Royal Baptism may renew interest in ancient rite

The Archbishop of Canterbury conducted the baptism of Prince George of Cambridge. Perhaps the time is ripe for a renewal of interest in the practice of baptism – for all the right reasons.

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(Staff)  WILL THE BAPTISM of Prince George in England on Oct. 23^rd renew interest in the ancient Christian initiation rite of baptism?  Perhaps his young, trendsetting parents, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, will also make some spiritual waves.  

With falling birth rates and soaring secularism, fewer people are being baptized

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Learn4Eternity

Adult education at Church

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By Sue Careless

SCHOOL BOARDS and universities across the country offer night school classes and continuing education courses for adults, often with the slogans ‘Lifelong learning’ or ‘Learn4Life.’ Now many Anglican churches are offering classes not just for children in Sunday school or for teens preparing for confirmation but for adults in their congregation and in their wider community.

Christianity 101

What is proving very popular is a basic course on Christianity, a kind of “Christianity 101”

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Reweaving the torn fabric of our Communion

Why the Covenant & the Instruments of Unity still matter

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The conflict in the Anglican Communion is like an adulterous husband who hopes to reconcile with his wife while still continuing an amorous relationship with his mistress, says Mouneer Anis.

THE MOST Rev. Mouneer Anis, Primate of Egypt and the Middle East, gave the most comprehensive address at the “Back to the Anglican Future” Conference on Sept. 18^th at Wycliffe College in Toronto. 

He began by asking: “Are we still a Communion when ‘our fabric has been torn at the deepest level,’ when many of its Provinces are in broken or impaired communion with

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Francis: A Pope of Our Own Making?

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Commentary by Tim Perry

AT THE TIME of writing, Pope Francis has given several informal and two formal interviews, causing quite a stir. Some media sources have given themselves to triumphant pronouncements about how different Francis will be from his two immediate predecessors, John Paul II and Benedict XVI. While it is certainly the case that Francis is, and will be, different, I notice in these claims a curious pattern

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Good Question

What is ‘the beatific vision‘?

‘BEATIFIC’ MEANS ‘BLESSED’. The ‘beatific vision’ is ‘blessed’ in at least two ways. The first has to do with its object – that which is seen. It is the vision of God. Nothing could be more blessed. Secondly, there is the subject – those who see. Those to whom God reveals himself and to whom he gives ‘eyes’ capable of looking upon him are blessed. 

Modern Christians seldom talk about the end or goal of the Christian life as

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