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In September, 36 Christians from around the world, ages 20-35, became the first members of the Community of St. Anselm, the Archbishop of Canterbury’s “unique experiment” of opening up Lambeth Palace to young adults who will live, pray, study and Best. Selfie. Ever. serve together for a year. Here, a few of the participants get their pose on after a commissioning service.

Commission offers rationale for same-sex marriage Tali Folkins the Gentiles in the early church as drawn in Toronto, to receive the report. staff writer The church will still have to into the people of Israel’s covenant with “We’re suggesting this might be the more accurate, faithful and biblical way The church may want to look at same- discern whether this is God’s will God, but not required to observe Jewish of thinking about what might be happen- sex marriages as partaking “in the same “ tradition, so might the Anglican Church for the church. ing in the church today,” said commis- covenant” as heterosexual unions, but “on of Canada understand same-sex couples — ‘This Holy Estate,’ the report of the sion member Canon Paul Jennings, who somewhat different terms,” and possibly as drawn into the same covenant as Commission on the Marriage Canon of the explained the report’s section dealing with involving alternate liturgies, recommends heterosexual couples, but in a new way, Anglican Church of Canada models for same-sex marriage. “That is, it’s the report of the Commission on the commission member Stephen Martin told not a question of us redefining marriage Marriage Canon, released September 22 members of the Council of General Synod in the abstract to be more inclusive and (http://bit.ly/1ivbKrq). (CoGS), who gathered for a special session Just as the New Testament describes September 22-23 at St. Paul’s Bloor Street, See Same, p. 6 Arctic diocese aims for ‘Freedom 2015’ Syrian boy’s photo spurs donations By Art Babych The Anglican diocese of the Arctic is hoping that by the end of this year it will be free Tali Folkins from its decade-old debt for the rebuilding staff writer of St. Jude’s Cathedral in Iqaluit, Nunavut. The dramatic spike in donations for But for “Freedom 2015” to become a re- Syrian refugees this fall has left some ality, the diocese needs $723,000 by the end officials at Canadians aid groups with of 2015 to clear off the $10.3 million debt mixed feelings—on the one hand, thomas koch / shutterstock.com incurred following the destruction by arson moved by the sudden outpouring Syrian refugees protest erection of of the iconic igloo-shaped St. Jude’s. photo: wikimedia commons of compassion they’ve seen, and on fence barring their entry into Turkey. To help the northern diocese pay off the St. Jude’s Cathedral was destroyed by the other, mindful of the fundraising debt, the Anglican Church Women (ACW) arson in 2005 and rebuilt in 2012. Kurdi lying dead on a Turkish beach. challenges that have faced them for of the diocese of Ottawa hosted another of “It was just after that that we were most of Syria’s four-year civil war. its several fundraising events in support of in Iqaluit. He was in Ottawa to attend the There seems little doubt about the inundated with phone calls…It was St. Jude’s on September 20, at St. Stephen’s ordination to the priesthood on September cause of the increase: the publication, just unbelievable,” said Fikre Tsehai, Church, drawing about 100 people. 21 of Deacon Aigah Attagutsiak, an Inuk starting on September 2, of a photo- manager of Canadian Lutheran World The event coincided with a visit from the who serves both Inuktitut and English con- graph of three-year-old refugee Alan See Alan, p. 8 suffragan (assistant) bishop of the Arctic gregations at St. Margaret’s Anglican Church diocese, Darren McCartney, who is based See Arctic, p. 12

See Canada, p. 2 2 anglican journal • november 2015 WORLD4 Welby calls for primates’ meeting in 2016 André Forget what a review of the structures should in- staff writer volve, Hiltz sounded a note of caution. “My Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby has hope would be that we don’t just come at a invited the 37 primates (senior archbishops) conversation like that from the point of view of the Anglican Communion to a face-to- of saying, ‘nothing’s working and everything face meeting in Canterbury in January 2016. needs to be fixed or made new.’ Because I, A 21st- A September 16 press statement by for one, don’t believe everything is broken,” century Lambeth Palace said that the meeting would Hiltz said. He pointed to the Anglican Con- “ be an opportunity for a “review of the sultative Council (ACC) as an example of a Anglican structures of the Anglican Communion.” It “pretty healthy” instrument of communion. family must quoted Welby as saying that he has suggest- Regarding Beach’s participation in the have space ed that primates “need to consider recent meeting, Hiltz noted that membership in for deep developments but also look afresh at our the Anglican Communion is a process over- seen by the ACC, and stressed that Beach’s disagreement, ways of working as a Communion.” The press statement has caused some participation does not mean ACNA is a part and even controversy. The Guardian ran an article of the Anglican Communion. mutual under the headline, “Archbishop of Can- “I think considerable care has been taken criticism. terbury urges breakup of divided Anglican with regard to how Archbishop Foley will Communion,” to which Lambeth Palace be present,” Hiltz said. “My understanding — Archbishop of responded—on Twitter—by tweeting, “Just is that he will be present for some time in Canterbury Justin conversation with the primates in advance Welby to clarify, the Archbishop of Canterbury is NOT planning to break up the Angli- of the formal meeting…The provision that can Communion.” The headline was later Archbishop Justin has made, I know… with Canterbury—one of the traditional changed. 5Archbishop comes out of his passion for and hope of requirements of Anglicanism. The Guardian reported that the arch- of Canterbury reconciliation.” In the statement, Welby acknowledged bishop would propose that the worldwide Justin Welby: The Invitations have been sent, but how many that “we each live in a different context” and grouping be reorganized “as a group of meeting will be primates will come? “I’m hopeful every- churches that are all linked to Canterbury that “the difference between our societies an opportunity body will come, but my honest answer is it but no longer necessarily to each other.” It and cultures, as well as the speed of cultural “for a review of remains to be seen,” said Hiltz, adding that quoted an unnamed Lambeth Palace source change in much of the global north, tempts the structures he does not feel his hope is unfounded. “I as saying the proposal would allow Welby us to divide as Christians.” But he pressed of the Anglican think the fact that everybody showed up for to maintain relations with both liberal and for unity, saying, “A 21st-century Anglican Communion.” [Welby’s] installation two years ago was a conservative churches in the Communion, family must have space for deep disagree- photo: lambeth really good sign.” which have been deeply divided over the ment, and even mutual criticism. We have palace The meeting, the first to be hosted by issue of human sexuality. no Anglican Pope. Our authority as a Welby since he was enthroned in 2013, Fuelling the controversy was an church is dispersed, and is ultimately found will also give primates a chance to “decide invitation extended by Welby to Archbishop in Scripture, properly interpreted.” together their approach to the next Lam- Foley Beach, head bishop of the Anglican Welby expressed the hope that the meet- beth Conference,” said the press release. Church in North America (ACNA), to be ing will enable the Communion “to set a The conference, which is an opportunity present for part of the meeting. ACNA is course which permits us to focus on serving for the world’s Anglican bishops to discuss composed of clergy and congregations and loving each other, and above all on the and make decisions about issues facing the that have left the Anglican Church of proclamation of the good news of Jesus Communion, is usually held every 10 years. Canada and The Episcopal Church over Christ.” The last conference was held in Canterbury the blessing of same-sex unions by some In an interview with the Anglican Jour- in 2008. dioceses in Canada, and the election of nal, Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the The primates last met at the Emmaus bishops in same-sex relationships in the Anglican Church of Canada, said the invita- Centre in Dublin in 2011, a gathering at- U.S. The creation of ACNA, which has its tion was “not a surprise,” nor was Welby’s tended by 23 primates. own episcopacy, has led to a complicated stated desire to review the structures of the Seven boycotted the meeting over con- situation where it is considered fully Communion. “He’s been quite open about cerns about the Anglican Church of Canada Anglican by some provinces in the that from early on.” Anglican and The Episcopal Church’s acceptance of Communion, but is not in communion When it came to his own thoughts on Communion logo same-sex blessings in some jurisdictions. g

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ON MENTAL HEALTH AND Out of the shadows and into the light SPIRITUALITY4 Tali Fokins says. “So if I didn’t have that, what hope is staff writer there to animate my life? And if I lose my connection to faith and to God, there is OON AFTER THE Rev. Claire Miller arrived at her new parish nothing to animate hope anymore. So there of St. Thomas Anglican Church in isn’t anything to get up for in the morning. Owen Sound, Ont., she complained “The impact goes both ways. It can turn toS a parishioner about feeling drained. my life into something that’s worth living To many Now, years later, she still remembers his and it can turn my life into something response. people of faith that’s not.” A short booklist “He said, ‘But you’re holy. You’re closer struggling Delva says that when she rejected the teachings of her family’s church, it os- The amount of to God. You shouldn’t be feeling these with mental tracized her as one of the “lost,” and as a relevant books things.’ ” health is vast, and the If only he knew. For most of her life, result, she no longer has any contact with following list is Miller says, she has struggled with anxiety problems, her family. intended only as a and, in her words, “times of deep clinical religion can at Delva traces these teachings of her sampling, suggested depression.” Medication has helped her a family’s church’s to what she says was its by some of the times seem like lot, she says. So has prayer—especially in radical evangelical strain. Some evidence authorities cited in a double-edged the form of singing hymns or writing a suggests there may be a connection our article, of what’s sword. It can between evangelical Christianity and the available. journal to God. Every 10 years or so, however, the drug be a priceless notion that one can simply pray one’s way through mental illness. Nearly half— ON MENTAL she’s using fails to be effective anymore, font of hope HEALTH AND 48%—of evangelical respondents to a 2013 and she needs to switch to something and healing, but SPIRITUALITY new. The adjustment can take two or three survey said they believed prayer alone • Lyn Klug, ed., months, she says—and put her in places also a source of could overcome serious mental illness All Will Be Well: that don’t seem particularly holy. challenges. such as depression, bipolar disorder and A Gathering of schizophrenia, compared to 27% of non- Healing Prayers “There are times that I wonder where God is in this, especially when it goes on evangelical respondents. • Gerald G. If this view is more prevalent among May, too long and I’m thinking I should be feel- Addiction evangelicals, it seems that at least some and Grace: Love ing better,” she says. “When you’re in the of them worry about its effects. The 2013 and Spirituality depths of it, that often happens.” in the Healing of Miller is definitely not alone. To many survey was conducted by a U.S. evangelical Addictions people of faith struggling with mental research firm, LifeWay Research, whose • Kathleen Norris, health problems, religion can at times president, Ed Stetzer, said he was Acedia & Me: A seem like a double-edged sword, suggests concerned by its findings. In an interview Marriage, Monks, with The Guardian, Stetzer said the survey Sr. Dorothy Heiderscheit, chief executive photo: contributed and a Writer’s Life officer of Southdown Institute, a psycho- 5“I find that being able to move into my brokenness in a really showed churches need to work harder at • Parker J. Palmer, A logical treatment facility for clerics outside intentional way actually helps me,” says Melanie Delva. understanding mental illness. Hidden Wholeness: Toronto. It can be a priceless font of hope “You have to distinguish between The Journey Toward and healing, but also a source of particular character change and mental illness, and I an Undivided Life challenges—putting pressure on clerics, for live have been times think that’s sometimes hard for people to • Richard when I have been do,” he said. Rohr, example, to be almost immune to normal Falling able to integrate my For her part, Collings-Moore says she Upward: A fluctuations of mood. faith into my sur- sees this kind of belief in Christians of all Spirituality for “We expect them to be a perfect model stripes. “I would say there’s a huge base the Two Halves just short of being God or Jesus Christ,” she vival so that survival of Life; Breathing says. becomes life.” of Christianity that [believes that] if you Under Water: For many believers, too, the notion that For Delva, believe, you’ll always be assured that God Spirituality one can simply pray one’s way through this could mean is with you and you’ll always feel that,” and the Twelve mental distress leads to a form of prayer anything from she says. It’s akin, she says, to the notion Steps; Simplicity: that is both a “masquerade” of real piety seeing a dandelion that nothing bad will ever happen to us if The Freedom of growing out from we have enough faith—a belief she calls Letting Go and a barrier to seeking help, says Canon Megan Collings-Moore, chaplain at Reni- under a dumpster as “the total opposite, actually, of the gospel • Ron Rolheiser, The son University College, at the University of somehow a miracle [teaching]. Holy Longing: “If that was the truth, then Jesus doesn’t Waterloo. The Rev. Claire of God, or reflecting on Lent to discern The Search for 5 end up on the cross, so clearly that’s not a Christian “Because the prayer is masquerading Miller, who has meaning in suffering. actually what we proclaim!” she says. Spirituality; Sacred as religious language, it’s harder for them struggled with “I find that being able to move into my Trying to cope with mental illness Fire: A Vision for a to then move to the point where they say, anxiety and brokenness in a really intentional way actu- through prayer alone can be especially Deeper Human and ‘actually, maybe I should get some help; clinical depression, ally helps me,” she says. “Lent...helps me to Christian Maturity dangerous if the illness is long-term. maybe I should see somebody about that,’” says there have move through my depression, to be able to • “Pushing through or just keeping going Ann Weems, she says. been moments actually name the brokenness.” Psalms of Lament regardless is disastrous for chronic health Or mental illness can even be seen as a when she It wasn’t always this way. Delva was issues, and a lot of mental health stuff is sign of sin; the hopelessness of depression wondered “where raised in a church in which, she says, she ON COPING was made to feel ashamed about the symp- chronic,” Collings-Moore says. GENERALLY necessarily means a lack of faith. God is in this.” Religion often seems like a blessing to toms of her mental illness. She was told Perhaps it’s not surprising that mental • TED talks by photo: contributed illness can pose special problems to people Brené Brown; Melanie Delva, archivist at the diocese of that her depression was the punishment of of faith, given the often problematic rela- books, including New Westminster in Vancouver. Formally God for sins perpetrated by her ancestors tionship that psychology and religion have The Power of diagnosed with recurrent major depressive of the third and fourth generation. Vulnerability: disorder in 2007, as well as post-traumatic Members of that church, she says, saw had with one another—think, for example, Teachings on stress disorder and anxiety disorder, Delva her feelings of hopelessness as “me refusing of Sigmund Freud’s view of religion as a Authenticity, says she has suffered the symptoms of to see the goodness of God in my life, me kind of psychiatric problem. Connection and mental illness since around 1995, when she being selfish...it was my sin, the sin of my Today, however, many people most Courage was a teenager. Medication helps her, Delva family” and suggested that she ought to concerned with faith and mental ill- • The Book of Job, says, but faith is even more important ness—Christians grappling with mental especially the deal with her despair by, essentially, pray- in helping her cope and grow with her ing harder. challenges, psychological professionals dialogue with his and spiritual counsellors—say that the friends and God’s challenges. The advice was intended to help her, she landscape is changing. g response “Medication can keep me on the rails to says. But it just made her feel worse. • The Psalms, a certain extent, but faith animating life— “I took the messages that people were especially those of there’s no medication that can animate life giving me as...‘this is God’s people speak- In the next part of this series, the lament for you,” she says. ing God’s word into my life.’ So I saw it as: Anglican Journal will look at how a “In my own struggle with mental illness, God is ashamed of me. God is angry at me. shifting understanding of the relationship there has been surviving and there has God thinks I need to clean up my act.” between faith and psychology is helping been living...I can go through the motions. Eventually, she felt that God hated her mentally-ill Christians both cope with I can get up and go to work. But that’s not and had abandoned her. their condition and grow spiritually. living. The times when I have been able to “It absolutely damaged my faith,” she 4 anglican journal • november 2015

EDITORIAL4 Now is the time for honest engagement Marites N. Sison assist in this task. Anglican Church of Canada, acknowledged editor On Sept. 22, 2015, that it would be a challenge to ensure that the commission sub- delegates, when they arrive at General T’S NOT A foregone conclusion. As much as those in some quarters mitted a 65-page re- Synod, will have read the report so that they would have everyone believe, there’s port, which includes can join discussions in an informed and noI telling how the 2016 General Synod will recommended word- meaningful way. And, one might add, so they act on a motion to change the church’s law ing for the motion can vote confidently and independently. so that clergy can marry same-sex couples. that will go before A lot will depend, Hiltz said, on bishops The answer will come in about nine the 2016 General making sure that everyone has done their months, when the church’s governing body Synod, as well as the homework. In the end, however, the onus conscience clause should be on delegates to whom dioceses gathers for its triennial meeting in Toronto. image: yienkeat/shutterstock But right now, there’s work to be done, if the that would allow and provinces have conferred their trust. church hopes to arrive at a faithful and prin- dioceses and clergy to opt out of authoriz- The report—available online at the cipled decision about this weighty matter. ing or officiating same-sex weddings. It also church’s website, anglican.ca—is also there In 2013, General Synod passed Reso- In the prepared the supporting documentation for every Anglican in the pew to consider lution C003, which asked Council of face of what that would demonstrate “how such a change and explore, no matter which side they’re on. General Synod (CoGS) to draft a motion “ in the church’s traditional teaching on Anticipating the need for guidance in is bound to be Christian marriage could be understood to understanding the report, the commission “to change Canon XXI on marriage to a momentous allow the marriage of same-sex couples be scripturally and theologically coherent.” has prepared a summary of its work in a in the same way as opposite-sex couples.” decision in (See related stories, pages 1 and 7.) question-and-answer format, as well as a It also asked for supporting documenta- 2016, now is Not surprisingly, there were mixed reac- study guide for individuals and groups. tion that: demonstrates broad consulta- not the time tions to the report. Several CoGS members The guide includes prayers and thoughtful described it as “deep, clear and respect- tion about the motion; explains how this to bury one’s questions designed to facilitate personal motion does not contravene the Solemn ful [of diverse opinions].” Elsewhere, the reflection and serious discourse on various Declaration; confirms immunity under head in the ink had barely dried on the report when sections of the report. civil law and the Human Rights Code for sand. critics dismissed it, some declaring they It is now up to individual Anglicans, par- bishops, dioceses and priests who refuse won’t even bother reading it. Others simply ishes and General Synod delegates to take to participate or authorize the marriage of regurgitated well-worn opinions on sexual- advantage of this resource. In the face of same-sex couples on the basis on con- ity instead of examining the report in its what is bound to be a momentous decision science; and provides a biblical and theo- entirety. Such insouciance is unhelpful and in 2016, now is not the time to bury one’s logical rationale for this change in teaching disrespectful of the discernment process head in the sand. Now is the time for honest on the nature of Christian marriage. that has been put in place to address this engagement. g CoGS, in January 2014, established the difficult issue. Commission on the Marriage Canon to Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the email: [email protected] Divergent views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict LETTERS4 Two letters in the September 2015 issue of in 1947-48, the building in Palestine of to be the recipient of a publication that the Anglican Journal miss the mark in re- settlements illegal by international law and accepts these submissions. It’s worse when gard to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (One now housing some 600,000 Israelis, the one realizes the aim of such authors is to rule for readers and another for contributors? destruction of thousands of ancient olive bamboozle Christians while using their by John Dalton and One-sided by M.C. trees, and so on. very own Christian publications. Barnard, p. 4). As for the two-state solution, far from Facts, as well as kindred faiths, encour- In his June 2015 article (Christian Zion- being “the only way to resolve this situ- age support for Israel. M.C. Barnard ably ism a ‘heresy,’ says Anglican priest), Neale ation,” most commentators regard it as a presented many Israeli facts: their his- Adams was simply naming Christian Zion- political dead duck. The weight of current toric habitation in the area, Israel’s legal ism for what it is, a pernicious heresy. This opinion has shifted from a two-state model establishment followed immediately by is not name-calling, as Dalton asserts, but to a one-state model of some kind—per- an attack from Arab nations, the continu- image: bymandesigns/shutterstock simple naming; it’s the term you would use haps a federation or the use of overlapping ing rocket and bomb attacks and calls for Israel’s destruction. if searching the subject via Google. electorates. In my view, the Israelis and We have, in addition, the primary fact of Picture Barnard’s letter repeats the tired refrains Palestinians, both, as populations suffering from PTSD, are manifestly incapable of the extermination of six million European Your Faith TheAnglican offered by the Israeli government and Zi- finding a resolution. Jews during the Holocaust. Do you have pho- Journal onists in general, that Israel is the innocent Only when international pressure is There are, as well, the facts of the long tographs that illus- welcomes letters victim and Palesti-nians the offending exerted to a sufficient degree is any resolu- negotiation history of Palestinian refusals trate “Unity”? We to the editor. terrorists. tion likely. to accept two-state/peace plans and our invite you to share Since not all While calling Cheryl-Ann Archibald’s own history of sharing Israel’s standards of them by sending to letters can be letter ( Donald Grayston Anti-Zionism doesn’t mean anti- Vancouver democracy and human rights. To recog- Picture Your Faith, published, Semitism, Jan. 2015, p. 5) one-sided, it then preference is nize Jewish habitation in early Palestine, our monthly online itself gives a one-sided (Israeli govern- Congratulations on publishing letters generally given archaeologists in Israel continue to sub- feature. Deadline ment) view of the situation. (Sept. 2015, p. 4, to shorter One rule for readers and stantiate their ancient history. for submissions is Barnard chides Archibald for neglecting and ) correspondence. another for contributors? One-sided We need to search out and present facts November 20. to mention various crimes of the that dared to criticize the lack of balance All letters in order to balance what is published with Please send Palestiians, and then neglects to mention displayed in an article and a previous letter are subject to an anti-Israel bias all too often. them by email to various crimes of the Israelis, such as the about Zionism. editing. Doris Leland pictureyourfaith@ ethnic cleansing of 750,000 Palestinians An anti-Israel bias makes one ashamed Kitchener, Ont. gmail.com.

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COME AND SEE4 His view By Fred J. Hiltz saints, we so often find ourselves looking reflects the hope of the Psalmist: HAVE ALWAYS LOOKED forward back, albeit with much gratitude for all to the festival of All Saints. It is a those who have been chosen vessels of “We will recount to generations to come I culmination of all those days when we God’s grace at work in the world. While the praiseworthy deeds of the Lord, remember, with thanksgiving, the work I honour that view, I often find myself and the wonderful works he has done… and witness of particular saints and wondering if that is our Lord’s view. While the lives and labours of holy men I imagine him looking around at all his “That the generations to come might know, and women throughout the ages. They saints who now rest in his presence, I see and the children yet unborn; include family and friends and colleagues him looking ahead, anticipating the next that they in turn might tell it to their wave of his faithful followers. Rejoicing ch i l d re n .” and mentors and spiritual companions. peter hermes furian/ In this wonderful festival we are mind- shutterstock in all those who embraced his gospel (Psalm 78: 4,6) ful of how we are compassed about—that and became ambassadors of his love for is, surrounded and inspired by their the world’s healing and transformation, Might his view of looking back, around examples. In that great company, too, are his gaze shifts from time to time to the and ahead become our view of the com- those who have been near and dear to us future and to all who, in their respective munion of saints in all its fullness. g and who have great influence in shaping generations, will become lights in the our own call to lifelong discipleship. world. It seems to me this view of “the Archbishop Fred Hiltz is primate of the In our view of the communion of blessed company of all faithful people” Anglican Church of Canada.

WALKING Our agenda, as we wake up TOGETHER4 By Mark MacDonald ing and acknowledging the interdependence From just war to active non-violence. that is the vestige of the Triune God’s creating AST MONTH, THIS column spoke of As a church of worldly power, we compromised presence in our universe. the institutional church’s captivity with power and formed alliances that directly to the mindset of Western culture. We L contradict the active non-violence of Jesus. From flirtation with wealth to life among called it a kind of “hypnotism” whereby many of More than just practising pacifism, we are asked the poor and marginalized. Jesus said in the assumptions of Christian faith were blunted to walk the extra mile of resistance to confront Matthew 25 that we would meet him in the or obscured by the powerful counterpoint evil with the power and truth of the one true poor, the imprisoned and the abandoned. of Western ideas. This is not to say that there God. This will often place us on the other side Our institutional life, even the placement and weren’t many points of mutual agreement and of the cozy relationships we have had with direction of our ministries, should follow this benefit in this exchange. There were, however, worldly power. priority. This would, at minimum, impact where many aspects of this mutuality that may be seen we place our congregations and how we house as negative, as in the way churches played an From the culture of money to non-posses- them. animating role in colonization. sion. The early church practised non-posses- Today, a spiritual resilience in the churches, sion, its members sometimes sharing with each From institutional membership to commu- from Pentecostals to the Pope, is leading many other in common, but more often, practising nion. Churches in Christendom were a vital or- to rethink major elements of the institutional an ethic of non-possession. We are trustees of ganization, but later they became institutions of ethos and practice of the past few centuries. God’s wealth and we are called to live this long the larger culture. Can we become—in practical We might call this a kind of “waking up,” a abandoned ethic—sharing with each other, impact as well as in our theological theory— rediscovery of truth and new life in ancient generous to those in need and grateful for God’s members, one of another? This desire, so urgent paths. As we wake up, I would like to make a abundance. in our young people, would simultaneously few suggestions for a conversation of renewal. make us less like members of an organization Though far from perfect and much less than From the dominion of creation to the eucha- and more like family, living together in commu- exhaustive, here are the elements that I believe ristic life. Western attitudes to the environment nities of moral imagination—rethinking our should be a part of our theological agenda. If are often, at a practical level and in effect, a de- lives in light of the gospel. g we move toward them, these would preclude nial of doctrine of creation. The gospel asks us the kind of practice that led to the churches’ to embrace a eucharistic acceptance of the gift Bishop Mark MacDonald is national Indigenous part in colonialism: of creation; we use only what we need, respect- bishop of the Anglican Church of Canada.

‘Jesus must weep at our lack of Christian charity and inclusiveness’ LETTERS4 How unutterably sad this story is (Roman available from the Canadian Council of Purposeful acts of evangelism by Catholics weigh in on marriage canon, Churches, Federal Election Resource 2015, Anglicans do happen. I do the quiet stuff, Sept. 2015, p. 6). Every argument presented and the one from the Episcopal Commission like leaving tracts on bus seats or recycling here against changing the Anglican church for Justice and Peace of the Canadian a Christian mission agency magazine at marriage canon echoes the long-dead Conference of Catholic Bishops, 2015 Federal the cafeteria at work. Sometimes I leave a protests against ordaining women clergy. Election Guide, mention euthanasia. magazine-style New Testament in the gym’s Jesus must weep at our lack of Christian Should not views on such subjects also free magazine rack. image: eatcute/shutterstock charity and inclusiveness. We can and must be considered in an Anglican guide as It’s easier to share my faith within a do better than this. respecting “the dignity of every human community event set up by the church. Sadly, I’ve been to various church events, Jean Gower being” (Baptismal Covenant) as taught Kingston, Ont. throughout Christianity and indeed most typically a yard sale, and there’s no other religions? effort at linking the fundraising Surprised and disappointed Brian Harvey Gloucester, Ont. with an outreach Corrections The Anglican Church of Canada’s component. Table Canon Christyn Perkons was Compassion, Justice, and Reason: An workers should offer identified as the Rev. Christyn contains excellent Quiet acts of evangelism Approach to Election 2015 a bit of spiritual Perkons in the caption of a photo recommendations prefaced by [the view It’s always interesting to be on the receiving conversation that accompanying the article, Diocesan that] “Anglican long-standing commitment end of someone else’s effort to share the can move people leaders cautiously optimistic about to reason helps us hold opposing views in Good News of Jesus Christ ( Random acts along the road the future, Oct. 2015, p. 8. The same creative tension, finding the common good of evangelism, anglicanjournal.com, Sept. 2, toward Jesus. And caption misspelled the last name of through prayerful discernment.” 2015). Sometimes it’s frustrating, because old it’s easy to get a few Joanna Beck (not Becks) and should However, I am surprised and wounds and hurts are reopened. Bibles from the Bible have included an apostrophe in the disappointed there is no mention of But sometimes there’s real excitement to Society to give away. name, Christ Church’s Cathedral in discussing candidates’ views on physician- participate in a happenstance way with the Brian Johnson Hamilton, Ont. g image: vectors.1/shutterstock assisted death and abortion. Both the guide bearer. Comment from the web 6 anglican journal • november 2015 Same-sex marriage ‘theologically possible’ Continued from p. 1 thereby imply, I don’t know what—that the previous understanding of mar- riage was wrong. But, it may be simply that God is calling same-sex couples into marriage and FOCUS: thereby broadening SAME-SEX and enriching the institution without MARRIAGE denying its previous meanings.” Jennings added: “Maybe God is intend- ing to graft gay Christians into the institu- tion of Christian marriage, sharing its root meaning, yet on somewhat different terms.” This conception of same-sex marriage, the 65-page report said, would involve revising the canon using gender-neutral language, and probably also new liturgies for same-sex couples that would “share the same core vows” as liturgies for hetero- sexual couples. The commission cautioned that the model the report was proposing was a rec- ommendation only. “This argument is not photo: andré forget Marriage canon commission members present their report during a special session of Council of General Synod (L to R): Stephen Martin, an attempt to prove something, to prove Canon Paul Jennings, Bishop Linda Nicholls, Patricia Bays, the Rev. Paul Friesen and Archbishop John Privett. that this is the way to go forward,” said Jen- nings. “We are offering a rationale—that is, a way of conceiving of it theologically in a contravene the Solemn Declaration of counts in the Book of Genesis, which refer Considering same-sex unions merely way that we’re suggesting might have integ- 1893, which reflects the Anglican Church to the goodness of the union of male and as “blessed partnerships” also has some rity. But the church will still have to discern of Canada’s historic roots in the Church of female, and the creation of new life out of advantages, the report states. For example, whether this is God’s will for the church.” England and its “theological and doctrinal that union, and, on the other, New Testa- it “runs no risk of redefining traditional It is, he added, one of three “logical heritage.” ment descriptions of the church—par- heterosexual marriage...No one need fear possibilities” being put forward by the It noted that when General Synod al- ticularly in Ephesians 5—as the body of that marriage has changed.” On the other commission, and something of a middle lowed the remarriage of divorced persons, Christ. The latter points to the concept of hand, the report states, “as a blessing with- way between the other two. The other two the ordination of women and the recep- Christian marriage as a way of living out out vows, this model does not acknowledge possibilities, according to the report, are, tion of holy communion by children prior the divine command to love one another, the relationship’s potential to be a place in on the one hand, to see same-sex mar- to confirmation, these decisions did not so that the basis of marriage is not procre- which the couple exercises their vocation riages as an “undifferentiated” form of contravene the Solemn Declaration “even ation and the union of male and female but of Christian love by striving to be as Christ Christian marriage, though the Church of rather its ability to point to Christ’s rela- to one another in covenanted love.” The essentially identical to England had not made tionship to the church as a model of love. question, said the commission, would be heterosexual mar- To say that it is those changes at the In practical terms, understanding same- whether the church can discern in these riages; and, on the theologically possible to make time they were imple- sex covenants as “a differentiated form partnerships “an instance of Christ’s love other, to see them as “ mented by the Cana- of Christian marriage covenant” is also for the church.” this change is not to say that “blessed partnerships” dian church.” “compatible with the revision of the canon Commissioners took turns in rather than covenants the change is theologically However, the com- to include same-sex couples (as called for introducing various sections of the before God. desirable. mission said it is the in the resolution of the General Synod),” voluminous report. Bishop Linda Nicholls The commission — Marriage canon commission report prerogative of General said the report. “It would suggest a liturgy introduced the report, the Solemn said it arrived at a Synod to determine that allows for variation in the theologi- Declaration and the conscience clause; conclusion that it is “theologically pos- whether the proposed change to the cal background and symbolism between Patricia Bays discussed the background sible to extend the marriage canon to marriage canon is “in harmony with the same- and opposite-sex marriages, while and terms of reference; Jennings explained include same-sex couples, without thereby Solemn Declaration.” Among other things, retaining identical core texts, such as the the biblical and theological rationale for diminishing, damaging, or curtailing the General Synod 2016 will “need to discern vows.” The draft resolution drawn up the proposed change in the marriage rich theological implications of marriage whether this change is sufficiently rooted by the committee calls for, among other canon; the Rev. Paul Friesen introduced as traditionally understood.” in the ‘same Word of God’ and discern its things, amending the wording of Canon the theological starting points and But, it hastened to add, “to say that it is relationship to ‘all things necessary for XXI to be gender- the authority of theologically possible to make this change salvation,’ ” said the commission. neutral, substituting Maybe God is intending to Scripture; Martin “partners” for “hus- tackled the authority of is not to say that the change is theologically It is also up to General Synod to deter- graft gay Christians into desirable.” What the commission sought to mine whether same-sex marriage “is an band and wife,” for “ Scripture, the definition do was “to show how it may be done—not area of definition and interpretation of example. the institution of Christian of marriage and the why or even whether it should be done,” it doctrine in which it can make change and, Seeing same-sex marriage. theology of marriage; said in its report. “These questions require if it is, whether it is a change it believes is and heterosexual — Marriage canon commission report and Archbishop John more than theological argumentation: they appropriate.” marriages as Privett presented the require an act of corporate discernment.” In its report, the commission also essentially the same report’s conclusion. The commission offered the biblical and drafted a motion that includes a provision has a number of advantages, the report The commission’s work included a theological rationale for same-sex mar- allowing dioceses, bishops and congrega- states, such as simplicity and formal consultation process, in which it invited riage as part of the tasks it was assigned tions to opt out of performing same-sex equality. However, it continues, simplicity opinions on the issue. It received a total of to do when it was formed by CoGS, which marriages. Along with formulating the may not necessarily be desirable; “with 223 submissions from individuals repre- was acting on a General Synod 2013 reso- biblical and theological rationale for allow- respect to theological understanding, senting 26 dioceses, two from theological lution to craft a motion that would amend ing same-sex marriages, the commission richness, complexity, and differentiation colleges, three from specialists, three from the church’s Canon XXI on marriage “to was charged with developing a “con- are desirable traits.” Also, the report states, full communion and ecumenical partners, allow the marriage of same-sex couples in science clause,” included in the amend- “this model would seem to change to and six from institutions and organiza- the same way as opposite-sex couples.” ment, “so that no member of the clergy, some extent the definition of marriage for tions. Several submitters argued against The resolution, C003, also asked, among bishop, congregation or diocese should be heterosexual couples” by removing “the allowing same-sex marriages, although other things, that the motion have sup- constrained to participate in or authorize rich symbolism of heterosexual love from whether to allow them or not was beyond porting documentation that “explains how such marriages against the dictates of their the definition of marriage, leaving the the commission’s mandate. amending the canon to allow same-sex conscience.” institution more abstract.” The commission dedicated the report unions does not contravene the Solemn The commission’s view of the middle Commissioners also articulated the to its chair, Canon (lay) Robert Falby, who Declaration,” the founding document of way in understanding same-sex marriage view that “it may be that same-sex rela- died in June, prior to the completion of the the Anglican Church of Canada. comes close to the end of the report. This tionships have specific gifts to offer the report. “His knowledge of the church and In its report, the commission concluded reflection is located in what commission- church which would not be celebrated if deep commitment to its life and ministry, that changing the marriage canon to allow ers called two “clusters of meaning” around we tried to fit them into a one-size fits all born of his many years of prolocutor, were for same-sex unions does not directly marriage: on the one hand, creation ac- [category].” gifts to our work,” they said. g anglican journal • november 2015 7

Council members Queries, concerns about opt-out clause react to report André Forget staff writer Tali Folkins The special session of Council of General staff writer Synod (CoGS) on September 23 drafted a Council of General Synod (CoGS) resolution to change the marriage canon to members praised the report of the allow for the marriage of same-sex couples, Commission on the Marriage Canon, which will be brought to a vote before Gen- released in September, as being both eral Synod in 2016. deeply reflective and highly readable— However, members still expressed and are urging fellow church members to concerns about the opt-out clause, which give it their time and attention. would allow bishops, clergy, congregations “I was very impressed with the work of and dioceses to refuse to solemnize same- the commission,” said Archdeacon Lynne sex marriages on the basis of conscience. McNaughton of the ecclesiastical province For some, this was merely a matter of of British Columbia and Yukon. “I can understanding what this means technical- heartily commend the report [and] say, ly: Archbishop Percy Coffin of the diocese ‘Please read it.’ ” She described the report of Western Newfoundland, who serves as “concise, fresh, [with a] biblical theo- as the metropolitan of the ecclesiastical photo: andré forget logical rationale that goes in-depth.” province of Canada, noted that many of Lt. Col. the Rev. Marc Torchinsky, from the Anglican Military Ordinariate of Canada, raises The Rev. Norm Wesley, the Anglican the parishes in his jurisdiction are multi- a question after the marriage canon commission presented its report. Council of Indig- point and could potentially include, within enous Peoples (ACIP) a single parish, a number of individual based on synodical and episcopal leader- marriage canon working group. The group representative to churches that hold differing views on the ship and direction,” he said, adding that he includes the Rev. Karen Egan, representing CoGS, said he was issue. “Is it possible to have a multi-point is “concerned about congregationalism,” the ecclesiastical province of Canada; Bish- impressed by how parish where some congregations decide to and the possibility of an individual church op John Chapman, representing the eccle- the commission was have same-sex marriages, but not others in telling its priest whom he or she can or siastical province of Ontario; Don Wilson, able to distill such a the same parish?” he asked. cannot marry. representing the ecclesiastical province of complex issue into a Lt. Col. the Rev. Marc Torchinsky noted Jones explained that the wording of British Columbia and Yukon; Tannis Web- Wesley relatively short docu- that as a member of the Anglican military the resolution was crafted to ensure that ster, representing the ecclesiastical province ment. “A lot of prayer ordinariate, he is under the discipline it would answer the requirements placed of Rupert’s Land; and Bishop Linda Nicholls went into that, I’m sure,” he said. of the bishop ordinary to the Canadian before CoGS by the 2013 General Synod of the diocese of Toronto, representing the Jennifer Warren, a lay CoGs member Forces, but also serves in a particular resolution that sparked the creation of the marriage canon commission. from the ecclesiastical province of Cana- diocese—in his case, the diocese of Ottawa. marriage canon commission. Despite these concerns over the con- da, said the report gave her the impression “If my diocesan bishop says, ‘no, you The resolution, C003, states that the science clause, the resolution, which is a the commission had given careful consid- cannot,’ and then the Anglican ordinariate motion to be brought before General draft of the one that will be voted on in eration to the diverse views of the nearly says, ‘yes, you can,’ there’s a conflict there,” Synod in 2016 must “include a conscience 2016, is otherwise fairly straightforward: 250 individuals and groups who had he said. clause so that no member of the clergy, it declares that “Canon XXI (On Marriage made submissions In response, the chancellor of General bishop, congregation or diocese should be in the Church) applies to all persons who to it. “Every voice Synod, Canon (lay) David Jones, said that constrained to participate in or authorize are duly qualified by civil law to enter into was heard,” she said. in a multi-point context the individual such marriages against the dictates of their marriage,” and amends the language of “They did a good congregations, and not the parish as a conscience.” the canon to remove references to “man job of reflecting whole, would have the right to make deci- Jones allowed that “technically, CoGS and woman” and “husband and wife.” It t h at .” sions; military chaplains are beholden only could amend what it’s sending,” but presents two additional regulations to be This careful lis- to the bishop of the ordinary. hastened to add, “what CoGS cannot do added to the canon, which would prohibit tening, Warren said, For his part, Dean Peter Wall, of the is amend it in a way that is not consistent same-sex marriage under certain circum- gave her the sense Warren province of Ontario, felt that the con- with C003.” stances—for example, if a diocesan synod of a new concilia- science clause goes too far. “The drafters However, that did not mean that CoGS should introduce a canon banning it with- tory spirit at work in the church. “I feel of the resolution were very generous—I members could not voice their concerns. in the diocese, if a bishop has banned it like the Spirit is moving people to be open think to a fault—with their interpreta- Archbishop Fred Hiltz, the primate of within his/her diocese or if a congregation to other ideas,” she said. tion of the word ‘congregation,’ ” he said. the Anglican Church of Canada, noted that has ruled not to perform such marriages in However, National Indigenous An- That the Anglican church “has always been these are issues that could be referred to the their church. g glican Bishop Mark MacDonald, while commending the commission for what he called a careful and well-done report, faulted it for not including the cultural ‘I do not want the church to divide over this’ perspective of First Nations people. “It’s still very much a report from the larger At the same time, Hiltz said, a lot will André Forget church, which is Western in its orienta- depend on how prepared General Synod staff writer tion,” he said. “Even for people who might delegates will be in 2016. CoGS needs to be supportive of the goal, the perspective Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the make sure that each delegate has read the is still very much that of the dominant Anglican Church of Canada, said he thinks report, he said. culture.” the report of the Commission on the Hiltz remained apprehensive, however, Some members voiced a mixture of Marriage Canon is a “gift to the church,” as to what impact the decision next sum- hope and anxiety about General Synod even as he acknowledged the difficulty of mer will have on the Canadian church’s 2016, when the governing body decides the conversation that will take place when relationship to the Anglican Communion on whether to allow same-sex marriage. General Synod votes on same-sex marriage worldwide. “Both Winnipeg 2010 and Ottawa next July. “We’ve been advised by the Commu- 2013 were not pleasant, warm, fuzzy “I do not want the church to divide nion not to pursue [same-sex marriage] experiences. So I do have some fears over this,” he said in an interview with the but to continue with the local option [of and anxieties,” said Anglican Journal after Council of General blessing already-married same-sex part- Canon Terry Leer Synod (CoGS) held a special session, on ners],” he said. “I’m mindful of that.” of the ecclesiastical September 22-23, to receive the report. photo: andré forget While Hiltz said he doesn’t expect province of Rupert’s While concerns about the church Archbishop Fred Hiltz and Archdeacon everyone to agree with the report’s Land. “Toronto dividing over same-sex marriage “keep Harry Huskins, General Synod prolocutor arguments for why same-sex marriage is 2016 will be tough,” me awake at night,” Hiltz said, he believes theologically possible within the Anglican he said, although “there’s enough will and resolve within our The report offers “both a challenge church, it still presents “an opportunity for he said he also church to have a good, focused, patient and an invitation to go more deeply into some good and well-informed conversa- Leer expected it would conversation about this.” our conversations about same-gendered tion. I hope people wouldn’t just dismiss it.” involve processes He expressed hope that the commis- relationships,” said Hiltz. “We had a The commission was responding to a encouraging face-to-face discussion. “It sion’s report will play an important role in conversation from the point of view of request from General Synod for CoGS to is very much harder to be angry with how that conversation plays out. human rights, justice, pastoral care, but we provide a theological rationale for how a person than it is to be angry with a Hiltz praised the report for bringing didn’t have [a] deep, biblical, theological Canon XXI of the Anglican Church of p o s it i on .” g some much-needed theological analysis to rationale, and that’s what General Synod, Canada, which governs marriage, could be debates over same-sex marriage. among other things, asked for. “ changed to include same-sex couples. g 8 anglican journal • november 2015

FOCUS: REFUGEE Churches note spike in refugee sponsorships CRISIS4 André Forget called “named cases,” where Canadians staff writer can apply to sponsor a specific refugee or The image of the body of three-year-old family of refugees. This is the process being Alan Kurdi, a Syrian refugee, washed up on used by the diocese of Qu’Appelle to spon- a Turkish shore, has led many to ask why sor the family of Saeed Abbo, an Assyrian more isn’t being done to help vulnerable Christian from northern Iraq. refugees. Saeed’s story begins almost five years The answer, according to those actively ago, when his daughter Marleen and her engaged in refugee work, is simple: it hasn’t husband, Safaa Mousa, and their daughter been a priority. Majdleena, fled to a Syrian refugee camp. If the “If the government wanted to put the Safaa had been working as a chef for a gov- government resources into it, we could process refugees ernment dignitary in Baghdad when a note “ more quickly. The government is not will- was slipped under his door, telling him wanted to put ing to do so,” says Ian McBride, executive that he and his wife had 24 hours to leave the resources director of the Anglican United Church Baghdad or they would be killed. They into it, we Refugee Agency (AURA), an ecumenical hid out in Mosul and then escaped across could process agency that facilitates refugee resettlement. the border into Syria, which had not yet It is not just the government that is to descended into civil war. From there, they refugees more blame, says McBride. While AURA con- 5Saeed (centre), “We’re a small church—we have only came to Canada as office-referred refugees quickly. The stantly receives requests for sponsorhips, his son Amjed, 60 people on our parish list,” says the Rev. sponsored by the diocese. government is they are limited by what individuals and daughter-in- Catherine Sider-Hamilton, associate priest Meanwhile, the rise of ISIS in northern at St. Matthew’s, “but in one year, we have not willing to parishes are willing to do. law Rawan and Syria and Iraq had put the rest of Marleen’s There has been renewed interest fol- grandchildren raised $27,000.” family—her father, Saeed, her brother Am- do so. lowing Kurdi’s death. McBride spent the Sareta and St. Matthew’s began its application to jed, sister-in-law Rawan and her brother’s — Ian McBride, entire Labour Day weekend responding to Saemn have been sponsor a refugee family in April 2015, children, Sareta and Saemn—in great executive director, queries about refugee sponsorship. sponsored by through what is called a blended visa danger. Amjed, who served his church as a Anglican United McBride is aware of how powerful such the diocese of office-referred case, and had it approved deacon, was threatened by an ISIS militia Church Refugee instances are, but also how quickly public Qu’Appelle. They shortly after. This kind of sponsorship and decided to go north with his family to Agency attention can shift. “My job is to maximize are currently in allows Canadian individuals and groups Turkey. The diocese of Qu’Appelle began it at the moment.” Turkey. working with sponsorship agreement raising money to reunite the Abbo family One parish that began working with photo: saskatchewan holders and the federal government to in Canada, and they submitted an appli- AURA last year is St. Matthew’s Angli- anglican bring into Canada families who have been cation to sponsor Saeed, Amjed, Rawan, can Church, Riverdale, in the diocese of designated by the United Nations High Sareta and Saemn as named refugees. Toronto, whose parishioners decided to Commissioner for Refugees as people in Ralph Paragg, refugee co-ordinator sponsor a Syrian family after hearing the need of asylum. for the diocese, says the process has gone Rev. Nadim Nassar and Canon Andrew This process can take anywhere from a smoothly. The family has been interviewed White (the “Vicar of Baghdad”) speak few months to several years for a family to and has had a medical exam, key steps in about the persecution faced by Christians arrive in Canada. “Now we’re just waiting,” the admittance process. Paragg says he in the Middle East, following the rise of Sider-Hamilton says. expects to get a definite answer “before the the Islamic State (ISIS). There are also sponsorships that are snow starts to blow in Saskatchewan.” g Alan Kurdi ‘reawakened the compassion of humanity’

Continued from p. 1 event is guaranteed media coverage to Relief’s refugee resettlement program. begin with...but a drought, for example, “Sometimes I cry, ‘where was this before?’ takes a long time to come.” It’s just an outpouring of generosity.” Conflict situations are also harder Naba Gurung, humanitarian response to understand. “There are competing co-ordinator for the Primate’s World Relief stories about who’s right and who’s wrong, and Development Fund (PWRDF), agreed and which side you’re on and who’s that before Kurdi’s photo appeared, raising responsible,” he said. “It goes on and on... funds for Syrian relief was more difficult. and after a while, it all becomes…noise Donations to PWRDF for Syrian relief in the background, and who hears it from January 2012 to early September anymore?” 2015 totalled $80,155—and seemed to be The frequent news of wars and refugees on a downward trend. Peaking at $39,564 worldwide may also have inflicted for 2013, they had dwindled to $6,401 for potential donors with “compassion fatigue,” the first eight months of 2015. There was a Tsehai said. dramatic increase after Kurdi’s death – as Fundraisers for Syria, he suspects, are of September 12, it received an additional facing another challenge raising funds in $70,000 in donations, which the federal an age in which Islam and terrorism are government will match. often associated in popular media. “This The United Nations High Commission- time around, what I’m observing more er for Refugees (UNHCR) had been facing 5Some refugees and public engagement at Canadian and more is fear—fear of the unknown,” a funding shortfall also. It had set funding fleeing the war Foodgrains Bank, a partnership of he said. Potential donors, he said, seem to requirements for its Regional Refugee and in Syria have Canadian church agencies targeting be thinking, “They have a religion which Resilience Plan for Syrian refugees for 2015 pitched tents near hunger worldwide, said his group has been is different from ours, and that religion is at $4.5 billion (U.S.). As of August 25, only a train station in “relatively successful” raising money for just a religion of terrorism and so on—so 41% of that sum had been raised ($90.95 Serbia. Most hope the Syrian crisis, but admitted it hasn’t who are we bringing [into Canada as million of it from Canada). to be resettled in been easy. The agency has raised more refugees]?” UNHCR Canada spokeswoman Gisèle Germany. than $1 million for Syria since 2012, when For the time being at least, fundraisers Nyembwe said the agency, too, has been fotosr52/ it first began appealing for donations. are riding a wave of generosity following “overwhelmed” with donations, afer shutterstock “That’s great, and we are grateful,” he the news and social media coverage of the the publication of Kurdi’s photo. Asked said. “But to put that in perspective, one of photo of Alan Kurdi. “That little boy literally whether raising funds was much harder our member agencies received $2.3 million jolted everybody globally to open doors and before, Nyembwe said, “I don’t think for Nepal within a couple months of that reach out, and reawakened the compassion people have been less generous at that time earthquake this year, and another received of humanity which was missing for some than now—it’s just that there are so many $3.5 million.” reason,” agreed Tsehai. “This young boy for crises.” With almost 60 million refugees It’s harder to raise money for people me, as a person, he’s just saying, ‘humanity and multiple emergencies worldwide, caught in drawn-out conflicts like Syria let me down. I’m at peace now.’ Then I think donors are overstretched, she said. and disasters that play out over a long time, we have to ask ourselves whether we have John Longhurst, director of resources Longhurst said. “A sudden catastrophic been doing the right thing or not.” g anglican journal • november 2015 9 Has Canada become less open to refugees?

André Forget Both added that it was Joe Clark’s BY THE NUMBERS staff writer Progressive Conservative Party, one of the The Conservative government previously precursors to the current Conservative pledged to resettle 10,000 Syrian refugees Party of Canada, which pushed for broad 2,406 over the next four years, but in Septem- acceptance of the Vietnamese refugees Total number of Syrian ber—amidst criticism from its political in the 1970s. It was another Progressive refugees resettled to Canada rivals—Citizenship and Immigration Conservative, Brian Mulroney, who led (early 2013 to Sept. 8, 2015) Minister Chris Alexander announced refugee resettlement in the wake of the new measures to speed up the processing Soviet Union’s collapse and instituted the of applications to bring Syrians “a full 15 formal refugee board, which decides on months earlier than anticipated.” appeals. 22,405 Alexander did not indicate whether Total number of Iraqi These governments represented they would be government- or privately a brand of conservatism that saw refugees resettled to Canada sponsored refugees. Canada as having a responsibility to the (2009 to Sept. 8, 2015) These numbers may pale in comparison international community to do its part to the roughly 1.8 million refugees cur- in resettling displaced peoples, a role the rently living in Turkey, the additional Conservative Party under Stephen Harper 1.8 million in Lebanon and even the has downplayed. Harper has defended 623 photo: rawpixel/shutterstock Government-assisted 117,161 refugees the United Kingdom has The changes in Canadian refugee policy his government’s record, citing security Syrian refugees welcomed, but they also pale in com- can be explained by changes in mindset concerns for the slow process of admitting parison to what previous generations among government leaders, experts say. refugees from the Middle East. of Canadians have been willing to do. “I think this (Harper government) is 1,754 Following the fall of Saigon to Com- Tom Clark, former interchurch co- something of an isolationist government, Privately sponsored Syrian munist forces in 1975, Canada resettled a ordinator for refugees for the Canadian in many ways,” Clark said. refugees total of 110,000 Vietnamese refugees—the Council of Churches, agreed with Creal Creal did not mince words. “I think the famous “boat people.” Of those refugees, that political will played a vital role in record of the Conservative government 50,000 were accepted between 1978 and refugee resettlement in the past. But, he with respect to refugees is, from my point 29 1980, at a time when Canada’s population added, refugee resettlement in the 1970s Blended visa office-referred of view, absolutely deplorable,” he said. was only 24 million. took place in the context of the Cold War, The Conservative government has Syrian refugees* So what happened between 1978 and and therefore also served an ideological created a climate within Citizenship and [ 2015? purpose. “What happened in that time was Immigration Canada (CIC) and Canada “In the 1970s, there was a really quite the need for the U.S., and therefore for its Border Services that is hostile toward 10,579 remarkable confluence of different ele- allies, to do the traditional thing, which is refugees, he said. “CIC and the border Government-assisted Iraqi ments,” explained Michael Creal, a retired you don’t leave your allies out to toast—so services have been set up primarily to get refugees professor of religious studies at York the friends of the U.S. in Vietnam needed rid of people,” he said. “The culture there University and scholar at the York to be brought out.” is ‘how do we get people out of Canada as University-based Centre for Refugee What started out as careful politics fast as possible when rejected?’ ” Studies. “The government was on side, morphed into a massive humanitarian But Creal did not think this was 11,826 the civil service was on side, the media was undertaking, thanks in large part to the representative of a cultural shift among the Privately sponsored Iraqi on side, the churches were on side…this is work of individual parliamentarians, most Canadian people. refugees a very different situation from today.” notably Progressive Conservative cabinet “I think there’s no question that large [ Canada did not have an extensive infra- minister Flora MacDonald, said Clark. numbers of Canadians are open [to having structure for quickly processing refugees, “Flora was a little special,” he said. “She more refugees]. The calls from people but the broad support for the project had NGO connections right up until her saying they want to sponsor a refugee *Referred to Canadian visa offices by allowed for creative and efficient solutions. death, so she really was willing to gamble family have far exceeded the capacity of the UN refugee agency, UNHCR Civil servants were dispatched to Hong on pushing [refugee issues] out to the various agencies to handle.” Source: Citizenship and Immigration Kong, for instance, and they processed people.” Clark agreed that the majority of Canada refugees on the spot, said Creal. “They ac- For Clark and Creal, the changes in Canadians are inclined to help refugees, cepted them, arranged to have them flown Canadian refugee policy can partially be but stressed that they usually need a push. by military aircraft to Edmonton and explained by changes in mindset among If the government doesn’t provide it, it has

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Tali Folkins cept. Davidson is an accomplished fund- staff writer raiser. In the mid-1990s, he pushed his son A London, Ont., church is raising money Jesse—afflicted with Duchenne muscular for Syrian refugees at lightning speed— dystrophy—across Ontario, then walked thanks, at least partly, to a very Canadian across Canada to raise money to fight the disease. Davidson then founded a charity, I preached household material. As of September 21, St. Aidan’s Angli- Jesse’s Journey, which has since raised more that Sunday “ can Church had raised roughly $35,000 than $20 million. from James for refugee sponsorship after 15 days of “I think we were at 16 or 17,000 thou- 2 about how its “Red Tape Challenge.” The appeal asks sand dollars by the end of leaving coffee we’re called participants, after making their donations, hour,” George says. By the following Tues- day, Davidson had made and posted a “Red to be a people to tear a piece of red duct tape and attach it to their vehicles, rural mailbox or other Tape Challenge” Facebook page, with a who don’t just prominent place. short video piece. By the following Sunday, speak about The point of the tape, says John David- the appeal had raised $30,000. faith, but who son, the St. Aidan’s parishioner who came “We had people in our neighbour- of the photo of three-year-old Alan Kurdi’s act upon those up with the idea, is to pressure the federal 5As of hood who don’t belong to our church government to reduce barriers to refugees September 21, St. lifeless body on a Turkish beach. take the challenge,” George says. One of things. in Canada—“to show Ottawa that yes, you Aidan’s Church “I preached that Sunday from James these people, Gina Barber, donated $5,000; — Canon Kevin can cut through red tape if you have the had raised $35,000 2 about how we’re called to be a people George let his congregation know about George, rector, St. desire and the wherewithal, and you want for refugee who don’t just speak about faith, but who the donation, and said he hoped someone Aidan’s Anglican to get the job done.” sponsorship after act upon those things, particularly with in the parish would match it—which they Church The rector at St. Aidan’s, Canon Kevin 15 days of its “Red respect to how James says that mercy tri- did. Barber liked that the campaign isn’t George, says the appeal began after a Tape Challenge.” umphs over judgment,” George says. just about raising money. sermon he preached on Sunday, September photo: contributed Immediately after the service, Davidson Initially planning to sponsor one family, 6—the Sunday after the first publication approached him with the “red tape” con- the parish is now considering two. g 10 anglican journal • november 2015

CANADA4 Padres join forces for interfaith wedding Tali Folkins with an Arabic translation of the service. Most of the ceremony was officiated in staff writer English by Bos, following Anglican rites History was made this summer at and reading the famous passage on love Canadian Forces Base Borden, Ont., with a from 1st Corinthians. Demiray helped unique interfaith wedding, the officiating Osman say, in Arabic, his vows and the clerics say. words for the exchanging of rings with On August 29, Capt. Georgette Mink, a Mink, and blessed the couple. physiotherapist in the Canadian military, “I was there just to bless them and to was married to Ahmad Osman, a soldier in support them...mainly Padre Bos was the Lebanese army. Although technically the boss there,” Demiray punned, with a a Christian marriage, it was attended by chuckle. representatives from both the Christian 5Capt. the Rev. some time, approached him earlier this At Osman’s request, Demiray also and Muslim religions, and was followed by Dwayne Bos and year about her intention to marry Osman, chanted a passage from the Qur’an—its a Muslim blessing of the couple. Imam Suleyman and asked if the ceremony could be per- opening chapter known as Fatiha, compa- Capt. the Rev. Dwayne Bos, the Angli- Demiray co- formed jointly involving a Muslim cleric. rable to the Christian Lord’s Prayer, he said, can padre who officiated, said he believes officiated an “I said, ‘I’ll look into that—I haven’t in that Muslims say it in their daily prayers. other weddings may have been done in the interfaith wedding heard of something like this being done, It praises God as merciful and compassion- Canadian military involving Christians at CFB Borden, but that doesn’t mean no,’ ” Bos said. ate and asks for his guidance in their lives. and non-Christians—he has heard of one said to be a first in Bos’s bishop gave his approval to the “It was nice, because we were both there involving a Wiccan partner, for example. Canadian Forces marriage, and directed Bos to the Book of at the front for the service,” Bos said. “It re- But the fact that clerics from both faith history. Occasional Celebrations, which contains a ally blended well to represent both the faith traditions co-performed the liturgy made photo: contributed section on interfaith marriages. Bos then traditions.” this one unique, he said. invited the base’s Muslim padre, Imam Osman, Demiray said, was amazed by “From what we understand and know, Suleyman Demiray, to take part. the joint service. “He saw how we are wel- this would be the first one of this type “I said, ‘Look, of course, this is a great coming and supporting him, both Chris- that’s ever been done in the Canadian idea!’ ” Demiray said. tian and Muslim. He was so surprised and Forces,” he said. Bos also contacted the Anglican Church so happy, so pleased.” Bos said Mink, who has been a parish- of Canada’s faith, worship and ministry de- Mink and Osman were not available for ioner at CFB Borden’s Trinity Chapel for partment—which was able to provide him interviews at press time. g Canadian2 Church 0 1 6 Calendar A glimpse of the kingdom ­—The parables of St. Luke

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CANADA4 Residential schools national archive set to open Nov. 4 André Forget 3A passerby staff writer inquires about When Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation the poster carried Commission (TRC) held its final event in by a participant Ottawa in June 2015, the phrase “this is just at the Walk for the beginning” was on everyone’s lips. At Reconciliation held the same time, however, there was wide- in Ottawa, May 31. spread sentiment among concerned parties that spreading the news about the TRC’s photo: andré forget findings regarding the dark history of photo: contributed Indian residential schools in Canada, and pursuing the hard work of reconciliation itself, would be no small task. Opening of On November 4, a key tool in this work the database will become available when the National “ Research Centre for Truth and Reconcilia- marks the tion (NRCTR) opens its doors. first step in Operating out of the University of the journey Manitoba, in Winnipeg, the research centre and photographs that have been provided schools in the entire country, Hurn believes to really start holds the millions of records uncovered by are searchable, which requires providing the church archives still have an important to provide the commission that detail the role govern- detailed descriptions of each item. This role to play in telling the story of the rela- ment and churches played in the 150-year was not done when the TRC originally tionship between Indigenous people and meaningful history of the residential school system, as copied the documents because of time and Christianity. access to the well as the thousands of survivor testimo- budgetary constraints. “We hold much more information about records that nies shared with the TRC. Another issue is balancing the provi- a community that is beyond the residential so many have One of the NRCTR’s most powerful sion of information to survivors and their schools,” she said. “When you look at the resources is a searchable database that will families with the need to respect individual history of the communities, you see the worked so allow survivors, families and researchers privacy, and making sure that the church relationship between the church and the hard to collect access to records relating to individuals archives and the NRCTR are on the same Indigenous peoples in the early years, and over the past and schools. page as to how this is done. then you see what happens as a result of the six years. “Opening of the database marks the “Each province is slightly different,” residential schools.” first step in the journey to really start to said Hurn. “[The NRCTR] records are held One striking example of this dynamic, —Ry Moran, provide meaningful access to the records in Manitoba…and they have their own pri- she noted, was a register kept in Cree for the director, National that so many have worked so hard to col- 5General Synod vacy legislation for the centre. It’s different first 20 years before switching to English, Research Centre lect over the past six years,” said NRCTR archivist Nancy from the church—ours would be under reflecting the encroaching colonialism that for Truth and director Ry Moran. Hurn Ontario regulations, so the records are cov- sought to strip Indigenous people of their Reconciliation Among the materials contained in the photo: andré forget ered by two different pieces of legislation.” languages. NRCTR are thousands of copies of records In addition to the legal dimensions of But the archives, Hurn added, also tell held in Anglican diocesan archives and the the problem, there are also concerns over the story of a church trying to atone for its national archives of the Anglican Church the sensitivity of some of the material, sins, and understanding the whole breadth of Canada in Toronto, which were provided especially the material related to survivors’ of that story before and after residential to the TRC as part of the Indian Residen- stories of abuse. schools is a vital part of moving toward tial Schools Settlement Agreement. When Moran spoke to the Anglican reconciliation. Although all relevant Anglican records Journal, he was in Iqaluit, meeting with Moran stressed that the research centre have been handed over, Nancy Hurn, Gen- residential school survivors and inter- archive, too, is about more than just remem- eral Synod archivist, said the NRCTR and generational survivors about how best to bering what happened: it is about building a the Anglican archives continue to work do this. He doesn’t think there is a single, future in which Indigenous people are equal closely. “People think we’re finished—and quick-fix policy. partners. yes, we’re done producing the documents “The task of really coming to terms “Reconciliation moving forward is also for them, but in terms of making the re- with access to all of this material now and about addressing many elements of Cana- cords understandable and accessible, there providing meaningful access to it will be da’s colonial legacy,” he said. “The residen- needs to be some input from the church an ongoing operation requirement for the tial schools are the most obvious one we’ve archivists.” centre for years to come,” he said. been dealing with, but the treaty relation- A large part of this work, Hurn noted, But while the NRCTR houses the largest ship, the other failures in the relationship involved making sure that all documents archive of material related to residential are all obstacles to reconciliation.” g

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CANADA4 Bishops call attention to Pikangikum crisis André Forget the Primate’s World Relief and Develop- staff writer ment Fund (PWRDF) and the Pimatisiwin In an open letter this fall, Archbishop Fred Nipi (Living Water) group to help provide Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of potable water to homes in Pikangikum. Canada, National Bishop Susan Johnson But the bishops’ letter calls on Anglicans of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in and Lutherans to push the government Canada and National Indigenous Anglican to do its part. A form letter is attached to Bishop Mark MacDonald urged Anglicans the bishops’ letter that concerned persons and Lutherans to follow the lead of their can use to contact their members of youth in “lifting up” the struggling Ojibwe Parliament and the Minister of Aboriginal community of Pikangikum in northern Affairs and Northern Development, Ontario by writing to their political repre- Bernard Valcourt. sentatives in Ottawa. The form letter highlights the fact that Many of the 2,400 residents of the fly-in less than 10% of Pikangikum households reserve community have long lived with have access to clean running water or inadequate or absent indoor plumbing indoor plumbing, and that the community and limited access to clean drinking water. 5Former AFN cerned citizens participated in a fundraiser also lacks connection to the electrical grid, But while the Canadian government has National Chief to provide clean water systems to 10 homes forcing them to rely on diesel-generated invested funds to build a new school, there Shawn Atleo in Pikangikum. power. has been little work done toward address- checks the water Through the National Youth Project, It says the federal and provincial ing the lack of basic infrastructure that tank during a visit Anglican and Lutheran youth have par- governments must commit to facilitating plagues the community.Christmas to Pikangikum. ticipated in the Right to Water program, the connection of Pikangikum to the Last year, Anglicans and other con- photo bob white which is raising money in partnership with power grid. g A simple gift. remembered : and treasured for new Years to Arctic diocese $723,000come away from repaying $10.3 million debt Continued from p. 1 ney drives a snowmobile over the ice and had 17 suicides in three years in a commu- in Ottawa. McCartney, who preached at snow from Iqaluit to Pangnirtung, a distance nity of about 1,500 people,” said McCartney. both services at St. Margaret’s earlier in of 300 km, to preside at a confirmation cer- “In that environment, in that culture and the day, accepted the invitation to come to emony. “In the earlier years of my ministry, in that role, you are very close to people, the ACW fundraising event, speak to the Karen and I spent some time working in the and so there was a lot of pain and I suppose group and receive the freewill offering for Arctic and we know the terrain and the secondary trauma for me. ” the cathedral. people well,” he says in the movie. “It’s a stun- Suicide rates for Inuit youth are among He also watched the screening of the ningly beautiful place, but temperatures can the highest in the world, at 11 times the documentary Soul of the Arctic with fall as low as minus 50, so we have immense national average. McCartney said although those gathered. The movie, produced Shopper’respect for Stheir background as nomad- he needed to get away, he was hankering to by Northern Ireland television network Marketplaceic hunters living in remote camps.” get back after a while. The couple returned UTV, focuses on the Irish-born McCartney In a question-and-answer period follow- to the North when McCartney was elected as and his wife, Karen, and their life together ing the movie, McCartney spoke of the an- suffragan bishop of the Arctic in June 2012. g in what was described as “1.5 million square photo: art babych guish he felt while being pastor in Pangnir- miles of freezing desolation in the high ACW representative Marni Crossley tung from 2003 to 2006 and why he and his Art Babych, former editor of Crosstalk, Canadian Arctic.” presents her group’s freewill offering to wife had to return to Ireland. “I needed to get diocese of Ottawa, is a regular contributor It includes a segment in which McCart- Arctic Suffragan Bishop Darren McCartney. out to clear my head,” he said. As pastor, “I to the Anglican Journal.

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CANADA4 New words for the old service The traditional liturgy gets a reboot at St. Christopher’s Church

André Forget staff writer We’re Across the Anglican Church of Canada, the and the trying to Book of Alternative Services “ Book of Common Prayer are the liturgical honour two foundation for Sunday morning services. things: what’s But at St. Christopher’s Anglican going on in Church in Burlington, Ont., the tradition- al liturgy is getting a reboot. the lives of the “For the last six years we’ve hosted a community, gathering, to which everyone is invited, in along with the spring, to ask questions about what’s honouring going on in people’s lives, what do we think God is trying to do with us,” says the Anglican Archdeacon Steve Hopkins, rector at St. rhythm of Christopher’s. Out of these conversations, worship. themes for worship and education are identified for the coming year, he says. — The Rev. Dan Cranley, pastoral This day—“discernment day,” as it is associate, St. known in the parish—goes far beyond a Christopher’s simple planning session, though. Open 5Back row regenerative. was expressing exactly what she had Anglican Church, to anyone who wants to attend, it is about (L-R): Canon “I feel very liberated,” says Ted Taylor. been taught by traditional liturgy: that Burlington, Ont. creating new service texts that reflect the Christyn Perkons, “I feel that I am not being required to the church is separate from the world thoughts, feelings and concerns of the Archdeacon Steve either mouth words that I have trouble and needn’t concern itself with its congregation. Hopkins, Carol believing or standing there silently while neighbours. While these services follow the tra- Henley, Gill Janes, other people around me mouth them.” “The responsibility for this outcome ditional Anglican rhythm, their content Rodney Lott, John But the new approach to liturgy is did not lie with the woman,” Hopkins changes based on the season and the Stephen, Joanne not only about innovation; it is also says. “It lay with those responsible for theme. If the theme being explored in Gallagher, Lynda about maintaining a connection to the her formation in the faith and, ulti- Advent, for example, is “letting go of Kealey, Ted Taylor. traditions of Anglicanism, according to mately, with the curriculum for that busyness,” the confession will be written Front row (L-R): the Rev. Dan Cranley, pastoral associate formation [the weekly liturgy and the to reflect that. Betty Coombs, at St. Christopher’s. life of the community that gathers to “It makes Sunday morning alive and Jane Stephen, “We’re trying to honour two things: celebrate it].” magical and powerful,” Jane Wyse, a mem- Jane Wyse and what’s going on in the lives of the The changes to liturgy at St. ber of St. Christopher’s, says of her experi- Allan Nicolls, with community, along with honouring the Christopher’s are about being more ence with discernment day. “It relates to his dog, Akita Anglican rhythm of worship,” he says. intentional concerning teaching, he says, our life and what we’re going through, and “Seeing those two things come together adding that he has seen some positive photo: andré forget it’s not something that you say over and for me has been really powerful.” outcomes. over again every Sunday; it changes up But what led to such radical changes “I think there’s a shift in and it speaks to you more.” being implemented in the first place? expectations,” he says. “I think a lot This is a feeling that other people relate In Becoming a People of God: A New of folks never expected anything to as well. Approach to Liturgy and Learning, a meaningful to happen in church, and “The deepening and broadening of document Hopkins wrote detailing the I think there is some anticipation that my own faith journey has been expo- process and rationale of the new liturgi- something is going to happen—I’m nential in the six years that we’ve been cal changes, he explains how a story told going to hear something; I’m going to doing this,” says Canon Christyn Perkons, to him by a fellow priest transformed his be challenged; it’s going to make me who, in addition to being a parishioner outlook on the purpose of liturgy. thoughtful.” at St. Christopher’s, serves as director In the story, a parishioner frustrated Taylor agrees wholeheartedly. of congregational support and develop- by congregational conversations about “I would say that discernment day has ment at the Niagara synod office. “I think how the church could reach out to its moved [us from] the Church of Eng- the theology of so many of the things we neighbourhood more effectively, asks, land of the 16th century to the Anglican deal with means so much more to me…I “Why do we have to worry about these Church of St. Christopher’s of the 21st understand my own belief system around other people? Why can’t we just worry century,” he says. “It is bringing people it in a way I didn’t before.” about ourselves?” into a connection where they can see the For others, it is the ability to be Hopkins argues that it is not that church as being applicable to their daily honest about what they believe—or this parishioner hadn’t understood lives and their daily needs, not as an his- don’t believe—that makes the experience the church’s teachings, but that she torical repetition of words.” g

Journal welcomes new staff writer Staff Folkins said he was excited about manager for the Royal Bank of Canada. working for the Journal because of the In addition to his experience as a Tali Folkins, a writer with extensive chance to “focus my writing career on reporter and feature writer, Folkins has a experience in print journalism, joined spiritual issues.” strong background in academia, in par- the Anglican Journal as a staff writer on Folkins has worked as a staff writer ticular medieval philosophy and the work September 9. for the Law Times and the New Bruns- of Italian medieval poet Dante Alighieri, “The Anglican Journal is an important wick Telegraph-Journal. His writing has and is a fluent French speaker. witness to the work of the Spirit in appeared in The Globe and Mail and the He holds a BA in classics and a bach- Canada,” he said. “I would love to put United Church Observer. elor of journalism from the University my skills and enthusiasm to work, He has also worked for Atlantic of King’s College in Halifax, Nova Scotia, photo: andré forget giving its readers food for reflection and Progress (now Progress Magazine) and U and an MA in classics from Dalhousie Tali Folkins inspiration.” of T Magazine, and as communications University. g 14 anglican journal • november 2015 OPINION4 No regrets about becoming an Anglican By Michael Coren It was a noble infamy, but it still stung. In the space of one week, I lost three regular the Tiber or was it a walk ID I SWIM columns and 13 speeches. No matter. to Canterbury? Not sure. It felt at the D What did matter were the attacks on my time more like some sort of ersatz inferno. children, the fact that people trolled their I suppose I have a certain media profile and Facebook pages and alleged that they were was until relatively recently known as a very gay—irrelevant to me and to them, but the public Roman Catholic. My 2012 book on attacks were intended to hurt. It was written 5Michael Coren Catholicism (Heresy, McClelland & Stewart) had been on the Canadian bestseller list that I was a thief, an adulterer, a liar and was on his separation mentally ill. Such fun! from the Catholic for 10 weeks; I was named columnist of the Catholic teaching developed, But what I found was so much greater church: “It was year for my work in The Catholic Register so did my faith and my love of than any suburban persecution. Within rather like a ball of and had been given numerous awards by God. It wasn’t lack of belief that Anglican Catholic orthodoxy, I could theological wool Catholic groups. I was one of Canada’s most drove me from Rome but the very pursue socially liberal ideas; within a unravelling. As high-profile champions of Catholicism. opposite. Partly out of respect for church of mingling theologies, I could be soon as it began, The separation was gradual, of the Catholic church, I could no respected as a Catholic and respect those it was difficult to course. While I never swayed from longer receive its sacraments and with different ideas and call them brothers stop it.” Catholic theology—and continue in my adherence—I began to question, call myself a Roman Catholic while and sisters; within Anglicanism, I could photo: andré forget then doubt, then reject Roman Catholic rejecting so many of its values and reach out in Christ’s beauty to all people, teaching on papal supremacy, authority, views. I know many Catholics remain irrespective of sexuality or religion, and love contraception and especially homosexuality in their church while doubting or even everything about them. and equal marriage. On the latter, I simply denying, but that wasn’t for me. I have never been happier or felt more could no longer glue myself to a church that Around 18 months ago, I began to motivated as a Christian than now. The described gay relationships as sinful and quietly worship at Toronto’s Cathedral of St. nastiness refined me; my new faith defines disordered and caused so much pain to so James, to meet with various Anglicans and me. Regrets? Oh yes. That I didn’t do this a many good, innocent people. to read Anglican theology. Then I started to long time ago. g It was rather like a ball of theological regularly attend my local Anglican parish, wool unravelling. As soon as it began, it was then I was formally received—a photo of Toronto-based author and columnist difficult to stop it. The glorious irony of all the event was posted online, and the inferno Michael Coren’s email address is mcoren@ this is that as my questioning of Roman I mentioned began to ignite. sympatico.ca.

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