Oct 25, 2017 | Coadjutor bishop election, Featured, News
On the morning of October 21, the extraordinary synod of the Diocese of Amazonia was held at the Cathedral of St. Mary, Belém do Pará. Clerical and lay delegates met to carry out the election of the coadjutor bishop of the diocese. The synod was presided by Bishop...
Oct 23, 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...
Oct 23, 2017 | Featured, Huron Church News, Huron: Conversations on the Marriage Canon, Marriage Canon, News
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...
Oct 21, 2017 | Columnists, Featured, Huron Church News, News
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...
Oct 21, 2017 | Columnists, Featured, Huron Church News, News
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....