Anglican Journal Since 1875 anglicanjournal.com @anglicanjournal vol. 147 no. 4 april 2021 ‘Life marches on’ As the pandemic persists, Anglicans across Canada continue to adapt life- and death-defining liturgies

Matt Gardner weeks,” he adds. “When we can do it in the staff writer proper and safe way, it just reminds us of “Baptism by fire” may be a fitting how privileged we are to be able to do … description for the first baptisms carried things we [used to] take for granted.” out by the Rev. Michael Tutton. While vaccine rollouts are ongoing, A full-time journalist with the the fight against the novel coronavirus Canadian Press who was ordained in 2018, is far from over. As the pandemic drags Tutton is currently an assistant priest at on, Anglicans are increasingly striving to the Anglican Parish of St. Timothy and adapt liturgies to the “new normal” of the pandemic, including services marking St. Paul in Halifax. He officiated at his first some of the most significant parts of two baptisms last fall and winter. Both took life and death: baptisms, weddings and place during the COVID-19 pandemic. funerals. Despite the measures required to safeguard against COVID-19, including Following health guidelines masks, social distancing and frequent sanitization, the experience of the baptisms When Tutton officiated the baptism at was highly fulfilling for Tutton—and, he St. Timothy’s, capacity inside the church believes, for others as well. was limited to comply with COVID-19 “It feels special to be performing restrictions. All participants wore masks baptisms in a time of adversity for people, and observed strict social distancing. knowing that they’ll look back on that day Parishioner Colleen Munn brought her daughter Janessa to be baptized on and it’ll be part of their family’s story and Jan. 24. Her family had originally planned their legacy,” Tutton says. to baptize Janessa on Easter 2020, and “It was also, I think, very uplifting then Thanksgiving. However, spikes in photo: contributed for the people of the parish, because COVID-19 infections meant they had to Halifax priest the Rev. Michael Tutton has officiated over two pandemic baptisms— everything we do now, we don’t know if including the Jan. 24 baptism of 13-month-old Janessa, daughter of Colleen Munn. we’ll be able to do it in three weeks or four See SMALLER GATHERINGS, p. 6

THE ‘Canada needs healing’ 4 INTERVIEW Bishop Isaiah Beardy on Bill C-15 and UNDRIP

Joelle Kidd the Declaration”; current suffragan bishop of the Northern staff writer “prepare and Manitoba Area Mission. He has also served implement an as a councillor and chief in his home In December 2020, Minister of Justice and action plan community of Tataskweyak Cree Nation Attorney General of Canada David Lametti to achieve the (Split Lake, Man.). introduced Bill C-15, the United Nations Declaration’s This interview has been edited for Our people Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous objectives”; and length and clarity. Peoples Act, which, if passed, will require are waiting “table an annual “ the government of Canada to align the for Canada report on progress Bill C-15, if it passes, requires to live up to country’s laws with the United Nations to align the laws that Canada’s laws align with the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous our nation- of Canada and on UN Declaration on the Rights of Peoples (UNDRIP). The declaration, the action plan.” Indigenous Peoples, is that right? to-nation which was adopted by the UN in 2007, is These actions relationship not legally binding. Canada endorsed the Yeah, that’s my understanding. It will are to be taken become law if it’s passed at Parliament declaration as an “aspirational document” that’s spelled “in consultation through two levels of government, the in 2010, and officially adopted it “without out in the and cooperation House of Commons and the Senate. qualification” in 2016. treaties. with Indigenous Modelled after the private member’s bill 5 Isaiah peoples,” according to the backgrounder There was a similar bill, Bill C-262, introduced in 2018 by then-MP Romeo Beardy, bishop on the bill. which didn’t pass the Senate. Do you Saganash—which passed the House of of Northern To hear more about what Bill C-15 think this new bill is going to be able Commons but failed in the Senate—Bill Manitoba Area could mean for Indigenous communities, to pass both houses? C-15 would require the government to Mission the Journal spoke with Bishop Isaiah “take all measures necessary to ensure Beardy, former member of the Anglican I think there’s going to be a more secure photo: contributed the laws of Canada are consistent with Council of Indigenous Peoples and See BEARDY, p. 3 4 11 Senior year— Jubillee from my Commission PM# 40069670 bedroom project launch 2 anglican journal • april 2021

NEWS4 CoGS hears of progress, priorities at triennium’s halfway point Matt Gardner, Joelle Kidd and and “way of life”—of the self-governing Matthew Townsend Indigenous church. Sacred Circle, he said, anglican journal staff will meet online this summer—with a series At this year’s first meeting of the Council of regional sacred circles also planned to of General Synod (CoGS), members heard allow discussion of these documents. of progress made by leaders, committee MacDonald also told CoGS of the members and staff of the Anglican Church pandemic-related deaths of several senior of Canada towards goals established at clergy involved in Indigenous ministry, General Synod 2019—and the ways that which he called a “horrible situation.” He the COVID-19 pandemic has introduced noted “that on a good day, we are stretched new challenges in this triennium. very thin.” Thus, the deaths have brought The one-day, online meeting was both grief and further constraints to held on Zoom on Feb. 20, about halfway ministry during the pandemic. between the previous meeting of General Other initiatives of Indigenous Ministries Synod and the next, in 2022. The day include its online gospel jams; work on began with remarks from Archbishop gospel-based discipleship; lay ministers’ Linda Nicholls, primate of the Anglican training and training for ordination; Church of Canada, who briefly reflected and support groups for youth suicide on the pandemic’s impacts on Anglicans. prevention, MacDonald said. Canon Murray “We got through Christmas, which was Still, co-chair of the Anglican Council of a challenge for many because so many of Indigenous Peoples (ACIP), reported on an us were in full lockdown and unable to ongoing partnership between ACIP and the be with family and friends, and still living 5 Part of an the Indigenous church, all priorities that Red Cross that had led to joint organizing of with all the uncertainties of COVID,” she illustration by emerged at the previous General Synod. suicide prevention workshops, in Winnipeg said. A new year had brought with it a Reconciliation Strategic Planning Working Group and elsewhere. continuing shutdown. “But there is hope Animator (SPWG) chair Judith Moses said the CoGS, meanwhile, is reviewing the on the horizon,” Nicholls added. Melanie Delva group had now received feedback from Anglican Church of Canada’s constitution. As the day progressed, CoGS members depicting Council CoGS on the listening groups formed after Chancellor Canon (lay) David Jones said heard several reports on how the church of General Synod the onset of the pandemic, and possible that over the past year, CoGS has received is working to develop plans and new halfway through priorities for CoGS to consider. With this five memoranda from the Governance structures for the future. Among the key the 2019-2022 work complete, the SPWG had entered Working Group (GWG) to flesh out what topics reviewed were the church’s efforts at triennium the second phase of its work, Moses said, concerns and possible changes might emerge from the constitutional review strategic planning, constitutional review photo: melanie delva which involves looking at the implications and the further self-determination of of these potential priorities. proposed at General Synod 2019. GWG Moses said that although a strategic plans to bring to the May meeting of CoGS plan similar to Vision 2019 will be the proposals it might recommend for “simply not possible” in 2022, Anglicans CoGS to take forward to General Synod in 2022, he said. OING INTO LABOUR in the dark of night will receive an overarching plan for the national church. The council also passed a resolution can be dangerous without electricity. G Like the SPWG, Indigenous Ministries extending thanks to Dale Drozda, who In 2016 PWRDF partnered with We Care Give life, has seen changes in its work and plans, decided to withdraw from CoGS. Clare Solar (USA) and Mozambican partner EHALE give solar. especially regarding this year’s Sacred Urquhart will take Drozda’s place on the to install clean and efficient solar power to 30 Circle gathering, National Indigenous council. Archbishop Mark MacDonald said. The next meeting of CoGS is scheduled health clinics without light. These “solar Its focus now, he said, is preparing the to take place on March 13, followed by a suitcases” have made a huge impact on safe constitution and canons—the “covenant” three-day meeting from May 7-9. g deliveries and health of moms and babies.

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THE INTERVIEW4 Beardy: ‘Our people are waiting for Canada’ Continued from p. 1 we signed the Northern Flood Agreement, process with the bill, because the other where our people had to be consulted one was tabled by an individual. This before any development happens. one is tabled by, actually, the federal But the sad thing about that today government in power. is governments like Manitoba are now The other bill ran out of time. reneging on what they signed. They don’t There were a lot of stall tactics by the want to listen to the Indigenous people. opposition—they delayed it and [it] ran They say, “It’s not our responsibility, it’s a out of time. So it didn’t have the chance to federal responsibility,” and sometimes they get approved. But this one, I understand, bully us. They come in and do whatever it’s going to have a royal assent. they want, and then we have to do road My people blocks and things like that to get things have been What are people on the ground doing across. And then the governments and the “ to further this bill? corporations, they file court injunctions to traumatized try to remove us off our land. Well, I sat in on an Assembly of First for a long time Those things are still happening. Nations virtual gathering talking about by government It’s a reality. And I think governments, the UN declaration. I also sat through an especially provincial—it shows a sign of, I policies that educational forum that was put together guess, insecurity. They don’t know how to have taken by the University of British Columbia— have a relationship, a treaty relationship because I understand the government away children. with Indigenous people on the land. We have to of B.C. has already adopted, through legislation, the declaration. So this bill will help push back on deal with that, [Chief Wilton] Littlechild, who that? and we need has been working on the declaration the churches since 1977, spoke about how it has Should help, yeah. I haven’t heard if it has to be passed in all the provincial and spiritual evolved and how it was received by the world, how it developed—it was very legislatures, but there’s going to be a leaders to help fascinating how he outlined it. One of federal law—that’s going to impact out with that. the things that really rung out in my everything. understanding of what he was saying 5 “First Nations was, individual nations—including What do you think the bill’s biggest are self- First Nations in Canada—they can impacts would be? determining— embrace the declaration. They don’t we’ve always Probably development. Northern Canada, need to ask anybody. They can go it’s an area where there’s going to be a lot had self- ahead and implement it in their own of development happening. Right now we determination, community. Because First Nations are have hydro development, but when I go even though self-determining—we’ve always had self- outside and I look around there’s mineral determination, even though people don’t people don’t exploration happening. In the future, recognize it. recognize it,” there may be more mines—gold mines, At the ground level, for my says Beardy. and in the North there’s a lot of diamond community, it really hasn’t been talked photo: contributed drilling, diamond mines. So there’s all about. But it’s been around. I’ll give you this extraction, and I think that’s going to an example. I was teaching at the school, 4Beardy was really affect the people. the high school. We talked about the UN consecrated But along with that, when you have declaration article by article with the suffragan bishop development you have to deal with high school students, and looked at what of the Northern social and justice issues. Hopefully with it meant. What we started doing—we Manitoba Area the declaration it would be used as a haven’t finished—we started translating it Mission in 2018. framework to work together in Canada to their language. photo: contributed to address that: how best to deal with I wanted them to know what their development, with social and justice issues They utilize it as a framework to settle rights are in the world, and also what the for people who are affected. issues already. But I guess once it’s passed nations of the world are declaring about When you talk about a billion-dollar as law in Canada, it might replace—or their rights. Basically I wanted to plant project, a lot of that money is siphoned we might have to re-look at—policies like a seed in the young people about this out, extracted from the area. There’s no declaration, supported by the world, and the Indian Act. Are these policies helpful? supports. In some cases, local people, that their rights are very important to Are they living up to the declaration? especially women, have been raped, and them. The Indian Act has really affected this is kept in the dark until 50 years later. So that’s what’s happening at the local the lives of our people, especially on So you need a lot of healing. level. We hear from outside that Canada reservations. We can’t do things without My people have been traumatized for is trying to pass a bill that’s going to the consent of the government. The a long time by government policies that support this declaration, which is good— government has a veto on our people, have taken away children. We have to deal but it’s a long time coming, eh? I think whatever we want to do. If we want to with that, and we need the churches and Littlechild said that it was passed in the develop, we have to get approval. So the spiritual leaders to help out with that. And United Nations in 2007. That’s 14 years declaration, in my understanding, will I’m looking to the federal government, ago, you know? Where is Canada? be an instrument to look at all legislation I’m looking to the corporations, to help But our people are living it out every that affects Indigenous people. us out with that. In my area, I’m looking day. Our people are waiting for Canada for support in healing, in spirituality, to live up to our nation-to-nation You’ve had many years of experience in sacred spaces, in training. And also relationship that’s spelled out in the working with the government. Is it capital. We need structure still to help us treaties. hard to stay hopeful? Do you feel like with that. there’s a lot of hope in this process? These are the kinds of things that I hope the declaration will help people in Canada signed on to the UN Where I live, in northern Manitoba, declaration, but it’s not legally our communities to address—a colonial there’s been a lot of hydro development. system that has been with us for hundreds binding. This bill would make And I know probably the provincial of years. Canadian law consistent with the government and even corporations are I think the declaration is going to help UNDRIP—what does that mean to very concerned. But we have signed us do that. I think the term is, Canada’s Indigenous communities? agreements with the government that going to “decolonize.” But in our terms, Well, my understanding, according to there has to be consultation before that means healing. Canada needs healing. what I’m hearing from the minister of development could happen. Because as Not only our people, but all of Canada. justice, he said the declaration is already late as 1957 there was no consultation All of Canada needs to look at being used in the courts. They’re already about hydro development in our area. decolonizing the systems that have been using it, in different parts of legislation. And it was not until 20 years after that, hurting us. g 4 anglican journal • april 2021

ANGLICAN VOICES4 Senior year —from my bedroom

photo: fizkes for me. While before the pandemic I rarely Hayley Galsworthy hasn’t had a typical Grade 12 experience— had time for self-reflection and inner but, she writes, the pandemic has helped pull faith off the growth, this past year has been full of it. In the early months of quarantine, I found back burner myself having a lot more conversations with God, asking to keep my family safe, By Hayley Galsworthy and simply looking for reassurance that everything will be just fine. As my Grade I started OUR YEARS AGO, I stood 12 year started, I had the time to get more praying on a in front of the seemingly giant involved within the diocese—time that I “ high school building, my hands didn’t have before. I have had the time to more regular Fshaking with nerves. Being a Grade join more of the youth initiatives offered at basis, and 9 student, entering high school was a my church and within the diocese. found myself daunting experience. The big classrooms, These opportunities have sparked having more tall students and loud hallways were conversations about God, life and discussions something I was not used to. I remember bettering the world around us. And these always looking up to the older students, conversations have made me realize that about faith wowed by their maturity. I dreamed I was taking life for granted, not being with my family about my chance to become that senior mindful and appreciative of the life I and peers. As student I looked up to, getting the chance have been given. I started praying on a a result, I have to experience my final year, celebrating more regular basis, and found myself my last four years of high school. having more discussions about faith with become a more It is quite easy to say that this is not my family and peers. As a result, I have grateful and exactly the year I had in mind. Like many become a more grateful and empathetic empathetic of my peers, I was excited to hear about person. Without the pandemic, God and person.” 2020’s extended March break and was not my faith would have continued to be put that upset about the cancellation of the rest on the back burner, and would not have of the school year. My friends and I stayed the impact on my life that they do today. positive but inevitably became realistic, 5 Though teenager, I can’t complain when my normal While my high school experience has going from “At least we’ll still get our COVID-19 has 6:30 a.m. wake-up is extended to 8 a.m. not been traditional, I am still extremely senior year,” to “I’m sure everything will made for a Working from home all of the time has grateful for the positives it has provided in be normal by Christmas,” to “I don’t think non-traditional also taught me a lot about self-motivation my life. I smile remembering that scared we’re going to have a prom this year.” Grade 12, Hayley and holding myself accountable for due Grade 9 girl, not aware of the whirlwind Grade 12 is supposed to be the best year Galsworthy dates and deadlines, giving me a taste of the next four years of her life were going of high school, with homecoming, spirit (seen here with the adult world. There is no denying that to be. g weeks, floodlight football games, prom, Benjie) says this experience has prepared me for my grad, grad trips, and more. Little did we the pandemic transition into university, where teachers Hayley Galsworthy is a Grade 12 student know that the highlight of our senior year has provided will not constantly remind me of due dates. at Waterdown District High School in would be leaving our bedrooms to go to postives in her Most importantly, this pandemic has Waterdown, Ont., and plans to pursue the grocery store. However, I have learned life. had drastic impacts on my faith. Life an education in biomedical engineering to make the best of this unprecedented photo: contributed before the pandemic was consistently busy after high school. She is a member of St. situation. and overwhelming, with constant events, John’s Anglican Church in Ancaster and The COVID-19 pandemic has brought friend hangouts, and schoolwork. I have participates in numerous church and numerous positives to my life. Being a found that a lot of time has been freed up diocese-wide activities. ‘White Jesus’ and the spread of prejudice LETTER The picture with the white Jesus in the February 2021 Black people was that they should be subdued and edition of the Anglican Journal (“Black story essential thankful—definitely inferior. That is the way prejudice to our future: MacDonald,” p. 6) reminded me how gets created. racism spreads with the best of intentions. Lisbeth Mousseau I grew up in Switzerland. At that time it was still Ottawa The Anglican quite a homogeneous society. I remember shopping Journal welcomes with my mother and brother Hans (about four years letters to the editor. old), and passing our first Black man. Hans turned Correction around and asked my mother in a loud voice: “Is he The article “Five Regina churches merge to form Since not all letters Black on the belly too?” My mother was embarrassed. can be published, new parish” (February 2021 Anglican Journal, preference is My knowledge of Black people came from the p. 3) erroneously implied that a decision had given to short box that went ’round at the Sunday school for the been made about a permanent location for correspondence (300 collection. It had the figure of a little Black girl in a Immanuel Anglican Parish in Regina, Sask. A words or less). All blue shift, kneeling with her hands folded in prayer. recommendation for an interim main location letters are subject to Every time you dropped a coin into the slot, she was being considered in late February. editing. photo: wellcome library nodded her head in thanks to you. My perception of anglican journal • april 2021 5

SINGING WITH JOY4 ‘In sure and certain hope’ By Linda Nicholls intimate and personal; and losses big and life-shattering. We long for the new life HE RESURRECTION of Jesus beyond the pandemic, and that it may Christ is the event that defines come quickly. Yet it may be slow, tenuous Christian faith. It is the unique and unpredictable in its arrival and Tevent that affirms Jesus’s identity; and revelation, and it may ask us to let go of the confirms, with power, all that Jesus familiar. But it will come. taught about the love of God. It changes The gift of the resurrection of Jesus everything for the disciples, who must is the promise that—whether embraced reframe all they expected through the slowly or quickly—the power of God’s love lens that God is acting in life and even is stronger than the pain, sin and sorrows through death into new life. Without of what we see. Since Jesus lives, we will the resurrection, as St. Paul says in too, by entering into the reality that God 1 Cor 15:13-14, 19, our faith is useless and is both with us now and waiting for us in we are to be pitied. With the resurrection the future, even if that future looks very we enter the lifegiving possibilities that different from what we have known in the God opens to us through Jesus Christ past. in every situation and moment of our 5 “The gift of surprising joy of new life. On some occasions we embrace that new life with Although we anticipate Easter on lives. We share in the resurrection as the the resurrection one day of the year, the promise it holds joy and excitement. At other times we, like principle of God’s life in and through us. of Jesus is dawns every day and is at the core of every Thomas, need more than the testimony Yet our experiences of resurrection life the promise eucharistic celebration and every Sunday. of others to that new life, and must are only occasionally revealed quickly. We that—whether Whether or not we can yet see the shape of experience and test it for ourselves. are confronted by death-dealing events, embraced slowly the new life beyond the pandemic Easter, We have lived through more than a illnesses and relationships and discover or quickly—the we have the promise that it is coming— year of the power of the pandemic to bring that the lifegiving possibilities through and power of God’s always. We are called simply to trust in death into our lives. Sometimes that has beyond them are often slow and painful. love is stronger its joy and hope. In sure and certain hope been the reality of physical deaths of those We try, like Mary Magdalene in the garden, than the pain, sin of the resurrection to eternal life we can we know and love. It has meant the loss to hang on to the past rather than let it and sorrows of shout: of so much that was familiar: the sharing go and enter into what is being revealed. what we see.” Alleluia! Christ is risen! The Lord is We hang on to old habits, attitudes and of the Eucharist, gathering for worship, photo: mashabr risen indeed! Alleluia! g behaviours, afraid to let go. That journey family celebrations, graduations, holding a to new life requires us to enter the pain of new grandchild, the comfort of friends. It Archbishop Linda Nicholls is the primate of death, the grief of loss and the unexpected has meant lost jobs and businesses; losses the Anglican Church of Canada.

WALKING Why do they talk about Jesus so much? TOGETHER4 By Mark MacDonald of faith. It is envied as a less complicated thought that began with the way a mother approach to God. introduced children to the rest of life. In WISE AND sensitive co-worker Yes, the elders do seem to have a these things, every moment was steeped in once approached me with a more basic faith orientation, but I have questions of the life of the spirit. troubled look. She wondered learned that, compared to the average As they translated these spiritual matters wAhy Indigenous elders who were so wise, non‑Indigenous person, it is far from into a way of speaking that interacted tolerant and compassionate talked about simple. with the new world that colonization Jesus so much, used his name so often. It When I lived with Navajo elders, I had thrust upon them, the elders would was clear that, in her context, hearing the learned that the elders liked to express the use the language of Christianity. For the name of Jesus often indicated a different intersection of their worldview, Christian elders, this language of Jesus is a helpful kind of experience, often masking a lack faith and encounter with modern life and perhaps essential way to speak of of wisdom, tolerance and compassion. We in the “simple” language of enthusiastic the deeper realities of life, in a way that talked for a while and I said, “Is it possible Christianity. Though this sounded to involves both the Old World and the New that these elders have a deeper experience outsiders like basic Christianity, even World together. I realize that this is very of Jesus than you have seen up until now— fundamentalism, it was, by comparison to hard for some non-Indigenous Christians that the name of Jesus means something 5 “Yes, the the average person’s spiritual experience, to understand. I beg us to realize that this is more than you have come to know?” elders do seem complex, sophisticated and surprisingly because, at least in part, we have lost touch She was surprised, maybe shocked, but to have a more helpful to the struggles of life. with some of our own wellsprings. as a self-reflective and sensitive person, basic faith I would sit for hours with elders and In the elders, the simple praises of Jesus she was able to think and feel herself orientation, but translators discussing matters like the were not the cover-up of a shortage of faith understanding. They were the overflowing to a new place. I had to, as well, for the I have learned nature of God, prayer, and our encounter of a depth of faith that began with an dominant culture teaches all of us that that, compared with the divine. To these things the elders, Indigenous lifetime filled with spiritual Indigenous culture is primitive and in need to the average who had little or no formal schooling, instruction and then received special of a radical update. It is quite common to non-Indigenous brought a fresh, well-thought-out and power in a living encounter with the reality hear non-Indigenous Christians worry person, it is far deeply compassionate understanding of that was summed up and announced in about the simplicity of Indigenous faith, from simple.” the spiritual mysteries of the universe. that new name. g that they are fundamentalists. And when photo: mashabr I would bring others: theologians or non-Indigenous Christian people praise other non-Indigenous Christians—often Archbishop Mark MacDonald is national Indigenous faith, it is usually because it skeptical at first—who would be in awe of Indigenous archbishop of the Anglican is thought of as a more basic expression a wisdom shaped by a lifetime process of Church of Canada.

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BAPTISMS & FUNERALS IN WEDDINGS IN Smaller gatherings, greater caution in liturgies PANDEMIC4 Seegers: Pandemic funerals reveal despair Continued from p. 1 Renison University College, officiated Continued from p. 6 this COVID thing, which just basically PANDEMIC4 “I’m not really hearing too much about reschedule each time. at the wedding of two recent graduates. put the brakes on that community healing weddings lately,” Bird says. “Last summer, I Finally, they were able to baptize The bride, originally from Venezuela, that we were doing, and everyone is back can remember every single weekend, there Janessa on their third attempt, when she was unable to bring her family to Canada into the isolation.” was like two or three weddings. So that’s a was 13 months old. for the marriage ceremony due to travel The funerals Seegers has officiated at, big, dramatic change.” “It was different in the sense of not restrictions. she says, are often linked to “deaths of being able to greet each other like you Initially the couple chose to delay the despair” related to addiction and suicide. ‘There have been many funerals’ normally would…. But everybody was wedding. But having recently bought very respectful,” Munn says. “The church a house, they finally decided to hold a The trend for funerals, on the other hand, Adversity and resilience was very tidy, very clean.” She praised the backyard ceremony at the home of a family is going in the opposite direction. “There With COVID-19 making it more difficult reassuring presence of Tutton, who wore friend. Chairs were set six feet apart. It just have been many funerals,” Bird says. In to hold funeral services, Seegers is doing a mask and sanitized his hands before and Catered food was individually wrapped. felt like we December, her community saw four deaths what she can to help people mourn. She after baptizing Janessa. “They were very much a couple who “ due to the virus. recalls a woman who called her recently were kind of “He made it very comfortable…. wanted it to be a church wedding and to Shortly thereafter, her own aunt Annie wanting to grieve for another woman, You didn’t have to worry,” Munn says. rushed into Charlette died of COVID-19. A funeral 5 Archdeacon feel like a church wedding, even though Sharon, whom she loved and missed “There was no stress. It’s not like going service was held in February at St. Joseph’s Megan Collings- it was outside,” Collings-Moore says. To our grieving despite not knowing the latter’s last name. to a grocery store. It was very warming, Anglican Church in Montreal Lake. Due Moore officiates approximate the experience of a church process. “I just took her into the church and lit very comfortable. You didn’t feel at that wedding, organizers created an aisle 12 to COVID-19 restrictions, mourners had a candle, and we prayed for Sharon and at a wedding —Yolanda Bird, moment that there was COVID … besides, feet wide for the bride to walk down. But to remain six feet apart. A strict limit of 30 all the people that loved Sharon,” Seegers of two recent suicide prevention obviously, looking at everybody with the there was no communion and no singing: people in attendance was enforced. recalls. “It was just her and I. We did the Waterloo worker for the mask on.” instead, the groom played music on a “Normally people like to hug when whole ritual around a funeral type of graduates in Anglican Church of In Ontario, the Rev. Matthew Brown, ukulele. they’re greeting people that are grieving, service. Then she said that she was going August 2020. Canada and resident associate incumbent at the Parish of However, when the photographer of Montreal Lake and there were restrictions on that as to take that back to the community … photo: contributed the Valley, presided over five baptisms attempted to take traditional wedding Cree Nation well,” Bird says. “It was kind of at your and just tell them what we did so that 5 The Rev. we find ways to have a baptism, to have a 5 A memorial perspectives on baptisms, weddings, and between September and December at Holy photos with close-ups, the bride—who own risk if you wanted to hug people. But they’d know that there was a ceremony Matthew Brown wedding, to have a funeral if we’re able to. service takes funerals during the pandemic: funerals Trinity Church in Pembroke. Each baptism now works in Hamilton as a nurse in an they didn’t really recommend that people d on e .” presides at the “God’s at work in people’s lives and life were far more common. took place on Saturday instead of during intensive care unit—drew a line. get into too much close contact, simply place in Back in Nova Scotia, the power of the marches on…. We can’t really [put] all The Rev. Vivian Seegers, priest of Urban Sunday worship due to the capping of baptism of Myra “Of course, she was more aware than because they didn’t know whether or not Vancouver church’s life-defining liturgies in times of of life on hold because of the pandemic. Aboriginal Ministry in the diocese of New attendance in the building at 50 people. Johns at Holy anybody else [of health risks and said] people would still get sick, even though during the adversity was a core theme of the sermon It’s just, how do we adapt to care for each Westminster, says that since the start of the As with St. Timothy, people observing Trinity Church, nope, we’re going to follow all the rules and [Charlette] had passed away.” summer of 2020. Tutton delivered at Janessa’s baptism. other as these services come together?” pandemic she has only performed funerals the baptism at Holy Trinity wore masks Pembroke, in the restrictions,” Collings-Moore says. Many elders could not attend the Taking photos Drawing upon the story of Peter, Brown and his wife Gillian, also in the Greater Vancouver area. Memorial and kept six feet apart. Ushers escorted November 2020. In the end, she adds, “it was a lovely funeral due to health risks. The length at memorials whose discernment “ebbed and flowed” a priest, are new parents themselves, people to and from the pews, while the Myra is pictured wedding. It was not quite what they had of time available for the wake also saw a is not the usual services generally take place outdoors, as an apostle of Christ, Tutton offered a following the birth in July of their first church recorded the names and contact with her parents anticipated, but it went well.” sharp reduction. practice, but with fewer numbers able to attend due to note of perseverance. He provided a copy daughter, who has not yet been baptized. information of all in attendance to and baptismal In northern Saskatchewan, baptisms “Usually we would, in northern family members travel restrictions and health concerns. of the sermon to the family should their A major consideration is the attendance of facilitate contact tracing. No singing took sponsors. and weddings have been relatively few in communities, have two or three days for who could not The greater frequency of funerals daughter wish to read it someday. family members spread out across Canada place. photo: mike johns number. Yolanda Bird, a suicide prevention a wake service during the evenings,” Bird attend due in Indigenous communities during the “Just like all of us, [Peter] faced and the United States—some of whom Along with baptisms, Brown has worker for the Anglican Church of Canada says. “That gives the community enough to COVID-19 pandemic, Seegers suggests, is the result his challenges in being a follower of are immunocompromised and unable to presided at a number of outdoor and resident of Montreal Lake Cree time to come and be a part of the whole safety concerns of ongoing intergenerational trauma Christ…. Part of the Christian life, part travel. interments during the pandemic— Nation, says baptisms in the region had process of grieving and letting go. requested that caused by residential schools. She of discernment has often been adversity, “We’ve opted as a family to delay having graveside services with masks and recently been starting to pick up again but “But since COVID began, they’ve pictures be compares the isolation many Indigenous often about failing and then making a our daughter baptized, and that’s been a distancing—and one indoor funeral stopped due to renewed lockdowns. been giving us maybe one or two days to taken. people are feeling during lockdown to the comeback, and that certainly was Peter’s difficult thing to sit with, both as a parent service in the fall. Conversely, a wedding “There haven’t really been a whole lot of grieve, and we have to bury them almost isolation of those separated from their journey,” Tutton says. and as a priest,” Brown says. “But we trust photo: the rev. vivian he was scheduled to preside at was delayed baptisms in our area,” Bird says. “But when immediately. Because of the restrictions as seegers families due to the residential school “I don’t think I could have written that she’s surrounded by God’s love and until the following summer. they do have them, it usually would be a well, we didn’t have as many pallbearers. system. that sermon without it occurring in the that we’re surrounded by God’s love and “My own thinking is that we need private service, just to be safe for the baby’s So the whole routine of a regular funeral “That isolation is just so in our time of COVID,” he adds. “I’m saying to continue following the guidance and that the moment will come.” sake and the family’s.” was just totally different and it was really bones, and this COVID has touched [to Janessa] that these struggles are direction of local health authorities,” The pandemic has also had “a really sad. It just didn’t feel like it was something that memory,” Seegers says. “We touch going to be part of life, including your Brown says. “So we shouldn’t gather if Smaller and fewer gatherings big impact on weddings,” she adds. While that we’re used to. It just felt like we were that pain, and the desperation of that. internal struggles. You have to find a we’re directed not to gather. But presuming Weddings, too, are more challenging Bird knows some couples who are getting kind of rushed into our grieving process.” We know isolation so well. We know way. You have to know that you come our own dioceses and bishops give us when family members aren’t able to travel. married, they tend to be smaller, private In the course of researching this story, alienation so well…. With the truth and from a lineage of people that have faced permission to and the local context feels Last August, Megan Collings-Moore, gatherings, and overall numbers have the Anglican Journal heard a recurring reconciliation process, we were trying to this and done this and stuck with their it’s OK, I think it is really significant that archdeacon of Waterloo and chaplain at dropped. theme when looking for Indigenous heal that as a community. Now we have baptism.” g

GUEST ‘Hold fast, Anglican Church of Canada’ COLUMN4 By Emily Rowe As I write this in late February, an Atlantic Canadian metaphor: I am seeing a sharp decline in is a poor replacement for a shared shocking and distressing at any time, know, this might be our over-abundance we had assumed to be “normal” are we are back in lockdown. Earlier from the bow of our little boat, we the number of submissions that Shrove Tuesday meal of pancakes. but the fact that we were unable to hold of buildings and the never-ending worth returning to, and which are not. S THE EDITOR of Anglican that month it became clear that look upon the rough waters, and I receive for each issue. I worry And it’s worth noting here that any kind of public memorial to support fundraising we do to maintain them. It is Those four parishes in St. John’s are still Life, the newspaper serving COVID-19 had circulated within we wonder. What comes next? that many people are slowly Newfoundlanders are an especially each other as members of the diocese to be hoped that, when we are vaccinated working together, and we will continue the Anglican dioceses in our community—the dreaded I honestly do not think that we fading into the background of tactile people—I was kissed and hugged made it especially difficult to bear. It was and back to in-person worship for good, to move forward as and when we are NewfoundlandA and Labrador, I often we will have a better appreciation for B117 variant—for some time. will return to the way that things their church’s lives. Our church by complete strangers almost the certainly a low point for many in the able. look at last year’s papers as reminders It ripped through a metro-area were before the pandemic—not communities can fill the role of a moment that I got off the plane here diocese, and there is no doubt that the things like the celebration of and sharing We have, here at home, become of what was going on then. This year, in the Eucharist and the ability to attend familiar with the phrase, “Hold fast, high school. With sports games entirely. Some of that is good, chosen family for us. Many of us back in 1997. Now when we do see each lack of closure that many of us feel has I don’t need to look back at April in-person celebrations with our parish Newfoundland and Labrador.” This and other interactions, it spread and some of it is less than ideal. move far away from our families other, masked and six feet apart, you cast a shadow over much of what we do, 2020’s paper to remember. A year families and our gifted musicians. And is how our chief medical officer ends like wildfire. Bishops across the We have seen an improvement for work, or for other reasons, can feel the longing to come closer. even now. In a year in which so many ago, the front cover was about the maybe during this strange time, we most of the COVID-19 updates, and I’ll province moved quickly to shut in our ability to reach people and in our church community we As we draw closer in life, so do we deaths have been eulogized solely as first combined mission service that have come to a new appreciation for our say the same for the church: Hold fast, down all in-person worship with the help of technology. are often “adopted” by surrogate seek community around death. And statistics, we’ve all faced the possibility my parish took part in with three clergy and leadership teams, and their Anglican Church of Canada. Be still and and to close the buildings to the Live-streaming services isn’t grandparents (or grandchildren). so another example of the “less than of living indefinitely with open wounds other parishes here in St. John’s. The ability to constantly pivot and connect know that God is with us—and even the public, and we pivoted back to really optional any more. It is a We watch children grow up, ideal” change can be found in how we and broken hearts. building was full of people, and joy, with their parishioners—things that wind and the waves obey him (Mark online worship. wonderful tool for reaching those Sunday by Sunday. Many of grieve as a church family. Wakes and Yet God heals the brokenhearted, and they definitely did not learn in any of and hope for the future. That service 4). We’re not sinking, but just changing Entering a second lockdown unable to attend worship, or even my closest friendships are with funerals have had to be more or less he binds up their wounds (Psalm 147:3). their training. This ministry is what we course a bit. g was held on Feb. 23. has made me really think about to augment a person’s spiritual people that I have met through eliminated during the pandemic. As And perhaps we can see healing in our need to invest in—ministry by the many And then the world changed. the future of the church; my life throughout the week. Church church. I don’t believe that many of you will know, in October 2020 midst, if we look—healed ways of being. leaders on all levels who have walked Emily Rowe has been the editor of As humans, we’re pretty good husband’s a priest, and I’m the may have left the building, and for online worship is a replacement we had a great loss in my home diocese The permanent changes in the church with us through this strange time. This Anglican Life for the past five years. at adapting to changes, but this editor of an Anglican newspaper. many people, it has also expanded for coming together in person. of Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador resulting from this time of pandemic ministry has proved to be the truly Though originally from Nova Scotia, has been a very tough year with We have all our eggs in this and left Sunday mornings. “Seeing” people in the comments with the sudden death of our bishop, will, I hope, mostly concern those things essential thing. We have been given this she now lives in St. John’s, N.L., with her difficult changes on offer. single basket. And to draw on But as the editor of the paper, section of a Facebook live event Geoffrey Peddle. This would have been that were ready to go—in the context I chance to consider which parts of what husband, teenage daughter and dog. 8 anglican journal • april 2021

ARTS & CULTURE4 Eyes wide open Race, class and gender on pandemic TV

By Peter Elliott He tells his accomplices that his poignant meditation on living with American survival. It was the employers see him “but they don’t a complex identity. Black church that encouraged and In 1974 the feminist poet Carole really look” at him. “Everyone on facilitated organizing and resilience, Etzler wrote a song with this chorus: that side of town, everyone on the thriving and testifying, autonomy Sometimes I wish my eyes hadn’t top while we’re on the bottom, they and freedom, solidarity and speaking been opened don’t look,” Assane says. Not being truth to power. Sometimes I wish I could no longer seen is one of the experiences of Featuring clergy and scholars, see racialized minorities. amongst them Anglicans Michael All of the pain and the hurt and Watching how he pieces together Curry, presiding bishop of The the longing of my clues, gathers evidence and uses Episcopal Church, and Canon Sisters and me as we try to be free disguise and misdirection to prove Bridgerton (Netflix). Produced Kelly Brown Douglas, dean of the his father’s innocence is fascinating. by Shonda Rhimes, Bridgerton Episcopal Divinity School at Union NCE YOUR EYES have And the context of racist culture takes viewers to England in the Theological Seminary in New York been opened to issues of is never far from the unfolding Regency period of the early 1800s. City, this compelling documentary race, class and narrative. The next five episodes Featuring a multi-racial cast, it’s a takes an unblinking look at how O gender, you see them everywhere, are due to be released mid-2021; bawdy costume drama about the white churches excluded Black from the street to the screen. those of us who were captivated aristocracy, filled with romance, worshippers and how the Black Through this lockdown, many of by the first five await them with gossip and intrigue—think of it as church both served the needs us are spending our evenings at anticipation. a more sexually explicit Downton of its community in education home watching films or series on Abbey. and commerce and became the streaming services. Many of these The racially diverse world that fulcrum of energy for the civil rights deal overtly or subtly with issues Bridgerton presents is based on movement. Beginning with the of race, gender and class, and can the historic rumour that Queen praise houses for enslaved Africans prompt us to a deeper exploration through to the mega-churches of Charlotte, wife of George III, was of our assumptions in a world the 21st century, Gates chronicles Black—in the words of historian dominated by white men. Here is a the story of what it was and is to be Mario De Valdes y Cocom, writing brief selection of some I’ve found Black in white supremacist America. in The Washington Post, “directly especially noteworthy. (CBC Gem). Adapted In a clip from a stirring sermon Funny Boy descended from Margarita de Castro Please note: Most of the programs from the novel of the same name by by Chicago pastor the Rev. Otis y Sousa, a Black branch of the I discuss contain depictions of Shyam Selvadurai, Funny Boy is a Moss III, you hear the words, Portuguese Royal House.” violence and sexuality; they are not coming-of-age film set in pre-civil “Never confuse position with power. So, in Bridgerton a Black Queen for the easily offended. But all of war Sri Lanka, centring around a Pharaoh had a position, but Moses Charlotte (Golda Rosheuvel) and them offer unique perspectives on young Tamil boy’s exploration of had the power. Herod had a position, Simon, Duke of Hastings (Regé- the dynamics of race, gender and his sexual identity. Arjie grows up but John had the power. The cross Jean Page) are very much part of class. in an affluent family in Colombo had a position, but Jesus had the the aristocratic society, where all during the heightened Sinhala-Tamil power. Lincoln had a position, but the expected courting games are tensions. Initially we see Arjie as a Douglass had the power.… George played with loves won and lost, young boy (Arush Nand) dressed Wallace had a position, but Rosa hidden pregnancies, flirtations up like a bride in a mock wedding Parks had the power. Lyndon Baines and marriages—with all the gossip ceremony. He doesn’t conform to Johnson had a position, but Martin chronicled by Lady Whistledown, expectations of him as a male in Luther King had the power. We have this world. When, as a young adult the series narrator, voiced by Julie the power. Don’t you ever forget.” Arjie (Brandon Ingram) develops Andrews. Institutions like the Anglican At the heart of the drama is Lupin (Netflix). This 10-part a romantic relationship with a Church of Canada have frequently mystery thriller from France makes Sinhalese boy, Shehan (Rehan Duke Simon’s relationship with confounded position and power, for compelling television. Omar Mudannayake), Arjie’s family Daphne Bridgerton (Phoebe and this has hindered their ability Sy plays Assane Diop, a character responds in horror. Not only is Dynevor). At first their romance is to acknowledge and address issues inspired by the much-loved fictional he gay, but he’s friends with their a pretence to help the duke avoid of discrimination on the basis of French gentleman thief and master adversary. inevitable pressure to marry, but, race, class and gender. But as the of disguise Arsène Lupin. There’s a chilling moment when of course, they fall in love and church begins to feel less inclined It is a revenge drama beautifully Arjie’s father discovers the boys that’s where the complications to defend the status quo, it recovers shot in Paris and its environs. Having hiding while making love; the get interesting. Daphne is able to power in the gospel of Jesus Christ to immigrated from Senegal to France young couple are seen walking away comprehend the complexity of her transform individuals and societies. with his father, seeking a better life, from their hiding place, with their situation, navigating through it with Over the course of my life and Assane grows up in Paris, supported heads down, shamed. Only a few remarkable intelligence and grace. ministry I have had my eyes opened by his father’s work as a chauffeur scenes later, a Sinhalese neighbour The series presents an alternate again and again and I’m aware that for the wealthy family of Hubert offers to hide Arjie’s family so that history with a racially integrated I have much more learning—and Pellegrini. Framed for the theft of they will not be persecuted by Regency period, making your head unlearning—to do. I am buoyed with an expensive diamond necklace, the Sinhalese police. For a second swim as you wonder how the world the hope that as I—and we—become Assane’s father is convicted and time Arjie’s identity needs to be might have been different with more aware of the dehumanizing of incarcerated, and commits suicide. hidden. The film ends with the people of colour inhabiting roles of people because of their race, gender, Obsessed with revealing his father’s family arriving at Pearson Airport power and prestige. class or sexual orientation, there will innocence, Assane pieces together in Toronto where they find refuge to emerge a more robust embracing enigmatic clues about his wrongful begin a new life. of the question in the baptismal conviction, using his charisma and The interracial conflict in Sri covenant: “Will you strive for justice mastery of thievery, subterfuge and Lanka led to a 25-year civil war and peace among all people, and disguise to expose Pellegrini’s crimes. with more than 100,000 casualties. respect the dignity of every human What makes Lupin fascinating Placing a gay coming-of-age story being?” is how issues of race play out in in the context of that conflict brings My prayer is that my song—and the drama. As a Black person issues of gender identity, power and our song—will truly become, “We in predominately white France, race relations to the fore. Beautifully The Black Church: This is will, with God’s help.” g Assane experiences both grudging directed by Deepa Mehta, the Our Story, This is Our Song acceptance and (sometimes) film has generated controversy (PBS). This four-part documentary The Very Rev. Peter Elliott is adjunct unfounded suspicion. In the because it features Sinhalese actors is hosted by Harvard University faculty at Vancouver School of show’s opening scene, he reports playing Tamil characters. But as professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. It Theology and leadership coach in to the Louvre for work as a janitor, an exploration of coming to terms tells the 400-year-old story of the private practice; from 1994 to 2019, alongside a group of largely with being gay in a country racially Black church in the U.S., focusing Dean of Christ Church Cathedral, Black and brown contractors. divided, Funny Boy is a moving and on its role as a foundation of African Vancouver. anglican journal • april 2021 9

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For those who remember the making a seemingly endless number of first phase—in which substantial matching decisions, all of which become increasingly funds allowed individuals to support the urgent and important when childbirth installation of a solar suitcase for less than arrives. For parents-to-be in the rural $1,000 through the Gifts for Mission gift Nampula province of northeastern guide (now World of Gifts)—Postma notes Mozambique, one of the hardest choices 5 In 30 of between 2016 and 2020. “In the first phase, that the funding formula has changed. The has come with labour that starts in the dead Mozambique’s a number of the health facilities saw twice as first 30 solar suitcases, as part of All Mothers of night: Do we stay in our safe, familiar rural health many deliveries at night, and some actually and Children Count, benefitted from a six- home, where we may have very limited centres, the 2016 went to 17 times as many night deliveries access to medical care if complications installation of after the solar suitcases were installed.” to-one funding match from the Government arise? Or do we venture into the night to solar suitcases— This substantial increase in nighttime of Canada. The second phase, however, is an off-the-grid rural health centre that will devices that births, Posta says, indicates how the solar not part of a government matching program, have a traditional birth attendant and even connect to a suitcases have reshaped the discussion so PWRDF is funding the full cost. Per a doctor—but that will be shrouded in total solar panel and families might have around going to a health suitcase, that’s between $5,000 and $6,000, darkness? Will it be safe? provide nighttime centre, moving them away from plans of plus another $2,000 or so in shipping, In recent years, this decision has become light and fetal “giving it our best shot” at home or trying training and other costs. PWRDF is also easier to make, thanks to an expanding Doppler—has to wait until morning. “In the past, many funding the replacement of some of the program, supported by the Primate’s World substantially women did not want to go to the health lithium batteries in the existing units. Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) to increased the facility at night because it was dark,” he says. A pandemic-friendly project bring solar-powered light and equipment to number of births “It wasn’t great for them and it wasn’t great for the health workers that would have rural health centres in the Nampula region. the centres see Another difference from the first phase been there,” Postma says, citing imagery of Nighttime illumination of rural health after sunset, of the project, however, is that locals who birth attendants or doctors holding cellular centres has been made possible by the says PWRDF were trained back in 2016 are still around phones in their teeth in efforts to shed even installation of solar suitcases—wall- Executive and are ready to train others. This means a bit of light on their work. mounted yellow plastic cases kitted out with Director that no one need travel to Mozambique rechargeable lanterns, phone-charging ports to ensure the installation and operation of Will Postma. ‘They can hear the heartbeat’ and even a fetal Doppler, which measures Installations are these new units—that knowledge is already a baby’s heartrate in utero and can indicate planned in 50 The solar suitcases—installed as part of held by local people who have kept all 30 complications during labour and birth— more clinics. PWRDF’s All Mothers and Children Count units operational over the past four years. connected to a small rooftop solar panel. program five years ago—have changed this “There are trained people on the ground— photo: pwrdf Will Postma, executive director of PWRDF, equation. A few hours of sunlight will charge and people who know how to troubleshoot, says the first phase of the project was very two lanterns for an entire night of use, people who know how to set up … the successful and that phase two has begun. bringing light to any medical interventions panels and suitcases. So we don’t need folks In the first phase, 30 health centres that could be needed during childbirth. The from the States or Canada to accompany the were selected to receive the solar suitcases, addition of a fetal Doppler has also proved suitcases or panels,” Postma says. which are manufactured by California- attractive to parents. The device is charged As this article was being written in based We Care Solar. Working with a local by the suitcase. February, the 51 new suitcases were being partner Association of Community Health “You can imagine how nice it is for assembled, with the aim of shipping them (EHALE), PWRDF and We Care Solar women living in rural areas far from town,” to Mozambique in May. There, EHALE will helped train 12 people in the installation, Postma says. “They can hear the heartbeat of receive them and see to their installation. maintenance and use of the devices. their child, both the mom and the dad, and “That’s pretty good from our vantage Postma says the program has brought the grandparents, perhaps. point—we don’t have to go there, we can just “some really impressive changes in terms “If the rural health facility is seen as support them remotely. And maybe when of more and more women who have given increasingly credible and compelling, the pandemic lifts, we can go there and have birth at night in the health facilities,” where women and their husbands and their family a celebratory time together, when all 51 solar 80,000 women delivered their babies will double efforts to make use of the health suitcases will have been set up.” g

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‘A narrative of truth’ Jubilee Commission launches archival history research project

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Matt Gardner Reconciliation Animator that ministry. There was some staff writer Melanie Delva will lead the benefit to Indigenous peoples. archival research portion of the There was some loss to Indigenous The Jubilee Commission, the body established by Council project. Her responsibilities peoples. What hasn’t been told Annual General Meeting of General Synod to propose a will consist of laying out a work clearly, I think, is the way that sustainable funding base for the plan, communicating with this helped to enhance the self-determining Indigenous diocesan partners and working infrastructure and ministry of the church, has officially launched with an external advisory larger church.” council appointed by the Jubilee a new archival research project Rather than “a narrative of Commission. The council will on historical funding trends for shame and blame,” MacDonald include elders, academics and Indigenous ministry within the says, “the reality of this project is a historians. Anglican Church of Canada. new narrative—a narrative of light, Examining how funds Delva calls the archival project a narrative of hope, a narrative of have been made available for “a major reconciliation effort” t r ut h .” Indigenous ministry at all levels of and “an invitation to Anglicans the church’s structure, the project to understand and live into a Identifying historical funding will study historical records and new story about who we are as trends for Indigenous ministry stories passed down through oral a church…. Part of that story was one of the main tasks assigned history by Indigenous elders and is the way that we have been to the Jubilee Commission upon knowledge keepers. interdependent with Indigenous its establishment. Chair Judith Wednesday, May 19, 2021 Archbishop Linda Nicholls, folks throughout our history as a Moses says the commission came 5:00 p.m. Eastern on Zoom primate of the Anglican Church of church.” to look at the research project as Canada and a strong supporter of National Indigenous “something that will contribute Please RSVP to the project, says its purpose is to Archbishop Mark MacDonald to healing and reconciliation [email protected] create “a shared understanding of compares the project to the by coming up with a joint by May 17 in order to attend. the history around how we have church’s seminal 1969 study Indigenous/non-Indigenous Beyond Traplines. Many Anglicans, supported and funded and given church perspective” in the form he says, have had a “long and leadership to Indigenous ministry of “a factual assessment of what in Canada. It’ll be taking a look at rugged narrative of what giving has www.anglicanfoundation.org has transpired in our past colonial what the archives can tell us about looked like in the church towards history up to present day.” that from multiple perspectives.” Indigenous people. I think it’s time “Sometimes the history that to get a realistic picture of what it The Jubilee Commission has C L A S S I F I E D S non-Indigenous people have really looked like—what everybody proposed a two-year window for remembered or been told is not gains from the funding that was the project. To enable Delva to lead the research, General Synod archival material is god calling you? the way it was experienced by designed to go for Indigenous wanted by ssje Indigenous people,” Nicholls adds. peoples. will be hiring an interim animator, Society of Saint John the “We need to hear those histories “We believe that everyone Indigenous justice, for one year Evangelist —Bracebridge, Ont. and come to own them together.” profited from that work and from with the possibility of extension. g The archivist of SSJE is seeking donations of material related to SSJE’s days in Bracebridge, Ont.

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