The Anglican Journal

Toronto church cancels room booking for NDP leadership candidate after pressure from pro-Israel groups

St. Paul’s Bloor Street Anglican Church in Toronto approved, then revoked a booking by NDP leadership candidate Yves Engler ...
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Newly appointed dean at Corner Brook cathedral steps down as protesters continue to demand reinstatement of Catherine Short

The Rev. Kris Gosse, whom Bishop of Western Newfoundland John Organ appointed as dean of the Cathedral of St. John the ...
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Historic Toronto church, destroyed by fire, to be rebuilt as smaller structure inside remains of old building

St. Anne’s Anglican Church in Toronto, which featured unique Byzantine Revival architecture and irreplaceable artwork by ...
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Stained glass on the silver screen

When St. Clement’s Anglican Church in North Vancouver, B.C. got a request to use their building for filming a TV production ...
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Spreading the ‘aroma of Christ’: A lay academic takes the helm at Wycliffe

This summer, Kristen Deede Johnson became the first non-ordained principal of the University of Toronto’s Wycliffe College, a ...
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Anglican ecumenists awarded King Charles III Coronation Medal

Two prominent Anglican ecumenists were awarded the King Charles III Coronation Medal June 20: Canon Alyson Barnett-Cowan, ...
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‘Wherever he could contribute, he gave his time’: Bob Boeckner guided church pensions, responsible investment

Robert “Bob” Boeckner, longtime trustee of the General Synod Pension Plan (GSPP) and a highly valued member of several ...
Anglican Journal

General Synod calls for arms embargo on Israel, expresses support for people in Holy Land

The primate and all Canadian Anglicans should write to government officials calling for a full and immediate arms embargo on Israel, General Synod said in a resolution it passed June 29, along with a ...
Anglican Journal

Canada’s first Indigenous bishop ‘saw himself as Christ’s faithful soldier and servant to life’s end’

Bishop Charles Arthurson, who became the first Indigenous bishop in Canada upon his election as suffragan bishop of the Anglican diocese of Saskatchewan in 1989—a position he held until his 2008 ...
Anglican Journal

‘An undercurrent of growth’: Making a church of disciples in a secular age

First instalment of Hearing the Lambeth Calls, a 10-part series on the calls to the global Anglican Communion made at the 2022 Lambeth Conference. This month’s call: Mission and Evangelism. The call ...
Anglican Journal

Bishop of Ottawa Shane Parker elected primate

The orders of clergy and laity have elected Bishop Shane Parker of the diocese of Ottawa as the new primate of the Anglican Church of Canada. Parker was not on the list of candidates announced prior ...