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Anglian Journal Sine 1875 vol. 142 no. 9 november 2016 Bishops to fous more on mission In the last number of years...the vast majority of our time...was onsumed by onversations about samesex marriage.

Barnabas is best known as a New Testament missionary, apostle and friend of St.

Barnabas is our mentor he knew how to inspire people with the message of the gospel; he knew how to ask people to support the hurh s ministry, and he knew how to thank them, said Hiltz, in an

1 Anglian Journal Sine 1875 vol. 142 no. 9 november 2016 Bishops to fous more on mission In the last number of years...the vast majority of our time...was onsumed by onversations about samesex marriage. Arhbishop Fred Hiltz, primate, Anglian Churh of Canada André Forget André Forget The saint who knew how to fundraise Mississauga, Ont. St. Barnabas is best known as a New Testament missionary, apostle and friend of St. Paul, but Arhbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglian Churh of Canada, believes he an also teah the 21st-entury hurh how to approah stewardship and fundraising. Barnabas is our mentor he knew how to inspire people with the message of the gospel; he knew how to ask people to support the hurh s ministry, and he knew how to thank them, said Hiltz, in an introdutory keynote to the Resoures for Mission s (RfM) third annual stewardship gathering held in September. Organized with a theme of Inspire! Ask! Thank!, the event brought together around 80 lergy and lay people from 27 of the Anglian Churh of Canada s 30 dioeses and territories, as well as Lutheran After three years spent in intense debate over a resolution to allow the marriage of same-sex ouples, the House of Bishops intends to shift its fous to evangelism and disipleship and mission in the next triennium, says Arhbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglian Churh of Canada, following the house s September meeting in Winnipeg. In the last number of years the vast majority of our time in meetings was onsumed by onversations about same-sex marriage, said Hiltz in an interview. And the bishops are saying, We ve just got to have a more balaned agenda. Bishop Mary Irwin-Gibson, of the dioese of Montreal, agreed, saying in an interview that the same-sex marriage debate has taken up way too muh airtime in reent years. She said she hopes the house an get on with the mission of the hurh by making it more vital and adept at See There s, p. 10 Cup of friendship photo: eileen mortimer Madeleine Qumuatuq prepares tea for dioese of Ottawa Anglians visiting Pangnirtung and Iqaluit to learn more about the dioese of the Arti and forge new relationships. See story, page 3. Mental health ministry for reservists set to launh A regiment of army reservists an soon expet to have greater aess to mental health servies with the launh this fall of a new ministry in the dioese of Edmonton. On November 10, Holy Trinity Anglian Churh in Edmonton will hold its seond Pre-Remembrane Day healing servie, an opportunity for people affeted by war to share their experienes and pray together. The servie will also inlude the inauguration of a new hurh ministry an outreah program serving the mental health and other needs of the South Alberta Light Horse, a reserve regiment of the Canadian Armed Fores. People ome bak from war, and from serving, with injuries. Sometimes you an see the injuries and sometimes you an t, says Arhdeaon Chris Pappas, retor of Holy Trinity. Our hope is to help people who ve suffered traumati stress in ombat whether it s post-traumati stress, whether it s anguish over what they did, or what they saw. Part of the reason for the ministry is the fat that sine reservists don t live on-base, mental health and other programs available to people in the Regular Fore are not as aessible to them, he says. Soldiers may also be relutant to take advantage of these servies beause of the stigma attahed to mental illness. Sometimes they re worried about their areer ending if they step forward, but it doesn t make the issue go away, Pappas says. photo: ontributed (L-R): Lt.-Col. Troy Steele, ommanding offier of the South Alberta Light Horse; Stephen Gallard, vestry liaison with Holy Trinity Anglian Churh in Edmonton; and Arhdeaon Chris Pappas, See Fundraising, p. 8 retor of Holy Trinity. See You, p. 12 PM# Please donate generously to the Anglian Journal Appeal 6 Sowing hope 7 A long road to reoniliation 15 Everyday saints

2 anglian journal november 2016 CANADA4 [The new bishops] are all deeply ommitted to renewal of the hurh and its extension in both traditional and new ways. I m really exited by that.

om/more New Indigenous Native Priest named in dioese of Toronto photo: ontributed Toronto elets first openly gay bishop A gay man living with a male partner is among three priests to have been eleted

2 2 anglian journal november 2016 CANADA4 [The new bishops] are all deeply ommitted to renewal of the hurh and its extension in both traditional and new ways. I m really exited by that. Arhbishop Colin Johnson, dioesan bishop of Toronto To aess stories exlusive to the web, go to om/more New Indigenous Native Priest named in dioese of Toronto photo: ontributed Toronto elets first openly gay bishop A gay man living with a male partner is among three priests to have been eleted suffragan or assistant bishops in the dioese of Toronto September 17. Eleted were the Rev. Risylla Walsh Shaw, Canon Kevin Robertson and Canon Jenny Andison. Arhbishop Colin Johnson, dioesan bishop, later announed that Shaw will serve the Trent-Durham area. Robertson will be the area bishop of York- Sarborough and Andison, York-Credit Valley. Bishop Peter Fenty will remain the bishop responsible for York-Simoe. Aording to an artile on the dioese of Toronto website, Robertson, who lives with his male partner, alled his eletion a histori day. He said he believed he is the first openly gay and partnered bishopelet in the dioese and perhaps even in the entire Anglian Churh of Canada. His eletion, Robertson said, together with this summer s provisional vote at General Synod to allow same-sex marriages, shows a growing aeptane of LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer) people in the hurh. I know that for some people that s a real hallenge, and for others it s the fulfillment of what they ve been hoping and praying for a very long time, he said. Robertson s eletion ame after an offiial protest was lodged against his andiday. Before the vote, the Rev. Catherine Sider-Hamilton, priest-in-harge at St. Matthew s, Riverdale, said she was onerned about the inlusion of one andidate whose lifestyle is, to the best of my knowledge, irregular aording to the teahing of the hurh regarding hastity and marriage. Johnson, however, replied that all the andidates were lergy liensed by the dioese and in good standing, and the eletion proeeded. Robertson, 45, the inumbent at Christ Churh Deer Park, in Toronto, earned a master of divinity degree from Trinity College, University of Toronto in He was ordained a priest in Walsh Shaw, the inumbent at Christ Churh Bolton, Ont., is a Métis priest and has served as the dioese s ambassador of reoniliation sine She is the grandhild of an Indian residential shool survivor. Walsh Shaw saw her eletion, also, as a sign of progress. This is a real gift from the dioese and from the Spirit, and I feel very blessed and humbled, she said. I think this is a time of great hope... It s an histori time for the dioese it s a new day for the hurh, I think. Walsh Shaw, 44, reeived a master of divinity degree from Wyliffe College in 1999 and was priested in Andison, 44, is inumbent priest at St. Clement s Churh, in Toronto. She was ordained a priest in 1999 two years after reeiving a master of divinity degree from Wyliffe. From 2010 to 2013, she served as the arhbishop s offier for mission. I just asked the people of the dioese to pray for my soul, and that I would be a bishop who is faithful to God and pastoral to everyone, she said. My passion is seeing hurhes renewed and grow and spread the love of Christ to people who have never heard it, so it will be a huge and exiting privilege to work with the laity and lergy of the dioese to help more people know the love of Jesus. Johnson said the new bishops are all deeply ommitted to renewal of the hurh and its extension in both traditional and in new ways. I'm really exited by that. g 5(L to R): Toronto s three new suffragan bishops, the Rev. Rysilla Walsh Shaw (third), Canon Jenny Andison (fifth) and Canon Kevin Robertson (ninth), pose with family members after their eletion. photo: mihael hudson What will your legay be? What will your legay be? Your animated laugh. Your appreiation of jazz musi. Your devotion to your grandhildren. Your support of your parish s Sunday shool ministry and the work of our Primate. You an help to ontinue the ministries you are passionate about. After providing for your loved ones, please remember the Anglian Churh of Canada in your will. Your gift makes a differene. For more information, please ontat: Jaqueline Bekford ext. 299 Toll-free GIFT (4438) resouresformission@national.anglian.a

anglian journal november 2016 3 Ottawa, Arti Anglians forge new bonds By Art Babyh The largest group of Ottawa Anglians to visit Iqaluit sine renowned onert pianist Angela Hewitt performed at St.

The 33 Anglians nine teenagers from four parishes along with 24 adults left Ottawa August 13 for a weeklong visit to the apital of Nunavut, as part of the general effort of the dioese of Ottawa to

Hewitt played a benefit onert at the elebration of the athedral s reopening in June 2013.

Madonnell, an aomplished organist and former hoir diretor at Christ Churh Cathedral, Ottawa.

Stephen s, Ottawa, where the visiting group was entred. St. Stephen s had fundraised enough money to ontribute $1,000 for eah teen to offset the $2,000 ost of their airfare.

3 anglian journal november Ottawa, Arti Anglians forge new bonds By Art Babyh The largest group of Ottawa Anglians to visit Iqaluit sine renowned onert pianist Angela Hewitt performed at St. Jude s Anglian Cathedral hopes their journey was just the tip of the CANADA ieberg for more suh Arti adventures. The 33 Anglians nine teenagers from four parishes along with 24 adults left Ottawa August 13 for a weeklong visit to the apital of Nunavut, as part of the general effort of the dioese of Ottawa to support the dioese of the Arti. In November 2005, an arson fire destroyed muh of St. Jude s Cathedral, prompting the northern dioese to launh a national fundraising ampaign. Hewitt played a benefit onert at the elebration of the athedral s reopening in June The idea of taking teenagers to Iqaluit to learn about the Arti and enourage friendships between Northern and Southern Anglian youth, with a plan to enourage future exhanges, originated with Franes Madonnell, an aomplished organist and former hoir diretor at Christ Churh Cathedral, Ottawa. It grew to inlude adults interested in going North and was expanded to beome a hurhto-hurh visit, with the aim of forming lasting relationships between St. Jude s Cathedral and St. Stephen s, Ottawa, where the visiting group was entred. St. Stephen s had fundraised enough money to ontribute $1,000 for eah teen to offset the $2,000 ost of their airfare. The youth themselves raised $545 through a group ar wash, money that was mathed through the dioesan youth ministry. The travellers took with them muhneeded supplies, inluding fresh vegetables and fruit for the soup kithen, long-term food for the two food banks, newborn baby lothes for the hospital, shool supplies for the shools, lothes and general toiletries to give away. First Air, the airline that flies daily between Ottawa and Iqaluit, provided a very generous baggage allowane of 180 lbs. [81.6 kg] per traveller, so between them, all the travellers arried several tons of supplies for Iqaluit, Madonnell said in a written report, a opy of whih was sent to the Anglian Journal. Dean Jonas Allooloo and others welomed the Ottawa group to St. Jude s Cathedral on the visitors first Sunday in Iqaluit, and Madonnell played the hymns on the organ at the two morning servies (English and Inuktitut). During their stay, the teenagers were billeted with four Iqaluit families, while the adults stayed at Iqaluit s Frobisher Inn. The teens helped loal youth organize and o-ordinate workshops at the Iqaluit musi day amp, whih gives hildren a hane to engage in musial ativities. The day amp was started by musi teaher Darlene Nuqingaq in 1996, and she has operated it ever sine. She is the most amazing person, said Madonnell. At the end of their day amp experiene, all the teenagers involved had made lasting friendships and exhanged addresses, with the idea of staying in touh over the winter, Madonnell said. It is foreseen that some of the Iqaluit teenagers will be brought to Ottawa for a return visit in the summer of As the teens were assisting with the day amp, adults worked at the loal soup kithen and food bank, and helped prepare lunhes at the day amp. They also toured the area and took a daylong exursion to the Inuit hamlet of Pangnirtung. Loal ativities were planned for eah evening of the visit and inluded a barbeue, square daning and a final onert in Nakasuk Shool, where the day amp is loated. The 153 hildren who partiipated in the day amp workshops performed the musi eah of their groups had prepared. The town audiene inluded a great many (in)finite: 5(Top, left): Mary Attwell of St. Thomas Anglian Churh, Stittsville, with Dean Jonas Allooloo of St. Jude s Cathedral. (Top, right): Admiring the work of loal Inuit artists in Pangnirtung. (Bottom, left and right): Youth from Ottawa and Iqaulit promise to stay in touh; delegation at the airport. photos: eileen mortimer, sharon fleming Inuit elders who were gladdened to see the hildren of Nunavut learning to maintain their own ulture, said Madonnell. Madonnell observed that while there was no shortage of musial instruments, most hildren didn t have ases to store them. They would like to be able to take their guitars home from shool to pratise, and so the next step will be for St. Stephen s to try to find empty guitar ases to ship North, she said. (If you have any available guitar ases to donate, ontat Franes Madonnell at fbmadonnell@sympatio.a) photo: walter zimmerman Campers enjoy some outdoor ativities exploring the finite limitations of humanity and the ineffable, infinite nature of the divine. A juried exhibition inviting artists working in fibre media to submit artwork that: onnets the artist with their spirituality. is designed for mediation, personal devotion, ommunity prayer or publi worship. The exhibition will inlude perspetives from First Nations. Other highlights from the trip inluded worshipping several times at the newly rebuilt St. Jude s Cathedral; touring Nunavut s legislature, whih featured a narwhal-tusk mae, loal arving and embroidery; taking part in throat-singing; visiting Iqaluit s hospital; and waking up at 4 a.m. to wath the sunrise with a full moon still in the sky. g Art Babyh is a freelane journalist in Ottawa. Canadian Textile Juried Exhibition May 25 to June 4, 2017 Christ Churh Cathedral, Vanouver, BC

4 anglian journal november 2016 EDITORIAL4 A plae of sober seond thought Marites N.

Eleted by their provinial auuses at last summer s General Synod, a majority of them are fresh faes only about five of the 27 (exluding seven offiers of General Synod) have served the ounil in the

The infusion of new blood in any organization is generally seen as a good thing, ripe with promise of alternative ideas and infetious energy.

4 4 anglian journal november 2016 EDITORIAL4 A plae of sober seond thought Marites N. Sison editor THIS MONTH, the new members of Counil of General Synod (CoGS) who will help govern the hurh for the triennium meet for the first time. Eleted by their provinial auuses at last summer s General Synod, a majority of them are fresh faes only about five of the 27 (exluding seven offiers of General Synod) have served the ounil in the previous triennium or in reent years. This is an exiting development. The infusion of new blood in any organization is generally seen as a good thing, ripe with promise of alternative ideas and infetious energy. The arrival of new, reative thinkers/doers, for instane, an help shake things up and pave the way for meaningful, benefiial hange. No matter how smoothly an organization has been running, there should always be room for growth. It is equally valid, of ourse, to argue that having a fresh slate does not always yield positive returns. There are many fators to onsider among them, the willingness of the newbies to do their homework, in terms of learning about their role, the funtion of the organization they are serving, the issues it deals with and the 5New CoGS members will be given an orientation, but in the end, it will be up to eah of them to make hoies about how muh they are willing to partiipate. image: browndog studios/ proesses in plae for addressing these. While a volunteer position, being a member of CoGS is nonetheless a privilege that arries a huge responsibility. CoGS governs the hurh between meetings of General Synod, and it is one of the plaes where important deisions about the life of the hurh are made, inluding its spiritual and finanial health. From day one, CoGS members will be given an orientation, but in the end, it will be up to eah of them to make hoies about how muh they are willing to partiipate. One hopes they will remember that they have been eleted not simply to sit through disussions or at as a rubber stamp when deisions need to be made. Newbies (and it goes without saying, even veterans) must be willing to step up and offer ideas, seek larifiation and yes, ask the hard questions and respetfully disagree when neessary about matters requiring their approval, no matter how perfuntory they may seem. Like Canada s Senate, and General Synod, for that matter, CoGS must be a plae of sober seond thought. It is not that the deisions they will be asked to make are questionable in and of themselves, but they will be more solid and have great integrity if they have passed the test of due diligene. Of ourse, one always has a reasonable expetation that a hurh behaves more morally and more ethially than most institutions. Historially, however, suh has not always been the ase with religious institutions, in Canada and around the world, and it is preisely for this reason that this hurh has hosen to be more open and demorati than most and to offer heks and balanes. One hopes that CoGS will uphold this ideal of transpareny and aountability at all times. This extends to granting the Anglian Journal unimpeded aess and thinking twie about in-amera meetings. As a Journal editorial written in 2002 noted suintly, when Journal staff are asked to leave so that information an be reeived in serey, it is the members of the hurh who are ejeted; the parishioners, the people in the pew whose finanial and moral support is sought at other times, are thus exluded. Transpareny and aountability are partiularly ruial at this time when the hurh is faed with divisiveness over the issue of same-sex marriage. Canadian Anglians are looking at their hurh for larity, honesty and for ourageous leadership on this and many other ritial issues of the day. g tsison@national.anglian.a LETTERS4 Corretion The artile Ottawa Anglian plans Christian ohousing projet for seniors (Otober 2016, p.1, ont d on p. 7) inluded an inorret website link the orret address is ottawaohousing. a image: vitor brave/ Confusion reigns Trying to make some sense of the September issue was impossible. We had the same-sex marriage motion passed by one vote after a reversal. Those who were not in favour deided to make a big show of it by walking out. It was like a hild saying, If you do not agree with me, I am taking my marbles and going home. Demoray does not ount. My views are orret and everyone else is wrong. Unfortunately, the dissenters live in Canada, and same-sex relationships are the law of the land. Maybe the dissenters would be happier moving to Texas. Seeing the fae of Jordan Sandrok, before the seond vote was taken, broke my heart. All this talk about love quikly went up in smoke. The deision on assisted dying was mired in onfusion (Report neutral on assisted dying issue, p. 1). Canon Eri Beresford, who wrote the Care of Dying report for the Anglian hurh, said that anyone who thinks [the hurh] is in favour of physiian-assisted dying has ompletely misread the report. This does not sound very neutral to me. In reading both exellent artiles, the main problem in my humble opinion is that the leadership is trying to please everyone, whih is nonsensial. The onfusion around the taking of votes, whih wasn t even done orretly, added further anguish. I have never been to a synod, and hope I never do, beause it sounds like an absolute horror. Graham Wright Vitoria Beah, N.S. Please explain Over the years I have been reading the Anglian Journal and I m wondering why there has never been an explanation of how the hurh moved from disapproval to moderated approval of same-sex marriages. This ould have been done, and ould be done, on a single page, by a single bishop or theologian. And the opposite ould be expressed on another page. Instead, we are asked to go online and wade through a diffiult exposition, whih, though I am in agreement with it, I do not believe fits the bill. Canon Gavin White Fife, Sotland Piture Your Faith Photo illustrating Light submitted by Nigel Salway image: denk reative/ Do you have photographs that illustrate Goodness? We invite you to share them by sending to Piture Your Faith, our monthly online feature. Deadline for submissions is November 24. Please send them by to pitureyourfaith@gmail.om. EDITOR: Marites N. 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COME AND SEE4 Entertaining angels unawares By Fred J.

During a reent visit in Corner Brook (dioese of Western Newfoundland), Dean Baxter Park told me of how the Cathedral of St.

On a old winter night in February, they welomed the Almaidami family mother, father and two young hildren. By trade, the father is a barber.

5 COME AND SEE4 Entertaining angels unawares By Fred J. Hiltz MANY ARE THE stories of parishes throughout our beloved hurh that have welomed hundreds of refugees and helped them settle into a new life in Canada. During a reent visit in Corner Brook (dioese of Western Newfoundland), Dean Baxter Park told me of how the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist ongregation raised the funds to sponsor a Syrian family, and found and ompletely furnished a house. On a old winter night in February, they welomed the Almaidami family mother, father and two young hildren. By trade, the father is a barber. With support from parishioners with good onnetions in the ommunity, it was not long before he was able to begin work. He now has his driver s image: olena ambrosova/ liene and is doing very well. The whole family is learning English. One of their teahers is Ruth. She is a very devoted member of the athedral ongregation and supportive of all its outreah ministries. When her spouse who had been in long-term are for several years died she was absolutely lost. And then, in the midst of her grief, this opportunity to teah English emerged. Ruth says she annot say enough about the deep joy and enrihment that this involvement with the Almaidamis has brought her. She has ome to love them all, and they her. Indeed, for the hildren she has beome their grandmother in Canada. With great delight, Baxter told me the very first word that the 14-month-old spoke was Ruth. That, he said is the anglian journal november God s truth. Ruth has given this family so muh happiness, so muh hope, so muh new life. And perhaps unbeknownst to them, they have given all the same gifts to her. Their life is hanged forever, and so is hers. Here is a lovely story reminding us that in extending hospitality to strangers, we may well indeed be entertaining angels unawares (Hebrews 13:2). Insomuh as many would say Ruth has been an angel to the Almaidami family, they have all, in their own unique ways, been angels to her. For the mystery and beauty of their giftedness one to another, may God be praised! g Arhbishop Fred Hiltz is primate of the Anglian Churh of Canada. WALKING TOGETHER4 image: larissa shitkova/ Finding our hidden humanity By Mark MaDonald GOD HAS PLACED muh of our true and full humanity in eah and every heart. But we only begin to find it there. God hides fragments of our true and full humanity in other plaes. This is probably easiest to see in relationship to our family and friends. We are human without them, but not fully so. They make us more human. You an say that God has plaed a fragment of your true and full humanity in the hearts of your loved ones. But the Bible tells us there is more. We are not fully human by ourselves; we are not fully human just with our family and friends. God hides fragments of our humanity in other plaes, as well. We are not fully human without God s Creation. God has hidden part of our true nature there. Sripture tells us that God has plaed fragments of our humanity in the poor and marginalized. We an even say that a fragment of our humanity is in our enemy. Without forgiveness of those who wrong us, we annot reeive the fullness of what we are; we annot beome the fullness of what God alls us to be. Jesus united in himself the fragments of our lost humanity, in his life, in his death, in his resurretion. Now he plaes those fragments in the saraments and, in a saramental way, in reation and humanity, imploring us to find our true selves, not only in our own hearts, but in the lives of others. g Bishop Mark MaDonald is national Indigenous bishop of the Anglian Churh of Canada. LETTERS4 image: browndog studios/ 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. Curiouser and uriouser I just reeived your September issue. How urious that after the vote was taken and it was delared that the motion had been defeated, it was disovered that Arhdeaon Mihael Thompson s vote had not been ounted (Same-sex marriage motion passes, p. 1). Even more urious is [that] his one vote provided the neessary two-thirds majority needed to pass the motion. The uriosity heightens when the Rev. Danny Whitehead, Arhdeaon Pierre Voyer and Ruth Sheeran all state that their votes were not ounted. However, their votes were not inluded in the final ount of 52. Having learned that the magi number of 52 had been reahed, was it deided that their votes were not needed? It was reported that a dazed Arhbishop Fred Hiltz announed the results to the house filled with a rumble of whispers. The arhbishop an rest assured that he is not the only one who is dazed. He reminded the synod that the motion must be passed at two onseutive meetings of General Synod in order to be enated. It s a done deal. Why wait until 2019? If demoray was indeed a tenet of the hurh, eah parish would have a meeting to vote on this issue. Aubrey Searle Langley, B.C. Prayer not anti-semiti Paul writes in Romans that, while beloved beause of the patriarhs, as far as the gospel is onerned, Israel is our enemy. In 2 Corinthians 3:14 15, he points out that to this day when Moses is read, a veil overs their hearts, and that only in Christ is it taken away. So when we prolaim this Christ, who tells us to love our enemies, should we not also pray that the Jews might have life in the name of Jesus? Paul himself prays that Israel might be saved. The prayer for the onversion of the Jews asks God to Take away all pride and prejudie in us that may hinder their understanding of the Gospel, whih seems to me to be worthy and fitting. The ollet for Good Friday, whih has been removed from the servie, has us pray to God for Mery upon the Jews...and upon all who rejet and deny thy Son. I would suggest that politial Zionism sine the late 19th entury has done more to perpetuate anti-semitism against both Arab and Jew than any prayer we might offer. Ian Poole Nanaimo, B.C. Leave the BCP alone Re: Conversion of Jews prayer perpetuates anti-semitism (Letters, Sept. 2016, p. 4). Growing up in the Anglian Churh of Canada bak in the 1950s and 1960s, the prayer for the onversion of the Jews was read from the Book of Common Prayer (BCP) every Good Friday. We didn t give any olletion on Good Friday, beause it went for the onversion of Jews. As Christians, aren t we supposed to onvert and bring people to Christ? Only Jesus Christ saves. The Jews killed Jesus beause they wouldn t aept him as the Messiah. Have we beome so seular and so politially orret that we in the Anglian Churh of Canada are losing what it means to be an Anglian? Leave the BCP 1962 alone, instead of hanging everything that isn t politially orret. Peter Iveson Toronto Open to all Sattering gardens are not a new idea (Ottawa parish dediates first sattering garden, Sept. 2016, p. 3). Trinity Churh Parry Sound (dioese of Algoma) developed a small area of peae and beauty, 50 x 20 ft., next to the hurh, in It was done under the auspies of Bishop Leslie Peterson, suggested by the Rev. (now Ven.) Noel Goater on his departure, and implemented by interim minister the Rev. Dorothy Daley and ongregation, through donations and hard work. We now have one granite tablet filled with the names of the deeased, and another in progress. It is a pratial plae of beauty and meditation, open to all denominations. If one has spent hours in supporting a hurh, it is wonderful to know one an ontinue after death. Brenda Maney Stouffville, Ont. (Past member of Trinity Churh, Parry Sound, Ont.)

6 anglian journal november 2016 CANADA4 Canadian Foodgrains tries new model of harity rop-growing photo: simon hambers Donors to Grow Hope Niagara help pay the ost of raising the rop by sponsoring a

Projet aims to build bridges between rural and urban people; reonnet with land There s a new sign on a 41-are (17 ha) ornfield in Vineland, Ont.

In smaller type, underneath, are the logos of the Canadian Foodgrains Bank and Bethesda Servies, a Mennonite-run organization for people with speial needs.

6 6 anglian journal november 2016 CANADA4 Canadian Foodgrains tries new model of harity rop-growing photo: simon hambers Donors to Grow Hope Niagara help pay the ost of raising the rop by sponsoring a parel of the land. Sponsors give $300-$500 per are, depending on the rop being grown. Projet aims to build bridges between rural and urban people; reonnet with land There s a new sign on a 41-are (17 ha) ornfield in Vineland, Ont. Towering over loal farmer Larry Dyk, the orange sign bears a photo of a smiling hild, and the words Grow Hope in big letters. In smaller type, underneath, are the logos of the Canadian Foodgrains Bank and Bethesda Servies, a Mennonite-run organization for people with speial needs. In fat, Bethesda, whih owns the land, has been allowing loal farmers to grow rops on it to raise money for Canadian Foodgrains for nearly two deades. This year, however, something new is being tried on the property a model of harity rop-growing that is one of the first of its kind in Canada that projet partners hope may beome inreasingly ommon in the years to ome. Grow Hope Niagara is based on Grow Hope Manitoba, a projet that began last year in Niverville, Man., a rural ommunity about 45 km south of Winnipeg. Both involve raising money for the aount of the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), a Mennonite relief and development organization, in the Canadian Foodgrains Bank. (The Primate s World Relief and Development Fund, the Anglian Churh of Canada s relief and development arm, is a member of Canadian Foodgrains Bank.) What s new about both is that they invite donors to sponsor an area of the field, to pay for the osts of growing and harvesting the rop. Foodgrains is asking would-be sponsors hurhes, other organizations and individuals to give $300, $400 or $500 per are, depending on the rop being grown. The Manitoba projet initially raised $59,278, aording to Canadian Foodgrains. This support funded the ultivation of 197 ares (79.7 ha) of wheat; when the harvest was sold, $92,400 in proeeds then went to the MCC aount at Canadian Foodgrains. When ombined with mathing funds from the Canadian federal government, this ould mean up to $462,000 for MCC to spend on food aid in poor ountries, aording to Canadian 5Larry Dyk, lead farmer for Grow Hope Niagara, says the projet appeals to donors who want to know how we re making a differene. photo: tali folkins Foodgrains. Exited by Grow Hope Manitoba, Dave Epp, Canadian Foodgrains Ontario representative, approahed Dyk last winter about doing something similar with the Niagara field. Dyk was one one of six or seven loal farmers and a number of orporate sponsors involved in growing rops for harity on the Bethesda-owned property. For various reasons, all the other farmers but Dyk had moved on. Copying Grow Hope Manitoba, Epp thought, might help re-energize the projet. Inviting donors to sponsor their own parel of land, projet partners say, taps into an important need that fundraisers are seeing, espeially among younger would-be donors, for more diret ontat with a projet than simply writing a heque and trusting an organization to use the money as it sees fit. The younger generation says, It s not that we don t trust you we want to be involved, and we want to see where it goes, and we want to know how we re making a differene, Dyk says. If they get exited by the mission, the money will get there, but if it s just a budget, there s no real energy, agrees Canadian Foodgrains CEO Jim Cornelius. I think one of the things these projets do in ommunities is they reate energy and exitement, and then people are willing to support it, and grow it. Grow Hope is also about building bridges between rural and urban people, beause it aims partly to reonnet itydwellers with the soures of their food, Dyk says. Sponsors are welome to visit their ares in person. Just under half 19 ares (7.7 ha) of the Niagara field is now sponsored, Dyk notes. But visitors hoping to see a bounteous harvest there this year will be disappointed. Southern Ontario has been wraked by drought, and the growth of the orn has been severely stunted. On the Niagara field, when Dyk invites visitors to an information session, the orn on an early September day stands barely elbow-high. He peels off the husks to reveal mostly small, pale obs with tiny kernels. The weather over the oming weeks will determine how muh of the orn an atually be harvested if any. Government rop insurane programs would partly ompensate the projet for its losses, he says. On average, a orn harvest from the Bethesda field might bring in somewhere in the neighbourhood of $20,000-$25,000, says Dyk, although the high variability of weather and pries an make for wild flutuations from this range. g Privett re-eleted metropolitan of B.C. and Yukon photo: andré forget Arhbishop John Privett says he wants to omplete the task of inreasing ollaboration aross the provine. Arhbishop John Privett, who has served as metropolitan of the elesiastial provine of British Columbia and Yukon sine 2009, has been unanimously re-eleted for another seven-year term. Privett, who has also been bishop of the dioese of Kootenay sine 2005, was eleted at a meeting of the provine s eletoral ollege in Vanouver September 16, aording to Canon Randall Fairey, proloutor of the provine. Privett s urrent term expired September 26. All dioesan bishops were eligible to run, but none stepped forward, Privett said. For various personal reasons, eah of them deided they wouldn t let their name stand, so...my name was the only one on the list, he said in an interview. As you PEOPLE an imagine, it went fairly smoothly and quikly. A formal vote was held, and all 22 votes ast were for Privett, Fairey said, with no abstentions. The eletoral ollege is made up of the provine s six dioesan bishops (the bishops of New Westminster, Kootenay, British Columbia, Yukon, Caledonia and The Territory of the People/Anglian Parishes of the Central Interior) and the members of the provinial exeutive ounil. One of the hallenges of overseeing the provine, Privett said, is its onsiderable diversity geographial, theologial ( We streth the gamut of perspetives in the hurh, he says) and finanial. Muh of what he wants to aomplish in his next term is the ompletion of work begun in his first espeially in the area of inreasing ollaboration aross the provine. I ve always wanted to build relationships aross dioesan and regional boundaries, and so for the last ouple of years we ve been working at partnerships. And even though we are diverse, the question is always, How an we support eah other in a ommon mission in our loal ontexts? The provine has task fores working on issues suh as a ommon poliy of safe hurh praties, he said. It also hopes to tighten its relationships with the youthled British Columbia and Yukon Anglian Youth Ministry. g

anglian journal november 2016 7 Through your generosity, Giving with Grae an answer God s all to mission.

Saskathewan ommunity struggles with reoniliation André Forget After the killing of a young Indigenous man near Biggar, Sask.

Paul s CANADA Anglian Churh and Redeemer Lutheran Churh in Biggar.

Boushie s ousin, Eri Meehane, who was with him at the time, said their truk had gotten a flat tire and they had pulled into Stanley s yard to fix it.

7 anglian journal november Through your generosity, Giving with Grae an answer God s all to mission... photo: liam rihards/the anadian press William Boushie, brother of shooting vitim Colten Boushie, addresses media at a rally outside the Saskathewan Provinial Court in North Battleford, August 18. Saskathewan ommunity struggles with reoniliation André Forget After the killing of a young Indigenous man near Biggar, Sask., in August, loal Anglians and Lutherans have been onfronted with the hallenge of putting what they have learned about reoniliation into pratie, says the Rev. Mark Kleiner, priest-in-harge at St. Paul s CANADA Anglian Churh and Redeemer Lutheran Churh in Biggar. On August 9, 22-year-old Colten Boushie was on his way home to Red Pheasant First Nation from an afternoon of swimming when he and his friends stopped at the farm of Gerald Stanley. Boushie s ousin, Eri Meehane, who was with him at the time, said their truk had gotten a flat tire and they had pulled into Stanley s yard to fix it. However, an alteration reportedly ensued that ended in Boushie s shooting. RCMP have harged Stanley with seond-degree murder; he has pleaded not guilty. In the days and weeks that followed, there was a torrent of vitrioli and raist omments on soial media from some members of the town s non-indigenous ommunity. Kleiner, who served Biggar for five years before assuming a new post in Saskatoon in Otober, says the inident has revealed a deep underurrent of raial animosity in the area that has been festering for years. The ommunity is one where Indigenous and non-indigenous people often do not interat. (Neither of his ongregations have Indigenous members.) Many of the non-indigenous people in Biggar and on the surrounding farms also believe that Indigenous people are responsible for a rise in rime in the area, he said. In the wake of the shooting, what really stunned me was the extent to whih people around town hunkered down into a very defensive posture, he said. Regardless of the irumstanes, whih are going to be disussed in the ourts, there is a family here whose loved one is dead. And I wasn t enountering empathy, just basi human empathy. Kleiner said that many want to paint the shooting as an isolated event. But he argued that Boushie s death annot be isolated from the muh wider ontext of Indigenous and non-indigenous relations in Saskathewan and Western Canada. There is a legay of hurt and pain that runs very deep through this part of the world, he said, noting that the area was deeply affeted by the sine-disredited Indian residential shool system. National Indigenous Anglian Bishop Mark MaDonald said the inident, whih is quite stunningly violent and diffiult is part of a larger pattern of raial onflit in the area and I would even desribe it as raial oppression. It is not like this happened out of the blue. He noted, however, that the prominene given to the story is a sign of hanging attitudes in Canada. Klenier was areful to note the gulf between people s ognitive understanding of an issue and what they hold in their hearts. His tenure at the hurh oinided during the reation of the TRC, and in that time, the hurh hosted a number of events around reoniliation, inluding talks by a residential shool survivor. However, in the aftermath of Boushie s death, Kleiner said he heard people talking about frustrations with the Indigenous ommunity that had never been disussed before. If there is an upside to the ugly things that have been said, Kleiner said, it is that they are finally being said in publi whih means there is a potential hane for real hange to happen. Things, I think, in some ways an get worse before they get better. g The General Synod of Through you Indigenous leaders aross the hurh gather, pray, disern, and deide. 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8 anglian journal november 2016 FOCUS: CHURCH AND GIVING4 Donors want to see life hange André Forget Coming in 2017!

1 10 Philippians 1.1 11 Philippians 1.12 30 Philippians 2.12 30 Philippians 4.2 9 Philippians 4.10 23 Matthew 11.2 15 Isaiah 7.1 16 Isaiah 7.17 8.2 Isaiah 8.3 20 Isaiah 8.21 9.7 Romans 1.

3 29 29 1 John 3.1 18 30 Luke 2.15 21 31 Numbers 6.22 27 soure: anadian bible soiety.

photo: sivadonv/ For deades, the parishes and dioeses of the Anglian Churh of Canada have wathed the money raised through tithes and offerings drop.

What if the first development has, in part, been aused by the seond?

has not kept up with the seismi hanges that have taken plae in the hurh in reent years.

This means they are less willing to give for the purposes of supporting institutional Anglianism. [New ontextual hurh] folks want to see life hange, he said.

Ever sine the Enlightenment, Dunwoody argued, Protestant hurhes have been strutured on orporate, programmati models that emphasize the effiient pursuit of what they believe to be the will of God on

But, in the past three deades, there has been a shift toward a model based not on politis or power, but on partiipation and presene, he said.

suh as the emerging hurh movement, Fresh Expressions, hurh plants and neo-monasti movements are skeptial of hierarhial authority, and value a less rigid, more experiential sense of faith.

operate. For example, Gen Xers and Millennials have less money than their parents and grandparents.

They are also less likely to be in hurh every Sunday morning, whih Dunwoody says has a diret impat on hurh fundraising.

What that means is there are going to be less times in a year when people s bums are in the seat so they an get the money in the plate.

Dunwoody explained that in his own dioese, ativities like Messy Churh sometimes draw larger numbers than weekend servies.

8 8 anglian journal november 2016 FOCUS: CHURCH AND GIVING4 Donors want to see life hange André Forget Coming in 2017! Bon Appétit Bible Readings Deember 2016 DAY READING DAY READING Matthew Isaiah Psalm Psalm Isaiah Philippians Philippians Philippians Philippians Philippians Matthew Isaiah Isaiah Isaiah Isaiah Romans Matthew Titus Titus Titus Isaiah Hebrews Psalm Luke Hebrews Ats John John John Luke Numbers soure: anadian bible soiety. used with permission 5The way the hurh raises money has not kept up with seismi hanges that have taken plae in hurh, says a missioner. It keeps putting new wine into old wineskins. photo: sivadonv/ For deades, the parishes and dioeses of the Anglian Churh of Canada have wathed the money raised through tithes and offerings drop. At the same time, they have seen the growth of new kinds of spiritual pratie based around tight-knit, less denominationally rigid ommunities of worship. What if the first development has, in part, been aused by the seond? In a presentation at the reent annual Resoures for Mission (RfM) stewardship gathering, Mark Dunwoody, dioesan missioner for the Anglian dioese of Montreal, argued that the way the hurh raises money has not kept up with the seismi hanges that have taken plae in the hurh in reent years. Dunwoody said that many newer expressions of Christianity, whih he alls new ontextual hurhes, do not have as strong a sense of denominational affiliation as more traditional elements might. This means they are less willing to give for the purposes of supporting institutional Anglianism. [New ontextual hurh] folks want to see life hange, he said. They want the brokenness that they pereive addressed. They don t want to hear you talk about it they want to see it. Ever sine the Enlightenment, Dunwoody argued, Protestant hurhes have been strutured on orporate, programmati models that emphasize the effiient pursuit of what they believe to be the will of God on Earth. This model assumes that the hurh exists in a largely Christian soiety into whih it an speak with an authoritative voie it assumes that the ontext is Christendom. But, in the past three deades, there has been a shift toward a model based not on politis or power, but on partiipation and presene, he said. Churhes in the new mould photo: visual generation/ Millennials and Gen Xers want to know that their donations won t simply be used to keep a sinking ship floating, says missioner Mark Dunwoody. suh as the emerging hurh movement, Fresh Expressions, hurh plants and neo-monasti movements are skeptial of hierarhial authority, and value a less rigid, more experiential sense of faith. While Dunwoody believes there is muh to elebrate about these new expressions of Christianity, he thinks the institutional hurh has been too slow in adapting to the different ways new ontextual hurhes operate. For example, Gen Xers and Millennials have less money than their parents and grandparents. They will support something they are about, but they want to know it isn t simply to keep a sinking ship anglian journal floating, Dunwoody said. They are also less likely to be in hurh every Sunday morning, whih Dunwoody says has a diret impat on hurh fundraising. There are going to be fewer Sundays where a household is going to be in attendane, he said. What that means is there are going to be less times in a year when people s bums are in the seat so they an get the money in the plate. In fat, among new ontextual hurhes, even the definition of hurh is hanging. For some, going to hurh doesn t neessarily mean showing up for a prosribed period of time one a week. Dunwoody explained that in his own dioese, ativities like Messy Churh sometimes draw larger numbers than weekend servies. While alternative methods of tithing, suh as monthly automated eletroni giving, an offset some of these hanges, hurhes also need to be willing to ask some existential questions, Dunwoody said. For parishes to understand what their purpose is, they not only need to have a strong sense of the general mission they share with all Christians, but also to know the roots of their partiular hurhes. In every loality where we have a hurh, there was an original purpose, he said, noting that buildings that often seem timeless expressions of piety were reated to meet the needs of a very speifi historial moment. These needs were not, he added, always purely or even mostly spiritual: in his native Ireland, Dunwoody said, many Protestant hurhes were set up not to spread the gospel, but to demographially edge out the olonized Catholi population. Every hurh must evaluate whether it is still meeting the need for whih it was reated, or if there are other needs it is positioned to serve, said Dunwoody. g november 2016 How is a hurh different from a mall? How is it similar? André Forget image: visual generation/ Mississauga, Ont. While these questions might at first seem aademi, at the Rev. Jeffrey Metalfe s workshop on the theology of money at the annual Resoures for Mission (RfM) stewardship gathering September 8, they galvanized a wide-ranging and passionate disussion. The omparison raised a fundamental, and often unasked, question about the relationship between partiipating in the hurh and supporting it finanially: when a parishioner puts money in the plate, are they offering a gift or paying for a servie? Of the roughly 30 people who attended the workshop, many resisted the notion that finanially supporting a hurh is a transational experiene akin to purhasing a latte. But others said that is exatly how some Anglians think about it. The Rev. Carl Fraser, of the dioese of Nova Sotia, said that in one parish where he served, parishioners would not attend a Euharist if they didn t have something to put in the offering plate. Fraser noted that this how they were raised to think about the hurh, and lamented the fat that for many, the logial onlusion is the hurh is a produt like any other. The hurh has bought into, in many plaes, a transational kind of theology where people say, Well, I didn t get what I was looking for, so I m going to take my money somewhere else, so I an get what I m looking for, he explained. The Rev. Terry Caines, of the dioese of Central Newfoundland, said this was a mentality he struggled with among his parishioners as well. We have people [in Newfoundland] who pay the hurh. The 5There are parishioners who view the hurh as a transational experiene akin to buying a latte, say some priests. image: faenkova elena/ language is different: if I pay, I m entitled, he said. Whether I go to hurh [or not] if I die, you re going to bury me, beause I paid you. Some suggested this way of thinking about giving to the hurh has deep historial roots, with tithing having been obligatory at times in Christian history. Others noted that, although the question of paying versus giving might not be stated as expliitly in some parts of the Canadian hurh, the notion of the parishioner-as-ustomer is not unommon. Dean Christian Shreiner, of the dioese of Quebe, said that the hurh has not done a good job of separating the tithe from the Euharist that omes right after it. [The Euharist] looks kind of transational: there is a transation of money, you pay, and then your sins are forgiven, whatever that means you buy some sort of happiness, he said. However Jesus says, you have to give up, ompletely, the idea that your life is for you. The whole purpose of your life is not you it is the other. The workshop was inspired by the work of the task fore on the theology of money. It was set up by the national hurh s faith, worship, and ministry ommittee to explore how the hurh should think about money when it talks about fundraising, investing and doing ministry and mission. Metalfe, who failitated the workshop, served as the task fore hair. g Fundraising not about asking for money, but inviting people to partiipate in a vision, says expert Continued from p. 1 This Christmas give development, relief and justie! These beautiful Christmas ards are a wonderful way to spread the word of The Primate s World Relief and Development Fund s important work and to support the program at the same time. Paks of 12 ards and envelopes are yours with our blessings. A reommended donation of $20 per pak to support our work is invited. (Two designs to hoose from: Nativity and Cross) Cards may be ordered through your PWRDF parish representative or diretly from PWRDF by alling: or , ext. 318 or Riky de Castro, rdeastro@pwrdf.org the primate s world relief and development fund anglian hurh of anada Charitable Registration RR0001 / 2016 and United Churh partners, to sharpen their fundraising skills. Hiltz stressed that one annot talk about fundraising without also disussing evangelism and the purpose of the hurh. Asking people to give money is not a matter of minor embarrassment made neessary by finanial need, but a way for ommitted believers to take part in building something beautiful and important, he said. In a talk based on the work of Episopalian Canon C.K. Robertson, who has written extensively on the subjet of stewardship, Hiltz explained that the Barnabas model treats fundraising as another side of disipleship. When Barnabas first appears in the Ats of the Apostles, he has sold a field to provide money to be shared among the other members of the early hurh. When he is seen again, it is beause he is hampioning the newly onverted St. Paul. Hiltz said Christians need to fund mission by sharing wealth, and partiipate in it by atively reruiting newomers. It was a message that was to be repeated in the following plenary session, led by Martha Asselin and Murray MCarthy, senior partners at M&M International, a fundraising onsulting firm that photos: andré forget Arhbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglian Churh of Canada, and Martha Asselin of M&M International speializes in servies for hurhes and faith-based groups. Asselin and MCarthy began their presentation by sharing some grim statistis about the demographi and finanial health of mainline Protestant hurhes falling revenues, aging membership before moving on to examples of hurhes that have managed to buk the trend of finanial and demographi deline. Drawing attention to a study done on growing hurhes in the United Kingdom, Asselin noted that many of the key elements in building a healthy hurh strong leadership, lear sense of purpose, adaptability and willingness 9 to spend time nurturing individuals are also essential in fundraising. Indeed, if done properly, fundraising is a form of evangelism, and evangelism ontributes to fundraising, she said. In order for this to work, Asselin said, parishes must have a strong sense of the onrete good they are doing for their members and for their ommunity. She suggested that rafting a missional plan that has broad support in the ongregation and offers a lear sense of purpose an give people the feeling of working toward tangible goals and being part of something larger than themselves. It isn t about asking [for money] it is about inviting people to partiipate in your visions and plans for the future, said Asselin, adding that people are more likely to give to a ause if they an see onrete benefits oming from their investment. Asselin noted many of the most suessful M&M programs in Anglian parishes have worked beause parishioners beame ambassadors who reahed out to other members of the hurh and ommunity and enouraged them to get involved. For example, the Anglian Parish of Maberly-Lanark in the dioese of Ottawa, a four-point rural parish between Ottawa and Kingston, had been investing most of its finanial resoures in maintaining its buildings. But one of the most serious issues in the ommunity was youth suiide, and after a long period of debate about where the hurh should invest its resoures, the parish deided to start supporting YAK Youth Servies in nearby Perth, an organization dediated to providing young people with support, enouragement and training. The result was not only an inrease in giving, but a renewed sense of onnetion to the ommunity beyond the hurh walls. Asselin stressed that Canadians are very willing to give to auses the problem is, the hurh has often done a poor job of artiulating why it is a ause people should support. If people know people, they will support a ause, Asselin said, stressing the importane of individual parishioners going out and supporting the work of their hurh. If people know what it is about, they will support it even more. Aording to organizer Susan Graham Walker, who works in ongregational giving and stewardship for the United Churh and is on seondment one day a week to work with RfM, attendane at this year s gathering doubled from last year. Graham Walker said the shedule was designed to meet the pratial needs of those who work in hurh fundraising. We ve responded to the evaluation from the previous years to develop the agenda this is in response to what people have identified as things that we need to be paying attention to, she said in an interview before the gathering. g

10 anglian journal november 2016 HOUSE OF BISHOPS4 Primate alls for national Native gathering André Forget Arhbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglian Churh of Canada, has alled for a nationwide

9 10 anglian journal november 2016 HOUSE OF BISHOPS4 Primate alls for national Native gathering André Forget Arhbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglian Churh of Canada, has alled for a nationwide meeting to assess the progress made sine Indigenous Anglians first delared their intention to work toward self-determination in the 1994 Covenant. It is time, I think for us to onvene some kind of a gathering in [2017], whih will really bring together people from all aross the hurh who are interested in and ommitted to Indigenous Anglian ministries, he said, adding that he hopes to organize the gathering jointly with National Indigenous Anglian Bishop Mark MaDonald. Aording to Hiltz, the gathering would be an opportunity for Anglians to share about the work that is being done aross the ountry, and perhaps learn from what has worked and what hasn t. The announement was made at the September meeting of the House of Bishops, in Winnipeg. It omes on the heels of an Indigenous ministries presentation at July s General Synod outlining some of the features and qualities of a self-determining nationwide Indigenous onfederay. Hiltz reported that while the House of Bishops is supportive of the diretion Indigenous ministries is going in, nobody is really lear as to what the model will be for suh a onfederay. For this reason, he wants the onsultation to be as broad and pratial as possible. I want to bring together people from all aross the hurh bishops lergy and laity, Indigenous and non-indigenous who have a heart for this, and not only have got a heart for it, but have a hand, to say: So what are we going to do about this in our dioese? he said. He noted that while funding has not yet been seured for suh a gathering, he has spoken with General Synod s general seretary, Arhdeaon Mihael Thompson, about the matter. g There s nothing more to say about same-sex marriage Continued from p. 1 reating disiples. It was a point Arhbishop John Privett, metropolitan of the elesiastial provine of British Columbia and the Yukon, also agreed with. There are huge questions about how we ontinue to grow disiples in these times and reflet more deeply on the mission of our hurh, he noted. I am hoping that in the next three years we will have some energy and fous and time for that. However, sine it was the first meeting of bishops following July s General Synod, Hiltz said they spent the bulk of their time debriefing about synod and the fallout resulting from the provisional approval of the motion allowing same-sex marriage. When the motion was originally delared to have been defeated, several bishops had announed they would go ahead with same-sex marriage. When the vote was reversed the next day following disovery of an error, these bishops said they would stand by their deision. Days later, seven bishops signed a statement publily dissenting from General Synod s same-sex marriage vote. Three Indigenous bishops also released a separate statement ritiizing the vote. (See related story, page 11.) For these reasons, many of the bishops admitted to being unsure as to how their meeting would turn out. I expeted that there would be some real tensions in the house, said Privett. But my experiene was that the onversation was respetful and it was a very healthy engagement. While eah bishop was given the opportunity to speak their mind, Hiltz said there was a general onsensus that the matter now rests with the individual dioeses and provines to ontinue the disussion in advane of 2019, when the motion will be sent for seond and final onsideration. There is nothing more that the bishops need or neessarily ought to be saying [about same-sex marriage] at this point, not as a house, he explained. In fat I just don t know that it would be helpful. Hiltz said no attempt was made to plae a moratorium on same-sex marriages until after the seond vote in What he heard from some bishops who announed their intention to allow same-sex marriages in their dioeses was that suh marriages ould happen, but as an interim pastoral provision that would require the bishop s knowledge and permission. The bishop would also have to authorize a rite to be used to solemnize the union sine the urrent liturgies, in the Book of Common Prayer and the Book of Alternative Servies, annot be used until the marriage anon is 5The Rev. Vinent Solomon, urban Indigenous ministry developer for the dioese of Rupert s Land, gives bishops and their spouses a tour of the Oodena Celebration Cirle at the Forks, in Winnipeg. photo: bishop mary irwin-gibson formally amended. When asked how this arrangement was reeived by the house, Hiltz said, I didn t see any major reation. No blow-up, no pushbak. He said that the bishops understood this as a pastoral provision. The majority of the bishops are indiating [they are] quite prepared to live within the timelines of the proess of General Synod, he said. Bishops also stressed that they would be very ommitted to upholding the onsiene lause, whih means that no one will be ompelled to marry anybody, he added. When asked how she would treat the issue in her dioese, Irwin-Gibson said that if the need arose, she would onsider allowing same-sex marriages to take plae before 2019, but only in speifi irumstanes. While she is willing to onsider authorizing a servie for ative members of a ongregation who want to be married in a hurh, she is not interested in marrying ouples who simply want the aestheti of a hurh marriage. I m interested in marriage as a Christian avenue of disipleship, she said. Bishop Larry Robertson, of the dioese of Yukon, on the other hand, said he an disern little will among his people for ontinued disussion of same-sex marriage. For this reason, Robertson said he will put a moratorium on disussions of samesex marriage during Sunday morning servies, and request that his lergy inlude him in any disussions about same-sex marriage that our in their parishes. Another theme of the meeting, aording to bishops ontated by the Anglian Journal, was the desire to reate a more funtional house over the next triennium. All the bishops noted that there are deep disagreements between members of the house aross a range of theologial and soial issues, but many also held out hope that these disagreements ould be managed better. How do we live with differene? was a question raised by many bishops, said National Indigenous Anglian Bishop Mark MaDonald. Arhbishop Greg Kerr-Wilson, metropolitan of the elesiastial provine of Rupert s Land, said he heard a number of his peers express frustration with voting as a way of arriving at a deision. I think there is ertainly a will not to get into those kind of up-down, yes-no votes, he said, while aknowledging that he doesn t know what an alternate system might look like or even if it is possible. Robertson who has been a voal riti of the legislative system as a way of making deisions about same-sex marriage ehoed these onerns, but autioned that beause the legislative proess has begun, it must be arried through to ompletion. As is the ustom of the house, the September meeting, being the first of a new triennium, inluded a parallel meeting of the bishops spouses. It also inluded a number of ativities that allowed the bishops and their partners to learn about their host ity of Winnipeg. Hiltz aknowledged that the presene of the bishops spouses offered more opportunities for onversations, whih helped set the tone for the meeting. We did not leave that meeting of the House of Bishops in disarray at all, from my point of view. And I think a number of bishops would agree with that. g

anglian journal november 2016 11 HOUSE OF BISHOPS4 CANADA4 Native bishops ritiize marriage anon vote In the wake of July s vote on same-sex marriage at General Synod, Indigenous Anglians in Canada

General Synod voted this summer to provisionally approve hanges to the marriage anon, whih would allow same-sex marriages.

On September 22, National Indigenous Anglian Bishop Mark MaDonald; Bishop Lydia Mamakwa, of the Indigenous Spiritual Ministry of Mishamikoweesh; and Bishop Adam Halkett, of Missinipi, released a

10 anglian journal november HOUSE OF BISHOPS4 CANADA4 Native bishops ritiize marriage anon vote In the wake of July s vote on same-sex marriage at General Synod, Indigenous Anglians in Canada intend to proeed towards self-determination with urgeny, three Indigenous bishops say. General Synod voted this summer to provisionally approve hanges to the marriage anon, whih would allow same-sex marriages. The proposed hanges must pass a seond reading, slated for the next General Synod in 2019, before they an take effet. On September 22, National Indigenous Anglian Bishop Mark MaDonald; Bishop Lydia Mamakwa, of the Indigenous Spiritual Ministry of Mishamikoweesh; and Bishop Adam Halkett, of Missinipi, released a joint statement they say was requested by an Indigenous irle that met after the results of July s vote were revealed. The bishops began by saying that they do not speak for all Indigenous peoples, although, they added, they have onsulted broadly and deeply with many. The statement voied displeasure both with the deision and the proess by it was made, and expressed desire for a more self-determined Indigenous Anglian ommunity in Canada. We do not agree with the deision and believe that it puts our ommunities in a diffiult plae in regards to our relation and ommunity with the Anglian Churh of Canada, the bishops said. While they intend to disern their exat ourse of ation in the days ahead, the bishops said, they also ommitted to ontinuing in our onversation with the Anglian Churh of Canada in regards to self-determination and mutual ooperation in our Anglian Christian ministry. The bishops ontinued, We will proeed towards self-determination with all urgeny. At the same time, they said they would also seek ways to ontinue our onver- 5(Top): National Indigenous Anglian Bishop Mark MaDonald and Indigenous Spiritual Ministry of Mishamikoweesh Bishop Lydia Mamakwa. (Bottom): Missinipi Bishop Adam Halkett photos: art babyh sation with the LGBTQ [Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer] ommunities and individuals, affirming our earlier statements of love and welome. The statement also alled for a hurh inquiry into the proess by whih July s deision was made. We believe that this entire inident alls for a review and rethinking of the ways that the Churh onduts its business, the statement read. Partiularly painful, the bishops said, was the silening of an elder during debate on the floor of synod. On July 12, after the final results of the vote on the marriage anon had been announed, the Rev. Martha Spene, of the Indigenous Spiritual Ministry of Mishamikoweesh, rose to address synod. But disussion had already been delared losed, and Arhbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglian Churh of Canada, asked her not to speak. Although this was understandable given the Western proess that was followed at synod, the bishops said, an apology to the elder was in order. For many Indigenous Anglians, this was the most diffiult moment of synod and one that really highlighted how different their deisionmaking proesses are from Western ones, MaDonald said in an interview. Arhbishop responds to eight dissenting bishops Sine the release of the statement, Ma- Donald added, the primate had apologized to Spene diretly by phone, and by mail and the bishops are happy with his response. Spene herself, however, said she was still struggling with the inident. She was aware that synod was drawing to a lose and there was a need to wrap up things quikly, she said, but still hoped the primate might allow her a few minutes. Being told to stop, espeially in front of so many people, she said, was humiliating. I felt so small. I felt like rawling through somewhere [to] hide, she said in an interview. Spene said that at the time the primate alled, she was not able to aept his apology. I didn t say, Yes, I forgive you, she said. He talked with me, I talked with him, but I was not ready. Through tears, Spene said she hoped for a publi apology from the primate. I d like to hear him apologize with others, she said. I know he s a loving man, but in that instant of time, I felt that he didn t follow the love that he talks about. As Aboriginal people, I know we re not always listened to. We re still struggling. We re still not able to put our two ents in anything, she said. In an earlier interview, Hiltz said he was not aware at the time of the hurt he had aused in asking Spene not to speak. He said he heard only later, for example, that some Indigenous members of synod had gathered shortly after the inident to talk, ry and pray about it. I didn t know any of that, partly beause I was busy with the losing Euharist and the banquet...and I felt bad about it, he said. While his apology doesn t wipe away the hurt, and it doesn t wipe away the feeling that some people have of being offended, Hiltz said, at least they know that I m not just thinking about it I ve atually ated on it. Indigenous Anglian elders, the bishops said, should have been atively involved See Silening, p. 15 André Forget In a written response to a statement issued by eight Canadian bishops expressing their dissent from General Synod s deision to move toward solemnizing same-sex marriages, Arhbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglian Churh of Canada, pushed bak against several of the points they had raised. While he affirmed the bishops ommitment to offer pastoral are and loving servie to all irrespetive of sexual orientation, he noted that for many LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer) Anglians, pastoral are would inlude the solemnization of their marriages whih the bishops have expressly said they will not do. The question you ask is really a question for all members of the hurh. To what extent an we and will we make room for one another? To what extent will we pastorally aommodate one another? Hiltz said in his letter. The Anglian Journal obtained a opy of the letter after a request was made to the primate s offie. Hiltz hallenged their laim that the resolution, whih ontains a onsiene lause, does not provide adequate protetion for the onsienes of dioeses, 5Hiltz: To what extent an we and will we make room for one another? photo: art babyh/ lergy and ongregations. He asked the bishops to explain what suh protetion would look like, and how it would apply for those in their dioeses who are in favour of same-sex marriage. He also defended the proess leading up to the same-sex marriage vote July 11, whih narrowly passed the first of two readings. He took issue with the bishops laim that the entire proess leading up to the vote was flawed, and had inflited terrible hurt and damage on all involved. He argued that Counil of General Synod (CoGS), whih had been mandated by General Synod 2013 to raft a motion allowing same-sex marriage in the hurh, had taken onsiderable are and done its work thoroughly. Hiltz said that the motion, whih was delared to have failed before being reversed the next day due to an error, was diffiult, but it had allowed many synod members to experiene the pain of another whose view on this matter is very different in a very powerful way. He assured the bishops that the question of what the hurh should do pastorally, prophetially and struturally following the vote is one he is taking seriously. But there were also points on whih Hiltz onurred with the bishops. He affirmed their ondemnation of homophobi prejudie and violene, and sympathized with their frustration over the use of a legislative proess to make deisions about theologial and pastoral issues. But while he stated his desire for less onfrontational, and less hurtful ways of deision-making, he plaed the onus on the bishops to delineate what that might look like. He shared their onern over the deision made by some bishops to proeed with same-sex marriages ahead of 2019, but said he has no anonial authority to prohibit bishops from taking suh ation. The dissenting bishops statement was released July 15 by then Bishop Stephen Andrews (Algoma); Bishop David Parsons (Arti); Suffragan Bishop Darren MCartney (Arti); Bishop William Anderson (Caledonia); Bishop Larry Robertson (Yukon); Bishop Fraser Lawton (Athabasa); and Bishop Mihael Hawkins (Saskathewan). Bishop David Edwards, of the dioese of Frederiton, was not an original signatory, but he added his name to the statement later. Hawkins said the signatories would issue a formal response in the oming year. Hiltz has said he is willing to meet with the bishops about their onerns. g

12 anglian journal november 2016 WORLD4 Pray for war-ravaged Aleppo, implores primate Arhbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglian Churh of Canada, is asking Anglians to join him in prayer for

In a statement released Thursday, September 29, Hiltz said he had reeived the previous day an urgent appeal for prayer for the people of the ity.

11 12 anglian journal november 2016 WORLD4 Pray for war-ravaged Aleppo, implores primate Arhbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglian Churh of Canada, is asking Anglians to join him in prayer for Aleppo, the Syrian ity suffering from a reently stepped-up bombing ampaign. In a statement released Thursday, September 29, Hiltz said he had reeived the previous day an urgent appeal for prayer for the people of the ity. The primate began his statement by quoting this appeal. I am praying, in fat I am sreaming at God to send his holy angels to protet the ity. I rail at Him to please intervene, the appeal read. Hiltz does not name the person who sent the appeal. The Anglian Journal has learned that the person is a hurh member whose privay is being proteted. The appeal for angeli help was timely, Hiltz said, given that September 29 is the Feast of St. Mihael and All Angels. Aordingly, I am alling our Churh to prayer for this anient and one beautiful ity, now besieged and lying in ruins, Hiltz said. Hiltz laments the hundreds of people killed in the bombing ampaign, and the diffiulties of providing help to people in the ity, espeially given reent attaks on aid onvoys. In early 2014, the UN said it would no longer attempt to estimate how many people had been killed in the onflit, 5A Syrian Army tank stands between buildings during an operation September 2013 in the suburbs of Damasus. photo: art prodution/ beause of the diffiulty of reahing many parts of the ountry. Last Marh, however, Staffan de Mistura, the UN s speial envoy for Syria, said that by his own unoffiial rekoning, the war must have laimed at least 400,000 lives. In February, the Syrian Center for Poliy Researh, a non-governmental think tank, estimated 470,000 people had lost their lives either diretly or indiretly as a result of the onflit, and that more than one in every 10 Syrians had been either killed or wounded. The atroities in Aleppo, Hiltz said, are for many people just one more episode in the war that has been plaguing the ountry for five years now and the ause of muh fear for anyone with family members living in the area. Is it any wonder that they are sreaming to God to send his holy angels to protet the ity? the primate asked. Hiltz then requested prayers for those affeted by the fighting. On this day when we think of all those angels of whom we read in the Sriptures all those who bow down before God in everlasting praise of his glory and then at his bidding ome to the aid of those who all upon his mery and justie, let us pray for the people of Aleppo, he said. Pray that legions of angels ome to their protetion and aid. The primate then asked for prayers for relief workers for they themselves are angels working in the midst of great dangers. And for the people responsible for the rimes against humanity ommitted in the war, Hiltz said, Pray that by a visitation of angels their hearts be turned. The primate requested prayers, too, for those trying to negotiate peae in Syria. Hiltz ended his statement with a request for prayers for the day when, in the words of the prophet Isaiah, Violene shall no longer be heard in your land, devastation within your borders. You shall all your walls Salvation and your gates Praise (Isaiah 60:18). g You an t see the atroities of war and not ome bak hanged To aess stories exlusive to the web, go to om/more Book Review: The moral omplexity of war photo: ontributed Continued from p. 1 They re still affeted...and often it will affet their lives at home. But sine servies offered through the Holy Trinity ministry will be independent of those offered through the military, they will not end up on soldiers reords, he says. Like many units in the Regular Fore, the South Alberta Light Horse has served overseas inluding in onflit zones suh as Afghanistan and the former Yugoslavia. For many of its members, the experiene has been sarring not just outwardly, but inwardly as well, Pappas says. You an t go out and be asked to kill, or see people killed, or see the atroities of war, and not ome bak hanged, or hurt, and hurting, he says. These inner wounds, he says, an harm the reservists relationships with their spouses and hildren, or may result in inreased alohol use, for example. Their effets an also disrupt the reservists finanes, he says. The hope is that the ministry will take a multi-pronged or holisti approah, offering a range of servies inluding psyhologial ounselling, pastoral visits, art therapy, finanial advie and possibly also soial gatherings for reservists to attend with their families. Part of this work will be taken on by staff at Holy Trinity and its partners in the ministry its sister Lutheran parish a few bloks away, Trinity Evangelial Lutheran Churh; the university haplainy at the University of Alberta; and the Edmonton Interfaith Centre for Eduation and Ation, a nonprofit organization for eduating the publi about Alberta s various faith traditions. Volunteers will assume other work. Thirdparty providers, whose fees the program is expeted to be able to subsidize, will also be tapped. The ministry s annual budget is around $15,000, with $8,000 ontributed by Holy Trinity and $7,000 in the form of a grant from the Anglian Foundation of Canada. Holy Trinity will report bak to the foundation at the end of the next two years, and depending on the results of the ministry, another $7,000 will be extended for eah of those two additional years, Pappas says. Canon Judy Rois, exeutive diretor of the Anglian Foundation of Canada, said the foundation had approved Holy Trinity s request beause they believed the hurh was extending their impat in the ommunity and meeting a very real need of haplainy to reservists. Holy Trinity s outreah to the reservists, Rois added, was a unique ministry that speaks to the innovation that the parish is engaged in as they live the gospel in their ommunity. She praised the many ways the ministry plans to make physial and emotional spae to address the hallenges experiened by those who have served in plaes like Afghanistan, Bosnia and Haiti. The ministry, Pappas says, represents just one of a number of reent attempts to renew a long-standing relationship between Holy Trinity and the South Alberta Light Horse. The regiment in a variety of different permutations has been in existene for about 100 years, he says, and Holy Trinity has been its regimental hurh for most of that time. Retors of the hurh historially have tended to be haplains of the unit, and at least one served with the regiment overseas during the First World War. Regimental olours hang in the hurh s nave. In the late 20th entury, Pappas says, the relationship fell dormant. Then, seven years ago, when he himself had just beome its retor, he was approahed by the unit s ommander about renewing ties. Pappas liked the idea, and held a speial Remembrane Day servie at the hurh the next year. Over time, the event would grow in popularity, from a ouple of hundred people in its first year to 500 people 5Outreah to the reservists is part of efforts by Edmonton s Holy Trinity Churh to renew its relationship with the South Alberta Light Horse regiment, whih dates bak almost 100 years. photo: pvt. travis terreo/wikimedia ommons last year more than the hurh ould hold, Pappas says. The servies try to avoid triumphalism, he says; they re about reognizing the sarifies of soldiers, but also a solemn refletion on the failure of soieties to preserve peae. The November 10 healing servie was begun as an attempt to further demonstrate to the regiment that the parish honours its sarifies and wants to are for its soldiers, he says. It invites people ivilians as well as soldiers to speak before the ongregation on their experiene with war and how it has affeted them, to onnet with their pain and offer it up to God for their healing, Pappas says. The idea of the new ministry, Pappas says, arose from talks he had with the ommander and haplain about what more Holy Trinity ould do to support the regiment. Mental health and healing have always ome up in these talks, he says. Pappas says the soldiers of the South Alberta Light Horse are exited about the new program. They appreiate the fat that we are, says. That really is a large portion of what helps they know that we re thinking about them, that we are and we re doing what we an to help them out. The regiment has about 120 people. g

anglian journal november 2016 13 CANADA4 Bishop raises $22K in pedalling pilgrimage To aess stories exlusive to the web, go to www.anglianjournal.

of Qu Appelle, was approahed by someone wanting to know what the point of it was.

12 anglian journal november CANADA4 Bishop raises $22K in pedalling pilgrimage To aess stories exlusive to the web, go to om/more Caledonia eletoral synod anelled after parishioner omplaint photo: art babyh Sometime before he was about to embark on his ross-provine biyle ride this June, Bishop Rob Hardwik, of the dioese of Qu Appelle, was approahed by someone wanting to know what the point of it was. Hardwik responded that the nine-day, 723-km ride was to be a pilgrimage for prayer and worship with parishioners, with the goal of raising $10,000 to support mission and the Bishop s Disretionary Fund. The man, Hardwik says, then handed over a heque for $10,500 on behalf of his family. We don t want you to worry about, or onentrate your efforts on, fundraising, the man said. Go enjoy the ride and dediate your time instead [to] what is more important, your Lord and your people. The event represented the answering of just one of Hardwik s prayers for the ride, the bishop says in a refletion that appeared in the Saskathewan Anglian. Soon after the ride, more than $22,000 had already been raised, without even any overt fundraising on the bishop s part, he said. Moreover, the nine days, the bishop says, were also a time of intense prayer and fellowship, as he stopped to lead worship in 19 plaes along the route. All told, 377 people gathered in 19 hurhes along the way, for morning prayer servies, Euharists, mid-day prayer, evening prayer and gospel jamborees not to mention, he says, potluk feasts. Fifteen other ylists joined him along various setions of his pilgrimage. The pilgrimage, Hardwik says, had him yling at an average speed of 25 km/h, over 146 hills, while oping with summer heat and shifting wind. It was a physial hallenge he d spent two years training for, by riding a total of 4,300 km and losing 92 pounds (42 kg) in the proess. The experiene, he says, followed two Bennett to retire After eight years in the role, Bishop Robert Bennett, of the dioese of Huron, will retire Nov. 1, Bennett, who beame dioesan bishop in 2008 after serving as suffragan (assistant) bishop of the dioese for six years, announed his retirement last spring. Sueeding him will be Bishop Linda Niholls, who was eleted oadjutor bishop of the dioese February 13. Bennett said one of the great privileges he enjoyed as bishop was the hane to witness first-hand the ministry being done in parishes aross the dioese. To beome a bishop is to be punhed out of your omfort zone and maybe even your myopi sense of what is real, he said. Every Sunday, I go somewhere different, and by and large, I m like, Wow, look at the stuff they re doing here! Among the most troubling things he witnessed as bishop, Bennett said, was the divisiveness aused by the issue of human sexuality. I think it s taken a great toll both within ongregations and the House of Bishops, he said. That issue and it s still there is always front and entre in the house, and it makes it very diffiult for me, and I think everybody else, to embrae and fous on what we re really about as hurh. Bennett said he had also found it diffiult to see the shrinking of ongregations 5Bishop Rob Hardwik (left) and his son, Robert (right), with members of St. Mary s parish in Whitewood, Sask., one of 19 hurhes they visited during the pedalling pilgrimage of prayer. photo: lorraine hardwik photo: dioese of huron Bennett: To beome a bishop is to be punhed out of your omfort zone. in the dioese, attributable partly to delining populations in some areas and partly to the vortex of hange set in motion by the seularization of ulture. But Bennett also said he was impressed by the people now being ordained people, he said, whose talents and ommitment made him feel hopeful for the hurh. Bennett said he wants to ontinue doing ministry of some kind, possibly supply work. The son of an Anglian priest, Bennett was ordained a priest in 1975 and served numerous parishes in the dioese before his eletion as suffragan bishop. g other similarly gruelling yet spiritually rewarding events of the summer: an intensive study week for new bishops in Rihmond, Va., and July s General Synod in Rihmond Hill, Ont. In fat, Hardwik says all three experienes taught him similar lessons: the importane of good preparation and disipline, perseverane and healthy leadership, for example. Leadership demands muh of us and, if I have learned anything over the last few weeks, it is the importane of good preparation; staying prayerfully attentive; to be willing to make the unomfortable deision; to not let emotion lead, but rather subsription servie Most IMportant Plae label in this spae. If not available, print old address here. IF God s still small voie, even when his voie suggests a different way. Without a doubt, all three events were hallenging, unomfortable, demanding, enlightening, and yet all were bathed in the presene of Christ, he ontinues. In all the disomfort...i an ertainly testify to the presene of the Comforter and to the prayers, hospitality and enouragement of the faithful, whih have sustained me. The Bishop s Disretionary Fund is used to pay for a variety of expenses in the dioese, suh as hotel rooms for people needing a plae to stay beause of family medial problems, or sending spiritual leaders for eduation training. g You have moved You are reeiving more than one opy You have moved to a new parish Your name, address or postal ode is inorret Please hek the appropriate box above and print new information below. 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14 anglian journal november 2016 WORLD4 Task group holds first meeting to maintain onversation To aess stories exlusive to the web, go to www.anglianjournal.

13 14 anglian journal november 2016 WORLD4 Task group holds first meeting to maintain onversation To aess stories exlusive to the web, go to om/more Religion sholars release delaration of rights photo: harvey shepherd By Adrian Buther/ACNS The task group set up after the Primates Gathering and Meeting in January to maintain onversation met for the first time in September and stressed its determination to work together. But it aknowledged the proess would take time and ould not be rushed. The primates asked the Arhbishop of Canterbury to appoint the group to restore relationships, rebuild mutual trust, heal the legay of hurt and explore deep differenes. Arhbishop Welby presented the group s mandate to ACC16 in Lusaka in April where it was reeived and affirmed. What we are trying to do here is mirror what we desire for the whole Communion, said the Coadjutor Bishop of Huron, Linda Niholls. We are trying to pratise in our engagement with eah other here what we long for in the wider Communion. 5Members of the Arhbishop of Canterbury s task group photo: ans Arhbishop Ian Ernest, from the Provine of the Indian Oean, said exhanges within the group had been frank and open. What has ome out very learly is the level of transpareny that we have in the group. We have been able to be open and speak openly about our differenes, he said. We also reognise the rihness of the Communion. And we all love our Communion that is what binds us together. Refleting on the diversity, Canon Rosemary Mbogo, the provinial seretary of the Anglian Churh of Kenya, said there was no grouping within the Communion whose views would not be listened to. The Episopal Churh s Presiding Bishop, Mihael Curry, aknowledged that finding solutions would take time. Quik fixes aren t long-term solutions, he said. Long-term solutions require long-term work. We are talking about relationships. You don t build or renew or heal relationships overnight. So, we are going to take whatever time it takes but we are going to do it. 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 8,000 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 Fine Arts, Classial Studies, Theatre Arts, Women s 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. Information: The President, Thorneloe University, 935 Ramsey Lake Rd, Sudbury ON P3E 2C6 Phone: Fax: president@thorneloe.a Website: TRINITY COLLEGE The oldest entre for theologial studies in the Anglian Churh of Canada, the Faulty of Divinity offers a wide variety of aredited programs, at master s and dotoral levels, in eumenial ollaboration within the Toronto Shool of Theology and in federation with the University of Toronto. Liberal and atholi in theology, onsiously refletive of the liturgy and the spiritual life, enouraging exellene in the pratie of ministry, engaged in urrent issues of soiety, onneted to hurh ommunities and offering finanial support in all programs. For more information please ontat: Faulty of Divinity, Trinity College, 6 Hoskin Avenue, Toronto ON M5S 1H8 (416) divinity@trinity.utoronto.a VANCOUVER SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY Fully aredited by the Assoiation of Theologial Shools, VST is a multi-denominational graduate theologial ollege that serves the leadership needs of Christian ommunities aross North Ameria and beyond. VST offers an M.Div., Native Ministries M.Div by extension, MA in Theologial Studies, Master of Theology, MA in Publi and Pastoral Leadership, MA in Indigenous and Interreligious Studies, Master of Theology in Indigenous and Inter-religious Studies, diplomas in denominational and graduate studies, and a variety of ertifiate programs, ontinuing eduation program and summer shool programs. VST programs an fit into most shedules and fulfill a diverse range of learning needs, inluding distane eduation. Alongside the Centre for Christian Leadership, the establishment of the Iona Paifi Inter-religious Centre and the Indigenous Studies Centre provide the ontext for ongoing ollaboration and partnership within our inter-religious and First Nations ommunities. Engaging publi events, workshops and January Intensives round out VST s offerings. Consider an eduation at Vanouver Shool of Theology and find out more by visiting our website at or ing possibilities@vst.edu. WYCLIFFE COLLEGE, at the University of Toronto is an evangelial Anglian ommunity of learning within the Toronto Shool of Theology offering both masters level and advaned degree programs Our programs are designed to hallenge, enourage and equip students from many denominations to live out their faith and provide leadership as either ordained or lay leaders in their hurh and wider ommunities. Innovative programs have been introdued suh as the Master of Divinity for Pioneer Ministries and the Master of Theologial Studies in Urban and International Development. The flexibility of part time study and online learning in the masters programs provides aessibility. Finanial support in all programs is available. Visit us at or telephone (416) for further information. anglianjournal.om 1

EVERYDAY SAINTS4 5The quilt that raised $5,000.

And down on Cape Breton Island, Joanne Turner is still honouring the venerable folk art of the quilt.

residents. I work on them over the winter and into the spring.

Last year, with bids starting Joanne Turner at $300, one of her inspirational quilts ultimately fethed $5,000 in a silent aution that travelled hurh to hurh the length and breadth of the island.

Brunswik and Nova Sotia. The design, Desert Flower, breathes the spare, spiritual quality of the Amerian Southwest.

Then she brings a lab tehniian s preision to utting her own work patterns for the appliqués. Designs aside, Turner s omforters are meant to be warm and pratial.

14 EVERYDAY SAINTS4 5The quilt that raised $5,000. photo: ontributed A passion for quilting By Diana Swift ROBERT Louis Stevenson elebrated the imaginative magi of the omforter in his famous hildren s poem The Land of Counterpane. And down on Cape Breton Island, Joanne Turner is still honouring the venerable folk art of the quilt. Eah year, the 75-year-old member of Trinity Anglian Churh, in the parish of Sydney Mines with Baddek, rafts several beautiful patterned omforters and gives them away to harity or nursing home residents. I work on them over the winter and into the spring. It probably takes me about three or four months, said Turner, who returned to Cape Breton in 1995 after a areer as a medial lab tehniian in ities all over Canada. Last year, with bids starting Joanne Turner at $300, one of her inspirational quilts ultimately fethed $5,000 in a silent aution that travelled hurh to hurh the length and breadth of the island. Turner had donated the queensize overlet to the Anglian Churh Women Nova Sotia Board s annual projet, , entitled Ability to Live with Spirit, with proeeds going to the ALS Soiety of New Brunswik and Nova Sotia. The design, Desert Flower, breathes the spare, spiritual quality of the Amerian Southwest. It was developed by Elizabeth Whitehead, based, I think, on designs of the Navajo Indians, said Turner, who takes her overall onepts from magazines suh as Amerian Quilt Sampler. Then she brings a lab tehniian s preision to utting her own work patterns for the appliqués. Designs aside, Turner s omforters are meant to be warm and pratial. I make those quilts to be on the bed, she said. A member of the Golden Arm Quilters, based at St. James Presbyterian Churh in Sydney Mines, Turner reently donated a quilt that raised $1,300 for a loal nursing home. And another piee is destined to raise funds to help her granddaughter s Irish dane troupe visit Ireland next year. Taking shape now on her frame is a butterfly quilt, based on a deliate design inspired by women s antique handkerhiefs. But Turner s Christian harity extends far beyond donating anglian journal november her finely rafted quilts. She also volunteers at Alderwood Nursing Home several times a week, serves as a lay reader at Trinity and gives presentations to the hildren of the hurh. One time, she told them the story of pretzel-making and atually gave them a lesson in how to make pretzels, said the Rev. Staey LeMoine, retor of Trinity Anglian s 100-plus family parish. She s an amazing, positive, reative person. Everyone just loves Joanne espeially her infetious laugh. What a laugh she has! And quilt-making seems to run in Cape Bretoners blood. Trinity s own quilting group makes touh quilts for loal Alzheimer s patients. 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