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Archive: October 2017
Huron: Conversations on the Marriage Canon
General Synod 2016 passed a resolution to change the Marriage Canon (Canon XXI, On Marriage in the Church) so it will apply to “all persons who are duly qualified by civil law to enter into marriage.” This resolution will only come into effect if it is passed by...
How to take part in a consultation on the proposed changes to the Marriage Canon?
The Diocese of Huron is in the midst of a consultation about the proposed changes to the Marriage Canon. The process began at Huron Synod 2017 and will end at Synod 2018. At Synod 2017, members were introduced to the motion passed at General Synod 2016 to change the...
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Rev. Marty Levesque At the recent clergy conference in Niagara Falls, the guest speaker Nadia Bolz Weber spoke about the distrust of institutions that is prevalent among Millennials. She proposed that the locus of authority has shifted from institutions, like the...
Great expectations: to wish is to hope and to hope is to expect
By Laurel Pattenden Great expectations! We all have them. Jane Austen wrote “To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.” And we do expect endlessly. Expectations come in all shapes and sizes. Inner, outer, realistic and unrealistic expectations can fill our days....
Anglican Church of Canada News Feed
- Apply to be a Youth Conference Steward at Lambeth 2020
- A Statement by the Indigenous Elders of General Synod 2019 On the Occasion of the Primate’s Apology for Spiritual Harm
- A Message from the Prolocutor and Deputy Prolocutor
- A Message From the House of Bishops of the Anglican Church of Canada to General Synod 2019
- “An Apology for Spiritual Harm”
- Church Leaders Pledge Solidarity in Prayer and Action
- Tragedy, grief, and action: Response to the report from the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
- A Call to Discipleship: Hearing the Message from Arusha, Tanzania in our Churches in Canada and the U.S.A.
- Remembering Jean: Mourning with the Community of Daybreak
- Pray for Sri Lankans
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Anglican Communion News Service
- New residential members at Lambeth Palace are preparing to start their Year in Gods Time
- New bishop tasked with training leaders for Ethiopia’s fast-growing churches
- States must listen to churches over peace-building
- Photo competition to showcase diversity of mission in UK churches
- First Māori woman to become a bishop in Aotearoa New Zealand
- Malaysian Government ban on joint prayers could increase discrimination between different faiths
- Vulnerable to benefit from Welsh church centenary appeal
- Papal embrace for new director of the Anglican Centre in Rome during Mauritius visit
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