Faith groups unite against acts of hatred

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1 Anglian Journal Sine 1875 vol. 143 no. 5 may 2017 Welby alls on Christians to join global wave of prayer Faith groups unite against ats of hatred By Neale Adams Tali Folkins Faith ommunities should feel onfident about their dollars-and-ents ontributions to soiety in the fae of a growing movement to eliminate their tax-free status, attendees at a Toronto interfaith forum heard Marh 11. Faith ommunities synagogues, mosques, hurhes, temples are integral to the fabri of our ommunities in terms of supporting what a ommunity desires to do with and for itself, said Mike Wood Daly, researh lead at the Halo Canada Projet, a researh projet aimed By ACNS Arhbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby is enouraging Christians of all denominations to join a 10-day global prayer initiative, Thy Kingdom Come, from Asension Day to Penteost, May 25 to June 4. See Not just, p. 15 photo: thykingdomom.global Congregations benefit ommunities at measuring the eonomi impat of religious ommunities. We re not just an isolated island in ommunities, but we re members within that ommunity, and we an through our eonomi stimulus be of benefit. Wood Daly was speaking at Exploring Sared Spae: Regenerating Plaes of Faith, the annual forum of Faith & the Common Good, a national interfaith organization. Sine 2015, the Halo Canada Projet, funded by a range of faith-based organizations, inluding the Anglian dioese of Toronto, has been attempting See Taxing, p. 13 Tolerane is not enough. We need to elevate the understanding of eah other for aeptane beyond tolerane aeptane based on ommon values. Firdosh Mehta, Zoroastrian Soiety of British Columbia People from many faiths met twie early in Marh in Vanouver to show support for one another at well-attended publi meetings that elebrated diversity and took a stand against ats of hatred. Both gatherings were in reation to onerns about an upsurge in anti-semitism, Islamophobia and other forms of soial onflit that seem to have aompanied the inauguration of the Trump administration in the United States. That Amerian politial problems have spilled into Canada was suggested by a bomb threat in early Marh, whih resulted in the evauation of Vanouver s Jewish Community Centre (no bomb was found), and by ontroversy surrounding a three-day ampaign in Vanouver led by Franklin Graham, an Amerian evangelist who one alled Islam a very evil, a very wiked religion and supported a ban on Muslim immigration in the U.S. Anglians were involved in sponsoring both gatherings. The first took plae Marh 7 at Vanouver s Or Shalom Synagogue. Sponsored by the synagogue and the dioese of New Westminster, the event featured talks, meditation and other ativities from a wide variety of faith traditions. It was followed two days later by a presentation at St. Andrew s-wesley United Churh involving a rabbi, an imam and a bishop entitled Hope Amidst the Politis of Fear: Conversations for Creative Resistane. This event was organized by St. Andrew s and Christ Churh Cathedral. Rabbi Laura Kaplan, diretor of Inter- Religious Studies at the Vanouver Shool of Theology and a panelist at the event at the United Churh, said she was thankful that hate-inspired ats, like the bomb threat, were, so far, at the level of harassment. It will be the strength of our ommunity that keeps it at that level, she said. Imam Mohammed Shujaath Ali Nadwi of Masjid ul-haqq Mosque in Vanouver also said he had been enouraged by the reations of fair-minded Canadians and Amerians. Reent events have stirred more ompassion and kindness in the hearts of non-muslim friends. They ame out in support of Muslims defending their See Events, p. 10 PM# Dressing Hope Bear a hallenge for designer 14 The Shak

2 2 anglian journal may 2017 OTTAWA4 Anglians launh low-ost housing for women $6.8 million projet gets support from federal, provinial governments By Art Babyh 5 Sue Garvey, exeutive diretor, Cornerstone Housing for Women photo: art babyh Cornerstone Housing for Women a ommunity ministry of the dioese of Ottawa has launhed a $6.8 million projet to onvert the former Mother House of a Roman Catholi religious ommunity into a home for 42 women needing safe, affordable housing. It s a wonderful, wonderful projet, said Sue Garvey, Cornerstone s exeutive diretor, in a telephone interview with the Anglian Journal Marh 3. The government money made all the differene in us being able to do it. Cornerstone reeived $3.97 million from the federal government and $1.3 million from the Ontario government through the Canada-Ontario Investment in Affordable Housing (IAH) agreement, to be administered through the City of Ottawa s Ation Ottawa program. The funding announement was made at a news onferene Marh 3 in the lobby of the Sisters of Jean D Ar Institute at 373 Prineton Avenue, the building that Cornerstone plans to redevelop. Among those who spoke in support of the projet were Ottawa Bishop John Chapman, Federal Environment Minister Catherine MKenna, Ontario Attorney General Yasir Naqvi and Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson. The Anglian dioese [of Ottawa] has a strong ommitment to building healthy and inlusive ommunities, said Chapman. We are proud of Cornerstone s trak reord in developing safe, affordable housing, and we are espeially thrilled to see this new projet in Westboro moving forward. Thanks to the ombined efforts of our partners, we are able to give a helping hand to women in need, and in doing so, we are ontributing to the eonomi and soial well-being of the entire ommunity, said MKenna. The City of Ottawa greatly appreiates the ontributions of both our federal and provinial partners towards this impor- 5The Roman Catholi Mother House will be onverted to provide safe, affordable housing for 42 women. photo: art babyh tant projet for Cornerstone Housing for Women, said Watson. These investments are helping us make strides to prevent homelessness by ensuring that more individuals and families in Ottawa have a safe and inlusive plae to live. Along with the grant approvals, Cornerstone has started a apital ampaign alled Building the Dream to raise another $1.5 million through a variety of means, inluding individual donations and sponsorships. Every room and every spae in the residene, hopefully, will be sponsored by a partiular group who will ome and help us with the funding for that room, but also to develop a relationship with the women who will be using the servies, said Garvey. Meetings are being held regularly with a Cornerstone team to disuss issues suh as design, onstrution and zonings, and working together on all the partnerships to help us provide servie for the women who will live there, she said. The impressive omplex in whih Cornerstone will build its bahelor unit apartments was owned by the Sisters of Jeanne D Ar, who, sine the 1930s, operated a private shool and provided affordable housing for women in the Westboro om- munity of Ottawa. The size of the ommunity of sisters has delined steadily over the years and many have retired, leading to the deision to sell the building and move to other quarters. Aording to the CBC, Garvey had met one of the nuns bak in 2014 and shared stories about Cornerstone Housing. In 2016, the nun phoned her and said the sisters were ready to sell the Mother House and a vaant lot in the property. The property was sold to Cornerstone for $2 million; the ost of renovating the building is about $4.5 million. The Sisters of Jeanne D Ar wanted to have a legay in the ommunity and they really wanted to leave their home to a group who had some of the same values and goals, said Garvey. They ve always had suh a strong ommitment to women and soial justie, and that s who Cornerstone is. Cornerstone urrently has four residenes in Ottawa, inluding an emergeny shelter, two affordable and supportive housing ommunities and a transitional home. g Art Babyh is a freelane journalist in Ottawa. What will you leave behind? Your father s poket wath, a pearl neklae passed on to you from your favourite aunt, your first pair of roller skates Items soaked in memory, given and reeived in love important keepsakes for you to pass on. After providing for your loved ones, please remember the Anglian Churh of Canada in your will. You an help to ontinue the ministries you are passionate about. Your gift makes a differene. The General Synod of the Anglian Churh of Canada Resoures for Mission 80 Hayden Street, Toronto, ON M4Y 3G resouresformission@national.anglian.a

3 anglian journal may CANADA4 Nothing good about Indian residential shools 5 Conservative Senator Lynn Beyak ritiizes the Truth and Reoniliation Commission report for overshadowing the good deeds of well-intentioned religious teahers. photo: senate of anada Churh leaders dispute senator s laim they were well-intentioned André Forget Canadian Anglian leaders have upbraided Conservative Senator Lynn Beyak for her assertion that the report of the Truth and Reoniliation Commission (TRC) was overly negative in its representation of the Indian residential shool system. In an open letter published Marh 20, Arhbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglian Churh of Canada, National Indigenous Anglian Bishop Mark MaDonald and General Seretary Arhdeaon Mihael Thompson said they were dismayed by Beyak s omments, and stated there was nothing good about the residential shools. In a Marh 7 speeh to the senate, Beyak had ritiized the TRC for letting the negative aspets of the Indian residential shool system whih its report said amounted to ultural genoide overshadow the good deeds of wellintentioned teahers. Beyak made similar remarks during a reent meeting of the Senate s Aboriginal Peoples ommittee (of whih she is a member), saying she was disappointed the TRC s report didn t fous on the good done by Christian teahers. Though the open letter aknowledged that a small minority of survivors had a good experiene at the shools, 35 of whih were operated by the Anglian Churh of Canada, it stressed that the shools were an attempt at ultural genoide. The letter pointed out the many ways 5 National Indigenous Anglian Bishop Mark MaDonald and Primate Fred Hiltz have issued a letter enouraging Senator Lynn Beyak to listen to the stories and perspetives of residential shool survivors. file photo: art babyh the system was an affront to the rights and dignity of Indigenous people, from its stated goal of killing the Indian in the hild by stripping away all aspets of Indigenous ulture to the rampant physial, sexual, emotional and spiritual abuse perpetrated against many students. The abuses were nothing less than rimes against humanity, the letter said. There was nothing good about taking away hildren, removing their traditional dress, utting their hair, taking away their name, onfisating their personal effets and giving them a number, the letter said. There was nothing good about experimenting with hildren s diet to monitor the impat on their dental hygiene or their digestive systems. There was nothing good about pressing hildren into fored labour. It was state-santioned ruelty. Despite the presene of good, wellintentioned teahers, nurses and staff in the residential shools, the overall view is grim. It is shadowed and dark; it is sad and shameful, the letter said. The letter also noted the link between the residential shools and the many problems plaguing Indigenous ommunities as a result of intergenerational trauma, inluding high addition rates, poor health and family dysfuntion. There is nothing good about Indigenous people [being] treated as seond lass, the blatant evidene of whih persists in lower funding for health are, eduation, poliing and emergeny servies. It is a travesty, it said. Hiltz, MaDonald and Thompson enouraged Beyak to review the TRC report, and espeially the 94 Calls to Ation, and to listen to the stories and perspetives of survivors. It is Indigenous people who have the authority to tell the story. It is our duty to reeive that story and allow it to hange us, they said. The open letter also noted that the national hurh has offered apologies for its role in running the shools, and has ommitted to support healing programs through the Anglian Healing Fund. Beyak s omments have been ritiized by many of her fellow-parliamentarians. Indigenous Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett told CBC Beyak s omments spoke to a need for further eduation about residential shools, and the Indigenous affairs riti for the Conservative Party, Cathy MLeod, said the omments do not reflet the party s position. NDP MP Roméo Saganash, a residential shool survivor, has alled for her resignation; Liberal Senator Lillian Dyk, hair of the Senate s Aboriginal Peoples ommittee, has asked her to resign from the ommittee. Beyak has stood by her omments, saying she will neither resign from the ommittee nor give up her seat in the Senate. g An invitation to everyone in the provine of British Columbia Wine & Cheese Reeption and Annual General Meeting Thursday, May 25, :45 pm Choral Evensong 6:45 pm Reeption and AGM in elebration of the Anglian Foundation of Canada s 60th Anniversary Christ Churh Cathedral Vanouver, BC Come join us! This May, make a gift to honour mothers everywhere PWRDF knows that when you improve the life of a woman, you improve the life of her family and her entire ommunity. Through our partners Maternal, Newborn and Child Health programs, food seurity initiatives, HIV/AIDS eduation, mirofinane and refugee support, PWRDF provides opportunities for women to empower themselves. Donate today online at pwrdf.org/donate, tollfree during business hours at or by mail to PWRDF, The Anglian Churh of Canada, 80 Hayden St., Toronto, Ont., M4Y 3G2 The Primate s World Relief and Development Fund t h e a n g l i a n h u r h o f a n a d a Tel: pwrdf.org

4 4 anglian journal may 2017 EDITORIAL4 Fight the good fight Marites N. Sison editor THERE HAVE been oasions when, as we put together an issue of the Anglian Journal, a ertain theme emerges from the stories that have been written without our having planned it. This is one suh edition. As you leaf through the pages, an image emerges of a hurh that is aring for the world whether responding atively to a need for evangelism or soial justie or offering a reassuring presene. When many troubling world events an ause us to despair, these stories an be a soure of omfort, inspiration and motivation to fight the good fight. Pages 1 and 5 disuss Arhbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby s invitation to all Christians around the world to pray together for 10 days in the run-up to Penteost so that they may have fresh onfidene to share their faith. The prayer initiative, Thy Kingdom Come, attrated more than 100,000 people when it was launhed by the Churh of England in 2016, and organizers expet reord numbers to partiipate this year. Aording to Welby, many parishes reported lasting hange, and the experiene has reated a spiritual hunger for more. It has also fostered a sense of ommunity. 5In times of national and international turmoil, many people often expet the hurh/ faith groups to offer a propheti voie or even just a measure of solae. photo: thykingdomome. global St. Aidan s, Gravesend, in the dioese of Rohester, kept its doors open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. to anyone who wanted to ome in and pray or simply sit in silene, and in the proess, reated wonderful opportunities for enounters with people who had not set foot there before. In Vanouver, Christ Churh Cathedral Dean Peter Elliott teamed up with former United Churh of Canada moderator Gary Patterson (page 1) to organize multi-faith events aimed at offering people hope in the midst of fear and anguish generated by rising anti-semitism, Islamophobia, antiimmigrant rhetori and authoritarianism around the world. The well-attended events gathered people from all walks of life and faiths, who stood as one in their ommitment to oppose poliies that promote hate and disrimination. On page 1, you will read about how researh has shown that 25 ongregations a small fration of the ity s faith ommunities benefit their loal ommunities through soial servies amounting to $73 million a year. Meanwhile, a ministry of the dioese of Ottawa has launhed a $6.8 million projet aimed at providing affordable housing for low-inome women (page 2). And, a national hurh ministry, the Anglian Foundation of Canada, is elebrating its 60th year of funding diverse projets and haritable work aross Canada (pages 8 and 9). It has been observed that in times of national and international turmoil, many people, even those living in seularized soieties, often expet the hurh/ faith groups to offer a propheti voie or even just a measure of solae. This is one suh moment in history when the hurh annot and should not disappoint. It is therefore fitting to enourage and support ministries that fulfill the gospel imperative to feed the hungry, lothe the naked, welome the stranger and visit the sik. g tsison@national.anglian.a LETTERS4 Who is my neighbour? The Anglian Journal welomes letters to the editor. Letters go to Marites (Tess) Sison, editor, and Meghan Kilty, General Synod diretor of ommuniation. Sine not all letters an be published, preferene is given to shorter orrespondene (300 words or less). All letters are subjet to editing. In wake of the U.S ban on Muslim immigrants and the killings in a mosque in Canada, we are hallenged by the age-old question: who is my neighbour? St Martin-in-the-Fields is a well-known hurh next to Trafalgar Square in London. Last year, the parish organized a leture series, Who is my neighbour? The first leture, on the ethis of global relationships, was given by Rowan Williams, the former Arhbishop of Canterbury. Williams began with The Parable of the Good Samaritan. In responding to a question from a lawyer, Who is my neighbour?, Jesus did not give a diret answer. Instead, he told a story. He usually refused to give answers. Rather, he wanted people to disover the truth themselves. In this ase, an answer would probably not make any differene: it was probably an aademi or trap question. Jesus uses another approah. He turns the question around, by onfronting his audiene with the question: when are you a neighbour to the other? Williams ontends that Jesus invites us to be neighbours, and we do so by our involvement in the life of another. To be a neighbour is to give life to another. I am a neighbour any time I give life to another. I fail to be a neighbour when I withhold or image: jaek wojnarowski/ shutterstok withdraw life from another. My deision to ignore, neglet or harm another is based on suspiion, fear and prejudie: I see the other as a threat, a stranger, an enemy. To be a neighbour is another narrative. It is about sharing, serving, weloming and inluding the other in my life: it is an at of ompassion. You an hear these talks as podasts on the website of St Martin-in-the-Fields. Everett Hobbs Coneption Bay South, Nfld. Don t all him Father Today, one of our wardens read a letter from our bishop. We have a new retor, a man. Perhaps it s time to onsider the issue of alling male lergy Father. My dad was an Anglian priest. He never wanted to be alled Father. Calling a priest Father sets him apart from his ongregation. I don t aept the notion that my retor is my father. Also, it sets him apart from other lergy in the ommunity; from the broader seular ommunity; and from other Anglian lergy who don t want to be alled Father or who may be women. Is it a patriarhal devie intended to set women lergy apart from the men? Perhaps our women lergy should start saying, I want you to all me Father. (I doubt many want to be alled Father, but it would highlight the issue!) When [my mother] was in her 80s before there was any sign of dementia I asked her, Mum, if you had a hane to live your life over, would you hange anything? Without hesitation, she answered, I would like to have been ordained. I d never thought of that possibility! But, at that moment, I said to myself, Of ourse! She had aepted her supporting role as the wife of a lergyman. But, any parish would ve been luky to have had her as their retor. She was very intelligent and very well-eduated. She was, perhaps, the most balaned, Christ-like person I ever met. Were my parents alive, and in their youth today, I m ertain my mum would say to my dad, I want to be ordained. It s not negotiable! And, ordained, she would ve been any lergyman s equal. Calling our male lergy Father puts up walls. It reates unwelome, anahronisti us/them dynamis. Regardless of the rationale, it s time for a hange. David Puxley Mahone Bay, N.S. EDITOR: Marites N. Sison ART DIRECTOR: Saskia Rowley ASSISTANT TO THE EDITOR: Janet Thomas STAFF WRITERS: André Forget Tali Folkins GRAPHIC DESIGNER: Jane Thornton CIRCULATION MANAGER: Beverley Murphy CIRCULATION: Mirella Ross Fe Bautista Marlina Farales Anglian Journal First published as the Dominion Churhman in 1875, Anglian Journal is the national news magazine of the Anglian Churh of Canada. It has an independent editorial poliy and is published by the Anglian Journal Committee. 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5 anglian journal may COME AND SEE4 I am asking that with speial intent we pray for fresh outpourings of the Holy Spirit to strengthen us in a variety of ministries to whih we are deeply ommitted in loal ontexts and aross the ountry. Devoting ourselves to prayer By Fred J. Hiltz ST. LUKE WRITES that following the Asension of the Lord, the disiples were gathered in an upper room onstantly devoting themselves to prayer. A number of women joined them, inluding Mary, the mother of Jesus (Ats 1:14). One wonders what the subjet of their prayers might have been the hope of an imminent return of their Lord; the manner in whih they would respond to the Great Commission, taking the gospel into all the world; the timing of the promised gift of the Holy Spirit to empower them for that work; and how indeed they would experiene the oming of the Spirit. Sine those first few days of the hurh, the time between Asension Day and the Day of Penteost has been marked by alls to prayer for strength and wisdom in bearing a faithful witness to the gospel, for a fresh outpouring of the Holy Spirit to grae and guide the hurh in every age. Calls of this kind have a long history through the World Counil of Churhes. In the spirit of that long-standing tradition, the Arhbishops of Canterbury and York, in 2016, invited a wave of prayer aross the Churh of England. The response, aording to Justin Welby, was astonishing. Thousands of people joined in not just Anglians, but people of many other denominations, too, and not just in England, but in many other ountries around the world. That response inspired the arhbishops to launh Thy Kingdom Come, a global all to prayer between Asension Day and the Day of Penteost, In alling our hurh to partiipate, I am asking that with speial intent we pray for fresh outpourings of the Holy Spirit to strengthen us in a variety of ministries to whih we are deeply ommitted in loal ontexts and aross the ountry. Thursday, May 25 Asension Day Let us pray for ongregational health and vitality in the spirit of the Marks of Mission embraed by Anglians worldwide. Friday, May 26 Let us pray for initiatives in evangelism nurturing people for lifelong disipleship, for our shools for ministry, for Indigenous atehist programs, for our theologial olleges. 5 Logo of the 10-day global prayer initiative launhed by the Churh of England photo: thykingdomome. global Saturday, May 27 Let us pray for the protetion and nurture of hildren, for youth and young adult ministries; for suiide prevention programs, espeially among Indigenous youth; for ministries that elebrate the minds, hearts, voies and works of young people in devotion to Christ. Sunday, May 28 Seventh Sunday of Easter (Sunday after Asension Day) Let us pray for all our partnerships in the gospel within our own hurh and with other hurhes; for ompanion dioese relationships aross the world; for our hurh s ompanionship with the Episopal Dioese of Jerusalem. Monday, May 29 Let us pray for healing and reoniliation within our hurh and our ountry, for integrity in living out the Primate s Apology (1993), in honouring the United Nations Delaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and in responding to the Calls to Ation from Canada s Truth and Reoniliation Commission. Tuesday, May 30 Let us pray for the work of the Anglian Healing Fund and for ommunity-based projets for reovery of language and ulture, for elebrating Aboriginal identity. Wednesday, May 31 Let us pray for all efforts in partnership with Indigenous elders, youth, bishops and lergy in building a truly Indigenous hurh within the Anglian Churh of Canada. Thursday, June 1 Let us pray for ministries with those aught in the grip of poverty, for programs addressing its systemi auses and for initiatives to eradiate poverty. Friday, June 2 Let us pray for ministries devoted to addressing violene of every kind domesti and soietal, gender-based, ethni and religious-based; and for all ministries grounded in ommitments to dignity and justie for all people. Saturday, June 3 Let us pray for ministries foused on the are of reation, for our alling to be healers of the Earth. Sunday, June 4 The Day of Penteost Let us pray for a elebration of the many languages in whih the gospel of Christ is prolaimed and the rih diversity of ultures for whih our hurh is known; for the strengthening of our life together in Christ and for our ommon witness to the gospel. This all to prayer will be answered in a variety of ways. Some will respond through the daily round of morning and night prayers, some in a round of prayers in the early evening of these nine days. Some may be in the quiet of a hapel or the hanel of the hurh; some in the spae of a irle of friends gathered in prayer in one of their homes. Some may hoose to walk a labyrinth; others may organize walks in the ommunity with prayer at various loations. I have every onfidene that in taking up this all you will be reative in the way you pray. The most important thing is that like those very first followers of Christ, we devote ourselves to prayer for the hurh and our faithfulness to God s mission in the world. g Arhbishop Fred Hiltz is primate of the Anglian Churh of Canada. LETTERS4 photo: patharan keawpong Piture Your Faith Do you have photographs that illustrate Caring? We invite you to share them by to pitureyourfaith@ gmail.om. Deadline for submissions is May 20. Another book on the Camino I read, with interest, the Camino de Santiago artile that Tali Folkins wrote (Pak light, and be open to the road, Marh 2017, p. 3). I objet to some of the omments that were written, however. Jane Christmas is not the only Canadian Anglian writer that has written a book on the Camino. I am an Anglian who has been a lay reader sine the 1980s. I submitted my book, Hiking the Spanish, Portuguese and Frenh Caminos: A Soulful Journey, to see if you would be interested in doing a review on it sine I have reeived the Anglian Journal for many years. During my pilgrimages, I have led grae many times before a meal and have taken part in servies, et. in all three ountries that I hiked. Phil Riggs Glovertown, Nfld. photo: gena melendrez/shutterstok WALKING TOGETHER4 The power of hope By Mark MaDonald And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love (1 Corinthians 13:13). THE LEAST SPOKEN of these three theologial virtues is, almost always, hope. Yet, hope is a powerful and neessary fore. It animates both faith and love. Without hope, faith and love have no strength. Without hope, even what you know to be right is diffiult to do. Without hope, there is little reason to move forward. It is hope that powers a better future; hope that inspires both the ourage and sarifie of love and the loyalty and onfidene of faith. In the past few years, I have seen growing positive interest and ation aross the hurhes regarding Indigenous issues. There are a lot of reasons for this, the work of the Truth and Reoniliation Commission being a big part. But an even bigger part of it has to be hope. People are beginning to believe that things should hange and an hange both Indigenous and non-indigenous. Hope is not only a theologial virtue; it is a politial and human virtue. We should seek hope, pray for it and yearn for it. But we must remember that Paul says it is a gift and grae of the Holy Spirit. It is, like the other theologial virtues, a gift of grae and a fruit of the spirit. Let us pray for suh grae, so that we may be God s people of hope. g Bishop Mark MaDonald is national Indigenous bishop of the Anglian Churh of Canada.

6 6 anglian journal may 2017 THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION4 Reforms in route to ordination proposed André Forget The Anglian Churh of Canada should retool its methods for assessing andidates for the priesthood to make the proess more sensitive to ontext, says Bishop Bill Cliff, of the dioese of Brandon. During a reent national gathering to disuss the future of theologial eduation for priestly ministry in the Anglian Churh of Canada, Cliff publily stated that he is not omfortable sending people who have not had a seminary eduation to partiipate in the hurh s standard disernment proess. In an interview with the Anglian Journal following the onferene, Cliff expanded on his omments, explaining that in his opinion, the proess does not do enough to take into aount ultural differenes within the hurh, espeially between Indigenous and non-indigenous Anglians. For most Anglians hoping to beome postulants to the priesthood in the Canadian hurh, the route to ordination involves diserning a all for ordination through a onferene organized by the Advisory Committee for Postulants for Ordination (ACPO) of their elesiastial provine. Every year, andidates attend a weekend-long disernment gathering in whih they are interviewed by a group of assessors about their readiness to serve as priests in the hurh. But given the diversity of ontexts andidates ome from and hope to serve, Cliff does not think ACPO an always aurately pereive whether or not someone is fit for the priesthood. For example, ACPO requires andidates to artiulate why they believe they are alled to the ministry, whih is ongruent with the general Western assumption that those seeking leadership in a ommunity should put themselves forward, Cliff said. In many Indigenous nations, however, it is the ommunity that identifies who the leaders should be. Cliff said this was driven home to him by omments National Indigenous Anglian Bishop Mark MaDonald had made at the national gathering. MaDonald had said that in many Indigenous ommunities, it would be seen as presumptuous for people to laim they were being alled to the priesthood. Oftentimes, people will say that the elders say that I have a alling [instead], said MaDonald, adding that assessors need to be sensitive to this ultural differene. This rings true of Cliff s experiene in the predominantly Indigenous northern part of his own dioese, and has made him relutant to put forward loally-trained Indigenous andidates in the same way he would seminary-trained andidates. I wouldn t reommend Indigenous andidates at an ordinary ACPO [onferene], said Cliff. I think the ultural issues are different, and the sense of disernment is different. Cliff believes the House of Bishops should take the lead in onsidering how ACPO ould be made to better serve loal hurhes. An evolving proess Canon Sue House, who reently beame ACPO seretary for the elesiastial provine of British Columbia and Yukon and 5 Every year, andidates to the priesthood in the Anglian Churh of Canada attend a weekend-long disernment proess in whih they are interviewed by a group of assessors. images: goed/ shutterstok When I started, we didn t have loally raised-up lergy. We still had a hurh that ould expet that their andidates were going to go to seminary, and that is just not a possibility anymore. Canon Sue House, ACPO seretary for the elesiastial provine of British Columbia and Yukon serves at Christ Churh Cathedral in the dioese of British Columbia, also thinks the disernment proess ould be updated. House has been an assessor at nearly a dozen ACPO onferenes sine she first beame involved in the proess in In that time, she has seen signifiant hanges in the way people ome to the priesthood. In partiular, her provine has seen a greater number of loally-trained (also sometimes alled loally raised-up ) people seeking ordination over the past 15 years. When I started, we didn t have loally raised-up lergy, she said. We still had a hurh that ould expet that their andidates were going to go to seminary, and that is just not a possibility anymore. With loally-trained lergy beoming inreasingly ommon in the provine of British Columbia and Yukon, House said assessors have needed to hange the kinds of questions they ask. Many loally-trained andidates have been volunteering in their parishes for a long time, she said, and have both a pratial sense of what leadership in the hurh involves and a deep knowledge of the needs of their own partiular ommunity. This means they usually enter the proess with a strong letter of referene from their ommunity, but won t neessarily be willing to move whih would ordinarily be a red flag, oming from a seminarytrained andidate. For this reason, House said, assessors need to be sensitive to the fat that some andidates already know where they will be serving but, this isn t always the ase. I think what happens is we just, in my experiene, assess [all andidates] on the same level, she said. And it is not that one is better, or one is worse, it s just they are different. Furthermore, House said she is not aware of any loally-trained lergy who have served as assessors in her provine, and would like to see this hanged. She thinks assessors who know from experiene what the loal training proess is like would have better questions to ask. Though she has yet to organize her first ACPO onferene as seretary, House said she plans on talking with the bishop responsible for ACPO in her provine, Logan MMenamie, of the dioese of British Columbia, about how assessors ould be better prepared for interviewing loally-trained andidates. Conversation must ontinue Meanwhile, hanges are already underway in the elesiastial provine of Rupert s Land. Arhdeaon Catherine Harper, ACPO seretary for Rupert s Land from and o-ordinator of the Qu Appelle Shool for Mission and Ministry, said her provine has started to address onerns over ultural sensitivity. We ve had to broaden our understanding, and to look beyond Western, European understandings of ulture and ontext, Harper said. She noted that during her time as seretary, training of assessors inluded a disussion about the need to take different ultural expetations and understandings into aount when interviewing andidates. When asked whether further hanges are needed, Harper said she thinks so, but added that this should be seen as being part of ongoing debates about the Canadian Anglian theology of the priesthood in the 21st entury. With our hanging understanding [of the priesthood] I think some signifiant onversations need to happen, whih will affet ACPO whih should affet ACPO, in the way assessors are hosen and in the way assessors are prepared for the disernment that we do, she said. But despite the disussions taking plae about ACPO, Cliff, House and Harper think it is still the best framework for helping future leaders of the hurh disern their all. I think ACPO is a tool that we an reform to do the job we need doing, said Cliff. I don t think we should srap it if it an be made to work in our various ontexts. g

7 anglian journal may THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION4 Seminarians are not oming to live among our people, and they are not trained to serve in a remote, isolated little reserve. We need to look at alternative delivery of ministry. Bishop Lydia Mamakwa, Indigenous Spiritual Ministry of Mishamikoweesh photo: thomas barrat/shutterstok Priestly training a ritial need in the North André Forget photo: art babyh MIshamikoweesh Bishop Lydia Mamakwa, at General Synod 2016 photo: ontributed The Rev. Elizabeth Beardy and her husband, the Rev. Larry Beardy Training new ordained ministers is a ritial need in many Indigenous ommunities but not one traditional seminary eduation an easily fill, says Bishop Lydia Mamakwa, of the Indigenous Spiritual Ministry of Mishamikoweesh. Seminarians are not oming to live among our people, and they are not trained to serve in a remote, isolated little reserve, Mamakwa explained. We need to look at alternative delivery of ministry. Mamakwa s omments ame at a February gathering hosted by the national hurh in Niagara Falls, Ont., to disuss the future of theologial eduation in Canada. Though Mamakwa was unable to attend due to a risis in one of her ommunities, National Indigenous Anglian Bishop Mark MaDonald read a statement she had prepared outlining Mishamikoweesh s leadership training needs, and presenting possible solutions. The key hallenge, Mamakwa said, is the need to balane support and resoures from institutions and shools outside Mishamikoweesh with ensuring eduation is still run by and for Indigenous people. Sine 2003, eduation for ministry in Mishamikoweesh has taken plae through the Dr. William Winter Shool for Ministry, based in Mamakwa s home ommunity of Kingfisher Lake, in northern Ontario. Named for its founder, the late arhdeaon and elder William Winter, the shool was set up to provide training to Indigenous people in what was then the dioese of Keewatin; more than 70 people have partiipated in its Diploma in Indigenous Anglian Theology program sine its ineption. Students attend the shool for intensive two-week sessions twie a year, and work with ministers in their home ommunities for the rest of the year. The shool urrently does not have a set urriulum or offer a diploma-granting program. Teahing is done with the help of elders, and supplemented by seminary-trained eduators and instrutors teahing at seminaries in other parts of Canada. Until reently, the shool was in a partnership with the College of Emmanuel and St. Chad, in Saskatoon, whih helped provide the shool with a urriulum, teahers and, upon graduation, a diploma. This partnership ame to an end in 2011, when Emmanuel and St. Chad faed the possibility of losure. Though the ollege remains open, its relationship with Dr. William Winter Shool for Ministry has not been renewed. Mamakwa said the shool is deiding whether or not it should try to affiliate itself with a seminary. In the meantime, Wyliffe College in Toronto has agreed to provide teahing support. One of the reasons why it has not simply adapted another shool s urriulum is due to a strong onvition that it should be, in Mamakwa s words, ontrolled and run by Native people to teah Native people. Indigenous ministers, she said, fae unique hallenges, and need to be able to funtion in an environment where people suffer from additions, trauma and family dysfuntion that are part of the legay of the Indian residential shools. Moreover, in many Indigenous ommunities, she said, elders play an important leadership role, and must be part of any training program for Indigenous priests and deaons. One of the major problems faing the shool is reruitment speifially, how to reruit students interested in beoming priests, Mamakwa said in an interview. Right now, we just make [attendane] open for anyone who wants to ome, said Mamakwa. There is a high interest in people wanting to ome and study, but not neessarily seek ordination. Until reently, leaders from the shool would visit ommunities to identify potential students and enourage them to pursue studies with a view to ordination. The high ost of flying in and out of northern ommunities, however, has meant this is no longer finanially feasible. And yet, in the ultural ontext of Mishamikoweesh, spending time in ommunities and meeting potential andidates is a key part of diserning who should pursue training for the priesthood or diaonate. Mamakwa explained that in many Indigenous ommunities, people do not put themselves forward as andidates for ordination; instead, their ommunities identify them as being potential spiritual leaders. This was ertainly true for the Rev. Elizabeth Beardy, who was enouraged to attend the shool by Winter himself when he visited her home ommunity of Split Lake, northern Manitoba, shortly after the shool s ineption. She studied at Dr. William Winter Shool for Ministry from Beardy was ordained to the diaonate in She said it had never ourred to her to pursue a seminary eduation, but that she found the training provided by the shool to be of great use. In partiular, she draws on the training she reeived in ounselling when dealing with members of her ommunity struggling with spiritual or emotional issues. There is a great need of pastoral are up North, she said. Beardy said the shortage of ministers in her part of the ountry is a problem, where many ommunities have an ative hurh ommunity but no priest. Often a ommunity will have to pay travel osts for a priest from a neighbouring area to ome in and do a burial when a person dies, she said. The obstales to providing ministry training remain real, but Mamakwa is onfident the shool will find a way forward. g

8 8 anglian journal may 2017 anglian journal may FEATURE4 Hope outure: Dressing a bear an inspiring hallenge for Toronto designer photo: tali folkins Shafiq Beig, assistant prodution manager at Toronto-based Harourts, Ltd., says making a surplie, mitre and vest for Hope Bear was one of the most hallenging fashion design projets he ever undertook. Tali Folkins At the offie of Harourts, Ltd., a Toronto robe-making and tailoring ompany, a grinning assistant prodution manager Shafiq Beig is showing me one of his favourite triks. Whenever I find somebody with a grumpy fae walking around, I say, Come here! he says, holding up his ell phone. On the sreen is a photo of a light-brown teddy bear wearing a strikingly realisti-looking surplie and lerial ollar. The bear seems unperturbed by the responsibilities one might assoiate with its priestly garb, and gazes nonhalantly out of his sewed-on blak loth eyes, as if to say, What did you expet? A smile is guaranteed. I ouldn t find a single person who did not smile when they saw it, Beig says. Atually, it brings them bak to their hildhood. They beome a hild, and they smile. The vestmented stuffy is no ordinary teddy bear, but Hope Bear, masot of the Anglian Foundation of Canada s Kids Helping Kids Fund sine it was established in The Foundation sends Hope Bear to anyone making a donation of $20 or more to the fund. Originally, Hope Bear ame with just a bowtie. Over the years, however, the Foundation has been developing outfits for the herished teddy, inluding a roheted baptismal dress, pyjamas (blue or pink), a rainbow sarf, and a military uniform. Two or three years ago, the Foundation started reeiving requests for bears deked out in lerial garb, as gifts for the newly ordained. Foundation exeutive diretor Canon Judy Rois knew where to go. She d had all her lerial vestments made by Harourts (or a ompany later aquired by it), many of them by Beig himself, and she knew his passion and drive for perfetion. There was nobody else, really, that I wanted to do these, beause I knew of his raftsmanship, whih [is] outstanding, she says. You know that when you get a piee by Shafiq, it s going to be of the highest quality. For Beig, making lothing is, or should be, an art form. He laments what he sees as a worldwide trend toward ompletely manufatured, off-the-rak apparel. It is made just for ommere, not for passion and the finest art. That is dying. Beig began to learn tailoring at age nine, in his father s shop in Mathura, India, and eventually went on to study fashion design in London, U.K. He has worked at Harourts sine 1989, ontinuing to learn the raft and rising up the ranks from a minimum-wage, entry-level position. But the Hope Bear projet would turn out to be among his biggest hallenges. It was, trust me, a very diffiult task, he says. I have dressed up the finest models in fashion houses but when I started to dress up this Hope Bear, it was diffiult. It was not simply a matter of saling down; a teddy bear has proportions very different from a human being s. At the same time, the surplie had to have the same look and drape as one made for a person and it had to be sewn together on mahines not made for miniature garments. Sometimes the surplie would disappear entirely inside the mahine while being worked on, he says. Sometimes, too, the sewing proess would streth the tiny piee of material, distorting the garment s shape, and the proess would have to be started over. Beig had to make a few versions of the surplie before Rois was satisfied. Rois, he says, knew exatly what she wanted and, preisely for that reason, she was a highly motivating ustomer. Beig says her appreiation for the art fired him with extra zeal for the projet. Very few people have an eye for the finest art in this industry She knows how a garment should fit exatly. Happy with the surplie, Rois one again alled on Beig last year, when she began reeiving requests for a mitre to fit on Hope Bear s head. The mitre presented an additional hallenge reating a hat that, while retaining the look and details of the original, sits naturally on a teddy bear s fuzzy ranium, without having to be fastened down. More reently ame what Beig says was the toughest task of them all. Rois ontated him to make a blak vest for Hope Bear to wear to elebrate the Foundation s 60th anniversary this year. The lined vest features two pokets, barely large enough to admit a little finger meaning very fine stithing work for a garment small enough to disappear from the sewer s view. The gown we make for hanellors at the University of Toronto this is one of the most expensive items we sell, almost $10,000. I don t work that hard to get that gown done, Beig says with a laugh. All together, Beig estimates he s made lose to 250 Hope Bear surplies, 30 or 40 mitres, and 100 vests. He says he feels honoured and privileged to be ontributing in his own way to the work of the Foundation, whose work he admires. Beig also writes poetry, and learning about the Foundation inspired him to ompose a poem about Hope Bear, alled Bearing Hope. The onversation moves seamlessly from sewing to spirituality. Beig says he believes people need faith to experiene real peae and hope. Hope without divinity is impossible, he says. He also believes in the oexistene of religions he says he loves Christianity as muh as his own religion, Islam and in the importane of love for people s ommon humanity. Humanity ame first, before religion. We are human first, he says. You an dress up the way you want, I an eat whatever food I want, but still we an love eah other. He pauses for a moment. How simple it is. Perhaps even as simple as sharing a smile over a teddy bear in a surplie. g Anglian Foundation of Canada blossoming at 60 At this partiular moment in [the Foundation s] history, it s kind of like a springtime of fresh expression, and bursting with new opportunity and new life. Arhbishop Fred Hiltz, primate and hair of the Anglian Foundation of Canada Tali Folkins It s fitting, says Arhbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglian Churh of Canada, that the 60th anniversary of the Anglian Foundation of Canada will be elebrated this May in Vanouver. In mild Vanouver, Hiltz says, spring an be ounted on to be well established by May. And spring is what omes to his mind when he thinks of the Foundation these days. I think it s just blossoming, says Hiltz, who as primate is also hair of the Foundation. At this partiular moment in its history, it s kind of like a springtime of fresh expression, and bursting with new opportunity and new life. Over the past six years, under exeutive diretor Canon Judy Rois, the Foundation has developed a bigger heart than ever for all the ministries of the hurh, while building important relationships, raising its own profile and generally helping develop a ulture of mutual are we reeive, and therefore we give with the hurh, he says. The Foundation is evolving but evolution has been a part of its history from the beginning, the primate says. Its origins go bak to a 1954 visit by Reginald Soward, a member of the dioese of Toronto (and later hanellor of the dioese, and then of General Synod) to the Anglian Congress, an international meeting of Anglians held in Minneapolis, Minn. Soward said the meeting awoke in him a sense that the Churh as a whole had a responsibility to further the wellbeing and development of the Christian life and there were no limits of spae, aording to a Foundation newsletter released during the primay of Arhbishop Mihael Peers ( ). Sowald also disovered that The Episopal Churh had an organization for providing finanial support to ashstrapped hurhes and programs aross the ountry. He proposed a similar organization for the Anglian Churh of Canada to then-primate Arhbishop Walter Barfoot and others, inluding John Graham, registrar of General Synod, and eventually, in 1957, the Anglian Foundation of Canada was established. One of the most valuable things about the Foundation, Hiltz says, is its broad geographial reah. Board member Fiona Brownlee, who is also rural and Indigenous ommunities liaison for the dioese of Edmonton, agrees. You an t go to a part of this hurh, oast to oast to oast, and not hear a story about how the Foundation has impated the life and ministry of a partiular region of the ountry, she says. In the early days, the Foundation was foused on physial infrastruture helping hurhes fund roof repairs, installations of new bathrooms and the like. Board members say this remains an important part of its work. Arhdeaon Sarah Usher, of the dioese of the Yukon, says that in the North espeially, this work is hardly separable from funding ministry. If we don t have buildings, we don t have ministry, she says. We an t put a minister somewhere if we don t have a retory. Sometimes the need for this kind of funding is urgent. Last spring, administrators of St. Paul s Cathedral, in Kamloops, B.C., disovered the building s roof had deteriorated faster than they realized. The situation, says Dean Ken Gray, was pretty grim, with water already starting to leak through in some areas. It was lear repairs had to be done before the arrival of winter and money to support the work was needed right away. In the end, the athedral was able to raise a good part of the $90,000 needed for roof repairs from the loal ommunity and other soures, and it had some finanial reserves to draw on. But in the meantime, a $15,000 grant from the Foundation, Gray says, was vital in ensuring the work began on time. photo: ontributed Primate visits after-shool reading program. You an t go to a part of this hurh...and not hear a story about how the Foundation has impated the life and ministry of a partiular region of the ountry. Fiona Brownlee, board member photo: the rev. franis delaplain St. Andrew s Anglian Churh, Hay River, N.W.T. The Foundation grant meant that [work] ould proeed in 2016, whih had to happen, Gray says. Over the deades, the Foundation has branhed out into funding diverse kinds of photo: george zorn Students work on the Sorrento Centre Farm, B.C. photo: petr maur An Anglian Foundation grant helps improve lighting and labyrinth at St. Luke s, Ottawa. photo: matthew gardner Indigenous Anglian youth at Sared Cirle 2015 ministry and supported haritable work whose value goes beyond briks and mortar. Board member the Rev. Alex Faseruk, emeritus professor of business administration at Newfoundland s Memorial University, says one of the most moving examples of Foundation-supported organizations is Roger Neilson House, an Ottawa hospie for terminally ill hildren. A visit he undertook with Rois left them both emotionally overwhelmed. The dignity with whih the hildren went through their final journey in this lifetime and how they would prepare the family It just hoked us up phenomenally, Faseruk says. The Foundation has established a Sared Arts Trust for musi and other art ministry, for example, and funds, among many other things, amping programs, emergeny medial travel osts and hospie are for hildren, theologial studies, and Indigenous ministry. The Foundation is funded entirely by donations from individuals, parishes and dioeses. Its hallenge, Brownlee says, is to ontinue to build its donor base. We atually enjoy giving away money, but we an t do that unless we re supported, she says. Rois agrees. A lot of Canadian Anglians think that the Anglian Foundation is a bank with a big aount, and it is that only inasmuh as people donate to it, she says. That s why we re pushing out the message that donors matter a lot. This means raising awareness. I don t think a lot of people in the pew even understand what the Anglian Foundation does, says Usher. I think that s one of our biggest hallenges getting it out to the population that this is a really, really wonderful program within our hurh. To this end, Rois says, the Foundation is trying to get its message out in a variety of ways, from running stories in dioesan papers, to soial media, to giving talks aross the ountry a hallenge she says she enjoys. If an Anglian doesn t know about the Foundation, it just gives me an opportunity to tell them, she says. g photo: martin knowles A textile exhibit fousing on spiritual themes will kik off the Anglian Foundation s anniversary elebration at Christ Churh Cathedral, Vanouver, where this Creation quilt by Paul Krampitz is on permanent display. Euharist, events, books and more to mark Foundation s anniversary Tali Folkins From a textile show to speial hoolates, the Anglian Foundation of Canada is planning to mark its 60th anniversary this year with a range of events and ommemorative materials. The Foundation s elebration of its diamond anniversary kiks off May 27 in Christ Churh Cathedral, Vanouver, with the offiial opening of (in)finite: A Canadian Textile Exhibition. The exhibition, whih runs until June 4, will fous on spiritual themes, inluding perspetives of First Nations artists and a variety of faith traditions. Among those expeted to attend the opening is Green Party leader and Anglian Elizabeth May, says AFC exeutive diretor Canon Judy Rois. An anniversary dinner featuring 60 guests, inluding Arhbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglian Churh of Canada, former primate Andrew Huthison and possibly also former primate Mihael Peers will be held that evening. Celebrations will ontinue the following day with a speial servie at the athedral, where Hiltz will preah and the athedral hoir will premiere a horal anthem speially ommissioned for the anniversary, omposed by Niholas Piper, musi diretor at St. Margaret s Anglian Churh, Vanier, Ont. An anniversary reeption in Cathedral Hall will follow. In addition to these events, the Foundation is produing a range of elebratory materials, inluding two books. Imagine That: Dreams, Hopes, and Realities Celebrating 60 Years of the Anglian Foundation of Canada, gathers together the reolletions and refletions of more than 100 AFC grant reipients over the years, replete with photographs. Another book, Children s Prayers with Hope Bear, features prayers for liturgial events, holidays and other speial times written by Rois, with waterolour illustrations by Canadian artist Mihele Nidenoff. The Foundation has also produed a video featuring grant reipients aross the ountry and a timeline, two metres long, plaing the story of the Foundation in the ontext of Canadian, world and hurh events. Hope Bear, masot of the Foundation s Kids Helping Kids Fund, has a new look for the speial year. Anniversary Hope Bear sports a blak, tailor-made vest designed by Shafiq Beig of Harourts, Ltd. (see story, pages 8 9 above) with a rimson bow tie, and omes in a limited edition of 100. The Foundation is also making available ommemorative ties and sarves, as well as small bags of artisanal hoolates bearing its logo. g

9 10 anglian journal may 2017 URBAN MINISTRY4 Churh and the ity André Forget It s one of the oldest days in Marh, and a bitter west wind whistles between the old ommunity housing bloks of Toronto s Regent Park neighbourhood, but Andrew Au and Dorothy Wong are foused on the streetsape, on the inongruity of the new developments, the rush of the streetars, the way pedestrians arefully navigate the slush and road salt on the narrow sidewalk. They re braving the elements not beause they re trying to get anywhere, but as an exerise in opening their senses to the ity around them. Au and Wong live in Sarborough. They don t visit this part of the ity often, but were drawn in by a two-day onferene on ministry in the ity o-sponsored by Wyliffe College and hosted at the headquarters of Toronto s storied Yonge Street Mission, a ouple of bloks away on Gerrard Street East. Au and Wong are members of Sarborough Chinese Baptist Churh. Au says their hurh is struggling to find ways to be engaged in its own neighbourhood, now that most of its members drive in from exurban ommunities like Rihmond Hill, Ont. How should the hurh reah out to the people who live around it, now that many of their members are not part of that ommunity? Au and Wong, followed by a small group from the onferene, turn west off Sakville onto Dundas Street East. A weary-looking Orthodox hurh shares the orner with three new ondo developments. Au says the hange visibly overtaking Regent Park reminds him of patterns of gentrifiation and inequality in Sarborough. It isn t the most typial exerise to be doing at a onferene on urban ministry, but then most urban ministry onferenes 5 L-R: Kendra Wassinik, Brian Tsang, Glen Rey, Avelina Pun, Andrew Au and Dorothy Wong take in the sights, sounds and smells of Toronto s Regent Park neighbourhood as part of the Praties of Ministry in the City onferene. photo: andré forget don t feature disussions on the unonsious impat of bakground sensory information on human pereptions of plae. Led by Mark Gornik, diretor of the Harlem-based City Seminary of New York and author of To Live in Peae: Biblial Faith and the Changing Inner City, the onferene, held Marh 13-14, was designed to offer tools to those like Au and Wong, who are looking for new approahes to doing ministry in ities. A session foused on how paying greater attention to physial senses through whih humans pereive the world yields insights that an be invaluable to ministry. Ministry in the ity begins with what we experiene as whole persons, Gornik explains to the group of over 40 Christians representing a wide range of denominations from aross Toronto. Before it is anything else a job, a role, a strategy, or a projet ministry in the ity is a prayerful way of being present to our neighbours, our families, our o-workers, our ommunity and to God. It is being present to where we are. Being mindful of the world around them, of the smells and textures of the ity and the ways those smells and textures reflet and shape the lives of the people, is one way those involved in urban ministry an approah this work more intentionally. Gornik stresses the importane of onsious praties, like walking through a neighbourhood while praying for it, as a way of using the senses to approah urban ministry. In a 2014 essay for Faith and Leadership, an online resoure for Christian leaders, Gornik notes that doing so an help Christians see hurh life intertwined with the reative and eonomi life of the ity, whih in turn allows them to identify areas where parishes an at for the betterment of the ity and its people. Being able to do ministry is really to wonder, and have a sense of wonder and imagination, he says. Whih is why he ended the session by sending the group out into the snow and slush, to wander the streets and pratise notiing and praying for the ity. In an interview with the Anglian Journal following the session, Angie Hoking, outreah program o-ordinator at the Churh of the Redeemer (Anglian) in downtown Toronto, says she found the session useful. Hoking, who has been following Gornik s work for some time, says it underlined the importane of paying attention to the physial ontext in whih ministry is done. Despite being at Redeemer for five years, she says she is still having little revelations about the plae and the people who live there, brought on by the knowledge she has aumulated over the years. You never really have a full grasp on things you have to always ontinue to tap into your senses and remember that things are hanging around us, and that we are to try to evolve and move with that, she says. g VANCOUVER4 Events suggest hope, ompassion as antidote for hate Continued from p. 1 rights. Nadwi said one benefit of the ontroversy is that it has stirred uriosity about Islam and enouraged people to learn about the religion from the right soures, not just the media. The Rev. Dan Chambers of St. Andrew s-wesley, in introduing the speakers at the hurh, suggested many people are onerned not only with reent events, but about the state of the world in general. When we onsider the ritial issues of a global nature limate hange, the widening gap between the wealthy and the not very wealthy, the rise of the threat of nulear weaponry hope flikers in the distane, said Chambers. It s no wonder that for many, despair is right outside our door, and for some it has moved into the house. How do you speak of hope in suh a way that it s not Pollyanna, that s grounded in reality and the generally possible? That hallenge was taken up by Bishop Mihael Ingham, retired bishop of the dioese of New Westminster, whose talk touhed on the theology of hope. Ingham said that biblial hope is neither passive optimism nor unrealisti wishful thinking. Quoting British Rabbi Jonathan Saks, Ingham distinguished between hope and optimism. Optimism is the belief things will get better. Hope is the faith that together 5 Audiene members meditate during a multifaith event at Or Shalom Synagogue. photo: neale adams we an make things better. Optimism is a passive virtue. Hope is an ative one. It takes no ourage to be an optimist, but it takes a great deal of ourage to have hope. Hope has an element of surrender, said Ingham. However, it is not surrender to fate or despair, but an ultimate at of trust in God. The earlier gathering at the Or Shalom Synagogue, attended by about 100 people, foused on elebrating Vanouver s religious diversity. Fifteen faith leaders spoke, sang, hanted, or in the ase of a Sufi devotee, twirled. Represented were Muslims (Sunni, Shia and Sufi), two Hindu om- munities, Baha i s, Zoroastrians, Buddhists, Quakers, Lutherans and Anglians, as well as the Jewish hosts. We are asked to be tolerant with eah other, said Firdosh Mehta of the Zoroastrian Soiety of British Columbia. But tolerane is not enough. We need to elevate the understanding of eah other for aeptane beyond tolerane aeptane based on ommon values. Bishop Melissa Skelton of the dioese of New Westminster used her opportunity to speak by reading two poems, one by Israeli poet Yehuda Amihai, whih talks about the power of love, and the other by Palestinian poet Naomi Shihab Nye, whih suggests true kindness and ompassion ome only after one deeply feels the sorrow of other people. As the evening at the synagogue losed, Rabbi Adam Stein of the Beth Israel Synagogue quoted a verse from Isaiah (56:7), whih is on the doors of his santuary: My house shall be a house of prayer for all peoples. He added: I think truly tonight this house has been a house of prayer for all peoples we have aused God, the divine, godliness to ome out in all of us, inside of us. g Neale Adams is a freelane journalist based in Vanouver.

10 anglian journal may WORLD4 PWRDF announes $50K more for East Afria Money will help provide food, water, health are to drought vitims Tali Folkins 5An estimated 16 million people in East Afria are faing famine beause of drought and, in South Sudan, war. map: armita/shutterstok The Primate s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) is ommitting another $50,000 for famine and drought relief in East Afria, the aid ageny announed Marh 14. PWRDF is making a $20,000 ontribution to the Adventist Development and Relief Ageny (ADRA) Canada through the Canadian Foodgrains Bank, an emergeny food aid ageny of whih PWRDF is a member. ADRA is urrently operating a program that provides hild-friendly spaes and shool supplies to displaed families in Juba, South Sudan. PWRDF is also pledging $30,000 to ACT Alliane, a oalition of hurh-based agenies, for drought relief in Somalia. The money will help provide food, water, sanitation, eduation, health are and livestok to people suffering from a severe drought in that ountry, PWRDF said. Four seasons of sant rain have devastated rops and livestok in that ountry, ausing many people to sell what they have and borrow food and money to survive, the ageny said. About 6.2 million Somalis now need humanitarian 5 A health worker measures the arm of a malnourished hild in a UNICEFsupported lini in Old Maiduguri, Nigeria. photo: unief/ un055937/ gilbertson aid, aording to the UN Offie for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. The funding announement follows an earlier appeal and ommitment of $50,000 PWRDF made for famine and drought relief in South Sudan and Kenya February 24. All together, an estimated 16 million people in East Afria are now faing serious hunger beause of drought and, in South Sudan, war. Donations to PWRDF s East Afria emergeny response an be made online, by phone (ontat Jennifer Brown at ext. 355; or ) or by mail. Mailed heques should be payable to PWRDF, Emergeny Response East Afria, and sent to: The Primate s World Relief and Development Fund The Anglian Churh of Canada 80 Hayden Street Toronto, Ontario M4Y 3G2. g Celebrating 60 years of generosity! imagine that DREAMS HOPES REALITIES elebrating 60 years of the anglian foundation of anada Imagine That Dreams, Hopes, and Realities Celebrating 60 Years of the Anglian Foundation of Canada Over 100 reipients tell of the transforming power of reeiving an AFC grant. Canadian Textile Exhibition (in)finite A juried exhibition of some of the most exquisite Canadian fibre and textile art onneting artists with their spirituality. Christ Churh Cathedral, Vanouver, BC Offiial Opening: May 27, 5:00 7:00 pm There s more! A beautiful horal anthem on the theme of thankfulness for parish hoirs. AFC Historial Timeline offering the opportunity to learn about the generosity of Canadian Anglians sine Perfet for display in parishes. Request imagine for Proposals Four one-time grants of up t what you ould do with $15,000 to $15,000 will be given to a parish or dioese within the Anglian Churh of Canada to enhane and transform parish ministry. Submission deadline: September 1. Children s Prayers with Hope Bear Sensitively written and beautifully illustrated prayers for liturgial seasons, holidays, and speial moments in a hild s life. $15 eah. Available May. Anniversary Bear Hope Bear has not passed up an opportunity to get all dressed up in a tailor-made vest and snazzy bow tie. $60 eah. Limited edition of 100 bears with outfit. Children s Prayers with Hope Bear Text by Judy Rois Illustrations by Mihele Nidenoff THE ANGLICAN FOUNDATION OF CANADA 80 Hayden Street, Toronto, ON M4Y 3G2 (416) x244 foundation@anglianfoundation.org

11 12 anglian journal may 2017 CANADA4 ARTS AND CULTURE4 MOVIE REVIEW THE SHACK Direted by Stuart Hazeldine 132 minutes Released Marh 2017 Rated PG-13. Not suitable for young hildren Parishes pledge to give it up for the Earth André Forget In a twist on the traditional pratie of giving something up for Lent, Anglians aross Canada pledged to make personal lifestyle hanges to redue greenhouse gas emissions and hallenged the federal government to math them by pursuing poliy hanges to fight limate hange. Fourteen Anglian hurhes partiipated in Give it up for the Earth!, a Lenten ampaign organized by Citizens for Publi Justie (CPJ), a national faith-based organization lobbying for a greater emphasis on justie in Canadian publi poliy, to inrease limate justie in Canada. The ampaign enouraged partiipants to use a postard or an online pledge form to indiate something they are personally ommitting to giving up for Lent (Marh 1 to April 13), and hallenge the government to address limate hange. For example, individuals ould pledge to ommute by foot, biyle, transit or arpooling to ut down on fuel use, or redue their meat intake, and ask the government to eliminate fossil fuel subsidies and provide retraining for laid-off energy workers. The postards and online forms were addressed to Catherine MKenna, minister for environment and limate hange, and were to be delivered by CPJ during a losing event in April. For some of the Anglian hurhes involved, the issue of limate hange hits lose to home. For example, the parishioners at St. Mary with St. Mark Anglian Churh in Mayo, Yukon, are urrently trying to shore up the foundation of their building, whih is in danger of ollapsing due to melting permafrost. Valerie Maier, who serves as a liensed lay minister at St. Mary with St. Mark with her husband, Charles, said she thought By John Arkelian THE SHACK is the film adaptation of the novel by William Paul Young about a man who is striken with grievous pain over the sudden loss of his hild. He desends into what he alls The Great Sadness, and its dark pall threatens to unravel his family and his faith. How an we reonile the worst things in life with our faith in a loving God? Life inevitably brings with it bitter losses: they ause us pain, and sometimes it feels unbearable. It s bad enough if illness or aident steals a loved one from us; but what if human evil does so? It s a question as old as man s inhumanity to man, a question that was doubtless murmured in the death amps of the Holoaust, in the killing fields of Cambodia, Rwanda and Bosnia, and in the misery of today s Syria, Iraq, Yemen and South Sudan. And not just in faraway lands: violene, abuse and neglet are as lose as our own ommunities. Wherever man s wikedness auses torment, enslavement, injury or death to another, we ry out: how an God allow this? Why does he not intervene on behalf of the oppressed and vitimized? 5 Climate hange indues permafrost melting, endangering the foundation of St. Mary with St. Mark Anglian Churh in Mayo, Yukon, say parishioners. photo: st. mary with st. mark anglian hurh In The Shak, a family is robbed of their youngest daughter when she is taken from a ampground. The pain that her disappearane auses her family loses them off from love and hope. As the hild s father, Makenzie (Sam Worthington) blames himself for failing to protet her, a rypti note draws him bak to the mountain shak, where the rime ourred. The note is signed Papa, the affetionate term Makenzie s wife, Nan (Radha Mithell), uses to refer the CPJ projet was a good ause to take up for Lent beause of the importane the land holds for her ommunity, whih is predominantly Indigenous. As a ontribution, Maier said the parish stopped using disposable plasti utlery, bowls, plates and ups. I just thought that this was something that we ould take seriously during Lent, something to do that would be a bit of a sarifie for eah person, but also had a bigger effet, she said. Loal onerns also fired the engagement of the Anglian parish of Fenelon Falls and Coboonk, in the Kawartha Lakes region of the dioese of Toronto. The Rev. Susan Spier, inumbent priest at the parish, said she wanted to get involved in the projet due to environmental pressures on the Kawartha Lakes system. Spier said she wasn t qualified to omment on the relationship between these pressures and limate hange, and so she wanted to use the Lenten projet as an opportunity to bring speakers into her ommunity who an talk about the matter Fae-to-fae with the Triune God photo: lionsgate films Sam Worthington stars as Mak Phillips, and Otavia Spener as Papa. to God. Something is it a glimmer of hope or the last gasp of despair? takes Makenzie bak to the mountain. Winter suddenly turns to summer, a dilapidated ruin beomes a spaious home made of hewn logs and nature is in full bloom. There he meets Papa, in the form of a jolly blak woman (Otavia Spener); her son (Avraham Aviv Alush), a Jewish arpenter who greets the newomer as a long-lost friend; and an ethereal young woman (Sumire Matsubara). with more authority. She also liked that the projet gave people a hane to feel they are onretely partiipating in a solution. For her own Lenten pratie, she drastially redued her meat intake and tried to eat only loal and sustainably grown and harvested foods. [Climate hange] seems like a huge, overwhelming hallenge, and nobody knows quite what to do, she said. I was interested in fousing people s attention on what they an do, [with] respet to limate hange. For others, the impetus for getting involved was onern over the role of limate hange in exaerbating global poverty. The Rev. Heather Karabelas, a deaon at St. Mary s Anglian Churh in East Kelowna, dioese of Kootenay, said she deided to get her parish involved out of onern for how limate hange is making the lives of people in developing ountries more vulnerable. People living in poverty are dependent on the natural resoures in their areas, and they don t have muh ability to ope with limate varianes, said Karabelas, who ommitted to eliminating meat from her diet and driving less. She also sees the ampaign as being part of her voation as a deaon. The diaonate is supposed to stir up the hurh and turn its fous to serve God in the world, she said. I thought this was an easy, simple way to get people involved in looking at how limate hange is affeting poverty and hunger. Lent provides us spae to reflet and refous, tune in to our Christian alling, and renew our ommitment to God, said Karri Munn-Venn, senior poliy analyst for CPJ, in a Marh 6 press release. g They are, in fat, the film s depition of the Holy Trinity Father, Son and Holy Spirit. And their purpose is to help Makenzie free himself from the sadness, anger, guilt and grief that threaten to drown him. Their revelations are as gentle as their welome is warm. How refreshing to see God presented as our loving parent (and, through Jesus Christ, also as our sibling) a parent who loves eah and every one of us unonditionally, respeting our free will while seeking to share his love. The film asks why bad things happen to good people. Its answers to that mystery may not be omplete. Neither may its homey portrayal of God be all there is about God: majesty, awe and reverene are put aside in favour of ompanionship and the ultimate familial bond. But there is food for thought here, and onsiderable omfort in bringing God down to earth in a way that makes him aessible and familiar. The film s awkward moments pale in omparison to its touhing ones and in its warm depition of the God of love. g John Arkelian is an award-winning author and journalist. Copyright 2017 by John Arkelian.

12 anglian journal Taxing faith groups will result in eonomi defiit TORONTO4 Continued from p. 1 to gauge the measureable impat faith ommunities an bring in the form of everything from ommunity garden plots to ounselling servies. An initial pilot study looked at 10 Toronto ongregations eight Protestant and two Muslim; sine then, the study has been widened to over 25 ongregations of various faith traditions. The pilot study found a total halo effet of $45 million per year for the 10 ongregations a onsiderable sum, Wood Daly said, given these 10 make up only a small fration of Toronto s faith ommunities. Can you imagine if we multiplied that by more than a thousand ongregations [to approximate the total] that are in the ity of Toronto, what it would ost the ity of Toronto to even begin to replae some of those programs and servies? he said. For the 25 ongregations, the total halo effet ame to $73 million, aording to the study. images: mhatzapa/ shutterstok Blak-and-white The Halo Canada Projet found that 25 Toronto ongregations benefit their loal ommunities to the tune of $73 million per year, Mike Wood Daly, the projet s researh lead, tells a Toronto interfaith forum Marh 11. Spot Colour Could this be your next ministry? St. Andrew s College, a theologial ollege of The United Churh of Canada, invites appliations for Prinipal, beginning July 1, We are a vibrant, eumenial, justie-seeking, inlusive ommunity; the role provides theologial vision and institutional leadership to the College. Reversed See for full details. Apply by June 9, 2017 Reversed StA-AnglianJournal-4x2.4-Marh 2017.indd :44 PM photo: tali folkins Halo then looked at how governments would benefit if faith ommunities were taxed, and found that this amounted to only a fration of the finanial benefit they bring. For example, Wood Daly said, one ongregation in Toronto s Bloor and Yonge area was found to have a halo effet of about $1.5 million; if governments eliminated tax exemptions property tax, rebates to sales tax and personal tax redits to donors to faith ommunities, they would get about $366,000 from the same Unique and Enrihing Travel Experienes Inlusive Esorted Journeys Diverse Destinations Romanian Heritage September 20, Days From $2,995pp land only Heart of Europe Vienna, Prague, Budapest and Salzburg Otober 4, Days From $3,875pp land only Alpine Beauty Hiking the Austrian and German Alps Otober 14, Days From $3,745pp land only Hill Towns of Tusany and Umbria Otober 15, Days From $4,495pp land only Bible Readings June 2017 soure: anadian bible soiet. used with permission DAY READING Numbers Numbers John Ats Psalm Psalm Matthew Corinthians Ats Matthew Matthew Genesis Genesis Genesis Genesis DAY READING Genesis Matthew Proverbs Romans Psalm Matthew Jeremiah Matthew Luke Psalm Psalm Psalm Timothy John Jeremiah Pries listed are based on double oupany in twin or twin share aommodations and inlude all taxes and fees. Single rates and airfare is available from most Canadian gateways. Contat Craig Travel for full details journeys@raigtravel.om 1092 Mt. Pleasant Road, Toronto, ON M4P 2M6 13 ongregation. The findings suggest, he said, that taxing faith ommunities would be of questionable benefit to soiety. It s a pretty signifiant differene if we didn t have that haritable tax privilege, we would be hard-pressed to ontinue to serve the ommunities in the same way, and yet our ommunities would ultimately be reeiving an eonomi defiit beause of our inability or our inapaity to perform and to serve in many of the same ways that we do now, he said. One pratial use of the Halo researh, he said, might be to ounter arguments in favour of taxing faith ommunities. Hopefully, one of the benefits of doing a study like this is that we an use it in advoay beause there is a pretty strong lobby at present to redue or eliminate the haritable tax status, he said. In an interview, Wood Daly said he knew of at least one muniipality Langley, B.C. in whih reduing an exemption on property tax for faith ommunities has already been proposed. The motion failed after a protest against it by religious and seular ommunity groups. One of the protestors, the Rev. Paula Porter-Leggett, of St. Andrew s Anglian Churh, told a loal newspaper the hurh would have had to lose its doors if the motion had passed. g EXPERIENCE OUR WORLD Magial Azores Islands September 20, Days From $3,385pp land only Anniversary Bear is here! may 2017

13 14 anglian journal may 2017 OBITUARY4 Terene Finlay, 79, joyful...and deeply faithful photo: general synod arhives Arhbishop Terene Finlay will be remembered for his happy spirit and his engaging, onsultative style of leadership, says Arhbishop Colin Johnson of the dioese of Toronto. Tali Folkins Terene Finlay, who served as bishop of the dioese of Toronto and metropolitan of the elesiastial provine of Ontario from , died Marh 20. He was 79. I admired him. I learned muh from him. I was enouraged by him. I was hallenged by him, Arhbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglian Churh of Canada, said in a statement. There was about him a genuineness, a modesty, and a holiness that enrihed my life and so many others, too. Among Finlay s gifts, Hiltz said, was his talent for enabling differently-minded people to speak and listen to eah other respetfully. Arhbishop Colin Johnson, bishop of the dioese of Toronto and metropolitan of the provine of Ontario, said that among the things he would miss most about Finlay were his smile and laughter. Essentially, right at the heart of things, he was a joyful, hopeful, happy person, and deeply faithful. Johnson also praised Finlay s engaging, onsultative leadership style. Finlay served, after his retirement, as haplain to the House of Bishops, episopal visitor to the Mission to Seafarers in Canada and primate s envoy on residential shools to the Truth and Reoniliation Commission. He o-haired the Primate s Commission on Disovery, Reoniliation and Justie, a body formed to identify ways for the hurh to put into pratie its 2010 repudiation of the Dotrine of Disovery. National Indigenous Anglian Bishop Mark MaDonald said Finlay brought so muh to the work of reoniliation: his pastoral love was obvious in the earnest way he engaged honestly with the hurt and pain of olonialism. Finlay made headlines in 1991 when he fired the Rev. Jim Ferry, a priest in the dioese of Toronto, after learning he was in a samesex relationship. Years later, Finlay said he ame to regret his deision, and in 2012 he and Ferry were reoniled at a speial servie. In 2006, Finlay married two lesbian friends. He was offiially reprimanded, and his liene to offiiate at marriages was temporarily suspended. Born in London, Ont., in 1937, Finlay was ordained a deaon in 1961 a priest the following year. He served hurhes in the dioeses of Huron and Toronto. g EDUCATION DIRECTORY HAVERGAL COLLEGE Toronto Havergal College has been preparing young women to make a differene sine Founded on Anglian values and traditions, the shool ommunity gathers with the Chaplain for Morning Prayers three times weekly. A speial highlight is our traditional Carol Servie held at St. Paul s Anglian Churh, the shool s original parish. Today Havergal girls develop into extraordinary young women with inquiring minds, global apability and self-awareness. They are enouraged to investigate and explore the world around them while disovering their own unique apabilities. As Old Girls, they will join our proud ontinuum of 9,500 alumnae who are networked to eah other and the world. To learn more about the Havergal differene, visit or ontat the Admission Offie at (416) or admissions@havergal.on.a. TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL, Port Hope Established in 1865, TCS is one of Canada s oldest and most respeted eduational institutions. The Shool plaes a balaned emphasis on aademis, servie learning, athletis and the arts as both a long-held TCS tradition and a rethought, reinvigorated approah to 21st entury eduation. TCS, a aring and supportive eduational ommunity, exists to prepare young men and women to thrive in university and beyond. This ommunity values developing habits of the heart and mind and ontinues the tradition of beginning eah day with a hapel servie before heading off to lasses. Our supportive and lose-knit ommunity of students, parents, alumni, staff and friends make the Shool on the Hill a truly speial plae. To set up a visit or obtain more information, please ontat the Admissions Offie at (905) or admissions@ts.on.a Website: THE CENTRE FOR CHRISTIAN STUDIES is a national theologial shool of the Anglian and United Churhes offering ommunity based eduation. CCS offers two-week Leadership Development Modules, and year-long ertifiate programs in Pastoral Care, Eduation and Soial Justie Ministry, preparing people for lay, diaonal and related ministries. CCS is ommitted to a theology of justie and to ontextual eduation. Students at CCS learn through integration of experiene and aademis, intentional ommunity building and personal growth and transformation. For more information about the Centre for Christian Studies please visit our website at or all us at (204) ATLANTIC SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY, an eumenial university serving Christ s mission, ultivates exellene in graduate-level theologial eduation and researh, reative and faithful formation for lay and ordained ministries, and understanding among ommunities of faith. Courses are offered both on ampus and online. AST is fully aredited by the Assoiation of Theologial Shools (ATS) in Canada and the US. Program offerings inlude: Master of Divinity degree (honors, on-ampus, and summer distane options), Master of Arts (Theology and Religious Studies) degree, Graduate Certifiate in Theologial Studies, Adult Eduation Certifiate intheologial Studies, and Diploma in Youth Ministry. AST is loated in Halifax, Nova Sotia, and failities inlude a student residene, a hapel, and a library with over 86,000 volumes. Aademi Department telephone: (902) , aademioffie@astheology.ns.a. website: COLLEGE OF EMMANUEL AND ST. CHAD Founded in 1879 as the first university in northwestern Canada, Emmanuel & St. Chad offers a hallenging theologial urriulum foused on Anglian foundations, depth of Bible study, and solid ommunity formation for strong ongregational leadership in a hanging world. Be part of the only eumenial theologial shool in Canada where Anglians, Lutherans and United Churh partners study and worship together on the same ampus. Degrees offered: B.Th., L.Th., S.T.M., M.T.S., M.Div., and D.Min. Prinipal: Rev. Dr. Iain Luke Contat: Lisa MInnis, Registrar 114 Seminary Cresent Saskatoon, SK., S7N 0X3 Phone: (306) Fax: (306) es.registrar@usask.a HURON UNIVERSITY COLLEGE Huron University College is an Anglian University and the founding ollege of Western University in London, ON. Sine 1863, Huron graduates have gone on to be leaders in Canada and around the world in the hurh, eduation, business, politis, non-profit organizations and more. Huron offers BA programs in Theology, Global Studies, Eonomis, English, Frenh, East Asia Studies, Jewish Studies, History, Management, Philosophy, Politial Siene, Psyhology, and a range of additional programs. Huron s Faulty of Theology provides the highest quality theologial eduation through its undergraduate (BTh), professional (MDiv and MTS), and graduate (MA Theology) degree programs, and through its diploma (LTh) and ontinuing eduation programs. Huron s 1100 students are supported in ative learning with dediated professors who engage, hallenge, and hampion students within a lose-knit and diverse ommunity. With full aess to the resoures of Western, a major researh university, Huron offers the best of both worlds. To arrange a visit or for more information please ontat: Dean of Theology 1349 Western Rd., London, ON N6G 1H3 srie@uwo.a Phone: (519) x289 MONTREAL DIOCESAN THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE, affiliated with MGILL UNIVERSITY and a member of the eumenial MONTREAL SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY, is a ommunity of sholars and ministers offering programs designed to help students develop theologial depth, grow in spiritual maturity and exerise pastoral leadership. Programs lead to L.Th., B.Th., Dip.Min. and M.Div. L.Th. may be ombined with distane eduation. Certifiate in Theology available through home study. Advaned degrees (S.T.M., M.A., Ph.D.) offered through MGill. Loated in downtown Montreal. For information, please ontat : The Prinipal, 3473 University St., Montreal, Quebe H3A 2A8. (514) QUEEN S COLLEGE More than aademis. More than ommunity. Queen s College offers students the opportunity to integrate knowledge, skills and experiene with personal spirituality in preparation for a life of faith. Situated on the ampus of Memorial University, St. John s, NL, we are a degree granting institution and an assoiate member of the Assoiation of Theologial Shools offering programs in M.Div., M.T.S., B.Th., B.Th. (by distane), A.Th. (by distane) as well as Diplomas in Theology and Ministry, Pastoral Care, and Youth Ministry. To learn more about this unique eduational experiene ontat The Provost, Queen s College Faulty of Theology, 210 Prine Philip Drive, St. John s, NL, A1B 3R6, or telephone toll free or hek our website at RENISON UNIVERSITY COLLEGE is loated in the thriving ity of Waterloo and affiliated with the University of Waterloo. Rooted in Anglian tradition, our students experiene an unparalleled level of support via our Chaplain, our safe and inlusive residene ommunity, and a fulltime soial worker exlusively for Renison students. Explore your faith with our lay ministry ourses or prepare to help others with our Soial Development Studies, Bahelor of Soial Work, and Master of Soial Work programs. Website: renison@uwaterloo.a SAINT PAUL UNIVERSITY Faulty of Theology ANGLICAN STUDIES PROGRAM Do you want to beome an effetive spiritual and pastoral leader? The Master of Divinity (MDiv) at Saint Paul University may be for you. Saint Paul has been preparing Anglians for ordination for over 30 years. Students reeive foused attention on the Anglian tradition in a rih eumenial and bilingual ontext, beautifully situated in the national apital region. In addition to ourses in theology, sripture, liturgy and pastoral pratie, the program offers speialized ourses in leadership, onflit resolution, inter-religious dialogue, and ontextual theology. Fully aredited by the Assoiation of Theologial Shools, the Faulty of Theology offers not only the MDiv (Anglian Studies) and Master of Theologial Studies (MTS) but also bahelors, masters, and dotoral programs, inluding the Dotor of Ministry program. For more information, please ontat Prof. Kevin Flynn at Saint Paul University, 223 Main Street, Ottawa, ON K1S 1C4; (613) , ext. 2427/ THORNELOE UNIVERSITY Sudbury, Ontario An innovative and thriving Anglian College within Laurentian University, our Motion Piture Arts, Anient Studies, Theatre Arts, Women s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Religious Studies programs lead to Laurentian University degrees. We also offer Theology at the Bahelor s, Diploma, and Certifiate level. Programs available on ampus and by distane eduation. Call for details and a ourse alendar. 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14 Not just an Anglian, but a Christian thing anglian journal may Continued from p. 1 What began last year as an invitation from Welby and Arhbishop of York John Sentamu to the Churh of England has grown into an international and eumenial all to prayer. Last year, more than 100,000 people partiipated; 2017 is expeted to attrat a bigger rowd. When the wind of the spirit is blowing, hoist the sails and go with the wind. It s not a Churh of England thing, it s not an Anglian thing, it s a Christian thing, Welby said in remarks delivered during the launh of the prayer initiative. Communities and hurhes around the world will be gathering together to pray that their friends, families and neighbours ome to know Jesus Christ, aording to the prayer initiative s website, thykingdomome.global. The website offers resoures for various types of ativities involving prayer stations, round-the-lok prayer rooms, prayer walks and reative ideas for praying with families and young people and individuals. Partiipants are being enouraged to highlight their involvement by sharing them on soial media with the hashtag #Pledge2Pray. In a video promoting Thy Kingdom Come, Welby talked about his faith, why he s a Christian and why he s asking Christians around the world to join him in praying for more people to know Jesus Christ. He enouraged Christians to unite with anniversary WORLD photo: thykingdomome.global In 2016, more than 100,000 people from the U.K. partiipated in the 10-day prayer initiative, Thy Kingdom Come. thousands of others in praying for people to ome to faith: Jesus prayed at the Last Supper that we, those who follow him, might be one that the world might believe. We are invited to make a lasting differene in our nations and in our world, by responding to his all to find a deep unity of purpose in prayer. Welby said prayer happens when people fae a hallenge they an t meet by their own resoures. He realled a visit to a refugee amp in the Demorati Republi of Congo when he was asked to say something amid the appalling onditions. While trying to think of some pratial advie, he found himself saying: Jesus Christ is the same today, tomorrow and yesterday. He was surprised when the rowd responded by singing. It was a lesson to me the Spirit CLASSIFIEDS book opens ears and warms hearts, it s not us, it s about Jesus, he said. On a personal level, Welby said, Jesus Christ has been a faithful friend. His love has healed me and following him has been the ore point of my life. Global response to the ampaign has been overwhelming, said Emma Buhan, projet leader for the Arhbishop s Evangelism Taskfore. We ve heard from hurhes aross the world, inluding different denominations and traditions, who are all pledging to get involved from South Afria to Canada and from Brazil to Hong Kong, she said. Eah plae is organizing the time in their own way; for example, in Hong Kong, they are planning big elebrations in the athedrals and establishing a network of prayer warriors. That s the beauty of Thy Kingdom Come. Buhan expressed hope that people will be inspired to take part and be atalysts for setting up prayer events in their loal area. She noted that last year s prayer event gave people time and spae outside their normal worshipping patterns to ome loser book to God and we heard many stories of the deep impat it had on people s lives. g photo: lambeth palae Arhbishop Justin Welby London attak draws prayers By ACNS Arhbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and other hurh leaders have offered prayers for those affeted by the Marh 22 attak in Westminster, whih left four people dead and many injured. The attaker mowed down pedestrians with his ar on Westminster Bridge, then rushed at the gates in front of the Houses of Parliament, stabbing a plainlothes polieman before he was shot by armed offiers. Shortly after the attak, Welby tweeted: Deeply shoked and saddened by events in Westminster. Welby delivered a speeh in the House of Lords saying that although muh shok has been experiened, the deep values that British people share will give them the strength to persevere. He later led a prayer for London, live on Faebook. The Churh of England issued a Collet for Peae led by Arhbishop of York John Sentamu in a video. Pope Franis and General Bishop Angaelos of the Copti Orthodox Churh in the U.K. sent prayers and messages of solidarity. g ST. HUGH AND ST. EDMUND ANGLICAN CHURCH 40th Anniversary with a Servie June 25, 2017 at 11:00 a.m Goreway Drive, Mississauga, On. A Fundraising Dinner and Dane July 8, 2017 at 6:00 p.m. Verdi Convention Centre 3550 Derry Road East, Mississauga, On. 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