Anglican Journal

The Anglican Archbishop of Zaire has welcomed the takeover of his country by rebel leader Laurent Kabila. Archbishop Patrice B. Njojo was interviewed in New York last month as rebels marched towards the capital, Kinshasa. Archbishop Njojo told...

DAVID HARRIS THE HOUSE OF BISHOPS came out at its recent meeting -- not from the closet -- but from its customary closed session to wrestle openly with the issue of homosexuality for the first time in several years. The bishops have almost always...

A new set of accounting guidelines for non-profit organizations has been released by the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants. These were approved by the institute's accounting standards board in March last year and were to be effective by April...

Building a network of conservatively minded delegates to the 1998 General Synod was to be a key proposal at the Essentials Leadership Consultation in Ottawa May 25-28. Representatives of the three Anglican groups forming the Essentials coalition were...

The Voisey's Bay nickel mine project in Labrador, which promises to be a bonanza for its developers, has the potential to play havoc with the environment and the region's Native people, a leading Innu spokesperson says. Calling for broad-based Canadian...

ECCLESIASTICAL PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA Bishop Barry Jenks Diocese of British Columbia Voted for option 1. "I think that helping the church to affirm and support gays and lesbians in our churches and carrying out the General Synod resolution...

MANY CANADIAN listeners came to know Laura Smith through Peter Gzowski's strong endorsements of her 1994 independent release B'tween the Earth and My Soul, on CBC Radio's Morningside. Her cover on that album of the old Scottish standard My Bonny introduced...

A church-sponsored gathering of 125 American Indians has strongly criticized what it described as the "colonial imposition" of European church structures on indigenous communities and has called for a new relationship with the churches and society...

This story constantly forces the reader to confront, through the intense personal suffering, the suffering of so many people in our country and the world beyond. Although historically located here in Southern Africa, it has a universal message about...

WE KNOW THAT past injustices within the Indian residential schools system wrought both a spiritual and financial cost, but are lawsuits and financial compensation the way to mend this? Healing the brokenness of a spirit that has undergone the dehumanization...

Drawing more than 500 people to consider The Truth About Jesus, a recent Anglican Institute conference in Birmingham, Ala., offered a direct challenge to the Jesus Seminar, a longstanding but controversial consultation of scholars seeking to determine...

`Water, water everywhere' AT THE HEIGHT OF the flood I flew into Winnipeg for a parish celebration arranged more than a year before. From the plane I could see the water south of the city, stretching as far as the eye could see. In its midst,...