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December 2020 No Room in the Inn Homelessness of Retired Cathedral Dean Exemplifies Northern Housing Crisis ANGLICAN JOURNAL Since 1875 anglicanjournal.com @anglicanjournal vol. 146 no. 10 december 2020 No room in the inn Homelessness of retired cathedral dean exemplifies northern housing crisis Matt Gardner Church of Canada that included stints as crisis that plagues Canada’s North. STAFF WRITER a member of General Synod, participation Since his retirement, Allooloo has Two years ago, the Rev. Jonas Allooloo in various national committees and work been unsuccessfully looking for affordable was dean of St. Jude’s Cathedral in Iqaluit, as a translator who helped produce the first housing. Last summer, the retired priest Nunavut, preparing to retire after more Inuktitut Bible. and his wife Meena left the hotel where they than four decades of work in the Anglican As of October, however, he was effectively had been living and moved in with their homeless—another casualty of the housing See ALLOOLOO, p. 2 PHOTO: SEBASTIAN/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Iqaluit has some of the highest rent prices in Canada and low vacancy rates, leading to a severe shortage of affordable housing. ‘God is waiting for us’ Church mourns Bishop Geoffrey Peddle As COVID-19 propels us towards a different kind of Christmas, this Advent could be a time Tali Folkins with all who for considering God’s expectations for Christians and the church, says Newfoundland priest STAFF WRITER mourn today and and theological studies professor Robert Cooke The church is mourning the loss through the days to come.” of Geoffrey Peddle, bishop of the in what theology looks like lived out on the Peddle was Matthew Townsend diocese of Eastern Newfoundland and g rou n d .” elected bishop EDITOR Labrador, who died Oct. 8. Cooke describes himself as less in November The Rev. Robert Cooke is the rector of St. “It is with a very heavy heart that interested in ivory towers and theory 2013, succeeding Mark’s Anglican Church in St. John’s, N.L. I share with you the sad news that and more focused on a “get-your-hands- PHOTO: EMILY ROWE Cyrus Pitman. our beloved Bishop, The Rt. Rev. Dr. He’s also an adjunct professor at Queen’s dirty theology.” In anticipation of Advent, Born in Bonavista, Peddle earned B.A. Geoffrey Curtis Ralph Peddle, passed College’s faculty of theology. Wearing that the Anglican Journal spoke with Cooke and M.A. degrees from Memorial away suddenly today,” diocesan hat, he finds inspiration in 21st-century in October about the church’s season of University of Newfoundland, and an administrator Archdeacon Sam expressions of theology in the vein of waiting—and what might be different this M.Div from Queen’s College in St. Rose said in an Oct. 8 note posted Jürgen Moltmann and John Caputo, year. The interview, found on p. 8, has been John’s. He received a PhD in empirical to the Cathedral Messenger Online, including radical theology and process edited for brevity and clarity. theology from Cardiff University, U.K., an electronic newsletter from the theology—“Basically, I’m really interested See COOKE, p. 8 and was ordained in 1987. He served diocese’s Cathedral of St. John the as priest in a number of Newfoundland Baptist. “While this is very painful for parishes and was, for a time, the us to process at this moment, we are diocese’s executive officer. Peddle was ‘The agora is online now’ comforted by the grace of God which provost and vice-chancellor of Queen’s Has the pandemic pushed the church into a new digital age? truly passes all understanding.” College when he was elected. As In a statement the following day, bishop, he became known for voicing Tali Folkins its doors to worship, Boeckner chose not Archbishop Linda Nicholls, primate of support for a number of social causes, STAFF WRITER to return, out of concern for her safety the Anglican Church of Canada, asked including same-sex marriage and the for prayers for Peddle’s wife, Kathy, his rights of prison inmates. Since mid-March, when churches in the and that of the other residents of her sons Benjamin and Adam, and for the According to an obituary for Peddle diocese of Quebec began to close for building. whole diocese. on the website of a St. John’s funeral in-person worship, Joan Boeckner, 75, a Boeckner says she misses the “In Christ we know that God home, a funeral service was to be parishioner at Quebec City’s Cathedral connection with other people she used holds in love all our pain and sorrow,” planned when friends and family are of the Holy Trinity, has not been going to to experience before COVID-19 came Nicholls said. “May that love be present able to gather. g church. Even after the cathedral re-opened to Canada. Yet, she’s quick to add, her See ONLINE MINISTRY, p. 6 3 7 PM# 40069670 Pastoral care A COVID-era wedding for seniors in — for a a pandemic bishop 2 anglican journal • december 2020 Fyfe voted bishop of N.S./P.E.I. Greenwood-Lee elected bishop of B.C. Matt Gardner dained as a deacon in 2000 STAFF WRITER and a priest in 2001. Joelle Kidd to be elected to leadership, The consecration of Sandra Fyfe’s ministry has in- STAFF WRITER Greenwood-Lee says. “It’s Fyfe as the new bishop of cluded stints in Newfound- The Rev. Anna Green- harder to build relation- Nova Scotia and Prince Ed- land and Nova Scotia. As an wood-Lee, incumbent ships when we’re not able ward Island was scheduled archdeacon, she oversaw the at St. Laurence Anglican to be physically together to take place on Nov. 30. South Shore Region until Church in the diocese of in the ways that we’re used But for the bishop-elect, her 2009 and the Valley Region, Calgary, was elected bish- to. But it is possible.” involvement in episcopal in the Annapolis Valley, up op of the diocese of British Greenwood-Lee says ministry, in a certain sense, to 2017. Columbia Sept. 26. she will be consecrated began much earlier. She plans to focus her She was elected on the Jan. 30, and is planning to Fyfe’s previous expe- initial time as bishop on seventh ballot during a move from Calgary some on Sept. 12 at the diocese’s rience as a deacon, priest getting a fuller sense of the virtual synod. time in January. “It’s a bit 149th session, which met en three years to “either and archdeacon taught her diocese, its clergy, its people Greenwood-Lee says complicated, because I in 11 locations across both turn the place around or that “episcopal ministry is a and the issues they face. the diocese’s vision of have two kids who are 12 provinces. At the time of the close it,” she says. “It’s still shared ministry,” the bish- Creating a new mission ac- transformation spoke to and 17, my husband, and vote, Fyfe was rector of the here!” op-elect told the Journal. tion plan is another priority. her. “It felt like my gifts my in-laws live with us.” Greenwood-Lee says During her time as an arch- Parish of Horton at St. John’s “I think COVID-19 has and what they were look- She hopes to commute she has an interest in deacon, she helped form the Church in Wolfville, N.S., created its own challenges,” ing for in terms of their back and forth until the bishop’s advisory council, where she had served since Fyfe said. “My sense is that vision lined up.” helping the church try end of the school year and discussing challenges and 2009. people are a bit weary and Greenwood-Lee points to enter a new stage of then move her family to opportunities facing the Prior to her ordination, some people are discour- to her interest in social its life. “I feel like we’re B.C. diocese and how it might Fyfe obtained a degree in aged. So I think part of my justice, particularly in the called to be midwives of Greenwood-Lee was respond. public relations from Mount ministry will be about really creation of the Wis- what God is birthing in ordained a priest in the “It was very much a Saint Vincent University listening and leaning in to dom Centre, an online our midst…. Death is diocese of Calgary in collective process,” Fyfe and worked in that field for some of that, and trying to network that connects a natural part of life, so 2001. She holds a B.A. recalled.” several years. She subse- discern together with the people with events and some parts of our institu- in religious studies, a Fyfe’s election as the 17th quently earned an M.Div diocesan staff and diocesan resources. She also has tional life are dying. But clinical pastoral degree, Anglican bishop of Nova from Queen’s Theological council and others how to experience with congre- at the same time, I think an M.Div and a MBA. Scotia and P.E.I. took place College and became or- respond.” g gational development and amazing things are strug- She has served as a priest teaches courses on the gling to be born, or are in the diocese of Calgary topic. In 2006, when she being born in our midst.” and diocese of Toronto. became the incumbent at The COVID-19 pan- She will be the diocese’s Allooloo: North’s housing dearth dire St. Laurence, she was giv- demic is a “strange time” first female bishop. g Continued from p.
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