…
Episcopal News Service has South Carolina consecrates Lawrence as 14th bishop. The Living Church has South Carolina Celebrates Bishop Lawrence’s Consecration: … The Rt. Rev. Clifton Daniel III, Bishop of East Carolina and president of Province 4, was the chief…
It’s about a 1,850 km drive from All Saints Anglican Church in Canso, Nova Scotia, to the General Synod offices in Toronto.
And it would take two straight days of driving to get from St. John the Divine Anglican Church in Quesnel B.C. to the national office.
Even if your church is geographically close (like St. Bartholomew’s, only three km away), it’s easy to feel far away from the national office. Especially when you’re busy with parish and diocesan life.
This is why General Synod is coming to you. A new monthly email newsletter called Info! News from General Synod will help bridge these gaps between the national office and parishes.
Geoffrey Rowell writes that Paul shows how faith could turn all our lives around in The Times. Alan Wilson also writes about Saint Paul, in The Power of Love. Stephen Smith writes about the Holocaust in the Guardian’s Face to…
When Grand Chief Stan Beardy of the Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) visited the General Synod offices on Jan. 21, he had two main messages for the Anglican Church of Canada: help advocate for Aboriginal rights, and allow Aboriginals to take greater responsibility for their own leadership within the church.