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December 2012 3 5 6 Don’t Memories of Archbishop SPECIAL REPORT COMMUNICATION kill Bill Christmas Past elected AND HUMAN RIGHTS PM# 40069670 ANGLICAN JOURNAL Inspiring the faithful since 1875 vol. 138 no. 10 december 2012 “Glory to God in the highest heaven” —Luke 2:14 J. ALAN VOKEY / WWW.JAVOK.COM FROM THE EDITOR Taking Christmas to task K R I S T I N J E N K I N S and your wallet is empty. In trying to make That’s what happened to Jane Christmas. Christmas special for my own family, I ques- (Yes, that’s her real name.) A glass of Pinot Christmas is such a special time of year tion the example I have set for my daughter. Grigio and a couple of mouse clicks jump- for every Anglican. Whether you are cel- After years of watching me go into high started a series of events that led to a com- ebrating the birth of Christ with family and gear, she is now experiencing her own per- plete re-invention of her life. But in moving friends (including church family) or helping formance anxiety...at the tender age of 22. closer to God, she found the relevance that others less fortunate—or both—this is the Vanessa confessed at the beginning of had been missing. You’ll find her story on p. 5. time of year that conjures up a lifetime of November that she’s feeling anxious about memories. helping me host the family dinner this As we head into our 138th year of connecting For many women, saddled with making Christmas. “I’m dreading it, Mom,” she told you to the Anglican Church of Canada and sure that Christmas is indeed merry and me. I felt shocked, particularly as I know the worldwide Anglican Communion, I would bright, the burden of cleaning, decorating, how much she loves cooking. “What about like to thank everyone for their support and shopping, gift-wrapping and cooking can all the cousins?” I wondered to myself. guidance. Your enthusiastic response to the so eclipse the joy. You go to bed with a list Wasn’t she looking forward to seeing them? readership survey has provided us with a in your head. You wake up in the night with Then, I tried to assuage her fears by making roadmap for better meeting your needs. Your items to add to it. In the morning, you hit the her laugh. “What are you talking about?” I letters, emails and phonecalls, many of them ground running. asked, peering into her worried eyes. “Can’t directed to me personally, have benefited this What One Christmas, while staying with you handle picking up takeout?” ministry tremendously. And your continued are you friends, I greeted Helen just as she was dis- financial support is helping keep us alive. appearing into the kitchen. It was 7 a.m. and Ever wonder what your life would be like if On behalf of all the staff at the Journal, talking she was getting ready to wrestle The Bird you had taken the other fork in the road? I who work so very hard to bring you the most “ into the oven. do. I guess that’s just part of my curious na- professional newspaper and website pos- about? Can’t “Merry Christmas, Helen,” I called out ture. Then too, there are certain times in life sible, God bless you. And to each and every you handle to her retreating back. “How are you this when this kind of rigorous self-examination one of you, Merry Christmas! picking up morning?” seems biologically determined. Certainly “How am I?” she spit out. “It’s Christmas!” at mid-life. But against the backdrop of a KRISTIN JENKINS is editor of the Anglican takeout? Yessir, Christmas with all the trimmings constantly changing world, an ongoing re- Journal. can feel like a marathon for many women. view and revision of one’s direction seems Your feet are sore, your head is pounding required just to stay in the picture. EMAIL: [email protected] WALKING TOGETHER What it takes to change the world M A R K M A C D O N A L D rational and effective spiritual and political noted that, at first glance, these three didn’t leaders (David Salmon became the traditional look at all like ministerial material—at least I’ve met very few people who have made a chief of all Athabaskans), and by their exam- to an Anglican clergyman. But when he ap- more important and strategic contribution to ple, let multiple generations know that they proached them, much to his surprise, they all a community than Archdeacon Walter Han- could be native, Christian and whole. There had been feeling a call to ordained ministry. num (not to be confused with another fine are very few days when I don’t think of them. He trained them for ministry in a way that person, Walter Hannam, who teaches at Em- Both Fr. David and Fr. Titus gave much of kept them active in service to their commu- manuel & St. Chad Seminary in Saskatoon). the credit to Walter Hannum for their min- nity. The training was strict in its demands for Saddened to hear that he had passed away a istry. It made me seek him out. He acknowl- personal discipleship. Later, their dedication few weeks ago at age 81, I was reminded of edged, as they had, that they were the least to learning made them surpass seminary- the great contribution he made to my under- likely ministry candidates in the Yukon. Curi- trained clergy in their knowledge and wis- standing of God’s work in the world. ous, I pressed him to tell me more. dom. Though none of them had much formal His work will be known to anyone inter- Archdeacon Hannum said he had been academic training, they taught themselves to If we look ested in mission work over the past 60 years. frustrated that no one was coming forward for be scholars. The example of their discipline for God’s He broke trail on innovative forms of ministry ordination and that those who seemed appro- and hard-won knowledge still prods me for- and leadership and inspired an uncountable priate, from his point of view, were often inef- ward today. miracles, number of clergy to commit to God’s mission. fective or worse. He began to look elsewhere. Space won’t let more be said, but Arch- “ His most remarkable and innovative contri- Scripture and faith challenged him to believe deacon Hannum’s simple central idea must we will witness bution, however, might not be so easy to see that God loved the people more than he did be proclaimed: God is working in this world, great things, outside of Arctic Alaska. and that the Holy Spirit must be calling peo- beyond our imagination, expectations and— inspire great Archdeacon Hannum was essential to the ple to ministry leadership. If he couldn’t see thanks to God—our prejudice. If we trust in recruitment and training of Milton Swan (Inu- the people God was calling, it must be that the the presence and power of the Spirit and in others and piat from the Arctic coast) and David Salmon problem was on his side. God would not leave look for God’s miracles, we will witness great see our world and Titus Peter (both Gwich’in from Inte- a people leaderless. Perhaps, his missionary things, inspire great things in others and see rior Alaska). For many decades, these native prejudice could keep God’s chosen leaders our world change. change. priests, each in his own challenging context, hidden from view: his view. led thousands of people to a new life of grace He began to look for the people who were MARK MacDONALD is national indigenous in Christ. They served their people as inspi- making a difference in the community and bishop of the Anglican Church of Canada. 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