ACP Member Articles
Anglican Journal
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The Church of Englands General Synod has rejected a bid to provide greater concessions for those opposed to women bishops. A final vote on the legislation that will enable women to become bishops is expected to come before synod in July....
Anglican Journal
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Last years Christmas letter from my friend in England startled me. He is a Roman Catholic priest who I have known since our time together at Georgetown University. Always energetic, always on the go, he never seems to slow down. For the...
Anglican Journal
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What do historian Henry Scadding, humorist Stephen Leacock, sports broadcaster Foster Hewitt and media baron Conrad Black have in common? All were old boys of venerable Upper Canada College (UCC), Ontarios most prestigious all-...
Anglican Journal
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Four years ago, after a devastating church fire, the Rev. Canon Dr. Cathie Crawford Browning and the congregation of St. John the Evangelist in Thorold, Ont., were both headed in the wrong direction. Both rector and members were exhausted...
Anglican Journal
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U.S. congressmen have nominated Coptic Christian ministry leader Maggie Gobran for the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize. Affectionately known as Mama Maggie, the former Cairo university lecturer is living out Christian ministry by caring for the...
Anglican Journal
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More than four million visitors are expected to arrive in London during this summers Olympic games. More Than Gold, an ecumenical charity originally launched during the 1996 Atlanta Games, is recruiting and training 1,000 volunteer Games...
Anglican Journal
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If you would be fishers of men, then first you must be dredgers of datademographic data. That was the message sent by the Rev. Ryan Sim in a workshop on the importance of missional listening at The Missional Roadmap, the recent Vital...
Anglican Journal
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At the 2012 Vital Church Planting conference in Toronto, the U.K.'s Rev. David Male imagined the future by suggesting that all those committed to expanding the mission-shaped church should keep in the slipstream of God.
During his...
Anglican Journal
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Last October, All Saints Cathedral College in Edmonton launched a virtual campus designed to help laity and clergy update their missional skills for todays complex and challenging global village.
The college, a joint venture between All...
Anglican Journal
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On December 18, 2010, the Anglican congregation of St. John the Evangelist in Calgary became the first Roman Catholic Anglican use parish in Canada.
This means that while congregation members have joined the Roman Catholic church, they...
Anglican Journal
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Cynthia Patterson, suicide prevention program co-ordinator for the Council of the North, is urging all Anglicans in Canada to support legislative efforts to create a national suicide prevention strategy. The church is amazingly placed to...
Anglican Journal
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According to a recently published survey, 80 per cent of Israeli Jews believe in God, and even more90 per centview Jewish lifecycle rituals as important or very important.
Commissioned in 2009 and based on face-to-face interviews with...
Anglican Journal
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This week, six Indigenous youth ambassadors from across Canada travelled to Geneva, Switzerland, to meet with the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). The committee is reviewing how well Canada is meeting its...
U.S. Catholic
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A new lawsuit against the government regarding the HHS mandate adds a new wrinkle: The Catholic TV network EWTN Global is suing the feds...
U.S. Catholic
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I don't think even the venerable water softener can dissolve all this contraceptive build-up: Evidently there's some kind of controversy about birth control and health insurance: The archbishop of New York...
Anglican Journal
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Countering fears in some quarters, a University of Windsor law professor has found that North American Muslims do not wish to impose Sharia law on this continent.
In a survey conducted face-to face and by telephone for the Institute for...
U.S. Catholic
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Among the more disturbing elements of the controversy over the HHS mandate, at least in Catholic circles, is the presumption of bad will on the part of the administration.
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Anglican Journal
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Some people prefer to bypass the cost and time of the law office altogether and complete their wills on their own with fill-in-the-blanks kits you can purchase at business supply stores and online for less than $30 and complete in half...
United Church of Christ News
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Leaders from the United Church of Christ and the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) held a first-ever, face-to-face meeting Feb. 7 at the UCC Church House in Cleveland.
United Church of Christ News
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Led by the reverberating bass of the Rev. Paul Sadler and the soul-lifting splendor of guest soloist Pat Harris, UCC national staff members gathered Feb. 8 in the UCC Amistad Chapel for a "Sing-A-Long" during the second worship service...
