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This year’s General Synod has punted to 2025 two major governance motions that arose in 2019 — after delegates failed to change the marriage canon — including one recommendation that would neuter bishops’ voting powers.
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AN INTERNATIONAL conference of Anglican leaders, deeply troubled by the Church of England’s blessing of same-sex unions, have rejected the four governing structures that currently hold the Anglican Communion together – including the Archbishop of Canterbury.
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WHY have a coronation when one already has a monarch? After all, a British sovereign ascends to the throne immediately upon the death of his predecessor. Prince Charles became King Charles the moment his mother died. Hence the proclamation: “The Queen is dead! Long live the King!” Continuity and stability are everything.
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IF WE are to tell the Christian story of redemption in a more beautiful fashion, Michael Ward believes we must, like C.S. Lewis, “become alive to beauty in every context, the beauty of bread and butter, of the skies and everything in between.”
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Three men who died this past summer will probably best be remembered for one outstanding book they each wrote.
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(Staff) THE ARCHBISHOP of Canterbury Justin Welby will visit Canada this spring. The symbolic head of the global Anglican Communion has accepted an invitation from the Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, Archbishop Linda Nicholls, and National Indigenous Archbishop Mark MacDonald.
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(Staff) THOUSANDS OF INFANTS died in homes for unwed mothers run by the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland during the last century, according to a government report issued Jan. 12.
Ireland’s Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes found 9,000 children died in the institutions –
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Probably only a few of us have read as much as we had hoped to during the spring lockdown. But there is still the summer ahead and our inveterate West Coast reviewers have some intriguing suggestions for us.
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By Sue Careless THE DILEMMA faced by many Christians working in the arts was expressed succinctly in 1999 by Karyn
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