Anglican Journal Inspiring the faithful since 1875 vol. 138 no. 2 • february 2012

vianney carriere Father Michael Lapsley Healing without The war on poverty hands When a letter bomb changed his life, What is the impact of our engagement? Fr. Michael Lapsley

art babych found his true calling “When people are getting hurt, it’s incumbent upon us to stand strong for them and to speak for them,” says Ottawa’s Bishop John Chapman (above). Marites N. Sison Diana Swift mittee for reducing child and Advocates are calling for systemic changes Staff writer staff writer family poverty in this country. measures to expand poverty In Vancouver, the Rev. n Anglican priest and here will always It urged Ottawa to support reduction targets to single Margaret Marquardt, co- A social justice activist be poor people in broad systemic measures adults, not just families and chair of the eco-justice from South Africa has urged “Tthe land,” says the to improve living standards children. unit of the diocese of New faith communities in Canada book of Deuteronomy, urging for millions of impoverished Across Canada, committed Westminster, is part of a to “seize the moment” and believers to be open-handed Canadians. Anglicans are engaging the mixed-membership organiza- take an active part in the toward the needy, and much In the meantime, reports poverty issue at many levels tion aiming to reduce long public hearings of the Indian of Christ’s ministry was continue to document and in many ways. Increasing- term the overall conditions Residential Schools Truth and focused on the disadvantaged growing poverty and income ly, they are asking for sweep- that foster poverty. “With the Reconciliation Commission. and dispossessed. inequality. About one in 10 ing forward-looking measures approaches taken so far, we The experience will be Mindful of that, in Janu- Canadians lives in poverty that will alleviate the root are not changing the status transformative and “life-giv- ary 2011, the primate of the and one in four indigenous causes of poverty in the years quo,” she says. “People are ing,” says Fr. Michael Lapsley, Anglican Church of Canada children lives below the to come. Others are continu- getting poorer and more executive director of the Insti- and the national bishop of the poverty line. The income ing with traditional boots- desperate, so we are focus- tute for Healing of Memories Evangelical Lutheran Church gap between our wealthiest on-the ground charitable ing not on the old charitable (HOM) in Cape Town. in Canada sent a letter asking citizens and our poorest has work—soup kitchens, shelters, model of food and clothing Acknowledgment is “a the federal government to widened to a ratio of 10 (times drop-in centres, food banks giveaways but on making key first step to healing,” adopt the recommendations the income) to one, from eight and clothing giveaways—to systemic changes.” says Lapsley, who knows of a House of Commons com- to one before the mid-1990s. help the needy now. see BUILDING, p. 3 personally about facing “the horror of what happened” and moving from being a victim to becoming a “victor.” I N S I D E In 1990, while he was living in exile in Zimbabwe, a letter B.C. priest explores bomb sandwiched between religious magazines blew up Soul Rider spirituality of snowboarding in his face. Lapsley lost both his hands, the sight in one eye At these moments, you are completely What he found could represent a new and a significant amount of focused on your riding, aware of every nu- direction for the church and religion in the hearing. ance of the snow and your board, and almost 21st century. To this day, he insists the detached, as if the board is guiding itself and Elliot, a 40-something native of London, experience was redemptive. Marks of you are just a passenger. Time stops. England, and canon at St. Andrew’s Anglican “I was prayed for. I was loved. Mission contest Church in Trail, B.C., is possibly the first per- I was supported,” he told the 6 Colin Payne son ever to complete a PhD in snowboarding. Anglican Journal, adding that winners His thesis, entitled “Soul Riding and the he learned that to get beyond he Rev. Canon Neil Elliot has been Spirituality of Snowboarding,” was recently ac- mere survival, you have to Tsnowboarding for about as long as he has cepted by Kingston University, London. In his transform pain into compas- Estate Planning been an Anglican priest. Along the way, his dissertation, Elliot seeks to discover if people sion “for others who travel 7 What you should two callings merged, leading him on a search find spirituality through the popular sport, and similar journeys.” know for the spirituality of snowboarding. see indication, p. 9 see ALL WANTED, p. 13 news briefs people

Hats for the homeless Teenage boys contentedly knit- became interim priest-in-charge ting? Absolutely, when the well-being at Toronto’s St. Nicholas Church, of homeless people in chilly Winnipeg Birch Cliff. is at stake. He will take up the position in In December, four boys and three Uruguay, a country of 3.5 mil- girls from Miles Macdonnell Collegiate lion people, after Bishop Miguel Institute delivered more than 250 cozy Tamayo Zaldívar retires in June. hand-knit woollen toques to the Siloam He will stay on at St. Nicholas until Mission, an urban Christian shelter. a new incumbent is found. “We spent the past year knitting the Pollesel, who speaks flu- hats in our spare time at home,” says ent Spanish, has visited this Giezi Arevalo, 18, who taught the poster-country for Latin American others in the group to knit. “It’s stress- democracy several times but has relieving and maybe a bit addictive.“ not lived there. Based in the port

Each knitter spent about 72 hours ali symons city of Montevideo, the diocese has making hats. The group also knit The Ven. Dr. Michael Pollesel, right, with solid ties to other denominations. toques this year to help the Red Cross Archbishop Fred Hiltz in Cuba, Feb. 2011 “All churches work very well ecu- raise relief money for the victims of the menically, and interfaith activity is Japanese tsunami. strong as well,” says Pollesel. “But The knitting circle, called Esper- Pollesel elected Bishop the country is very secular, with anza (Spanish for “hope”), purchased of Uruguay even the Roman Catholic Church $600 worth of wool and $200 worth of The Ven. Dr. Michael Pollesel, claiming only about three or four knitting looms and other supplies with former general secretary of the per cent of the population as a youth grant from United Way. The Anglican Church of Canada, has regular attenders.” students hope to keep the program been elected Bishop of Uruguay by The diocese currently has female alive at the school after they graduate the diocesan synod of that country. deacons and wants to proceed with this spring from its international bac- The election has still to be the ordination of women priests, Vitaly Titov & Maria Sidelnikova calaureate program. —Diana Swift approved by the province of the but the province of the Southern Southern Cone, whose house of Cone has not approved this step. bishops meets in May 2012. “I ex- “I’m excited about the possibili- pect the consecration would follow ties that this new challenge brings within the next month after that,” to me at this stage in my life and I PWRDF receives maternal says Pollesel, who after resigning ask for your prayers,” says Bishop- health funding as general secretary last summer, elect Pollesel. —D.S. The Canadian International De- velopment Agency (CIDA) will be contributing $452,147 to the Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund’s (PWRDF) maternal and child health Canadian appointed work in Bangladesh. The Rev. Dr. Grant LeMarquand, The funding will be received over zaida bastos a graduate of Wycliffe College in three years as part of the Muskoka A midwife training event is conducted by a Toronto, has been appointed assistant Initiative on Maternal, Newborn and PWRDF partner in Bangladesh. bishop for the Horn of Africa, within Child Health. “We are very pleased to the diocese of North Africa and the continue our decades-long relationship PWRDF will work with long-term Horn of Africa. with CIDA,” says Zaida Bastos, CIDA partner UBINIG to implement this pro- A Canadian, LeMarquand is current- program coordinator for PWRDF. gram. UBINIG is the Bangla acronym ly full professor of biblical studies and The program will train 650 mid- for Policy Research for Development mission at Trinity School for Ministry wives who will work with 63,000 Alternative, an advocacy organization in Ambridge, Penn. mothers and 94,500 children in 130 responsible for setting up one of the In announcing LeMarquand’s villages in Bangladesh. The midwives biggest community seed banks in the appointment on Dec. 8, Archbishop will provide education as well as pre- world. Farida Akhtar, one of the found- Mouneer Anis, primate of the province and post-natal care. “These villages ers, is a former member of PWRDF’s of the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem cOURTESY OF TRINITY SCHOOL FOR MINISTRY currently do not have health clinics board of directors. and the Middle East and bishop of the The Rev. Dr. Grant LeMarquand or trained health workers,” Bastos For more information, go to: diocese of Egypt, described LeMar- explains. “Trained midwives who can http://pwrdf.org/2011/pwrdf- quand as “very committed to mission, Cairo on Apr. 25, 2012; his installation provide education about health issues receives-government-of-canada- evangelism and ecumenical relations.” will take place on Oct. 27, in Addis as well as access to basic health care funding-for-maternal-and-child- LeMarquand will be consecrated in Ababa, Ethiopia. —Staff will help to save the lives of mothers health-project-in-bangladesh/. and children in the villages.” —Staff

New coordinator for ecumenical relations Christianity is world’s On Jan. 2, the Anglican Church of largest religion Canada appointed Archdeacon Bruce As of 2010, Christianity is the world’s Myers, missioner of communications largest religion, claiming nearly 2.2 in the diocese of Quebec, to a one-year, billion adherents, says Global Christi- part-time position as coordinator for anity, a new report from the Pew Center ecumenical relations with the Faith, for Research’s Forum on Religion Worship and Ministry (FWM) depart- Jacob gregory and Public Life. The Pew Center is a ment of General Synod. Washington-based societal think tank. Among individual countries, the The coordinator’s role was previ- Its comprehensive demographic U.S. has the world’s largest Christian ously filled by Canon Alyson Barnett- study of 232 countries finds that population at more than 247 million, Cowan, former director of FWM, and courtesy of bruce myers Christians represent nearly a third of followed by Brazil, Mexico and Russia. now with the Anglican Communion Archdeacon Bruce Myers at the Bossey the estimated 2010 global population of China has an estimated 67 million office in London, then by theologian Ecumenical Institute in Switzerland almost seven billion. Christians, more than any western Natasha Klukach, who currently serves A century ago, about two-thirds of European country. with the World Council of Churches in divided into so many pieces.” the world’s Christians lived in Europe. Worldwide, about half of Christians Geneva. Myers will provide staff support to Today, only about a quarter of all Chris- are Roman Catholic. Protestants make “I’ve always had a passion for ecu- Anglicans engaged in bilateral dia- tians live in Europe (26%). More than a up 37% and Orthodox Christians, 12%. menism,” says Myers, who is manager logues, including the Anglican-Roman third live in the Americas (37%), about Other denominations such as Mormons of the Quebec diocese’s website and Catholic Theological Dialogue. He one out of four lives in sub-Saharan and Jehovah’s Witnesses account for editor of its newspaper, The Gazette. will remain based in Quebec, where he Africa (24%) and about one in eight in the remaining 1% of the global Christian “Early on, I recognized that it was served as incumbent at St. Michael’s Asia and the Pacific (13%). population. —D.S. not right that the body of Christ was Sillery until Jan 8. —D.S.

2 anglican journal • February 2012 special report poverty

People are getting poorer and more desperate, so we are focusing not on the old charitable model of food and clothing giveaways but on making systemic changes. ‘­—The Rev. Margaret Marquardt, Vancouver

We are a chaplaincy of presence. We pray with people, Building connections we grieve and celebrate with them. We walk with the abandoned and across sectors help the homeless transition into ‘ supported housing. continued from p. 1

She is part of the Metro homelessness ­—The Rev. Rick Chapman The Anglican diocese of (shown at right) Vancouver Alliance, a three- , Edmonton Edmonton is also tackling year-old non-partisan associa- homelessness. According inner city pastoral ministry tion of Christian churches to the Rev. Rick Chapman, a and non-profit, labour and priest with Edmonton’s Inner core focus of the Inner City child-focused charge against doing something ourselves,” educational organizations. City Pastoral Ministry, the Pastoral Ministry, in which poverty with the Bishop’s says Chapman. “We are often Harking back to the venerable Anglican diocese has also Chapman has joined forces Child Poverty Initiative. quick to criticize without model of community organiz- signed on to the province’s with pastors from the United Starting from the premise stepping up to the plate. ing used by urban-renewal and mayor’s plans to end and Lutheran churches and a that well-fed children are But we can hold all levels of activists in the 1960s and 70s, homelessness within 10 Roman Catholic nun to walk more engaged and attentive government to account if we, the group has set its first task years. In March 2011, the spiritually with the urban learners and therefore less too, are doing something.” as building solid connections diocese joined the interfaith poor. likely to be poor as adults, As for recent reports across various sectors. “You community in signing on to The ecumenical group the initiative helps schools of continuing poverty and don’t start with the issues; the 10-year Welcome Home ministers to the many educate children about growing income disparity, you start with organizing program. Under this, mem- transient, homeless, aged, low-cost, nutritious food and Chapman says, “They just communities across sectors bers of the faith community indigenous and mentally donates money to school confirm that we have to keep that want to work together befriend and accompany ill people who populate the lunch programs in which kids doing what we’re doing.” long term for the common people who are making the downtown core. “We are a shop for and prepare healthy good,” says Marquardt. “But not always easy transition chaplaincy of presence. We lunches. within the year, we hope to ac- joining forces from homelessness to stable pray with people, we grieve “This is an attempt to In the Gander-based diocese tually begin work on specific housing. and celebrate with them. We be proactive, not reactive— of Central Newfoundland, problems.” “Often people who have walk with the abandoned,” [and]…to work strategically Bishop David Torraville On behalf of the diocese, has joined forces with the the eco-justice unit has also Religious Social Action signed on to the Living Wage Coalition of Newfoundland. campaign, an international What does it say about us that we appear content to live in a “This group seeks to make effort that has successfully poverty an issue in elections secured the guarantee of a community where it takes the corporate world to recognize that and asks persons running living wage for workers at in provincial and federal the coming June Olympics one-third of children are disadvantaged? —Bishop David Torraville Gander, Nfld. elections to express them- in London. In Canada, the selves in relation to ending campaign has calculated poverty,” he says. the basic income needed by Individual parishes, he a family of two adults and been used to shelters‘ are says Chapman. The ministry at the front end of the prob- adds, are very active in anti- two children—including the lonely in their new homes, also tries to bridge the divide lem by teaching kids how to poverty leadership and food means to have a medical- especially since some move between aboriginal people eat well, buy healthy food and banks. The parish of Catalina dental plan, decent housing from the downtown core to and mainstream culture. create economical menus,” raised more than $100,000 and adequate nutrition more residential, middle- Every Sunday, the says Bishop Chapman. and partnered with the without resort to food banks. class areas where they feel churchless ministry holds a The diocese is also active Mennonite church to rebuild “The required minimum wage uncomfortable,” says Chap- simple worship service with on the homelessness front. homes after Hurricane Igor for both adults works out to man. They need support to a rolled-out oak altar. “We Under its Serving God’s savaged Newfoundland in $18 an hour,” she says. That is adjust to solitary housing average about 110 people,” World program, it operates September 2010. double or close to double the and to learn about healthier he says. That’s followed by Cornerstone, a residential “My goal is to get more average minimum. lifestyles and recreational a lunch for 250 prepared by facility that houses homeless deeply involved in the work of One major obstacle to opportunities in their new volunteers at 75 churches Ottawa women. It also runs groups that address the politi- improving impoverished neighbourhoods. and a synagogue. The Well, a gathering place cal and social underpinnings living conditions is the dearth So far, the initiative has Female pastors make for women and women with of policies furthering the gap of affordable housing. After hosted a walkabout immer- visits to a federal women’s children, and Centre 454, a between rich and poor,” says visiting the food and clothing sion program in the inner prison and a women’s shelter. day program for men and Bishop Torraville. banks, many return home to city for about 25 representa- “We hold indigenous circle women who are homeless or He’s been calling attention substandard living quarters tives from six parishes in four gatherings that speak to at risk of becoming so. to an emblematic Canadian that cost an unacceptable different types of community: grief and loss in prayerful Chapman finds that Tire ad that claims that one- percentage of their income. city centre, suburban, bed- ways, whether it’s residential government is increasingly third of Canadian children Hence, this is a cornerstone of room suburban and rural. schools or being abandoned more attuned to the immen- cannot afford to be involved the Vancouver group’s policy. Over the next three by your parents on the street sity of the poverty issue, and in organized sport. “What “Across many sectors and months, the diocese will run as a teenager,” Chapman different levels of government does it say about us that we at all three levels of govern- a program called Education says. “Guided by the spirit of support various Anglican appear content to live in a ment, we are calling for policy to Action to prepare differ- God, we walk with the people social services programs. community where it takes the action on affordable hous- ent church communities to of Edmonton.” Cornerstone, for example, is corporate world to recognize ing,” Marquardt says. “We address homelessness in the supported by all three levels that one-third of children are are asking parishes to write greater Edmonton region, because homelessness is disadvantaged? If organized letters on housing and we are child poverty including their own areas. Back east in the diocese such a large problem. “The sport is a problem, how many partnering with many others But the poor also need of Ottawa, Bishop John church’s voice is being heard, of those children are underfed calling for the return of the pastoral care, which is the Chapman is leading a but we must be seen to be and under-housed?” co-op housing of the past.”

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We’re of the Theophany, the celebration of As the decades rolled by, his wit and still working out the bugs but, among the baptism of Jesus on January 19. sarcasm remained as sharp as ever, emails start coming in, other things, new software will now The ceremony although his appearance became responding to what’s in allow us to post your letters. If we’ve used in increasingly craggy. His bushy learned anything, it’s that our audi- Jesus does not Anglican eyebrows looked like albino caterpil- the newspaper, I feel alive. ence is very vocal and needs an ever- add something congregations lars on steroids. 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4 anglican journal • February 2012 letters come and see

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Fred Hiltz T WAS TWO o’clock on a Tuesday afternoon before Christmas at the ICathedral Church of St. James in downtown Toronto. A large crowd of men and women had congregated in the narthex, the lobby just inside the david anderson http://davidandersonillustration.com front doors. Following some commu- We’re all ears! nity announcements, the vicar led us On reading the article by Bishop Mark MacDonald in the January 2012 issue [What will they say? p. 4], my in prayer. reaction was “Amen!” I pray that God will open the ears of his church to hear this prophetic voice and to go As the glass doors were opened, where the voice leads. Leon Baltas, London, Ont. everyone made their way into the west aisle of the cathedral. Emptied of pews except for a few in front of a chapel at the far end, the space was set up with Get with the program being painted as one homogenous group. We desperately need a broader and stations to meet a variety of needs. At the entrance, hot drinks, sandwiches The January issue of the Journal contains It is this usage that First Nation, Inuit and deeper discussion of such questions as: and fresh fruit were on offer. Farther disquieting news affecting the future of Métis peoples find disrespectful. The more What do we want the Anglican church to our church. The diocese of Ontario is specific one can be—e.g., “He is Cree”—the look like in 10 or 20 years? What do we down the aisle, two barbers were ready suspending four programs, including two more respectful. need to focus on to reverse the trends? to cut hair. Beyond that was a station directly related to youth. CoGS will have a Given that, however, when you want As individuals and congregations, what where a couple of nurses could provide balanced budget for two years but will face to speak of all Canada’s First Peoples and should our day-to-day priorities be? If we foot care. Across the aisle was a table a budget deficit in 2014, which could reach their descendants and relatives regardless engage congregations in an exploration laden with hand-knit socks, hats, mit- $1 million by 2016. The proportional gifts of beneficiary status, the only terminology of these questions, we might become a tens and scarves. Behind it, a parish- from dioceses are diminishing at a rate of that is inclusive is either “aboriginal” or healthier, stronger church. I believe more ioner was busy knitting more. three per cent a year. The Council of the “indigenous.” This usage is very respectful. columns from those with deep knowledge At another table, people could se- North will experience declining revenue. (See www.fnmr.gov.sk.ca/community/ and experience, like Dr. Nicolosi, would be lect a Christmas card to send to family All of this speaks to a church in serious glossary/.) It is also legally recognized in most helpful. or friends. The cathedral would ensure decline both financially and attendance- Canada’s constitution. God has given us the time and the it was mailed. For the more adventure- wise but the subject doesn’t seem to be Speaking of terminology, one should not talent to act. We know that with God, some, there was an opportunity to sign use “Inuit people,” as Inuit means people, all things are possible (Matthew 19:26). discussed at either the diocesan or parish up for a winter camping trip. Several so saying “people people” is not only Wouldn’t it be wonderful if Dr. Nicolosi’s level. This state of affairs cannot and should photo albums revealed how much fun not continue if we value our Anglican faith. redundant but disrespectful. commentary were the catalyst for change As Brush noted, we all need to be in every Anglican parish and diocese in those expeditions could be. Off in Efforts are no doubt being made by the the distance, a man who had come in Financial Management Committee and mindful of the language we use. I would just Canada? add: be as specific as you can and if you played the piano as others gathered Together in Mission, but I would propose a Jim Morell around to sing songs of the season. more grass-roots approach also. mean to be inclusive, use the right words. Fredericton, N.B. That is respectful. Throughout the entire place, there The church should consider setting up a was a beautiful spirit of welcome Audrey Lawrence Essential ingredient Future Planning Task Force with a mandate and warmth, service and gratitude, to produce answers to two questions: 1. Ottawa Aiming for Islam [Oct. 2011, p. 5] faith and friendship. David, the vicar, Why has attendance declined since the conjures up the spectre of a takeover of P.S. The term “aboriginal” is normally moved among the people with ease. He 1990s? and 2. What can be done to reverse Christendom by Islamist fanatics. spelled with a capital “A” in Canada out of knows so many of them by name and this decline? Nothing should be off the Like most Christians, my Muslim friends respect. However, press wire services have by circumstance. They know him and table for discussion, including the liturgy. If acknowledge and condemn extremists dictated that it is not capitalized—such is they appreciate the care he and the the Anglican Church of Canada does not in their faith. Our receptivity to fear- the power of the press! volunteers provide. “Tuesday Drop-In” adapt to change, it faces a dismal future. mongering increases during tough times. The task force should be small but Hitler’s Judenhass thrived in an atmosphere at the cathedral provides safe haven, should contain representation from the Time and talent to act of financial insecurity, when those “others” practical help and pastoral support episcopacy, the clergy and the laity and The Rev. Dr. Gary Nicolosi’s column in could be cast as job stealers and cultural or that enables them to go on from one should meet early in 2012 in a one-week your December issue [Nine lessons on the religious enemies. week to the next. retreat. The results of this brainstorming missional church, p. 7] suggests that if we We must reach out to people of All I heard and saw that afternoon exercise with the guidance of the Holy change the way we do church, it could help other religions to share the riches of moved me to think of how much joy Spirit would be reported to CoGS for reverse a 50-year decline and produce our respective faiths. Studying Islam such ministry brings to the heart of whatever action it wishes to take. healthier, sustainable congregations. has opened my mind and deepened my our blessed Lord. It reminded me of Hilary Payne Here in New Brunswick, The Nicodemus understanding of the loving submission to the teaching of the great St. John Windsor, Ont. Project has, for the past two years, given God contained in Jesus’ words “Thy will Chrysostom with respect to reverenc- us an opportunity to ask questions and be done.” Interfaith dialogue is an essential ing the Body of Christ. “In the first Words that respect put forward ideas that challenge the way ingredient. sense, the Body of Christ does not I had just settled into reading the January we have done and been church for many Peace! Shalom! Salaam! need clothing but worship from a pure 2012 Anglican Journal, when I was struck by years. There are many positive examples of Peter Scott heart. In the second sense, it does need the letter from Patricia Brush [The words parish-based and diocesan change. Elora, Ont. clothing and all the care we can give we choose, p. 5]. The point Brush made But while delegates to our October 2011 it.” was that those in power get to control the synod said they remain optimistic about Wrong side of history For “Tuesday Drop-In” at St. James language. She then went on to say, “The our future, parish data showed that our and ministries of similar kind in parish financial and attendance figures remain in That the Anglican Church of Canada use of ‘aboriginal’ when referring to people has taken steps to develop links with the churches all across the country, I re- is a mark of disrespect.” Here, I beg to decline. A question many in our diocese are joice and I pray for God’s blessings on asking is: How many years will it be before Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem is very differ. positive [‘Companions’ to deepen ties with all who are so devoted to them, week in Aboriginal peoples in Canada comprise a significant number of our 160+ churches, and week out. 75+ rectories and 65+ church halls have to Jerusalem, Jan. 2012, p. 7]. many uniquely different linguistics and My hope is that many lively links of faith kinship collectives with varying rights and be closed because their congregations are Archbishop Fred Hiltz is primate of the legal recognition. They do not appreciate diminishing? Continued on p. 6 Anglican Church of Canada.

anglicanjournal.com 5 marks of mission One inspired song, many fresh Sunday school ideas

Diana Swift the church’s initiative to promote the staff writer five Marks of Mission throughout the worldwide Anglican Communion. Hope is not our fingers crossed In another venture, the “Marks It isn’t pulling petals off of Mission Sunday School Contest” He loves me or he loves me not invited Anglicans to submit ideas for That isn’t hope… refreshing the curricula of Canadian Sunday schools and encouraging Hope is a boat that holds you when young people to embrace the five you’re too far from the shore marks. Four winners were eligible to Hope’s a little bird that flies on in the attend a special workshop in To- middle of a storm ronto last November led by Susan It’s the song inside a heart that won’t Graham-Walker. give up. The cornucopia of winning ideas spoke to all five marks in concrete hese lines are from the ways. In one proposal, children would opening verse and the refrain use problem-based learning to address Tof “Hope,” Jaylene Johnson’s ali symons needs they themselves identify in winning entry in the 2011 “Living the SUNDAY SCHOOL WORKSHOP Left to right: Workshop facilitator Susan Graham-Walker their church or school and come up Marks of Mission” song competition. with winners Nancy Wilcox, Janet Cress, Katherine Newman and Katherine Saunders. with creative solutions—for example, The 30-something Winnipeg native’s replacing wasteful Styrofoam cups at submission won out over more than the church coffee hour with washable 70 other entries, which covered a wide Kimball created the exceptional travel mugs or establishing a mitten range of genres from sacred to folk arrangement and played guitar, while tree at school so that younger children and rock. Now, the working tape of the Johnson focused on the lyrics and would always have dry warm mittens to song will be professionally recorded for sang. “My strong point is definitely wear. In another, youth would apply the distribution throughout the Anglican lyrics, but I play the piano and some lessons learned from the persecution of Church of Canada and beyond. guitar,” says Johnson, who has re- Christ to modern-day bullying and dis- Johnson describes the genre of her ceived nominations from the Western cuss approaches for dealing with it in a song as reflective pop, somewhat in Canadian Music Awards. positive way. In yet another, kids would the vein of Canadian pop diva Sarah Like many serious musicians, enter apprenticeships in church guilds McLachlan’s work. “I write what I call courtesy of jaylene johnson Johnson survives by juggling several to learn how to respond to human needs soul-nourishing pop,” says the native SOUL NOURISHING Jaylene Johnson day jobs, including that of ministry in their communities. from Winnipeg, who also holds a co-ordinator at saint benedict’s table, Under its Living the Marks of Mis- degree in education. hope. “Hope is a very important word, an Anglican missional church in sion effort, the church is also inviting A 2010 collaboration with American but we toss it around lightly,” says downtown Winnipeg. “But my career is people to submit two-minute videos Jim Kimball, a Nashville-based guitar Johnson. “It’s only when you face a music,” she says. Winning the national of the marks at work in their lives and player for such country music super- situation where hope is harder to hold competition has surely given her hope parishes. stars as Reba McEntire, the song seeks onto that you truly realize the impor- that will continue. Further details can be found at to define the essential meaning of tance of having it.” The song contest is one venture in www.anglican.ca.

letters continued A refreshing breeze faith today Wrong side of history (from p. 5) It’s sad to read about the demise of a Thank you for the review of John diocesan newspaper [Youth ministry, Spong’s new book on expanding and action can be established. the Bible to include other voices of However, I didn’t see any reference to newspaper ‘suspended,’ Jan. 2012, p. 1]. The suspension of the diocese of Ontario’s inspiration and insight [Jan. 2012, p. the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, now in its 9]. I find it reassuring to know there 64th year. I am convinced that resolution of Dialogue is nothing short of tragic. How will members of the diocese keep in touch? are some Anglicans in leadership who this conflict has the same moral claim on us are prepared to admit that traditional as the civil rights movement and I look for How will the bishop communicate with his charges? Mass mailings are expensive. dogma and interpretations of the strong public statements from the national Bible are inadequate for faith today. I church in this regard. Failing this, we will find Not only have they cut off the arm of communication, but also the feet of the hope you will print more articles that ourselves, along with our current federal explore ways to make Christianity and future in vastly reducing outreach to youth. government, on the wrong side of history. the church more fluid, meaningful and Without a viable means of keeping in Donald Grayston relevant. Vancouver touch, communities fall apart. The Internet is not quite universal enough yet to take Paul Mullin Orleans, Ont. More lay people, please the place of print media. Not everyone is computer-literate or has access to I wish to protest the tone of Marites Sison’s electronic media. Now that’s well put lead article in the November Journal The hierarchy appears to be closing its I have much sympathy with Bishop [Women in the church, p. 1]. My problem hands around the neck of a body already Spong [The Bible…to be continued, Jan. A heretical substitute for the Christian is not with women in orders. Far from it, as experiencing breathing difficulties. No 2012, p. 9]. Today, many speak of the gospel, gnostic interpretation has nothing I think we’ve ignored half the brains and one can say for certain where the Spirit will paradigm shift, as our society moves to do with serious New Testament spiritual strength God has given us. No, it is blow, but a cool breeze refreshes everyone. from throw-away to recycle. Paradigm the underlying suggestion that the church scholarship, which Spong snidely calls shifts must be taken into account consists primarily, if not exclusively, of the Willem Hart twisting our brains into a 1st-century Toronto if we would communicate with our ordained clergy. pretzel. Its elitism is thoroughly consistent contemporaries, and there is no more This is a fallacy and a fatal one, in my with Spong’s ill-informed prejudice about important paradigm shift than the way view. If it were not for the prayers, the Spiritual new wave majority-world Christians. we think about and speak of God. volunteer and paid work and the financial In the January 2012 issue [The Bible…to be Gnosticism has always had a certain Paul Tillich wrote of God as “the support of countless lay people, our clergy continued, p. 9], we were told how Bishop ego-flattering appeal. But this should ground of being”­—the sine qua non of would starve. Perhaps it is high time that John Spong, in his most recent book, offers not be mistaken for good news. Spong’s everything. There is a story about Tillich our clergy return to the apostolic Hebraic a new kind of Christianity. Its Bible eschews rejection of the Redeemer, whom he calls arriving in heaven, where he is met by an practice of earning a lay livelihood. At the reference to history in favour of ongoing the divine invader, is also a rejection of imposing figure: least, it would go a long way to excising the sacred allegory. Its central character is what He offered: grace. His alternatives— Tillich: Are you God? attitude of entitlement among some of our not a divine redeemer but rather human the life force, our own consciousness and God: Yes. clergy. At best, it would free our money to consciousness, which has broken through our own achievement—all depend on…us. If Tillich: Take me to your leader. be used in charitable work rather than on to a new level of understanding. The name we look honestly around us, or within us, we salaries. for this perennial option is gnosticism and can see how well that works out. Couldn’t have put it better myself. John A. Laidlaw it was the spiritual new wave of the first and George Sumner Colin Proudman Victoria second centuries A.D. Toronto Toronto

6 anglican journal • February 2012 special report wills and estate planning

Where there’s a will…

…there’s a way to carry out your wishes after death

Diana Swift ably expect to inherit from you. “That’s a recipe for staff writer litigation, so consider that beforehand,” says Roth in Toronto. And would you really want your last docu- lot of people think they don’t need a will. ment to sow dissension among your kin and waste your Wrong. legacy on legal wrangling? AT hat’s one of the most common misconceptions around estate planning, according to Pamela Earle, a 2. Think outside the box. Probably you want the bulk lawyer in St. John’s, Nfld. “If you don’t, under the laws of your estate to go to your spouse and/or children, of intestacy, your assets will be distributed according but pause before you automatically assign the whole to the government and not the way you want,” says of it to close family. Is there a needy distant relative Earle, who specializes in wills and estate planning at or a helpful friend to whom a small bequest of money the law firm of McInnes Cooper. or personal property would make a real difference? A Maybe you want your wife to inherit your assets down-and-out nephew? An impecunious friend who with nothing passing to your children until her death. shares your interest in art books? Or could that empty If you die without a will, you should know that most spot in a favoured neighbourhood green space use a provinces will divide the estate between the surviving shade tree? spouse and all children. Although the strict formulas used to calculate such divisions may vary by prov- Before she died, Susan Friedman, a market research ince, the first $200,000 might go to your spouse, for Typical costs for wills analyst in Toronto, added a directive to her will—which example, with the remainder split 50-50 between your originally left all of her assets to her husband—allow- spouse and an only child. Or there may be a one-third/ Costs can vary greatly by city, the size of the ing a small cash bequest to be made to an unemployed two-thirds split between spouse and several children. law firm and the complexity of the assets and brother who was convalescing after a life-threatening “People tend to think that a spouse automatically beneficiaries. But a lot of the time, wills and liv- respiratory illness. It made no difference to her well-off gets everything, but that’s not true,” says Earle. (And ing wills are not as expensive as you may think. husband, but it was enough money for her ailing contrary to popular belief, the government only takes brother to take a much-needed winter vacation down the estate if you die intestate with no living relatives.) Handwritten holographic will: $00 south. Having a will is especially important in the case of common-law unions. “Under the laws of intestacy, a Stationary-store or online will kit: 3. Be charitable. There are many worthy charities and common-law spouse takes nothing,” says Susannah under $30 religious institutions that can make good use of even Roth, a wills expert with O’Sullivan Estate Lawyers modest bequests. Your estate will receive tax deduc- in Toronto. Even a common-law spouse with whom Simple “law shop” will: $99 tions for posthumous gifts to registered charities, and you’ve shared an abode for many years and had several these will offset taxes on other assets. But, reminds children will have no standing. Without a will, your Simple law-firm-drafted will that includes a Roth, “it’s even better to make these donations dur- estate will go to the kids. living will: $500 ing your lifetime so that you yourself enjoy the tax Minor children are also a concern in intestacy. Quite benefits.” apart from the unresolved issue of guardianship in the Complex will with power of attorney, varied assets, absence of a surviving parent or an appointed guard- trusts, different jurisdictions and multiple Practical considerations ian, the children’s share of your assets is paid into court beneficiaries: $1000 plus 1. A simple will? Don’t fall into the trap of thinking that and invested on their behalf until they reach the age of you need only a simple will, warns Roth. Perhaps you 18. “Not only is the rate of return low,” notes Roth, “but have an ex-spouse and children by a former union. the children are also entitled to the entire proceeds at Perhaps you have assets in other jurisdictions or age 18. Most people would want their children to wait The right mindset potentially warring beneficiaries. A“ bove all, you want longer to have access to that capital.” to set things up to avoid future litigation,” says Roth. And don’t assume that your family knows your “I’ll cut you out of my will!” Such utterances may be the That’s why precise lawyer-drafted wills are generally a wishes for the distribution of your assets and the stuff of Victorian melodrama, but the punitive senti- safer bet than do-it-yourself efforts. disposal of your remains, says Roth. “Often, they have ments behind them can taint modern will-makers, too. no clue.” Before you pick up your pen or see your lawyer to set 2. Who will execute your will? Carefully consider your “I encourage people to communicate their plans down your last wishes, you should get into an equitable executors, advises Roth. Think about their age, their to their loved ones and executors so that there are no frame of mind. This will ensure that your dependents organizational ability, their skill with numbers and the surprises after the individual passes,” says Jordan and relatives are treated fairly and help avoid time- and amount of time they have to give to administering an Hardy, a lawyer with MacPherson Leslie & Tyerman in money-draining legal costs later on. Bear in mind these estate. If an executor is your contemporary, is she likely Regina who has seen a steady flow of wills litigation in principles. to die before or soon after you do? “Have an alternate the past few years. “A significant number of the cases executor in mind, especially if your first choice is an I’m working on could have been avoided by better com- 1. Leave vengeance to the Lord. It’s never a good idea older person,” says Roth. munication on the part of the testator.” to use your will to punish people who would reason- See Minimize, p. 8

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When a Saskatchewan farmer became Minimize estate tax

fatally trapped under his tractor, Continued from p. 7 he carved his will into the machine’s fender: “If you want to appoint more than one executor, make sure they get along,” she adds. One man’s will “In case I die in this mess I leave all to named his second wife and one of his sons by his first the wife. Cecil Geo. Harris.” The fender marriage as joint executors. By the time he died, the two executors were barely speaking to each other, ham- was probated and stood as his will. pering the administration of his will. “With ongoing trusts, it’s better to appoint a third party such as a trust company or a lawyer,” says Roth.

3. Minimize tax ‘ “A lot of people don’t realize that there are planning opportunities that will minimize tax on your estate,” says Newfoundland’s Earle. Strategies include naming your spouse as sole beneficiary of all your RRSPs and setting up a spousal rollover trust, which gives your spouse access to earnings on securities held in your name. “Your spouse gets the benefit of your portfolio, which is taxed only after the second spouse dies,” she says. You can also set up trusts for minor children and even adult offspring if you have concerns.

Peter Nadolski 4. Major changes If you are elderly and decide to make major changes to your will, you may need extra documentation of competency to make sure no one claims you did not Do-it-yourself (DIY) wills know what you were doing or were unduly influenced by a particular beneficiary. Sometimes that works for good. After having a minor stroke, an elderly Winnipeg Diana Swift in Toronto, is that you lose the benefit of professional music teacher was persuaded to change her will, leav- staff writer advice that could alert you to tax savings, point out ing her house and assets to her cleaning lady instead potential pitfalls for litigation and bring errors to your of the conservatory where she had studied music. Her ome people prefer to bypass the cost and time attention. If the testator’s familial situation is simple, family lawyer challenged the change on grounds of of the law office altogether and complete their all may be well. But if there are multiple spouses and incompetency, and the original will was reinstated. Swills on their own with fill-in-the-blanks kits you children from different unions, a seemingly simple will can purchase at business supply stores and online for can get complicated. 5. Resist pressure less than $30 and complete in half an hour. She cites the reported case of a man who wanted to Some relatives may pressure you to reveal what you “These are really just one step up from intestacy,” leave the bulk of his estate to his only living relative, a are going to leave them and may try to influence the says Pamela Earle, a lawyer with McInnes Cooper in nephew, with a small bequest going to a helpful neigh- distribution of your assets or even demand their share. St. John’s, Nfld. A“ nd they’re as good as intestacy if bour. In his thrifty do-it-yourself will, he accidentally “This can happen especially if you’re dependent and they’re not properly done.” (Bear in mind that DYI named the neighbour, not the nephew, as the main vulnerable,” says Roth. She advises a person in that options have been seriously cutting into lawyers’ fees beneficiary. After his death, the two had to go to court situation to keep his own counsel and tell the impor- for will-making.) Common problems with DYI wills to fix the mistake. Luckily, the neighbour was co-oper- tunate relative he’s still considering the best way to are lack of proper witnessing, imprecise language, im- ative, but it still cost money. “Having your will done is divide things but all will get their fair share. “If you proper placement of paragraphs and invalid additions. not a time to be overly frugal, as someone may pursue know a beneficiary will be unhappy with your will, “But if carefully completed and witnessed, they are litigation after you’re gone,” says Regina’s Hardy. discuss with your legal adviser how to prevent that valid and will stand up in court,” says James Naumov- Adds Roth: “Litigation is very expensive and can person from derailing your plans.” ich, a Toronto lawyer specializing in wills and estates. cost $20,000 before you even get to court.” And they can be reasonable stop-gap measures if you Even less sophisticated are purely handwritten— or 6. Remember to make a living will need to make a will quickly and lack the time to seek holographic—wills, where the testator doesn’t even You should give power of attorney to a trusted indi- legal advice. have the benefit of the legal language and prompts vidual who can make health-care decisions on your Franklin Phillips, a Toronto-based filmmaker, for offered by the forms. These are often written in emer- behalf in case you become incapable of doing so. The example, made a simple will using a kit just before his gency situations where the testator is facing death. But emphasis is on “trusted.” One Toronto man gave power sudden departure for Africa to make a documentary these can stand, too. Naumovich cites the 1948 case of attorney over his end-of-life care to his son not his film that would take him into some dangerous conflict of Cecil Harris, a Saskatchewan farmer who became spouse, because, he said, “she had insisted on keeping zones. It was the only will he ever made, and after his fatally trapped under his tractor. He carved this will an old family dog alive too long!” death some 20 years later, his lawyer said the station- into the machine’s fender: “In case I die in this mess ary-store testament was still valid, although it did not I leave all to the wife. Cecil Geo. Harris.” The fender 7. Keep up to date reflect the reality of his current assets. was probated in court and stood as his will. It is cur- Review your will and estate planning periodically to The main drawback of a self-executed will, says Su- rently on display at the law library of the University of ensure it is realistic in terms of your current assets, sannah Roth, a lawyer with O’Sullivan Estate Lawyers Saskatchewan College of Law in Saskatoon. executors and the needs of your beneficiaries.

Encouraging Anglicans to be thoughtful, generous trustees

John Robertson for the mind, knowing that you will a charitable gift and with Archdeacon John Robertson sharing of be supporting those people, the tax credit, purchase an is senior gift planning officer, “Consider your your es- ministries and causes you feel insurance policy on your life General Synod. possessions loaned to tate with are important and that reflect so you can provide for your family your priorities and values. grandchildren. you by God.” members, If, for some reason, you feel Fortunately, you don’t have For more gift planning —St. Catherine of Siena, close you should leave everything to die first to be generous. information, contact: 14th c. friends, to your adult children, why During one’s lifetime, a gift Archdeacon John M. Robertson, Resources for your not ask them if they would be of securities, a charitable Mission, Anglican Church anadian Anglicans church happy to share 90% of your gift annuity or a significant Robertson of Canada, 80 Hayden St., Care increasingly taking and estate, and then give 10% cash gift can make all the Toronto, ON M4Y 3G2 to heart St. Catherine’s sound favourite to your church, university, difference in the world...and if Telephone (toll free) advice. After all, what can be charities, you will have gone a hospital foundation or other your contribution is for your 1-888.439-GIFT (4438) more certain than death and long way toward minimizing charitable organization? Or church or registered charity, Email: jrobertson@national. taxes—and almost always in taxes owing upon your death. consider wealth-replacement you will receive substantial anglican.ca that order. By careful planning You will also have peace of insurance, so you can make tax relief.

8 anglican journal • February 2012 Anglican Church of Canada ministry Report 2 11 Celebrating a Culture of Generous Stewardship

A publication of the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada • www.anglican.ca February 2012 A message from the Primate I thank my God every time I remember you, blood of the ministries of the church to constantly praying with joy in every one of my this very day. In the spirit of Paul’s joyful and prayers for all of you, because of your sharing uplifting letter of thanks to the church ‘in the gospel from the first day until now’ in Philippi, and in this 20th anniversary (Philippians 1:3-5) year of the Anglican Appeal, the Anglican Church of Canada is com- mitted to giving thanks to the faithful he history of giving in the Anglican people from across our beloved church, TChurch of Canada can be celebrated whose generous gifts have strengthened through hundreds of thousands of our capacity to live into the Marks of stories of individual generosity. From Mission. providing the church’s earliest mis- I commend to you this ministry sionaries with much-needed food and report for the Anglican Church of shelter, to donating parcels of land Canada and hope that it helps you to upon which thousands of cornerstones see the fruits of the exciting ministries were laid, the church has been blessed you supported in 2011. I also hope that beyond measure. it piques your interest in our plans for Indeed, it is the vigorous character 2012 and beyond. of individual generosity, united in spirit photo by ali symons, general synod communications and purpose toward the mission of Archbishop Fred Hiltz with Bishop Griselda Delgado del Carpio, bishop coadjutor of the Episcopal Church of Cuba God, which continues to be the life-

A ministry of the whole church by the whole church

Council of the North

he best and most accurate way to In 2011 the council deepened its Tframe the work of the Council of commitment to a number of goals that Highlighted area the North is to uphold it for what it is: reflect the will of the whole Canadian represents Council a ministry of the whole church by the church. Chief among its objectives is whole church. It is one of the greatest to nurture and support ministry that of the North. symbols of generosity in the Canadian truly reflects the mission of the church church and one of the finest examples in northern communities. This means of Canadian Anglicans coming together respecting the diversity of indigenous —in thought, word and deed—to cultures and languages, and facilitating sustain ministry where ministry is most discernment related to area missions, needed. such as the one led by Bishop Lydia The council’s territory includes 85 Mamakwa in northern Ontario. per cent of our nation’s geography and The council has embraced the Marks approximately 15 per cent of our popu- of Mission wholeheartedly and has lation. Its core work is funded by the spent the past few years focused on General Synod, and enhanced funding responding to human need through the for special projects and initiatives comes development of a suicide prevention from direct donations from dioceses, strategy. Through the ministry of the parishes and people across the country. Rev. Cynthia Patterson, the council’s The council faces enormous chal- suicide prevention coordinator, work OUR STRENGTH AND OUR CHALLENGE: Council of the North is comprised of 85 per cent of the geography of Canada lenges, to be sure—great distances is progressing with all dioceses in the and 15 per cent of the population. between parishes, isolated communities council to develop prevention programs where rates of poverty and suicide are for their regions. through its efforts to teach, baptize and (Sakgeeng in Ojibwe), there are upwards much higher than the national average, In the spring of 2011, a new course nurture new believers. In Canada much of 60 children attending Sunday School. and where climate change is impact- was offered in the diocese of Moosonee has been said about an ageing, declining The Council of the North now ing the environment much faster than and 22 volunteers signed up for “River church. However, in the north, many oversees and administers the Virtual in the rest of the country. But in spite of Life,” an online educational tool communities have as much as 50 per Church School, which is regularly ac- of the challenges, pastoral and sacra- produced by the Centre for Suicide cent of the population base under the cessed by member dioceses but also by mental ministry thrives and, for some Prevention and administered in part- age of 20. And northern communi- people across the country and around communities, the Anglican Church of nership with the council. Most par- ties are experiencing growth in the the world. From September 2010 to Canada is the sole Christian denomi- ticipants were First Nations and many church—so much so that a number of September 2011, the web page—with nation that still maintains an active were located in the James Bay region, communities are looking to build new free, downloadable weekly lessons— presence and that serves the spiritual which has high rates of youth suicide. churches, such as Big River, Sask., in the welcomed more than 2,500 visitors. “I and physical needs of the most remote The council has further demonstrated diocese of Saskatchewan. In the parish northern communities. its commitment to the Marks of Mission of Christ Church, Fort Alexander, Man. See a ministry of the whole church, p. 4

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That’s what you have work is rooted in the training, members of the standing com- learn about Anglican identity and in your hand, this time from the education and support for the mittee is an increased aware- the many ecumenical and interfaith conversations of which we have General Synod—an account of photo by deborah tregunno ministries of all the baptized, ness among among Canadian the ministries you support. with specific projects being Anglicans of what it means to been a part, and to explore the full All ministry is local—it will see them reflected in the undertaken in theological be Anglican Christians, both breadth of resources available to takes place somewhere. And all work of the General Synod, education and discernment for in relationship with Christian Canadian Anglicans that strengthen ministry is a response to God, described in this ministry re- ministry. traditions and in relationship our worship life. and to God’s mission to create, port. I hope that you share my Worship resources for the with Anglicans around the redeem and renew the life of confidence that these ministries whole church are produced, world. the world. The life-changing deserve the support of Angli- collected and disseminated A key aspect of FWM is the frequently used to support wise encounter with God in worship, cans across Canada, including through FWM. Dialogue with production of practical and and discerning local conversa- the gracious local response to you and me. other Christian churches and concrete resources for liturgy tions about challenging ethical hunger or homelessness, the This report covers highlights with other faith traditions (e.g., liturgical texts that we issues, from ecology to bio- deliberate cultivation of hos- of a year of ministry, a year of outside of Christianity are use every Sunday) that carry technologies, from sexuality to pitality and thoughtful care of serving God’s mission through supported through its work. forward a living tradition, healthcare. Resources are also the vulnerable are hallmarks of the work of the General Synod, And as Anglicans wrestle with enlivened in the present toward helping to equip local Anglican local ministry. its council, committees and tough questions around ethical the building of the church’s leaders for interfaith and multi- The same is true for occa- staff. I trust that every An- issues or challenges that come future mission and ministry. faith dialogue. sions of public witness in which glican, reading this account from our contexts of mission FWM has very specific goals FWM continues to make Christians make known a more of ministry, will see in this and ministry, FWM takes relating to liturgical text progress in the creation of hopeful, just and generous work a reflection of the values leadership both in showing revision that will bring revised national standards, locally vision than is sometimes evi- we share, of the God whose how these conversations can versions of our present Book of adapted, for the training and dent in public life. The Marks mission we serve, and of the happen and by providing Alternative Services and other education of those to be of Mission of the Anglican kingdom whose citizens we resources to help parishes do texts to the General Synods of ordained to serve the needs Communion provide a frame- are. Your gifts have helped that their discernment. 2013 and 2016. of the emerging church. “In work for the ministries of the to be true, and I encourage At the November 2011 In order to serve Anglicans these challenging and excit- Anglican Church of Canada: you to offer continuing gener- meeting of the Council of from coast to coast to coast, ing times in our church, our • To proclaim the Good News ous support for the way your General Synod (COGS) the many of the resources that communities and ministries of the Kingdom General Synod is working with chair of the Faith, Worship and have been produced or need and deserve the best • To teach, baptize and nurture God to heal, renew and restore Ministry Committee, the Rev. facilitated by FWM can now possible clergy leadership that new believers the life of the world. Canon Andrew Asbil (Church be easily downloaded from we can provide,” says Bishop • To respond to human need For that, and for your faith- of the Redeemer, Toronto, www.anglican.ca. “Enlivening John Chapman, member of by loving service fulness as a disciple of Jesus Ont.), led a presentation on the worship lives of local con- the Theological Education • To seek to transform unjust and fellow-servant with him, the committee’s work, which gregations by the production Commission. structures of society thank you. It is a privilege to detailed how the committee is and sharing of resources for Also in 2011, FWM has • To strive to safeguard the serve the church that includes organizing itself and some of liturgical leadership, both lay been an integral part of the integrity of creation and us both. what it seeks to accomplish: and ordained, is a major part continued deepening in life sustain and renew the life of • the Worship group is of our work,” says the Rev. Dr. and witness of our full com- the earth Yours in the ministry we share, producing a supplement to Eileen Scully, director of FWM. munion relationship with the Common Praise; “Being able to promote best Evangelical Lutheran Church I’m sure you can recognize ways • the Congregational Life and practices through online inter- in Canada, supported by the in which your local Anglican Leadership Group is work- active spotlighting of excellent Joint Anglican Lutheran Com- ministry reflects these Marks of The Ven. Dr. Michael Thompson ing on making Vision 2019 examples of ministry and mis- mission (a ministry of FWM), Mission. And I hope that you General Secretary a priority; sion in the Canadian church is some of which is symbolized • the Anglican, Ecumenical, extremely rewarding.” nationally by our shared staff- and Interfaith Relationships FWM’s resources are ing of common projects.

General Synod Budget – $12.7 million Aligned with the priorites and practices of VISION 2019 Revenue Expenses

Anglican Journal: 17% Finance, Administration and Property: 13% Diocesan Proportional Gifts: 66% Governance: 15% Resources for Mission: 8% Grants: 24% ABC Publishing, Investments, Other: 9% Other Program Costs: 13% Resources for Mission: 10%

Communications (including Anglican Journal): 25%

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Indigenous Ministries Communications and Information Resources

ndigenous Ministries is the self-determining church at the mprove and enliven com- knowledge transfer across the ministry, IGeneral Synod department September ACIP gathering in “Imunications” was one of church. It is one of the premier technology, and that supports the Indigenous Mississauga, Ont. That group the five practices approved as religious websites in the world. communications Peoples of Canada (First made key recommendations part of the Anglican Church of 2011 also saw a major ad- Dymond began Nations, Inuit and Métis) spiri- that will form the backbone of Canada’s strategic plan, Vision vancement in the church’s abil- work on an online tually, socially, economically a full proposal for a self-gov- 2019. And so with leadership ity to offer podcasts designed community that will and politically. As a transforma- erning indigenous church that from staff of the department to enhance people’s personal launch in 2012. “It tive participant in the life of the will be refined at the spring of Communications and and devotional practices. Close will be a place where church, Indigenous Ministries 2012 Council of General Synod Information Resources (CIR) to 1,500 people tuned in at clergy, parishioners strives for reconciliation with (COGS) meeting and presented and support from members of various times to the Lenten and seekers can engage in dia- the Anglican to General the CIR standing committee, series, “From Creation’s Dust to logue and share resources for Communion I find it very exciting to really see Synod 2011 proved an eventful year Resurrection’s Light,” featuring ministry—a safe place where and advocates our native people in Canada take in 2013. for innovations to the church’s Sister Elizabeth Ann Eckert, people can ask questions for the creation responsibility for the ministry, to The 32 communications practices. SSJD, and the Advent series, and share their successes and of a self- Early in the year, the struggles,” he says. Dymond ‘ reclaim it and to move forward in indigenous “Welcoming Christ,” featuring determining Anglican rep- national church’s website www. Brother David Bryan Hoopes, acknowledges that email and community ways that I don’t think anyone resentatives anglican.ca transitioned to OHC. Both series were avail- social media can never replace for indigenous could ever have imagined.’ also penned a cleaner, fresher look that able for free online subscrip- face-to-face conversation but Anglicans. a 388-word incorporates new ways to tion or direct download. The emphasizes “the Internet offers The work of the department declaration that says in part, share pages through social podcasts are becoming popular countless resources to help us is guided by National “We affirm that God has a plan media networks, clearer web devotional resources during build connections that would Indigenous Anglican Bishop for us in the Gospel and that pages that better introduce special seasons,” said Ali otherwise be impossible.” (Mark MacDonald), the we must claim the freedom to the church to newcomers, Symons, senior editor for the Anglican Video, a vital Anglican Council of Indig- become what God has called strengthened content on many Anglican Church of Canada. component of CIR, which enous Peoples (ACIP) and us to be. Our communities are of the pages and a graphic “We saw a 140 per cent in- produces video resources for the Sacred Circle national still in crisis and we must act in news banner that raises the crease in listeners between the General Synod as well as docu- gathering. All three of these defense of the people and the profile of feature stories. Hav- first and second series.” mentaries on spiritual topics bodies were given official land.” ing grown measurably over the In the fall of 2011 the Rev. aimed at a broader audience, constitutional recognition The Rev. Amos Winter of past couple of years, the site Jesse Dymond from the diocese has also been using the web to at General Synod 2010 in a Kingfisher Lake, Ont., said the now welcomes more than half of Huron joined the web staff build connections in new and ground-breaking move toward Mississauga Declaration was a million visitors each year, as the first online community innovative ways. Most recently self-determination. the highlight of the meeting. and it is an invaluable tool coordinator for General Synod. The momentum gathered at Like many who attended, his for information exchange and With wide experience in parish See LIVING the marks, p. 4 General Synod was sustained community is in crisis, suffer- throughout 2011. Even as ing from poverty, substance the department experienced abuse and family violence. The transitions in staff leadership, it declaration captures the urgent Walking together in newness of life made progress in establishing need for pastoral response and new indigenous structures, and a way forward through a self- Mission and Justice Relationships ushered in “The Mississauga determining church. Declaration,” which promises Bishop MacDonald ac- ission and Justice Rela- reconciliation. reconciliation work, Mission to be a historic document for knowledges that while there Mtionships is the depart- In June 2011 the Anglican and Justice Relationships also an emerging indigenous are still many major obstacles ment of the General Synod that Church of Canada updated its makes available a variety of church. to overcome, work will con- works with ecumenical, inter- online information and re- resources that support parish In June 2011, the retire- tinue. “The ongoing problem faith and Anglican partners in sources to support the work of outreach and action, including: ment of Donna Bomberry, who is that current Western church Canada and around the world. healing and reconciliation. In • Liturgical and educational re- served as Indigenous Ministries structures do not work well in The department addresses is- 1993, then-Primate Archbishop sources on care and concern coordinator for 15 years, was a communities that are defined sues of climate change, healing Michael Peers apologized for for the earth time to not only say thank you by a spiritual connection to the and reconciliation, justice and the church’s involvement in the • Greening Anglican Spaces and goodbye, but to reflect on land and close familial ties,” corrections, conflict and peace, schools—this apology is now initiatives how far the Anglican Church of says MacDonald. But with the theological education and available in six indigenous • A Charter for Racial Justice Canada has come with respect drive toward self-determination global relations. languages in addition to • Living Justice: A global to establishing right relations making so much progress, English and French. response to poverty • Information on church with the Indigenous Peoples of indigenous leaders are Ecumenical, Interfaith, and “Our church has worked Canada. responding creatively and plan- very hard to address the advocacy in justice and Nudged along by leaders ning their own ways of doing Government Relations legacy of residential schools, corrections, and peace and like Ms. Bomberry, the church church at national, diocesan ince June 2010 the Angli- especially by encouraging conflict through partner has transformed its deepest and parish levels. Scan Church of Canada has Anglicans to listen and learn at organizations. governance structures and At the local level, priests like participated in three of seven TRC community hearings and Canadians are beginning to the Rev. Norm Casey, ACIP co- Truth and Reconciliation Com- national events,” says Henriette Global Relations glimpse what a truly indig- chair, are experimenting with mission (TRC) national events Thompson, General Synod he work of the General enous, truly Anglican church bringing traditional culture planned for 2010–2014 across coordinator for Ecumenical, TSynod’s Global Relations might look like. “Leaders like back into church services. His Canada. It has connected Interfaith, and Government program is to nurture and Donna have helped us take parish in Six Nations, Ont., residential school survivors Relations. “Also, the Anglican strengthen relationships important steps along the has started to use water drum with meaningful information Healing Fund continues to between the Anglican Church path to a self-determining music and has incorporated and photos from their past and support community-based of Canada and provinces of church—which will soon be Mohawk language into the has helped non-indigenous healing projects. And, we are the Anglican Communion. something that everybody doxology. “It’s important work Canadians to hear more about beginning to work on connect- These relationships express our takes for granted” said Bishop because it’s the future of this the experiences of those who ing healing and reconciliation commitment to being a global Mark MacDonald, “but it is community. If we’re going to attended residential schools as with the rights of indigenous church partner for God’s mis- something that just 10 years survive as First Nations people, children. In 2011 we promoted peoples—rights that too often sion in the world and our deep ago was unimaginable.” people of the land, we need discussion and reflection in have not been upheld.” need for community in Christ. Even more ground was councils and committees on In addition to facilitating the covered on the road toward a See god HAS A PLAN, p. 4 the meaning and practice of church’s ongoing healing and See WALKING Together, p. 4

for information or assistance • 1-866-924-9192 or 416-924-9199 x 326 • [email protected] 3 A ministry of the whole church God has a plan Living the Marks continued from p. 1 continued from p. 3 continued from p. 3 hear all the time from people to remember who we were, online viewers have been able who see the Virtual School as As a call to action in because who we were is who to enjoy the “Amazing Grace” As a call to action in a gift from the council to the 2012, Archbishop David we are today. We bring all that and “Silent Night” projects, 2012, you are invited to be rest of the church,” says Fiona Ashdown and all Council of history with us. We need to re- an interview with new General part of the conversation on the Brownlee, communications the North members invite you vive our customs and traditions Secretary Michael Thompson Mission Moments website that coordinator for the Council of to celebrate Council of the North and honour our ancestors.” and a Christmas message was launched this January. Visit the North “And in our north- Month at some point during the The Rev. Canon Virginia from our Primate Archbishop missionmoments.anglican.ca ern communities it guarantees calendar year. Visit www.anglican. “Ginny” Doctor, a Mohawk Fred Hiltz and the Evangelical to take part in this important video children access to Christian ca/cn and click “resources” for some from the Six Nations and canon Lutheran Church in Canada project and share your story about Education—it’s a ministry I’m ideas on what you can do in your local to the ordinary for the Epis- (ELCIC) National Bishop Susan how you are answering God’s call to very proud of and tremen- setting to spread the word about this copal diocese of Alaska, is en- Johnson. mission in your daily life. dously grateful for.” ministry of the whole church by the couraged by the direction the In 2011 the award-winning The council has also made whole church. Canadian church has taken in documentary Topadhewin: The advancements this past year in establishing a self-determining Gladys Cook Story as well as the country—to deepen our developing a plan to honor the national indigenous ministry. two other important videos understanding of what the contribution of non-stipendiary In 2011 the council contin- Appointed in November as In- were made available free to a Marks of Mission mean to us (unpaid) clergy who provide ued work on a new model of digenous Ministries coordina- whole new generation of online as a faith community, it is no countless hours of sacramental accountability and oversight. tor to replace Bomberry, Doctor viewers. Lisa Barry, senior surprise to see them become ministry while maintaining Because most of its funding says, “I find it very exciting to producer for Anglican Video, part of Anglican culture the full-time secular jobs. “These comes from the General Synod, really see our native people in says, “The very best part of way they have.” are faithful clergy who sacrifice the council is committed to Canada take responsibility for doing this work today is the much in order to provide min- being accountable to the wider the ministry, to reclaim it and capacity to make it all avail- The Anglican Journal able through the worldwide istry in sometimes very difficult church. “The financial chal- to move forward in ways that I n addition to producing 10 web for Anglicans and others circumstances” said Archbishop lenges of the whole church don’t think anyone could ever newspapers in 2011—in- to see whenever they want I David Ashdown, chair of the mean that we need to figure have imagined.” cluding special reports on the to. I believe that our growing Council of the North and out how we can be generous military chaplaincy and educa- capacity for conversation with Archbishop of Keewatin, with less and do more” says tion—the team at the Anglican each other makes our relation- “Thanks to exceptional gifts Bishop Michael Hawkins of Journal has been working on ships stronger and our story from dioceses and donations the Diocese of Saskatchewan As a call to action for the a comprehensive five-year busi- as Christians that much more from faithful people through and co-chair of the Council of whole church in 2012, ness plan to increase revenue, Bishop Mark MacDonald invites powerful in this broken world.” Anglican Appeal and Gifts for the North. “All of the council build capacity and achieve you to visit www.anglican.ca/im Perhaps one of the high- Mission, we are starting to members are deeply grateful greater financial independence. and access some of the gospel- lights of CIR’s accomplishments build a wellspring of financial to the rest of the church for its In 2011, the Anglican Journal based discipleship resources that this past year was the launch of support that will give us the ongoing financial and prayerful corporation was wrapped up will help you learn about and be part the Living the Marks of Mission capacity to provide these clergy support and we take great hope and the newspaper returned of the growing spiritual movement campaign, which encourages with travel reimbursements as in this generosity and strive to being a ministry of the among Indigenous Peoples of Canada. Canadian Anglicans to think well as grants for training and to safeguard it with love and General Synod. creatively about how they live support.” integrity.” Recognizing that so much out their faith. The campaign has changed in the publishing began with the distribution of industry in the past decade—in a parish resource package— Walking together particular the growing aware- which was sent to every church continued from p. 3 ness of the environmental across the country—and was impact of print and the advent In 2011 funds received by through Gifts for Mission will Canadian Anglicans to deepen followed by the Sunday school of social media—the Journal is Global Relations were allocated assist annual diocesan youth their understanding of diver- curriculum and song-writing charting a course to respond to to each program component, and music camps as well as sity in mission and ministry, contests. those changes. “With a revital- including grants to global part- provide motorcycles for priests locally and globally. An annual Kate Saunders (Richmond, ized communications strategy ners for local ministry, scholar- to help them in provide pasto- grant to the educational work N.B.), Janet Cress and Nancy that brings the Journal and its ship support to young Anglican ral and sacramental ministry to of the Canadian Churches’ Wilcox (Binbrook, Ont.) and diocesan publishing partners theologians and theological the Cuban people. Forum for Global Ministries Kate Newman (Vancouver, B.C.) together, we are confident that educators, and services to In addition to nurturing (www.ccforum.ca) means local won the curriculum contest we can build capacity for a Canadians seeking relationship special relationships with the parishes have opportunities and participated in a weekend healthy, sustainable print and with global companions for dioceses of Cuba and Jerusa- to participate in cross-cultural workshop in Toronto to bring electronic publishing operation mission and justice. lem, Global Relations contin- orientation programs, mission their concepts together. The by 2015,” says Kristin Jenkins, In 2011 the Anglican ues to help young international trip, leadership and anti-racism curriculum, which will em- editor of the Anglican Journal. Church of Canada honoured Anglican theologians and theo- training. Individuals and par- phasize character building and At 160,000 subscribers, the its historic relationship with logical educators to strengthen ishes are prepared with skills empowering youth to identify Anglican Journal remains the the Episcopal Diocese of Cuba academic research in Africa and perspectives for “going out” problems in their communities largest Christian publication and assisted this partner in and Asia. Support from the and returning home, both in and find creative solutions, in Canada. “We are particu- strengthening its Christian Canadian church helps oth- Canada and beyond. will be unveiled in 2012. The larly proud of the partnership witness among young Cubans ers achieve the qualifications song-writing contest, which nature of the Journal and the seeking opportunities for and experience necessary to was won by singer-songwriter fact that it carries 23 diocesan spiritual growth in community. lead national seminaries and Jaylene Johnson of Winnipeg, As a call to action in newspapers,” says Bev Murphy, 2011 was a year of change Bible colleges throughout the Man., with her submission 2012, you are asked to senior manager for CIR. “This in the Cuban church. It is led Communion. “Many current entitled “Hope,” will be profes- pray for our partners around is one of the best examples by a new diocesan bishop, the bishops and primates received sionally recorded and distrib- the world as well as for the of dioceses and the national Rt. Rev. Griselda Delgado del Anglican Church of Canada uted throughout the Anglican participants in the upcoming church working together Carpio, who is embarking on scholarships in their early for- Church of Canada in 2012. TRC events –Victoria in April toward a common mission— a cross-country consultation to mation for ministry,” says Dr. “This has been a watershed and Saskatoon in June. You are also and we hope to strengthen this develop a new three-year minis- Andrea Mann, Global Relations year for Vision 2019 and the encouraged to visit www.anglican.ca/ network in the coming years try plan. “It’s important at this coordinator. “The relationships Marks of Mission,” says Vian- relationships and look at some of the through our planning efforts.” time of transition in leadership that develop as a result of such resource links, particularly “Greening ney (Sam) Carriere, director that we try to walk with them,” support continue to serve and Anglican Spaces,” and use them to of CIR and the Resources for To order Marks of Mission said Archbishop Fred Hiltz. strengthen the Communion for spark dialogue about how to sustain Mission departments. “With resources for your church “It’s very much a ministry of mission and justice.” and renew the integrity of creation in so many people working at phone: 1-866-924-9192 x 326 accompaniment.” Special fund- Diocesan proportional your place of worship. 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Indication of emerging spiritualities continued from p. 1 boarders in the U.K. and Canada if so, in what form. about their experiences of spiritual- “I discovered that there was a ity. Some claimed to be devout, term ‘soul riding’ in the language while others said they were not of snowboarding,” Elliot says.“This religious at all. Nearly all, however for the church fascinated me. I wanted to know what (95 per cent), said snowboarding to have a more it was, who the ‘soul riders’ were and was a spiritual experience. malleable approach to how I could do it. Then I became a Elliot says part of his research spirituality, says Elliot. Instead university chaplain, and realized that was aimed at an investigation of of an institution that dictates what I had an opportunity to study this modern spirituality in the face of a an individual has to do, he’s learned concept of ‘soul riding.’ ” “shrinking adherence” to churches that seekers are looking for a After doing some initial research, and organized religion. “There is a community where they will get the Elliot realized that he had, indeed continuing if not growing interest support they need to find their path. experienced soul riding—as is clear in spirituality,” he says. “People may Elliot wants to start what he in his firsthand description of it. not want church, but they are not calls a “soul riding community” for riding on a dirt bike as well as “Sometimes it all seems to go content with a purely materialist people who feel church is not for canoeing, hiking and even sitting at silent, and it’s just you and the snow. view of life. They want to believe in them. They can use the resources my desk,” he explains, adding: “The Even the sensation of constant turn- ‘something more,’ even if they don’t of the church, but in a different aim is to make my whole life a soul ing disappears,” he says. “At these know what that is. way. And members of this com- riding experience and to help other moments, you are both completely “The reference to spirituality in munity of soul riders need not be people make the whole of their lives focused on your riding, aware of soul riding,” he continues, “is an expert snowboarders, nor even a soul riding experience.” every nuance of the snow and your example of this interest in non- snowboarders at all, according to board, and almost detached, as if the religious spirituality. Soul riding Elliot. Soul riding can be applied to Colin Payne is a writer and photographer board is guiding itself and you are may be an indication of the emerg- most any activity in life, from other who lives in South Slocan, in the heart of just a passenger. Time stops.” ing spiritualities that are forming outdoor sports like hiking, biking B.C.’s Kootenay region. As part of the research that an alternative to the mainstream and fishing to the most mundane of informed his 300-page thesis, Elliot religions and religious systems.” everyday activities. photo by Colin Payne interviewed 35 experienced snow- His research highlights a need “I’m currently discovering soul The Rev. Canon Neil Elliot takes a soul ride.

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If I hadn’t spent time in that oxygen tent, The Tent I never would have appreciated being out of one. Lee Lambert into my face to try to get away close to me but distorted at a from the room with its strange certain distance. Dad and Mom “For now we see noises and antiseptic smell and reached into the tent to hold the crying and the shadows of the my hand and comfort my fear. in a mirror, dimly.” nurses who slipped quietly in and Despite the ice cubes in the night, —Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians, out to check my IV and listen to nurses coming and going at all (13:12) my chest. hours and the pain of needles, ‘Once, I was in an oxygen tent I now know I was blessed. My henever I hear this pas- for many days. It was hard to parents helped me to heal. Wsage, I am transported back sleep. Every few hours, around Eventually, the tent came off. to my childhood. the clock, the nurse dumped ice I remember the exact moment You see, when I was a child cubes into the back of the tent so vividly. Suddenly, the clarity with I was often sick. I spent many that my lungs didn’t dry out too which I could see astounded me. weeks off school and I remem- much. Everything around me looked as ber many, many nights in the Everything that came to me if it had been cut by a jeweller, hospital. was delivered under the plastic; all right angles and crisp, clean I couldn’t breathe well. everything outside the plastic was edges. Colours were so deep and I remember the first time I was distorted and warped. rich I felt sure they had weight, left alone by my parents. They Every day, Mom came with taste. had refused to leave the hospital books and small toys. Dad came If I hadn’t spent time in that until well after hours, my mother’s to watch Hogan’s Heroes with oxygen tent, I never would have face ashen as I begged them to me on TV. Since the picture was appreciated being out of one. take me home. But I had to stay. curved and bent by the tent, it I took a deep, clear breath and I refused to let go of my fa- was often difficult to follow the smiled. I was going home. ther’s handkerchief and the hand- show. puppet my mother bought in the I was so small, so dependent. The Rev. Lee Lambert is rector of St. Lisa F. Young gift shop. I pushed these treasures My vision was clear for things Mary’s Church in Russell, Ont.

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10 anglican journal • February 2012 spotlight on shared ministry Shared ministry of four denominations ‘a charmed situation’ Marites N. Sison particular gift. Murray cites the six staff writer Mennonite members, who have had a At a time when many churches are “huge impact” in engaging congregants struggling with the costs of maintain- about relief work. One of them con- ing their buildings and ministry, the ducted a number of service trips to New Rev. Rob Murray counts his blessings. Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane For 15 years now, Murray has been Katrina and came back to talk about the rector of Manitoba’s Pinawa Christian experience and “get people excited,” Fellowship (PCF), which has never says Murray. owned a church building since it began The impulse to serve has rubbed in 1963. Instead, the congregation has off on the congregation. In 2009, it regular Sunday services at the F.W. Gil- approved a plan for the Oak Haven bert School and, on certain occasions, at Housing Ministry, which would create personal care homes in the community. housing for single/non-elderly people The other blessing that Murray living with mental illness and who counts? PCF is a unique and vibrant are homeless or at risk of becoming shared ministry of four denominations: homeless. The plan involves construct- Mennonite Church Manitoba, the Pres- contributed ing a new apartment building on a lot byterian Church in Canada, the United MY THREE SONS Above right: The Rev. Rob Murray, rector of Pinawa Christian Fellowship that the PCF bought in the 1980s. Half Church of Canada and the Anglican with Fr. José Montepeque of the Roman Catholic parish (far left) and the Rev. Brad Nelson, of the units in the building will be for Church of Canada. Pinawa Alliance Church (centre). Below: The congregation enjoys a sunrise service. people requiring housing support and The PCF began when some staff the rest will be available to the general members of the Chalk River Labora- public. The congregation has drawn tories moved from Deep River, Ont., up a business plan, which includes to Pinawa, Man., where the Whiteshell identifying funding partners. Nuclear Research Establishment of Murray has received a lot of support Atomic Energy Canada Limited (later from the Anglican church, repre- known as Whiteshell Laboratories) was sented by the diocese of Keewatin. Even first built. The founders agreed that though he is not an Anglican priest, he their church would be one where they has been given a licence to minister to would be allowed to keep their denomi- Anglicans and he gets invited to clergy national connections. (Pinawa is an conferences. When Gordon Beardy hour-and-a-half drive from the eastern became the first aboriginal diocesan edge of Winnipeg.) bishop in 1996, PCF’s choir was invited “It’s a difficult time to be in ministry, to sing at his consecration. Anglicans and this is really a charmed situation,” number about 30 in the PCF, “but they says Murray, an ordained Presbyterian also have a big influence,” says Murray. minister. As for the church’s future, Murray The PCF has 178 people (from 100 has noted a “huge shift” in the makeup households) on the parish roll and of Pinawa, which he said would help about 60 come for regular Sunday ensure its staying power. With its worship. Murray need only to walk or beautiful natural resources, including bike to visit most of the parishioners White Shell Provincial Park, Pinawa (only four households live outside the has become a retirement resort com- community), a situation he describes as munity. “It’s like we’re on Lake Simcoe “a luxury.” The same balance of power that exists tradition of the family,” Murray says. or the Muskokas,” says Murray, adding: Having four different denominations in the church’s general committee is The only other church similar to the “We’re cottage country for people in under one roof can be challenging, but also reflected in the worship committee, PCF that Murray knows of is the United Winnipeg.” Murray says the church has made sure for instance. Church of Los Alamos in New Mexico. The newest members of the congre- each denomination gets equal represen- The church tries to meld the rites of That church is home to six denomina- gation have been people who moved to tation in its governance structure. The all the denominations into its worship, tions. Interestingly, it also resides close Pinawa for early retirement. “They’re church has a set of bylaws crafted by he said. “On a typical Sunday, we stand to a nuclear facility. “There’s something amazing people; they come with rich its original founders, who were mostly for the gospel and say the responses. about nuclear research and willingness experiences. They came here to retire, former federal government employees We usually follow the lectionary, but to work ecumenically,” Murray says but they’re not sitting around idly. with PhDs. “They put a lot of thought we’re not tied to it.” When it comes to with a chuckle. They’re packing up the camper and on the balance of power,” says Murray. baptisms and other rites, “We follow the Each denomination brings its going out to build houses,” says Murray.

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12 anglican journal • February 2012 life after apartheid lessons from south africa The accidental Anglican

Diana Swift racy and monitor where it is heading. apartheid we all tend to do and do,” staff writer “There has been noticeable progress, he says. “We need to remember that yes, but there are still big lags,” he we are grounded in scripture and that he Most Rev. Thabo Makgoba, says, pointing to education, health and prayer should undergird every action.” Archbishop of Cape Town and gender-based violence. “The church As for the 85-million-member An- TMetropolitan of the Anglican has to continue to be vocal. If we are all glican Communion, the archbishop is Church of Southern Africa, is an ac- created in God’s image, no one should looking forward to the meeting of the cidental Anglican. be thus demeaned.” Anglican Consultative Council in New “My father was a lukewarm first- Makgoba believes that the South Zealand this fall. He will be bringing generation Christian who attended the African church has a unique place the issues of climate change and local Zion church, and my mother went in the Anglican Communion. What stewardship to the top of the agenda. to whatever church her friends went sets it apart is its recent history of As for the Anglican Covenant, to,” he says candidly, on a visit last suffering. Paradoxically, though which will also grace the council’s fall to Church House in Toronto. “The apartheid was intolerable, it did bring agenda, he does not think it will be as only good schools were Anglican or the people closer to the gospel’s divisive an issue as some think. “Many Catholic. The closest one was Angli- concept of suffering. “The gospel people have a lot of energy for mis- can, so I went there and was baptized has a preferential option for the poor sion, a lot of energy for partnership an Anglican,” he says with a chuckle. and the suffering,” he says. “That is and for other contextual things that Elegant, quiet-spoken and quick something we cherish and we should make the Communion a communion.” to laugh, the archbishop took some not lose sight of it.” As in many countries, religious life professional detours on his way to the For a South African primate, politi- in South Africa is becoming increas- primacy, to which he was elected in cal involvement is perhaps a matter of ingly ecumenical, with interfaith December 2007 at age 48, succeeding course. “But not in a partisan political prayer and worship a common occur- Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane. role,” he says. “I assume the tools rence. One interesting new develop- He is South Africa’s youngest-ever courtesy of Thabo Makgoba of justice that go back to Christ are ment on the ecclesiastical landscape is primate. Archbishop Thabo Makgoba saying, ‘I have come that they might the coming together, with government The tools he acquired during his have life, and that they might have it help, of the many once-scattered earlier work in education and counsel- more abundantly.’ And I encourage my African indigenous churches, which ling stand him in good stead in his In life after apartheid we all parishioners to seek that every day.” are Christian bodies that incorporate current role, he says. Understanding He is also a lover of the venerable elements such as polygamy. one’s fellow humans is paramount, as tend to do and do. We need liturgy and sacramental rites of the As deputy chair of the country’s is the ability to draw people out, to see Anglican church. But realizing the interfaith National Religious Leaders’ beneath the façade and capitalize on to remember that we are Marks of Mission in loving service is Forum, Makgoba is active in an initia- group dynamics. “Whether primate or most important. In that commitment tive called Walks of Witness, in which parish priest,” says Archbishop Mak- grounded in scripture and the archbishop takes as words to live interreligious representatives visit goba, “one deals with God’s people, that prayer should undergird by Matthew 25:36: “I was naked and sites to highlight specific social ills their complex natures, their joys and you clothed me, I was sick and you caused by big business exploitation sadness, and how the abundant life every action. visited me, I was in prison and you or government neglect. “Our current that Christ talks about plays out for ‘ came unto me.” focus is water and sanitation and how them in the everyday.” The South African church has these create more illness in a country And in the almost 20 years since the recently adopted a new mission that can ill afford,” he says. 1994 free elections that signalled the what makes society tick,” he says. “We statement based on three principles: At the very heart of the arch- official end of apartheid, the church were able to fight apartheid because anchored in Jesus Christ, committed bishop’s mission is emulating the has continued to play a similar role we knew where the rubber hit the road to God’s mission and transformed by earthly life of the incarnate Christ, in drilling beneath the surface to the and what really pained the people.” the Holy Spirit. It has identified young who was so touched by the poor and very core of South African society. Though the era of heroic front-page people as a priority and also leader- disadvantaged. “We must take that “The church has done what it does church leaders is past, the church is ship as critical in the days ahead. vocation seriously,” he says. “The best—what it did even during apart- still able to get into the bones and Recently, reflection and prayer have church cannot afford to be aloof or it heid—and that is to get into the vein of muscles and sinews of the new democ- been added to the agenda. “In life after risks being irrelevant.”

All wanted to learn from his experience in healing and reconciliation continued from p. 1 Africa has overtaken Brazil in having aboriginal people are five or six times Lapsley, who was born in New We slayed one monster, but the world’s highest level of income higher than the national average. And Zealand and ordained to the priest- inequality. while aboriginal people represent hood in Australia, visited Canada last we kept another one intact. Lapsley notes a “startling paral- only 2.8 per cent of the Canadian November at the invitation of the dio- lel” between the behaviour of the population, they account for 18 per cese of Edmonton. He also travelled to dominant culture in South Africa after cent of those serving federal prison Niagara Falls, Ont., and met with the Reconciliation Commission (TRC) apartheid, and that of Canada, where sentences. House of Bishops at its fall meeting. and became chaplain of the Trauma the issue of residential schools is Canadian Christians need to take Following this, he met with staff at Centre for Victims of Violence and simply not on the radar of many Cana- “the long-term perspective” and ask the United Church of Canada as well Torture in Cape Town. dians. When the TRC was created in themselves, “What is God’s plan for as staff at the Anglican Church of ‘Lapsley says that those who suggest South Africa, “it was as if we held a Canada?” advises Lapsley. “What is Canada, both in Toronto. All wanted victims should just “get over it and giant mirror in front of the nation…but God’s dream for indigenous people to learn from his experience in heal- move on” must realize that healing is white people turned off the radio and and for the Christian faith?” Faith ing and reconciliation. a long-term project. In the case of col- TV and didn’t read the newspapers,” communities can contribute to the Lapsley, who arrived in Durban, lective abuse, healing can take genera- says Lapsley. healing process by creating “safe South Africa, in 1973, at the height of tions. The issue boils down to political He also sees similarities in that spaces,” where people can “absolutely apartheid, says he dealt with his own will, says Lapsley. South Africa is many victims of abuse are now incar- and truly hear each other’s pain” and “white man’s guilt” by becoming one still working toward national recon- cerated, having morphed into victim- listen with respect, he says. of apartheid’s most prominent critics. ciliation, he points out, and failure to izers themselves. In Canada, he points People not only need to listen to When he was expelled in 1976, he institute TRC recommendations, such out, the number of aboriginal people the voices of victims, they also need went to neighbouring Lesotho, where as imposing a wealth tax on those who who are incarcerated is increasing to talk about issues of denial and he became chaplain-in-exile for the profited from apartheid, has left some and should sound “alarm bells for the ignorance and the role of guilt and African National Congress. After feeling “embittered, frustrated and whole nation.” And in fact, statistics shame, adds Lapsley. “It’s not an ac- returning to South Africa in 1992, he angry. We slayed one monster, but we from Correctional Service Canada cident that the German people didn’t worked with South Africa’s Truth and kept another one intact.” Today, South bear this out. Incarceration rates for talk about the Holocaust.”

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Jamie Howison me in my mother language,” he says. “It is the language I think, dream, eauty will save the world” cry and laugh in.” During his time in “Bis a saying attributed to Dos- Winnipeg, a chance circumstance put toevsky.Yet given all that fragments him in touch with saint benedict’s our world, table, and when he discovered that we Test your ecclesiastical IQ! it seems count a number of working musicians a bold, among our membership, he voiced his Diana Swift counter- dream of recording with a Canadian intuitive songwriter. A. Hesychasm refers to… claim. Paul Alana Levandoski was the natural reminds connection. An artist with a serious 1. An eastern church tradition of quiet us, “God mystical prayer reputation in the folk and roots music chose what world, Alana is currently a part-time 2. A heresy concerning Christ’s divinity is foolish in originating with the third-century biblical staff musician at Holy Trinity Church the world to critic Hesychius in Edmonton. She brought to the 3. An early iconoclastic movement shame the recording her passion for music and supporting the destruction of all images wise; God chose what is weak in the story—for the creation of beauty in the of Christ and Mary world to shame the strong” (1 Cor 1:27). contexts of both church and world. She 4. A schismatic division in the early As Christians, we are about making also brought her experience of record- Christian church bold and counter-intuitive claims. ing in church buildings. Her 2009 This has been embraced by our album (which * * * * * * * Lions and Werewolves community of saint benedict’s table, as was profiled in the Journal, Septem- B. “For from the rising of the sun even we seek to support artists, writers and ber 2009) was recorded at St. James unto the going down of the same musicians to go about their creative Church in her hometown of Kelwood, my name shall be great among the work. Thankfully, it has also been contributed Man., while her six-song project Gentiles.” This is a quotation from… embraced by the Sacred Arts Trust of Zimbabwean poet Ignatius Mabasa Hymns From the Desert was recorded the Anglican Foundation, which for the in All Saints Church, Winnipeg. 1. Malachi second time in five years has chosen to The result is striking, and even without Together, Alana and Ignatius have 2. Isaiah support our vision for beauty-making. the descriptions of the meaning of created a project of beauty. And while 3. Exodus On a cold day last December, St. each poem provided in the CD liner 4. Acts of the Apostles this one recording might not change Philip’s Church in Winnipeg was notes, the sounds speak for them- the world, it does offer a compelling

transformed into a recording studio, selves. Across cultures, languages snapshot of a vision shared between Question B: 1. Malachi 1:11 Malachi 1. B: Question allowing the Canadian musician and life experiences, these two artists two artists from across what has

Alana Levandoski to sit down with the created three pieces of truth-telling divine light. divine sometimes seemed an insurmountable

Zimbabwean writer and poet Ignatius

heart and mind and lead to a vision of the the of vision a to lead and mind and heart beauty. divide of the churches of the global

repetitive prayer to achieve a union of of union a achieve to prayer repetitive Mabasa and record three remarkable Through the fall of 2010, Ignatius south and north.

Athos in Greece and used quiet quiet used and Greece in Athos songs. Alana offered spacious versions served as storyteller-in residence at For more information, go to

originated with the monks of Mount Mount of monks the with originated of two of her originals and one hymn— the University of Manitoba. A former stbenedictstable.ca. Digital downloads

Greek word for tranquillity, hesychasm hesychasm tranquillity, for word Greek “What wondrous love is this?”—into Fulbright Scholar, Ignatius has pub- are also available through iTunes.

Question A: 1. Derived from the the from Derived 1. A: Question which Ignatius wove pieces of his lished several novels and spoken-word nswers

A original poetry, written and spoken in recordings, all in the Shona language. Jamie Howison is the founding pastoral the Shona language of his homeland. “Inspiration almost always comes to leader of saint benedict’s table in Winnipeg.

talist Alberta premier Ernest Manning (father of Preston), who felt that Faith and politics good Christians did not need govern- ment programs, and the progressive type such as Baptist pastor Tommy Dennis Gruending foresees more rivalry between Douglas, who brought a social gospel conservatives and progressives of faith to politics based on the belief that we are our brothers’ keepers. Diana Swift Parliament “I see continuing links between staff writer Hill to church social gospellers such as Tommy

CERN basements, Douglas and Stanley Knowles and Geneva’s Large Hadron Collider is closing ennis Gruending’s recently synagogues, contemporary people such as Bill in on the particle that creates mass. Dreleased Pulpit and Politics: temples and Blaikie and Lorne Calvert, and Competing Religious Ideologies in universities Catholics such as Joe Comartin and Canadian Public Life examines the in Canada and Charlie Angus,” Gruending says. “God” particle found? growing competition between pro- abroad. “Similarly, I see links between Ernest Scientists at the 17-mile-long Large gressives and conservatives of faith In his view, Manning and his son Preston, and Hadron Collider in Geneva are homing for political power and influence. religious faith with Stockwell Day, and any number in on the Higgs boson—the so-called With the 2011 election handing informs politi- of today’s Conservatives. I include God particle. Stephen Harper a Conservative cal decisions Stephen Harper in that number, The cosmic building block promises majority—partly because of the Pulpit and about the divi- although he is more difficult to read to fill in the last piece of the puzzle on conservative religious vote—Gruend- Politics sion of wealth, than the others.” how forces and particles in the uni- ing believes the rivalry between Competing Religious education and In his estimation, the social gospel verse interact. the two camps will become more Ideologies in Canadian race relations, impulse, while still with us, has a At a Dec. 13 symposium, physicists pronounced. Public Life immigration, flame that burns much less brightly at CERN, the European Organization His book looks closely at the By Dennis Gruending respect for than it once did. for Nuclear Research, announced that political ideology and tactics em- Kingsley Publishing 2011 democracy, Gruending has watched the fray they were closing in on the precise ployed by religious conservatives in ISBN 1-926832-074 $22 foreign policy unfold as a writer, a director of infor- location of the Higgs particle. the public arena and documents the To order and environ- mation for the Canadian Conference While militant atheists such as Ste- struggles of religious progressives to contact Alpine of Catholic Bishops, and an NDP MP. Book Peddlers mental issues. phen Hawking will doubtless rejoice at have their voices heard on issues of 1-866-478-2280 Gruend- Earlier in his career, he worked as a closing in on the physical prime-mover equality, environment, human rights, ing, raised print and television journalist and particle, people of faith will doubtless justice and peace. With an eye on a Catholic, as a radio host. He is the author of ask, “Who’s the prime mover behind history and world events, Gruend- thinks there are two basic types of six books, including the best selling the Higgs particle?” ing follows this contest between religious people engaging in politics: Great Canadian Speeches (Fitzhenry —Diana Swift progressives and conservatives from the right-wing sort such as fundamen- & Whiteside, 2004).

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Wait for me... It was an unexpected setting in which to find deep, enduring and passionate married love.

Patrick Tomalin beds, the husband tenderly held his family accompanied the body to the St. Paul writes: “I am convinced wife’s hand. With family members little cemetery out in the country. It that neither death, nor life, nor he couple lived in a gathered around, we talked and was a simple grave in gravelly soil. angels, nor rulers, nor things pres- double room in a seniors’ prayed. We also laughed and cried. Two days later I left for a holiday. ent, nor things to come, nor powers, Thome in a small prairie town. Then suddenly, she was gone. When I returned, I had a telephone nor height, nor depth, nor anything They had recently celebrated their There was silence, then the husband message that said, “Dad died last else in all creation, will be able to 65th wedding anniversary. cried out, “Wait for me! I am coming night.” separate us from the love of God Now, the wife was dying and as with you!” He held his wife’s lifeless With the family, I returned to the in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans the parish priest, I had been called. body tightly. same prairie cemetery. Just four 8:38-39). Across the divide between their twin After the funeral, the entire weeks later, the husband was joining This couple lived and died by this his wife for eternity. truth. And we all knew we had much This couple, both well into their work to do to live up to our calling. 90s, provided a wonderful example of what a Christian marriage can be. The Rev. Patrick Tomalin and his wife, They modelled a loving relationship the Ven. Dianne Tomalin, served Trinity that was deep, committed, enduring, Anglican/Lutheran Church in Port Alberni, passionate…and stronger than death B.C., where they now live in retirement. itself.

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