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Sutherland is a sparsely populated part of northwest Scotland. As you travel there the roads get increasingly narrow and twisty, with only a single lane in many places. To allow vehicles to move in both directions, there are “passing places” carved into the landscape wherever possible.
The Gospel-based Discipleship readings for October are now available for download.
Inspired by the Spirit-filled testimony of a residential school survivor, Primate Shane Parker calls for Survivors’ flags to be raised in every Anglican parish in Canada as visible signs of recognition, respect and hope.
Almighty one, today we lift our prayer of thanksgiving to you for the blessings and gifts seen and unseen. We thank you for the sun which courses across the sky to remind us of the precious moments that we are granted this day and every day. Grant us the wisdom and vision to see these days and moments as the true gifts that they are, guard us from being distracted by the busyness of the day and the work before us, that we might see the other beside us and you who goes with us. Bless us this day to be a blessing to others, open our hearts to go forth in love as you have called and loved us first. This we pray in Jesus’ name. Amen.
The Ven. Alan Perry’s employment as General Secretary has concluded. The process to recruit the next General Secretary will begin soon.
The Gospel-based Discipleship readings for September are now available for download.
Our journeys in faith often bring us to a place where we are faced with a decision to relinquish our own hopes, desires, and plans because God is calling us to something else. This is the way of Christ. It happens frequently in small ways, as we make day-to-day choices about how we will speak and act toward others, or how we will use our money or skills.
Sacred Circle elected a new Anglican Council of Indigenous Peoples (ACIP) Aug. 9 based on the old model of members representing ecclesiastical provinces, while setting the stage for a shift to elections based on regional language areas and land and water territories.
The second day of the 12th Indigenous Anglican Sacred Circle saw members discuss governance in their own context as they advanced the concrete expression of what it means to be a self-determining Indigenous church.
Archbishop Shane Parker, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, delivered the sermon at worship that morning on Aug. 6, a date Christians celebrate as the Feast of the Transfiguration, when Jesus appeared radiant with light on a mountain in front of his disciples. Parker recalled climbing a mountain in his parents’ native Ireland when a thick fog rolled in, leaving him lost until the fog lifted. At that point, he said, he knew where he was and where he was going.
The 12th Indigenous Anglican Sacred Circle opened Aug. 5 with a call by National Indigenous Anglican Archbishop Chris Harper for those gathered to take an active role in serving their communities, humbly spreading the message of God’s love.
The Gospel-based Discipleship readings for August are now available for download.
The Anglican Church of Canada has through successive Primates since October 7, 2023, written or endorsed many letters to you and the previous Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, urging the Government of Canada to lead boldly toward ending the egregious devastation of Palestinian and Israeli lives and lands through disproportionate armed violence, the imprisonment and killing of civilians, and the blockade of humanitarian aid to Gazans.
The Canadian Council of Imams, together with national faith leaders representing over 7,000 clergy from across Canada, has written to the Prime Minister to express our deep and urgent collective concern over the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Faith-based organizations across Canada that wish to endorse this joint letter are invited to contact us by email to have their names added in support.
General Synod has voted to pursue the six pathways for change recommended by a primatial commission over the next triennium—and to allocate up to $2 million of unrestricted funds from General Synod’s Consolidated Trust Fund (CTF) to do that work. Both resolutions passed with overwhelming majorities.
On June 27, the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada elected new members for the Council of the General Synod (CoGS), its executive body.