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Matt Gardner staff writer Welcome … Home, the National Youth Project (NYP) for 2018-2020 focused on homelessness and affordable housing, is moving ahead with a new website and multiple new resources available online. 5Last year’s The NYP traditionally kicks off at the Canadian Lutheran Canadian Lutheran Anglican Youth (CLAY) Anglican Youth gathering, and Welcome … Home officially gathering set launched at last year’s CLAY event in the stage for Thunder Bay. With the release of a revamped photo: de visu/shutterstock development of CLAY website at claygathering.ca, new and Some studies suggest up to 30% of people experience chronic or long-term loneliness. new resources existing resources to encourage education themed around on homelessness can now be found there. homelessness. While the resources are primarily photo: contributed targeted at church youth group leaders, Sheilagh McGlynn, national youth animator B.C. priest’s study finds gratitude a for the Anglican Church of Canada, suggests that many other people could potential tool in fighting loneliness benefit. See NO PLACE, p. 10 before and after the 14 weeks, Partridge says, Loneliness lessens and found similar results. after seniors participate “I was really expecting that the results Indigenous midwives exchange would be somewhat mixed, because you had in gratitude exercises people who were in a huge variety of life knowledge: PWRDF program circumstances,” he says. “I was absolutely Tali Folkins stunned by the results.” shares best practices from staff writer The seniors’ score on the UCLA Canada, Mexico and Peru Prayers and other expressions of gratitude Loneliness Scale—which gives a higher may hold significant potential in making number for a lower degree of loneliness— 5“I was really Matt Gardner increased an average of 17.5%, according to expecting that people feel less lonely, a small study by a staff writer the results would B.C. priest suggests. Partridge’s dissertation. Pregnant Indigenous women who wish be somewhat Last summer and fall, the Rev. Eric A followup survey seven months later, for their children to be literally born into mixed, because Partridge, rector at the Anglican Church he says, found that most of the participants their culture, guided by the hands of a you had people of St. Andrew in Sidney, B.C., paired six were still using at least one gratitude practice midwife, can often face legal and linguistic research volunteers from the church’s and most were still feeling less lonely. As of who were obstacles—a problem that transcends pastoral care team with six senior press time, Partridge was planning a more in a huge national borders. parishioners. Team members measured both detailed followup for this fall. variety of life In Mexico and Peru, women who receive their own and the seniors’ levels of loneliness Partridge says his team’s research circumstances,” health services have been threatened with shows a link—though not necessarily a Partridge says. “I using an assessment system employed loss of access to social assistance programs was absolutely by loneliness researchers (the UCLA causal one—between increased feelings of if births are attended by traditional stunned by the Loneliness Scale) as well as a “narrative” gratitude and reduced feelings of loneliness. Indigenous midwives rather than doctors. results.” assessment based on conversation between And although, he adds, his study may not Indigenous midwives are also prohibited by photo: katy weicker the volunteers and seniors. Then they have produced results as conclusive as a 5Midwives can law from filling out birth certificates. met six times over the next 14 weeks to project involving a much higher number of offer culturally Many young Indigenous women in perform gratitude practices together. When participants, he hopes it will contribute in appropriate skills, these countries do not speak Spanish, researchers and seniors were assessed its own way toward efforts to ease people’s resources and which can create a cultural barrier with again at the end of the 14 weeks, all of the loneliness. medicines, like medical practitioners that is never felt seniors, and some of the researchers, showed “It’s a small enough sample that it doesn’t evening primose. more intensely than during pregnancy and reduced levels of loneliness. The study also tell you anything other than, ‘This may be a photo: kazakov- birth. maksim/shutterstock assessed participants’ levels of gratitude See LONELINESS, p. 14 See MIDWIVES, p. 6

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Normalizing how we think about healthy diets can obscure truths about our bodies and spirits, argues the Rev. Martha Tatarnic photo: contributed Can eating doughnuts be healthy?

photo: master1305/shutterstock By Martha Tatarnic On this as an isolated question, separate from of calories—but they are also very rich, mountain the relationship that biologically exists and so they can only be enjoyed in small EECHWOOD DOUGHNUTS between me and the air, earth, water and amounts. I don’t know what kind of oil is has become one of St. Catharines’ the Lord of creatures around me is a lie. I suspect used to fry them and whether that oil is most popular and best-known small hosts will make it is the lie that makes our collective currently considered to be “good” or “bad” Bbusinesses. I don’t normally eat doughnuts, for all peoples relationship with food so dysfunctional, fat. Because they are vegan, though, every but knowing I will have the opportunity a feast of rich that sets most diets up for failure, and that ingredient in those doughnuts is carefully to enjoy a Beechwood can fill me with a causes so many people to feel relentless selected with a sense of care and concern sense of expectation for days. Amazingly, food, a feast of well-aged guilt and anxiety about the food that they for our fellow creatures on this planet, these doughnuts are vegan. I was waxing eat. I am taught to eat as if my food choices which leads me to claim that the oil is, in enthusiastic about this fact recently to a wines, are just about me. And they’re not. a profound way, “good.” The doughnuts group of out-of-town colleagues. of rich food This lie is also intimately connected are made by a local business that has been “Just because they’re vegan doesn’t filled with to the environmental crisis to which so successful that there is often a line out mean they’re healthy,” one of my marrow, of we are finally waking up, caused by the the door to get these fresh and delicious companions noted. well-aged wines notion that human prosperity could be treats—which also means that there is “It depends what you mean by healthy,” sought, human desire can be satiated, a hive of employees working good jobs I responded. strained clear. without attention to the environmental around the clock. The bulletin board inside I knew what was meant by “healthy,” (Isaiah 25:6) relationships in which that prosperity and is hung with community notices around of course. When we talk about a person desire inextricably exist. justice and artistic initiatives. All along being healthy, usually we refer to that From the pages of Scripture, we the downtown, happy people can be seen person’s individual measurements—things receive an ancient wisdom that speaks carrying their black and white Beechwood like blood pressure, sugar levels, heart to a long-standing dysfunction in how boxes, likely because each of those boxes condition and inevitably their weight— human beings eat. We learn that food represents a special occasion that will be falling within what is considered to be is rarely shared equitably, that access to enjoyed later that day. There is no rule a normal range. The food that a person food is power and that such power can against eating these doughnuts alone, but eats is understood to be a key component be manipulated, that rules around who is I’ve never heard of this happening. It is in how health is attained or maintained. “clean” dictate who can eat together and a treat almost exclusively enjoyed with Food, like health, gets reduced to a set of who must eat alone. God comes to the others. measurements: calorie, fat, carbohydrate, people as manna, as bread, as living water, Isaiah 25 doesn’t mention the presence protein and vitamin content. Depending as the sacrificial lamb, offering another of doughnuts on that mountaintop picnic, on how we currently think those numbers vision for how people are to eat and who but that may have been an oversight. should relate to the individual body (for people are to be. Isaiah 25 describes the When food becomes a means by which example: “Is this a good fat or bad fat?”), fullness of human relationship with God our care for the world around us and we assess the food choice as either healthy as a mountaintop picnic of delicious food our relationship with one another are or unhealthy. and drink. This picnic fills human bellies, strengthened, then it is also a means by The problem with this very normalized and it also welcomes all of those previously which we become more aware of the way of thinking is that it omits a left out. It lifts the shroud of death from presence and purpose of the living God. fundamental truth about our bodies and human hearts, thereby healing us of our And to answer the question with which the food we put into them. The individual fear and grief. The sharing of that banquet we started, that most definitely makes body does not actually exist as separate mends our relationship with one another these doughnuts healthy. g from the world around us. This truth and reveals the closeness and love of the is affirmed every time I eat. Whenever living God. Martha Tatarnic is rector of St. George’s I eat, I am taking the world around me I come back to that question of whether Anglican Church in St. Catharines, Ont. into my own body so that I may live. To Beechwood’s doughnuts are healthy. It Her new book The Living Diet is available photo: harmpeti/ imagine that my health can be considered shutterstock is an undeniable fact that they have a lot through Amazon and Church Publishing. anglican journal • november 2019 3

BOOK OF ALTERNATIVE SERVICES THE HOLY BIBLE INTERVIEW4 Mitigating HYMNS burnout ‘We’re just really starting to talk about the realities of spiritual health’: U of T doctoral student researches links between clergy burnout, prayer image: adapted from biscotto design/shutterstock Tali Folkins personnel. And the changes have come prayer. Do they find that prayer is sustaining staff writer fairly rapidly. [We’re] trying to still do the them through their own personal dry spells? In 2017, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin very best that we can in terms of ministry Welby told the Church of England’s with a very changing world and changing What could happen if you’re burned General Synod that being a parish priest demands, and I think burnout, emotional out but you ignore it? was the most stressful job he had ever had. exhaustion, is increasing. Like so many people do? I think the basic “It was isolated, insatiably demanding and realities of burnout for any profession are I was on the whole working without close You mentioned this is something the disconnect—a feeling of hopelessness colleagues—and that wears people down,” people are reluctant to talk about. Is and helplessness. It can lead to anxiety said Welby, who has also worked as an there a stigma around it? and eating challenges, insomnia. It has a executive in the oil and gas industry in 5“Nobody Oh, most definitely! All we need to do is physical impact when our body and mind addition to serving as most senior bishop likes to admit consider what we do with mental health, are not functioning the way that would be of the Church of England. exhaustion, or and how we’re trying to break the stigma ideal, how God has created us. When we’re Church insiders may not have been compassion there. And we’re just really starting to talk trying to care for someone else and we’re surprised by Welby’s speech. In the U.K., fatigue, or about the realities of spiritual health. In not modeling a good model of self-care, Canada and other countries, church burnout,” says our prayers we pray for people in body, that becomes problematic as well. So it can organizations have been paying increasing the Rev. Laura mind and spirit. If somebody’s sick in body damage us, it can damage our families, it attention to the well-being of their pastors. Marie Piotrowicz. you go to a physician; if someone is sick in can damage those of us that we are sharing To get a taste of current thinking on clergy “But I think mind we refer them to [a] mental health in ministry with, and it can have a negative wellness, the Anglican Journal spoke with it’s part of our [worker]; but if someone is sick in spirit, impact on those that we’re ministering to. the Rev. Laura Marie Piotrowicz, rector of St. reality.” where do they go? This is part of what I’m John’s Anglican Church in Lunenburg, N.S. photo: contributed hoping to focus on. Even a lot of us who How does someone in ministry tell if Piotrowicz, who is currently in the are clergy may not have a priest ourselves, he or she is burned out? midst of a doctor of ministry degree at the or we may not have a spiritual director. University of Toronto’s Trinity College, There’s a difference between tiredness and These are two things that I think are key in intends to focus her research upon the compassion fatigue, and burnout. You keeping us spiritually healthy. relation between clergy burnout and prayer. don’t burn out overnight. It’s a prolonged This interview has been edited for length. process, where you go from being tired Are you looking at burnout, then, as a into fatigue and emotional or moral form of spiritual crisis? What moved you to make clergy exhaustion and then into burnout. I burnout and prayer the focus of your I think it is. Burnout as most often defined think some of the signs would be feeling doctoral work? is repetitive stress and prolonged cynicism, disconnected from God and from one depression, exhaustion. In occupational another, that sense of hopelessness. Part of my experience, having served in burnout, this can happen if someone feels Part of our challenge is, our society a number of parishes, and with a large not in control—or if they’re forced into seems to have conflated a notion of self- number of clergy, is recognizing that a lot tasks that are in conflict with their sense care and self-maintenance. of clergy seem to be saying, “I’m so tired, I of self. So I think for us spiritually, it’s an don’t have time to pray.” Or, “I’m so busy, I occupational hazard: if we’re feeling out of What do you mean by that? don’t have time to pray.” There’s something sorts or in conflict with our sense of calling, wrong with that! A lot of people say, “I’m going to go to and not feeling that we have any way out of Also, hearing some of the studies coming the gym because it’s self-care,” which is that, that can lead to spiritual burnout. out that we are seeing an increase in mental wonderful, but that’s self-maintenance. health concerns and burnout concerns in It’s part of that regular looking after So if your occupation is spirituality, clergy, I wondered if prayer might be a way ourselves that should happen anyway. Self- then there’s hardly a distinction to mitigate and manage some of that. maintenance is a big part of self-care but between mental health and spiritual [self-care is] doing things like—especially Do we have statistics on how common health, because it’s what you do? for those of us who are in caregiving clergy burnout is? Yes. And burnout leads to a decreased professions—making sure that we’re being attunement with the people that you’re cared for, so maybe attending a worship There are limited numbers in the Anglican in connection with. And if you have a service where we’re not in leadership of Church of Canada, partially because this is decreased attunement, that leads to a it, doing a spiritual retreat, engaging in a a really difficult topic for people to admit decreased attachment to folks. With a spiritual practice like doing a labyrinth or to. Nobody likes to admit exhaustion, decrease in empathy, it’s really much some other type of activity that is going to or compassion fatigue, or burnout. But I harder to be able to look after your flock— nourish us, where we don’t have to be “on.” think it’s part of our reality, with the way but also to look after yourself. that demands on clergy have changed. Do you think mental health and For example, 20 years ago we didn’t have cellphones; nowadays, we’re all expected to How will you explore the relationship spiritual health overlap in some ways? be 24/7 answering emails, and cellphones between burnout and prayer? I think that’s fair. There are definite are there, and text messages. Even on My focus is going to be on clergy who are in interconnections there. Part of my Facebook now, clergy are doing ministry. parish ministry and who have been in that delight in the research that I’m doing, the That’s one of the examples of the increase ministry for about 10 years or less—folks conversations that I’ve been having, is of demands. We’re seeing a decrease who are still early in their ministry—finding recognizing that this is being addressed at in resources, decreasing volunteers, out what role prayer plays in their daily seminary—both the importance of prayer decreasing congregation sizes. A lot of life, how they feel after spending time life but also the recognition of burnout. So parishes that used to have curacies can intentionally in prayer, not necessarily the it’s good to [have this recognition] that it’s no longer afford them. A decrease in quantity of prayer so much as the quality of not just me with a wild and crazy idea! g 4 anglican journal • november 2019

EDITORIAL LETTER4 Where, O death, is your victory? Matthew Townsend biblical nor realistic. I believe postmodern long, slow decline to death—also stirs my supervisor, editorial culture posits the following: Health allows emotions. That both responses to suffering us to achieve our life’s work and goals, a key coexist baffles me. How can some so reject death that they embrace needless and futile URING MY YOUTH in Florida, to happiness. Pain halts us in our journeys. suffering, while others so reject suffering that I used a cynical but common Death is the sad end of that journey and, nickname for the place: God’s therefore, could be described as the absence they embrace death? waitingD room. So many people from of health: it’s the thing that happens Scripture reminds us that our bodies and around the world retire to the U.S. when our well-being has been beings are merely on lease from God—and state, Canadians among them, permanently extinguished. It also that lease comes with an expiration date and that it’s difficult not to pick up an puts our plans to pasture and lots of fine print. As soon as Christians forget understanding of gerontology disconnects us from those we love. this—when we view health as a means to an by osmosis. Aging, sickness What follows from these end, something to manipulate in order to and death—while a part of life propositions, at least for me, is a avoid death or pain—I think we risk handing everywhere—are year-round residents sort of endless experimentation victory back to death. Christian hope begins of the Sunshine State. A favourite joke with life, a manipulation of at the suffering, death and resurrection of from when I was 20 or so: “All my friends variables that seem inside of the Son of God for our sake, and it lives in are dead.” There was some measure of truth our sphere of influence—even his promise of an eternal life not beholden to to it. As a young person in Florida, I had when outcomes are far beyond human invention and intervention. In Christ, outlived friends in their 70s and 80s. our control. One of my favourite there is no hope without pain, no dignity and most faithless ways to plan I wasn’t planning a trip to my home state without humiliation, no salvation without my endless life has been through this September, but in the early-morning death. God knows what we go through. dietary alterations—a topic and relatively hours of Sept. 16, I found myself on a Christians, including Anglicans, are widespread obsession about which the Rev. southbound flight—tickets purchased the poised to own and operate this way of life— Martha Tatarnic writes in this issue. What night before. It was on this flight to Florida, offering an alternative to society’s dogmatic, foods might reduce inflammation? How where a family member’s serious illness had can I never get cancer? What are ways to limited views on pain and death. As I look summoned me, that I began my editorial prevent or reverse heart disease? What foods to Christ, I feel called to a life founded upon letter for this issue. Our serendipitous fight age spots? Is it gluten-free? Is it vegan? two disciplines that pull me away from my theme for November: health and wellness. 5“In Christ, Is it paleo? Is it free-range? Is it low-fat? Is self-centred fears and towards true health. g g g there is no hope it keto? Can I eat this while fasting? Is it The first task is to go and sin no more. The without pain, no genetically modified? Are there chemicals? second is to offer the least of God’s people iven my background, I’ve never felt dignity without Are they bad for me? Or, as the elders in the most I can, to love my neighbor as I love estranged from aging, ill health or G humiliation, no the 1985 movie Cocoon wonder, How can God and myself. I believe Christian life, death. Yet familiarity bred more contempt salvation without I never get sick, never get old and never die? Christian health and Christian death rest within me than comfort; I have long death. God The questions are as anxious as they are in these two places. When I live there, I can feared the prospects of my own decline knows what we endless. make reasonably informed choices about my and disappearance from earthly existence. go through.” If this all sounds neurotic, it is—but I’m health through the lenses of redemption and I remember a particularly fraught night, photo: tayka ya/ hardly alone in my neurosis, which isn’t loving service. perhaps when I was five or six, when I shutterstock limited to food. Of course, these concerns Of course, I struggle with this. I stared into the darkness of my bedroom aren’t without basis. I want to feel good, and realized that sooner, rather than later, often fail. But this I am learning, day by and I want to live long. There’s nothing my grandparents would inevitably die. day: that incomplete adherence to these wrong with that—just as there’s nothing That understanding spread like a fire in my commandments turns me away from wrong with fighting for life under desperate mind, igniting a fear of what was to come anything that resembles well-being. When circumstances. I know people who have for my grandparents, my parents and, stuck in sin and serving others, I offer them overcome tremendous odds on death’s ultimately, me. Time is but a thin partition a way of life that I am not following. When doorstep. New treatments come along, between the present moment and the freeing myself of sin and ignoring others, I misdiagnoses are corrected or spontaneous inevitable. obsess over my circumstances at the expense remission occurs. Miracles happen. This fear has persisted in my life, even of those around me. In either case, my fear But I have also seen friends and family after my baptism and entrance into the returns and I forget Jesus. A lust for control make choices that confound the mind faith. I believe many people fear the end re-enters my heart, crowding out love of the and cleave the spirit, all in the hope of life, though I know not everyone shares Spirit. Then I forget God’s most precious of avoiding pain or death. Especially my apprehension of oblivion. The pain promise, one that stretches beyond death: difficult to watch have been those who and vulnerability associated with dying that whoever believes in God shall not choose to prolong their lives in the face might encourage some people to suppress perish, but have eternal life (John 3:16). of undeniably terminal illness, sometimes thoughts on their mortality. Still more may bringing upon themselves a suffering In this promise I believe we find a true find the uncertainty of death—its time and akin to torture. The most painful example form of health in which body, mind and cause—difficult to manage, or they may from my memory was someone who spirit are free to flourish in the wink of this preoccupy themselves with the notion of sought radical, punishing treatments for life and in the long life to come. At least, unfinished business. No one likes the idea of g end-stage, untreatable cancer—a mature that’s my hope. leaving loved ones behind. For my partner, person of faith whose suffering was lived the prospect of lying indefinitely under out publicly. My heart breaks every time I Editorial note: The supervisor, editorial, flickering fluorescent lights, lacking control think about it. extends special thanks to the Episcopal over unpleasant environmental aesthetics, is On the other side of the street, Church of the Good Shepherd of Lake Wales, unpalatable. expanding access to medically assisted Florida, and its rector, the Rev. Tim Nunez, Such phobias are rooted in perceptions dying—especially to those who live with for the kindness and hospitality offered during of death, pain and aging that are neither unmanageable disabilities or who face a his recent visit to Florida.

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SINGING What it means to be whole WITH JOY4 By Linda Nicholls deepest values of the heart and soul, our heart and guide reflection on that key spiritual compass. relationship with God and God’s love. OME YEARS AGO a group in the For Christians that spiritual wholeness It was my joy to share this partnership diocese of Toronto sought to develop is found in our relationship with God in parish ministry with a team of clergy a healing centre similar to that of through Jesus Christ. We recognize our and a parish nurse. The parish nurse SBurrswood in England. I was on the board life is part of the gift of creation for the was a key link between the physical, of that effort, and one of our first tasks was purpose of loving God and each other mental, social and spiritual aspects of to define what it means to be whole—to be as Christ loves us. Any break in that the lives of parishioners, knowing how healed. relationship—sin—has an effect on our to connect with the medical systems This is actually more difficult than it whole lives. The harmony of our life is and linking needs for sacramental or seems. Are we ever fully healed and well? spiritual care with the clergy and pastoral There always seems to be some aspect disrupted and we are not well. We all have caregivers. Chaplains and parish nurses are of our life that is in pain, distressed or experienced how guilt or hurts given to essential partners with the other healing unbalanced! How do we define health? others disrupt our lives with emotional professions. I urge your support and We turned to the World Health and mental pain and destroyed social advocacy for both in our communities. Organization for their definition: “Health relationships. Our health is restored as is a state of complete physical, mental, much through forgiveness and grace as it is In my ministry I have met people and social well-being and not merely 5“Our health through medicines and therapy. whose body will be healed but their spirit the absence of disease or infirmity.” This is not in body or That is why our wholeness is found in a is bitter and angry, their relationships seemed to recognize that at any moment mind alone. It is partnership between the wisdom and gifts fractured. I have also met people who are we were seeking the greatest possible in that optimal of medicine and the gifts of pastoral care terminally ill but whose deep relationship balance of life, but it was missing what harmony that and the sacraments. The former restores the with God is joyful and gives life to all for us was critical and essential—the is rooted in our harmony of body and mind, while the latter around them. spiritual aspect. Our lives are more than relationship with restores the harmony of relationship with Our health is not in body or mind our physical bodies, our mental balance God that knows God and one another—our deepest values alone. It is in that optimal harmony that is or our social relationships. Existence is that nothing can and beliefs about who and why we are. rooted in our relationship with God that about meaning and purpose, which are separate us from This partnership is particularly knows that nothing can separate us from the elements of our spiritual lives. So God’s love in demonstrated in the work of chaplains God’s love in Jesus Christ. g our definition added that, in recognition Jesus Christ.” in hospitals and nursing homes. At times of crisis, through illness and suffering, Archbishop Linda Nicholls is the primate of that the heart of our wholeness is in our image: anastazzo/ relationship to the meaning of life—the shutterstock chaplains pay attention to the spiritual the Anglican Church of Canada.

WALKING TOGETHER4 Resisting racism’s evil, infectious spread By Mark MacDonald systemic problem, racism lurks in quiet of the bias. Over time, racism hides and As a assumptions held by many people. abides in the various structures of our EOPLE OF THE dominant culture systemic Racism usually abhors loud displays of common life and culture. sure don’t like hearing anything “problem, prejudice. They threaten its power by The Scriptures describe systemic that hints they might be even a raising people’s concern. evils like racism as principalities and littleP racist. Folks quickly protest, “I am racism lurks Take, for instance, the widely held powers. St. Paul asks us to put on the not a racist.” Others angrily ask, “Are you in quiet assumption that Indigenous peoples whole amour of God to struggle with saying that I am a racist?!” This appears assumptions are primitive. This idea, based in these things that we know and encounter to be based on a misunderstanding of held by many ethnocentric and culturally biased today in institutions, ideologies and what racism is: a systemic problem more people. Racism notions of proper and desirable images. Confronting racism is a basic and dangerous than any individual’s bad behaviours, has spread among Western usually abhors fundamental aspect of our discipleship— attitudes or prejudice. Part of the real peoples and across their cultures. Place to do good and to resist evil. danger of racism is the way it hides out in loud displays this idea across a culture—in governance The question is not, “Am I a racist?” commonly held assumptions and polite of prejudice. and in church practice and teaching— Sadly, we all have traces of that thinking agreement across a whole culture. It and you have, without much fanfare, laid in our minds and hearts. The question is, infects and deforms all of us. They threaten the foundation of mayhem, destruction “Will you persevere in resisting evil, and, Many people think of racism only its power by and death. In such a simple idea, whenever you fall into sin, repent and as a gross display of objectionable raising people’s racism hides by looking like wisdom return to the Lord?” g prejudice by a person or persons against concern. or compassion. This is what systemic another person or people of a different racism is like—ideas that are quietly held Archbishop Mark MacDonald is national race. Although this is certainly bad, it by large groups of people, including the Indigenous archbishop of the Anglican is not the real danger of racism. As a people who are the objects and victims Church of Canada.

LETTERS4 Only God knows the whole truth on matters of marriage The vote has been cast at General Synod on Forgetting Stackhouse? both sides of this divisive issue as it gives the marriage issue. The result has caused the appearance of bias. The Anglican I’m surprised the Rev. Reginald Stackhouse much pain to many people. Journal should at least appear to report (1925-2016, a parliamentarian, priest and Most of us have hidden agendas when for all Anglicans, regardless of its writer’s Canadian Churchman columnist) did not we marry. This is true both of heterosexual personal views. How this passed editorial make the list in “REV MP” (October 2019, and homosexual people, so who amongst consideration is confounding at best. p.14). After all, he was an important part of us is to cast the first stone? None of us fully Timothy Byron your publication in an earlier form. How exemplifies the love of God in truth. We Fort McMurray, Alberta soon we forget! are all forgiven sinners, disciples on a way. Ross McLean On speculation of motives To use the language of Jesus, the “log” in Diocese of Algoma our own eye is enough to deal with. The Rev. Reginald Speculating or alleging motive on the part The Anglican Let us go ahead and let both kinds of Stackhouse of an opponent in discussion or debate has Journal welcomes couples marry. Only God knows the whole photo: general synod ‘Failure’ headline problematic never been accepted as good practice. The letters to the editor. archives truth. Or, as has been suggested, let the The headline “Marriage vote failure ripples way of Christ requires introspection. Since not all letters church get out of the marrying business. through church” (September 2019, p. 1) I wonder if the Rev. Michelle Ferguson, can be published, To cite what Lyds Keesmaat-Walsh said may appear to some to betray a lack of in the letter “Bishops heeded God’s will” preference is objectivity in reporting and arguably incites given to short during General Synod, quoting their father, (September 2019, p. 5), has carefully and correspondence (300 “Remember, the kingdom of God and the what is already an incendiary situation. prayerfully considered who in fact are words or less). All Anglican church are not the same thing.” It is far from neutral language to “those...determined to have their own way.” letters are subject to John Serjeantson characterize the vote at General Synod F. David Rounthwaite editing. Cowansville, Que. as a “failure.” Such language is unfair to Toronto, Ont. 6 anglican journal • november 2019

PREGNANCY AND BIRTH4

photo: screencapture from pwrdf video Many Indigenous communities have traditionally seen birth as a communal experience in which women are supported by the presence of family.

[learn our] culture or traditions.’” As early as 2014, PWRDF had begun researching institutions that could serve as potential partners for a program Midwives focused on Indigenous maternal health. The strong track records of Ryerson’s Aboriginal Initiatives, Kinal Antzetik and CHIRAPAQ led to their selection bridge as partners for PWRDF’s Indigenous Maternal Health and Midwifery Practices pilot project. “We made the decision, ‘OK, this is a birth and valuable project for us to support, to stand behind, and it falls in line with PWRDF priorities of supporting Indigenous people in their journey of recovery and culture 5“As an three-year pilot project, through which protection of their cultures,’” Bastos says. PWRDF is providing more than $100,000 The main goal of the Indigenous Continued from p. 1 Indigenous “Imagine yourself in one of the most midwife working to facilitate the exchange of knowledge by midwifery project is to facilitate dialogue vulnerable times of your life, when you in a system midwives in all three countries. and communication between the three are about to deliver, in a room with where your Almost 100 midwives travelled to Peru organizations and help them learn from strangers,” says Zaida Bastos, director of knowledge and for the first gathering in April, which took each other, provide a broader context for the Development Partnership Program your approach place in Lima and Ayacucho. A second their own work as midwives and envision at the Primate’s World Relief and is not always meeting occurred in August in Mexico, new ways forward. Development Fund (PWRDF). “You don’t valued or is with midwives meeting in Oaxaca, At the gatherings in Peru and speak the same language…. It can really questioned Juchitán, Salina Cruz and San Mateo del Mexico, midwives participated in a make the experience of birthing the most quite a bit, it’s Mar. At the time this article was being range of activities with the help of traumatic experience.” really helpful to written, a third gathering was planned for translators. Workshops gave midwives Similar trauma is often experienced be able to see October in Toronto. the opportunity to share their own by Indigenous women in Canada. examples of Midwives who attended the events experiences and exchange methods for Cheryllee Bourgeois, a midwife of other Indigenous belonged to three PWRDF partners improving maternal and infant health. Cree-Métis background and assistant midwives in representing Indigenous midwives in each Examples included women going through professor in midwifery education at other places country: Ryerson University’s Aboriginal various clinical scenarios and discussing Ryerson University, points to the federal that are really Initiatives (Canada); the Indigenous how to manage them, or talking about government’s evacuation policy, in which supported by women’s organization Kinal Antzetik the preparation of different plants used in pregnant Indigenous women are required the community,” (Mexico), and the Centre for Indigenous childbirth. by law to travel to cities they may have says Cheryllee Cultures of Peru, or CHIRAPAQ. In other cases, midwives exchanged never visited in order to deliver. Bourgeois. Representatives of the three hands-on learning tools, such as rings “Sometimes they’re coming into cities organizations had previously met at made out of traditionally available photo: courtesy where they don’t speak the language at of pwrdf international gatherings of midwives, materials, to help teach the concept of all,” Bourgeois says. “They’re meant to including in Guatemala in 2015; in cervical dilation. live by themselves, maybe sometimes in a Toronto during the International Bourgeois, who attended both hotel, maybe sometimes in a group home, Confederation of Midwives Congress in events, describes the meetings as a just waiting to give birth to their babies so 2017; and in New York during the annual “great experience” that gave midwives then they can fly home. Sometimes they’re sessions of the United Nations Permanent an opportunity to share resources and also leaving children at home while that’s Forum on Indigenous Issues in 2017 support each other in their work. happening.” and 2018. But many perceived a need “It’s been really quite amazing to For these women, the presence of for a different kind of setting, PWRDF connect with Indigenous midwives from Indigenous midwives, who offer culturally Canadian Indigenous Communities and both Mexico and Peru,” Bourgeois says. appropriate guidance through pregnancy Latin America-Caribbean Development “It’s very interesting that the challenges and birth by drawing on traditional Program coordinator Jose Zarate recalls. are actually very much the same. knowledge, can make all the difference. “There were already those [previous] “They will manifest in different Earlier this year, Indigenous midwives encounters,” says Zarate. “But then they ways, and the long-term effects can be from Canada, Mexico and Peru came said, ‘It’s time for us to meet [in] our quite different. But the actual issues together for two gatherings as part of a homes, so you can meet our people and themselves are really the same, which anglican journal • november 2019 7

photo: courtesy of pwrdf photo: courtesy of pwrdf Indigenous midwives gather in Mexico to exchange information and share best practices. A midwife, or partera, examines a patient in rural Mexico.

Bastos views such discrimination as Bastos concurs. “There is kind of a a remnant of colonial behaviour, which gradual stealing of this best practice affects Indigenous people throughout the from Indigenous midwifery without Americas, and as a human rights issue. acknowledging,” she says. “It’s time “What our partners are trying to say to that the world knows that this is a the medical institutions is, ‘Make your contribution of Indigenous people, that services receptive and culturally sensitive Indigenous midwifery is not just part of to the women that are not from your own the birth itself—it’s a process that brings a background,’” she says. community together.” A United Nations fact sheet on Based on her experiences in Mexico Indigenous Women’s Maternal Health and and Peru, Bourgeois plans to incorporate Maternal Mortality, published during the some of the knowledge gained into her 2018 permanent forum on Indigenous teaching at Ryerson. issues, indicates that Indigenous women She also hopes for a curriculum and girls experience significantly worse exchange to help midwives in all three outcomes in maternal health than countries share notes and improve how are criminalization [of midwives], the 5Midwives of majority populations, including higher new midwives are taught, and to improve lack of ability to actually register births, Kinal Antzetik, rates of death during pregnancy and advocacy for midwives at the national and education, and having Indigenous an Indigenous childbirth. international levels. knowledge and Indigenous education women’s The National Collaborating Centre “I think that one of the most important recognized by local authorities.” organization in for Indigenous Health, a publicly pieces of this [program] is that it’s Along with legal obstacles that deter Mexico. funded organization established by the Indigenous midwives working with other the presence of Indigenous midwives, photo: courtesy Government of Canada, noted in a 2014 Indigenous midwives,” Bourgeois says. “I cultural differences can increase trauma of pwrdf report on Indigenous maternal health think that that’s actually a real strength of felt by Indigenous women during in B.C. that “having women leave their the program, and something to be really pregnancy and while giving birth. communities to give birth has been linked proud of.” Many Indigenous communities have to increased perinatal morbidity and She adds, “As an Indigenous midwife traditionally seen birth as a communal mortality as well as increased anxiety, working in a system where your experience in which women are supported stress, and preterm delivery.” knowledge and your approach is not by the presence of their families. By Pointing to such research, Bourgeois always valued or is questioned quite a bit, contrast, many women are now compelled says that Indigenous midwives who it’s really helpful to be able to see examples to leave their communities and give birth provide “culturally safe care in pregnancy” of other Indigenous midwives in other in large hospitals where they may face are not just “a nice thing to have. places that are really supported by the discrimination. Providing culturally safe care to an community.” “There is a tendency of making the Indigenous person actually improves For PWRDF, which typically funds birth a medical issue…. Even in Western health outcomes.” projects in three-year cycles, a final society, there was a time when birthing The value of Indigenous midwives’ report is expected in 2020 that will was bringing the family all together, being traditional knowledge has been evaluate outcomes and lessons learned there for the joyful moment,” Bastos says. increasingly recognized by “mainstream” from the Indigenous midwifery program “By medicalizing it, taking the woman Western medicine. One growing trend in and determine whether the project will away from their community, they are the United States and Canada: classes and continue. re-traumatizing someone that has already workshops teaching techniques involving In facilitating knowledge sharing been taken away from their own culture, the rebozo, a long piece of cloth worn between Indigenous midwives at Ryerson, their own traditions.” in Mexico, to help babies pass through Kinal Antzetik and CHIRAPAQ, Bastos At the Mexico gathering, attendees the birth canal and prevent unnecessary sees PWRDF’s role as part of a larger effort heard a story from a Peruvian midwife C-sections. towards the recognition of traditional about a young Indigenous mother-to- Bourgeois, however, sounds the alarm Indigenous knowledge in maternal health. be from a rural area, who was taken to at those who profit from traditional “PWRDF really looks at support a hospital by a professional midwife or practices without crediting Indigenous of these three organizations and the partera. The hospital refused to accept the midwives, which she describes as a form work that they are doing as the right of woman, who was going through labour at of appropriation. She describes such Indigenous peoples to retain their best the time, because she was “dirty” and not individuals as “commodifying Indigenous practices and be acknowledged—not wearing any shoes—telling her to clean knowledge” while “the people where the as folkloric, but as part of humanity’s herself before they would provide any skills originate don’t actually receive any contributions towards the universal treatment. sort of benefit from it.” culture of birth.” g 8 anglican journal • november 2019

DEATH AND DYING4

Medically assisted death has become Spiritual an important topic for Anglican priests and chaplains to consider since its legalization in accompaniment 2016. The Anglican Church of Canada released a report, In Sure and Certain Hope, to help those Chaplains navigate medical offering pastoral care in health-care settings grapple assistance in dying with the issue. In September, a Quebec court struck Joelle Kidd down a restriction staff writer that limited assisted dying to terminally ill patients. Additional reporting on this change can HE SUPREME COURT the most part, is spiritual in nature.” Supervisor-Educator with the be found at of Canada ruled in 2015 While there are times when patients Canadian Association for Spiritual anglicanjournal.com. that parts of the country’s experience physical pain that is just Care who attends saint benedict’s TCriminal Code that prohibited too great to bear, Murray says, his table in the diocese of Rupert’s medically assisted deaths were in experiences with MAiD caused him Land—was coordinator of spiritual violation of the Charter of Rights to see the suffering that leads most care at Fred Douglas Lodge, a United and Freedoms. Since June 2016, people to end their life as “spiritual Church-owned personal care home medical assistance in dying (MAiD) In Sure and Certain Hope and existential.” in Winnipeg. has been legal in Canada for adults Resources to Assist People “lose that sense of meaning The home housed 136 residents Pastoral and Theological Approaches over the age of 18 with a “grievous to Physician Assisted Dying and purpose” when faced with a and employed several hundred staff, and irremediable medical condition.” future dependent on others for even and it also ran through its parent The government of Canada reported the most basic functions of life, corporation, the Fred Douglas in April 2019 that at least 6,749 Murray says. “Being dependent, being Society, a supportive housing T H E G E N E R A L S Y N O D o f Canadians had accessed MAiD since T H E A N G L I C A N C H U R C H O F C A N A D A a burden, having no hope of cure, but community with just under 30 Faith, Worship and Ministry the legislation was enacted, with Task Force on Physician Assisted Dying maybe a slow lingering death,” were residents. As a religious health-care MAiD deaths accounting for around at the heart of much of the suffering provider, the Fred Douglas Society’s 1% of deaths in Canada during he saw. board felt a responsibility to craft a file photo each of the government’s reporting What spoke most clearly of this policy on MAiD. Peters Derry was General Synod has provided asked to be part of creating the policy. timeframes. resources related to MAiD to Murray were the patients whose Like doctors, nurses and other distress lifted after they received the At the time, he was recovering frontline health-care workers, hospital date for their MAiD procedure; the from his own near-death experience: chaplains and spiritual care providers unilateral support from health-care certainty of their death had alleviated while undergoing surgery for acute see the system up close—with all its practitioners, as physicians try to the core of their suffering. To Murray, appendicitis, his appendix had burst. flaws, oversights and messy details as balance their oath to “do no harm” it seemed spiritual care could offer End-of-life issues were “not just an well as its beauty and hope. Chaplains with the act of causing a death. other ways of relieving that suffering. academic question for me,” he says. may be there from the first time a The transition was a “learning There is a benefit, he says, to Because MAiD legislation had not patient considers MAiD to when the experience” for Murray. “Spiritual “working out that sense of I am a yet been passed, the board decided family has been led from the room care, where we focus on supporting burden on my family and society to to write a statement of values that after the procedure. people through their emotions, I am worth being cared for by my would guide procedure around As MAiD becomes an ever more finding meaning in the midst of family and society, and I am loved. MAiD requests at Fred Douglas. available option, for many spiritual hopelessness and struggle, it was a Making that shift at the core of “What I said…was, we need to care practitioners it has become an natural place for us to be—but a very people’s being is profound, it’s huge, articulate in a positive sense what difficult dynamic for me to be [in], important and sometimes difficult and it doesn’t end up being able to we are in favour of, what are the because there was a lot of uncertainty aspect of ministry. happen as a result of MAiD.” values that we want to see honoured and upheaval.” What Murray found most and respected,” Peters Derry recalls. ‘Spiritual distress’ He was asked to be present for traumatic and demoralizing was “the “We…[wanted] to model, in a most of the MAiD procedures that system’s unwillingness” to recognize positive way, what it means to be a Anglican spiritual care providers are took place at the health authority over the spiritual elements of suffering or faith-based health-care facility. We far from of one mind on the ethics his time there. “I’ve been in the room to offer spiritual care as a treatment. [wanted] to be known not so much and parameters of MAiD. with people. I’ve facilitated ceremony Murray says that ideally, he would by what we are against, but what we Philip Murray, a spiritual health and ritual with families which like to see the health-care system are in favour of.” practitioner who now works in incorporated the death, I’ve journeyed Under the law, religious-run recognize “that when people are in long-term care at Providence Health with families as they said their final health-care institutions and pain and suffering and losing hope, Care—a Roman Catholic-run health goodbyes and left the room,” he says. practitioners are able to conscientiously that is a spiritual issue,” one that he organization that operates hospitals, When asked how this has affected object to MAiD. Long-term care says often surfaces long before MAiD clinics and residential care homes— him, he says it has been for the patients may be transferred to becomes a viable option. “My hope was working with one of Canada’s positive and the negative. whichever personal care home has a and prayer for the health-care system largest health-care authorities when “I’m grateful for the opportunity bed available. If that facility refuses to is that they would recognize the the MAiD legislation came into effect. to be present and bear witness to the do MAiD procedures, this could limit spiritual nature of the suffering that Murray was brought in to support love that was present,” he says. Being access for patients through no choice people are experiencing and have the what he says was a system in distress. there taught him that God is with us of their own. ability, the resources to offer spiritual He suddenly had new roles to play, in everything, he says. “God shows “There’s lots of talk of care, because spiritual care does work.” supporting patients and families up. Inevitably.” conscientious objection. What who were going through the MAiD At the same time, he says, he feels is conscientious support, or ‘We want to be known not so process as well as the medical team deeply sad. conscientious advocacy?” Peters that was coping with the change. “I think I’m a little traumatized by much by what we are against, Derry asks. The statement of values Many of the chaplains the Journal the experiences, primarily because but what we are in favour of’ he helped write aimed to tell Fred spoke to for this story noted that of my conviction that the suffering As MAiD became legal, the Rev. Douglas Lodge patients, “We will MAiD legislation has not had that people are experiencing, for Paul Peters Derry—a Certified walk with you every step along the anglican journal • november 2019 9

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health-care journey, even if you Patients sometimes “need a safe was suffering from severe cancer, and “What she ended up doing was The most make a choice that we would rather person who they can trust and will reacted poorly to every treatment the starving herself to death…which is sacred thing you didn’t make.” know to sit with them [and] be able to doctors tried. “Basically, throughout a horrible way to die,” says Herold. “I can do with The statement of values affirmed just talk through this stuff,” she says. the treatment process, her life was Toussaint says he felt useless, unable the right of its residents to request “The most sacred thing I can do miserable,” says Herold. “She was to help his wife die with dignity. “It a patient is to MAiD as well as the right of with a patient is to accompany them remarkable and well-loved by the was the worst feeling I have ever felt.” accompany individual staff persons not to non-judgmentally; to work from a nurses, because despite it all, she was Toussaint says he is still extremely them non- participate in procedures. Among ministry of presence, to understand just really kind to everybody…. She angry about how his wife’s case was judgmentally; the stated values are affirmations that I will not abandon them was amazing, despite the fact that handled. “The choice [for MAiD] needs to be the individual’s and not to work from of “an overall philosophy of care regardless of the choices that they she was going through an incredibly that engages quality of life, dignity have to make…, and I will be with painful, horrible time.” [that of] a medical professional. They a ministry of and respect in the dying process” them for as long as they want me to Eventually after “a long battle” with did not have the right to deny her presence, to and a desire to “balance end-of-life be there,” says Stagg. This is true for numerous treatments and terrible side God-given right to life or death,” he understand care that neither prolongs the dying all of her patients, she adds. “Whether effects, “she decided she didn’t want says. that I will not process nor hastens death with a they’ve chosen a palliative route, to to do this anymore,” says Herold. Herold says it’s important to have die more naturally, or for those who In an email to the Anglican spiritual care providers in the system abandon them resident’s right to access Medical Assistance in Dying.” Regardless of have chosen [MAiD], it is still a death Journal, Jean Guy Toussaint to help people as they struggle with regardless of the patient’s choice, the statement that they have been involved in.” described his wife of 14 years as a these decisions, “both for the patient the choices of values says, residents and their While MAiD is legal across the person who was “vibrant, engaged, and the family, and [help them] that they have families “will not be abandoned at country, different provinces have fierce, honourable and loved.” wrestle with their faith…to wrestle different ways of implementing After being diagnosed with cancer with the morality and ethics.” She also to make…, and any point in the dying process.” So what does spiritual the procedure. In Alberta Health in November 2017, she underwent says it is important to have spiritual I will be with accompaniment look like in the Services, Stagg says, spiritual care what Toussaint calls a “long, arduous, care providers with the skills to them for as context of MAiD? is integrated into the process of demanding and debilitating” process understand when people want MAiD. long as they Peters Derry says that when requesting MAiD, offered as part of of treatment. By August 2018 she had It can be a hard job, Herold it comes to MAiD, he sees the the contemplative stage. Spiritual care decided she wanted MAiD. acknowledges; you get to know want me to be and religious care are also offered “She struggled a lot and had all people, and they die, and that will there. role of a chaplain or spiritual care practitioner as helping people figure closer to the procedure, as many sorts of questions in terms of her always take a toll. “We’re just there —Tracey Stagg, out if they want MAiD and, if they patients request certain religious rites faith…but her faith in God never to walk with them. And sometimes Alberta Health are approved for MAiD, what kinds or want to talk things over with a wavered,” Herold recalls. “In terms they’re walking in pretty dark places, Services of conversations they need to have spiritual care practitioner. of wrestling and being angry and and pretty angry places. And if you’re with their loved ones. “Our role as “Our physicians identify physical all those things, absolutely. But she at all empathetic and sympathetic, spiritual health practitioners, our role suffering; our psychiatrists identify always had her faith.” that’s going to take a toll.” as chaplains, is not to bring our own mental suffering. [Chaplains] When she finally asked for MAiD, But hearing her patient’s husband biases into those conversations—not identify spiritual suffering,” says Herold said, the patient felt an remark that the spiritual health to bring judgment or the wrath of Stagg. “So, part of my work with enormous amount of peace. “Her practitioners were the only ones who God into those conversations.” patients is where…maybe there entire demeanor changed from being understood what he and his wife is some spiritual suffering which anxious and struggling…. [She] had gone through, the only ones to ‘We’re just there to walk with they can alleviate or reconcile or knew exactly where she was going, support them—that was powerful, was eager to be with God, eager to be them’ understand. Sometimes minds are says Herold. “Carolyn Herold was changed. Sometimes they’re not.” back with loved ones who had passed one of the only true lights in this “My role…is to walk with the people,” The Rev. Carolyn Herold works beforehand.” journey,” Toussaint told the Journal. says Tracey Stagg. A spiritual health part-time in a Calgary parish and But when she submitted her “I would probably be dead if not for practitioner with Alberta Health casually as a spiritual care provider application, it was denied under the her and her husband.” Services, Stagg works at a 650-bed with Alberta Health Services, in a clause in legislation that requires MAiD was one of the most- acute care hospital in Calgary. position that covers three different a patient’s death to be “reasonably requested topics for conversation In her work, Stagg has come hospitals in the area. Typically, she foreseeable” for them to be able to ahead of the first-ever national in contact with MAiD from says, her involvement with assisted access MAiD. Herold says doctors in gathering of Anglican health-care several different perspectives: she’s dying cases is limited to talking with the case determined that her death chaplains in June 2019, the Rev. offered support to patients in the patients contemplating MAiD. wasn’t imminent, and that she could Eileen Scully, General Synod director contemplative stage of deciding Due to some staffing circumstances live for more than three months if of Faith, Worship and Ministry and whether they want to apply for that kept her in the same hospital her treatments continued. one of the gathering’s organizers, told MAiD or prior to MAiD procedures; for an extended period, Herold did According to Toussaint, the Journal at the time. As a result, she’s helped families talk through provide spiritual care last year to the treatment rather than the MAiD was the subject of a panel their feelings about their loved one’s a patient who requested and was diagnosis was causing Deanna’s discussion at the gathering, and will decisions; and she’s provided support denied MAiD. (Herold has received suffering. When, after the difficult, likely be a topic for the next meeting, for staff involved in the procedures permission from the patient’s bureaucratic process of applying which will take place June 22-25, and facilitated emotional debriefs husband to tell the story.) for MAiD, she was denied, Deanna 2020, at Queen of Apostles Renewal afterwards. The patient, Deanna Toussaint, began refusing food and water. Centre in Mississauga, Ont. g 10 anglican journal • november 2019

CANADA4 No place to lay his head Continued from p. 1 5The diocese community to look at their position in the In the diocese of Algoma, Anglicans took “To be honest, I think that even groups of Algoma’s realm of homelessness, and what they can inspiration from the NYP for their diocesan beyond youth could use these,” McGlynn youth synod do,” McGlynn says. youth synod at Camp Manitou from June 30-July 3. The youth synod was built around says. “I feel like any group that is interested took inspiration A book study encourages conversation in this issue could take on one of these on the young adult novel No Fixed Address the theme Jesus in the Streets and focused on from the National and learn something from it—or learn by Susin Nielsen. The book tells the story of the question of homelessness, particularly Youth Project something about their community.” a 12-year-old boy who lives in a van while as it affects young people and youth with and built their Four downloadable resources were maintaining a façade at school that he is mental health issues. available on the CLAY website at the gathering around living somewhere else. “We chose to do this and a lot of time this article was being written. An the theme Jesus “Nobody Dreams of Being Homeless” other efforts either with youth or even “Introduction Activity” offers questions for in the Streets. is an activity in which youth groups watch congregations in general in response to reflection on homelessness. The “Postcard image: pimchawee/ video clips interviewing homeless people Welcome … Home,” Jay Koyle, diocesan shutterstock Project” involves sending postcards to the from a range of ages and backgrounds. congregational development officer, says. prime minister and members of parliament Groups then discuss how the individuals “Homelessness has been on the radar of the imploring them to launch a new National ended up in their current situation, their Ecclesiastical Province of Ontario,” he adds, Housing Strategy over the next 10 years. hopes and their dreams. pointing to examples of trends that have The “Open Door Group Activity” “The Amazing Race,” inspired by the been causing it increasing concern, such describes work of the Open Door shelter, a TV series of the same name, involves as the rise of people living on the streets of drop-in centre in downtown Montreal that youth travelling to different places in Sault Ste. Marie due to the opioid crisis. provides service for homeless and low- their community and carrying out tasks. Angie Hocking, director of outreach at income people, and it adds related questions Other resources in the works include the Church of the Redeemer in Toronto— for biblical reflection. The “Libraries Group activities focusing on mental health and where she oversees a drop-in program Activity” presents discussion questions homelessness, rural perspectives on providing meals and services to homeless on the importance of libraries as a place homelessness and advocacy projects to individuals and others—led five workshops where homeless people can stay indoors, change the reality of homelessness. on homelessness at the youth synod. use computers and the internet, and access Since the launch of the NYP at CLAY The workshops drew inspiration from community services. 2018, Anglican youth leaders have been and were similar to the NYP but were Several other resources were expected proactive in organizing activities to educate ultimately Hocking’s own creations. to be posted on the CLAY website by people on homelessness. For example, one workshop, “Inspiring November. One activity, “Community Last spring, Anglican and Lutheran Action,” looked at how churches are Asset Mapping,” asks youth to reflect on youth leaders at their annual gathering acting as ministries of justice within their the community around their church, where Stronger Together went on a community communities. homeless people congregate and what walking tour around downtown Calgary “It was super exciting and super resources might be available to them. After similar to the asset mapping activity. On inspiring just to realize that we are the walking around the neighbourhood, youth this walk they noted concentrations of church and that is what we’re here for,” draw a map showing their church in relation homeless people as well as resources such Hocking says. “We are here especially to the sights they recorded. as libraries and the local Salvation Army for the marginalized, and Jesus is here “It’s a way for a youth group or a church office. especially for the marginalized.” g

WORLD4 Anglicans respond to Hurricane Dorian devastation landfall in Nova Scotia on Saturday, Sept. 7. Anglicans can help Joelle Kidd staff writer Dorian left hundreds of thousands in Nova Scotia recovery efforts in and thousands in P.E.I., New Brunswick and the Bahamas by When Archdeacon Keith Cartwright, archdeacon Newfoundland without power, the CBC reported. donating online at of the southern Bahamas and the Turks and In Dartmouth, N.S., the “City of Trees” was pwrdf.org/give-today Caicos Islands, visited Haiti in the wake of the littered with fallen trees and branches, some that (select ‘Emergency 2010 earthquake, he thought he would never see blocked roadways or knocked down electrical Response’), by mail anything close to that level of devastation again. wires, says the Rev. Kyle Wagner, rector at Christ to PWRDF, 80 But recently, surveying the damage in his own Church, Dartmouth. Three massive trees fell on Hayden Street, 3rd diocese in the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian, he church property, one into the parish hall and floor, Toronto, M4Y sees that catastrophe mirrored. “Everything has another onto the building that houses the church’s 3G2 or by texting been decimated,” he says. boiler and propane source. ‘PWRDF’ to 45678. Cartwright says the destruction resembled “if you were chewing something and then you just spit The storm also struck the Magdalen Islands, photo: keith cartwright it out. That’s how it looked. It was a horrific scene.” the archipelago in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, leaving “We have never experienced such a storm,” them “in shambles,” according to the CBC, which Classified as a Category 5 hurricane when it says Archdeacon Keith Cartwright. struck the islands of Grand Bahama and Abaco reported winds gusting at 150 km/h. on Sept. 1, Dorian was one of the most powerful The Rev. Cynthia Patterson, incumbent in the Caribbean storms on record. Abaco was completely decimated, Cartwright says. parish of the Magdalen Islands, which includes “We have never experienced such a storm in “Everything was destroyed, basically—we have no the parishes of Holy Trinity on Grosse-Île and All the history of the commonwealth of the Bahamas. food store, no gas station, no bank…nothing left,” Saints Memorial on Entry Island, says winds were The storm went up past 185 mph [298 km/h], with he says. St. John the Baptist Anglican Church in so strong that Holy Trinity’s bolted steel doors gusts of 220 mph [354 km/h],” says Cartwright, Marsh Harbour has “two big holes in the roof,” and were blown open, and one blown off its hinges. whose responsibilities as archdeacon also include was flooded with 10 feet (three metres) of water, he Luckily, she says, the church’s interior doors held, hurricane response. adds; the parish hall was flooded after its roof was protecting its famous 1970s stained glass triptych Entire communities were destroyed by the ripped off. that features an Atlantic Canadian vision of Jesus winds and subsequent flooding, which left Treasure Cay, also on Abaco, saw similar levels wearing rubber boots and calling out to disciples in buildings underwater or washed away. Some of devastation, Cartwright says. hand-knit sweaters and carrying lobster traps. 13,000 homes are reported to have been destroyed, Hurricane Dorian’s path swept up the Eastern On Entry Island, the storm felled another according to the International Federation of Red Seaboard of the United States before moving church landmark: a huge lit cross that stood Cross and Red Crescent Societies. northward to Canada. in front of All Saints Memorial. The cross was The town of Marsh Harbour on the island of The storm was classified as a Category 2 erected in 1988 in memory of five people who had storm when it struck Atlantic Canada, making drowned the previous year. g anglican journal • november 2019 11

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Church engagement with veterans ‘primarily ad hoc’: Bishop ordinary

Veterans benefit from 5Multifaith paying us for. But Veterans Affairs wasn’t Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Housing Initiative paying people to do it either, so we tended to Edmonton, which serves as the regimental faith-based support, executive do it anyway. And that’s been recognized that church of the South Alberta Light Horse director Suzanne yes, that’s a logical extension of our work, reserve unit, has since 2016 run a mental says Alberta priest Le (third from where possible. health ministry for reservists, who do not left) speaks “But there really is a demarcation always have access to the same services Matt Gardner to military between the work of the military chaplaincy, as active-duty members living on-base. staff writer veterans at the which is [for active-duty] military, and the Because of Holy Trinity’s connection to Active members of the Canadian Forces cornerstone work that needs to [happen] to support the the CF, many regular and reservist soldiers (CF) have the benefit of military chaplains, laying ceremony veteran community, which is a different continue to attend services there after leaving including many Anglican chaplains, to of Veterans’ community—even though it’s a logical the military. The church also provides care photo: rachata provide pastoral and spiritual care to them House, the continuation of the first.” to family members of soldiers deployed sinthopachakul/ Upon leaving the military, each member overseas. shutterstock and their families. But what happens when Andy Carswell of the CF undergoes an exit interview with “I think we as a church have a those members leave the military? Building, part Veterans Affairs to set up a file. Though responsibility to be engaged with men and Nigel Shaw, Anglican bishop ordinary of a project to retiring soldiers can bring up spiritual care, women [in the military and] provide them a to the CF, describes spiritual support for support homeless the focus often tends to be on issues such as faith community while they’re on active duty, regular and reserve forces as “very strong”, veterans in economic and physical well-being. while they’re in the reserves and then after,” with more than 200 full-time chaplains Ottawa. The Since former members of the military the Rev. Chris Pappas, rector, says. “They currently serving along with approximately Anglican diocese 150 reserve chaplains. But members who are considered civilians, Shaw says, the need the support that the faith community of Ottawa and traditional expectation has been that they provides.” leave the military—Shaw himself retired more than a three years ago—often face a gap in spiritual would function “like any other Canadian Korean War veteran Victor Flett, an dozen Anglican citizen. They ought to be able to function Anglican who served in the navy for 33 care. parishes are “The challenge for the veterans is, of using the resources of the community years, is an active member of St. Peter and members of the and not necessarily have to have special St. Paul Parish in Esquimalt, B.C., where he course, they’re not gathered together in MHI coordinating recognizable groupings like regular forces or programs put in place, when spiritual and serves as an honorary canon. the project. reserve force soldiers are, who all belong to pastoral care is readily available throughout Flett, who is Cree, had to give up his their units, so it’s easy to find them,” Shaw photo: james park the country.” Indian status in the 1950s to receive benefits photo below: The challenge is making sure veterans from Veterans Affairs. Since his retirement, says. anastasiia malinich/ “Once you retire—and I’m a classic shutterstock who need pastoral and spiritual care are able Flett’s primary methods of supporting his example—you just disappear a little bit into to connect to support services. Veterans who fellow veterans have been groups such as the the woodwork. You blend right back into suffer from conditions such as post-traumatic Royal Canadian Legion, the Korea Veterans the civilian communities, and it’s very much stress disorder are not always well-equipped Association and the Aboriginal Veterans up to the individual to seek out resources to seek out spiritual support. Autochtones. from Veterans Affairs when they’re needed, In military terms, the bishop ordinary “As far as the Anglican Church as opposed to…the military, where we have says, support for veterans from the Anglican supporting veterans, I know that they are a service set up that more actively reaches Church of Canada has tended to be more active supporting the padres [chaplains] of out to people.” at the “tactical” level of individual parishes, the armed forces,” Flett says. “And that is a Anglican chaplains in the CF work under deaneries and chaplains following up with very, very important part of the military, to something of a dual authority. The Anglican ex-soldiers, rather than at the “strategic level” have the padres serving with the military, Military Ordinariate (AMO) represents of a coordinated policy by General Synod. providing spiritual help as needed.” church jurisdiction over Anglican chaplains, “The church’s engagement, I think, tends The departments of National Defence all of whom are AMO members. The bishop to be right now primarily ad hoc,” Shaw and Veterans Affairs have declared a goal of ordinary leads the AMO, supervising says. “I think there’s a fair bit of engagement bridging the gap between care and support pastoral welfare and exercising episcopal happening at parish levels with various provided to active-duty soldiers and that authority over chaplains. Actual day-to-day different initiatives.” accorded to veterans. In that context, the work of chaplains, however, is governed One example of Anglican support for bishop ordinary believes it might be time to by the chaplain general, a serving military veterans is the Veterans’ House project, look into a more strategic approach by the officer. an interfaith effort to provide support for Anglican Church of Canada to providing The mandate of the AMO is to minister homeless veterans in Ottawa. The project spiritual care for veterans. to active troops and their families. As Shaw seeks to help these veterans find stable “It’s…worth taking a bit of time to think points out, that mandate does not include housing and receive treatment for issues it through at a high level of what resources, veterans—though that distinction has related to addictions, physical health and if any, can we afford to put into this, what softened in recent years. mental health. The Anglican diocese of ought we to put into it, what are the needs “There was a time when we technically Ottawa is a member of the Multifaith [and] is there a role for us as a church weren’t even supposed to do a funeral for Housing Initiative that coordinates the engaging with the government departments a veteran, because that’s not our mandate,” project, along with more than a dozen around this to advocate for support in Shaw says. “That’s not what the Crown was Anglican parishes. different ways.”g 12 anglican journal • november 2019

GUEST COLUMN4 By Albert Dumont (South Wind) Considering UR PURPOSE AS human beings,” I was told years ago by an old man of Cree ancestry, “is not to try to understand who an Anglican “Oor what Creator is but, rather, it is to heap daily praise on the abundance Creator placed before us, helping apology human beings to live well.” The old man I speak of possessed a rich and Albert Dumont extraordinary type of wisdom, born at a time long ago (South Wind), before human beings even took their first steps on Algonquin spiritual Mother Earth. I can honestly say that I have not come teacher in residence at Christ Church across such a strong-willed and spirited individual Cathedral in very often in all my 68 years of life. His spiritual beliefs Ottawa, shares were profound and beautiful. They were strong in the thoughts on way of healing. I sat with him as often as possible and the apology for heard his forlorn reflections on the wrongs people of spiritual harm this wasteful world are guilty of. “We all should make the church caused Indigenous peoples, an effort to make the world better for our children,” are issued at General words he spoke each day of his life. “We are all guilty Synod 2019. of wastefulness,” he told me once, “and we’ll never overcome it without spiritual assistance.” Never, in all photos: contributed my counsels with him, did I hear the old man mention the word “sin.” Who defines what a sin is? By what means does Creator measure the weight of a sin? The Indigenous peoples of this land, who embrace the spiritual beliefs given to them by Creator many thousands of years ago, know very well that it is the waters, trees, animals, fish and birds on whose backs many of the sins committed by human beings are placed. What we abused and destroyed of Creator’s making will assuredly have a say on what will become of us on the Day of Reckoning. The bird or plant who became extinct because of our actions, the animal who endured a long and agonizing death while in the merciless grip of a leg-hold trap, the once pure waters of an underground spring now filled with poisons—these things will have their chance to finally be heard. What will they say about us to Creator? When we do wrongs or commit “sins” against the noble and magnificent things of our lands, we need to accept that we will face severe consequences for doing so at some point in the future. Our souls will not escape justice. Of this I am certain! The Indigenous spiritual beliefs of the Anishinabe (First Peoples) never hurt anyone! Yet, many generations of Christians were told by their faith leaders that Indigenous spiritual beliefs were as a dark and threatening cloud pushed furiously forward and locked into the minds of savages by the scalding breath of the “devil.” Because of this and because of Canada’s Christian foundation, Indigenous spirituality was outlawed until the 1950s. To me, at least, a monstrous sin was committed by Canada for making it a crime to sing a beautiful song to Creator with the help of a drum or rattle. But at long last, a church has seen fit to apologize to the First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples for the spiritual harm the actions and deeds of the church brought to Indigenous spirituality. Many segments of Christian religions are guilty, but only the Anglicans have so far admitted that their condemnation of Indigenous spirituality was wrong. The Anglicans are brave and, I believe, righteous. They are ahead of their time! I have a relationship of mutual respect going on presently, with the Anglicans. It is one of trust, peace and friendship and, also, one of real reconciliation. I am extremely proud of the friendship I have with them. Thank God for the Anglican Church!g anglican journal • november 2019 13

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a doctor of ministry degree he completed last May at the University of Saskatchewan’s Lutheran EMOTIONAL Theological Seminary, and it forms the subject of his WELL-BEING4 doctoral thesis. He says the idea for the study came to him while he reflected on interactions he had with parishioners. A number of people he visited at care homes and hospitals lamented that they were rarely visited any more, or they made similar observations suggestive of social isolation. Pointing out that a loved one or some other person had in fact visited them recently did not seem to shift their conviction of being lonely—suggesting that loneliness might be “more about perception than reality,” Partridge says. Then another parishioner, who spent much of her day with other people, revealed to him that she nevertheless felt “achingly lonely.” “I thought, ‘Whoa, that’s fascinating.’ Here’s a woman that you wouldn’t know during the daytime Loneliness, meet gratitude was struggling with loneliness,” he says. “It threw photo: de visu/shutterstock everything that I thought I knew about loneliness Seniors saw improved loneliness scores after 14 weeks of gratitude practices, Patridge says. into a cocked hat.” Many of us assume that a lonely person can be Continued from p. 1 or long-term loneliness estimated to afflict up helped by being visited more often, or by getting out really useful arrow in our quiver,’” he says. “It’s not to 30% of people in some studies. According to and seeing more people, Partridge says. But research the final magic pill, but what we’re looking for is some researchers, chronic loneliness could be as suggests, he says, that the mere presence of other one more thing we can do that’s helpful or may be dangerous to human health as smoking 15 cigarettes people has a limited effect on loneliness. helpful.” a day. In January 2018, the U.K. government “We think of it as being really useful, and it is in Increasing concerns have been expressed appointed a minister of loneliness to address the its own way, but…the impact on chronic loneliness about loneliness in recent years—in Canada and problem in that country. of a visit is something like 2.5 days,” he says. “It’s other countries, Partridge says—with chronic Partridge did the study as part of his work for very helpful during that short period of time, but then it dissipates.” Although there has been considerable research over the past 50 years on the mental health effects of early and save gratitude practices, Partridge says, he could not find up to $3,000pp* Book any research measuring the long-term effect of these practices on chronic loneliness. He decided to do such a study for his dissertation. 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Research on gratitude has included study both of faith-based gratitude—toward God or some sort of higher power—as well as gratitude in a secular sense, a general attitude of thankfulness, he says. But is it possible to be grateful without being grateful to someone or something? Partridge says it’s an interesting question. “I have some family members who profess to be atheists and who are still very grateful for the way www.craigtravel.com/aj the world is, and when we talk about it, they say, ‘I’m 1-800-387-8890 • [email protected] grateful to the wider universe’,” he says. “Well, you 1092 Mt. Pleasant Road, Toronto, ON M4P 2M6 can call God by whatever name you want—we don’t have any completely good name that captures all of *Conditions apply. Book and deposit by Dec 20/19. **Early booking savings included in price listed. Photo courtesy of Ansgar Scheffold/Unsplash. what God is. 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PEOPLE4 Bishop of Ottawa to retire April 30 Tali Folkins Diocese to move forward with the energy held once every decade in England. staff writer and vision a new Bishop and leader will “This is a critical experience for a John Chapman, who has served as bishop provide as he or she begins work.” new Bishop,” he said. “I had the pleasure of the diocese of Ottawa since 2007, will The bishop also said much of the work shortly after my election to attend Lambeth retire April 30, 2020. outlined by previous diocesan synods 2008. I had the valuable opportunity “In April of next year I will have as well as Embracing God’s Future, the to ‘feel’ and understand the fullness of reached the age of 66 years, recovered diocese’s current strategic plan, was now our Communion and to meet global successfully from some health challenges, either accomplished or well underway. “It colleagues. Its impact upon my episcopacy and I will have completed 42 years of is the right time,” he said. “We as a diocese was profound.” ordained ministry,” Chapman said in are moving into a time of readiness for yet The next Lambeth Conference will be a statement published on the diocese’s another full and comprehensive analysis next summer—12 years after the last one. website Sept. 10. “For the past 13 years of the mission God is calling our beloved In 2014, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin I have had the honour of serving as the 5“Now is time diocese to embrace over the next 10 years. Welby said, in response to some media Diocesan Bishop of Ottawa…. Now is for me to step New and fresh episcopal eyes will be reports that the event had been cancelled, time for me to step down from ‘titled’ down from ‘titled’ essential.” that he wanted to meet all the primates and responsibilities or appointments and make responsibilities or His retirement would also, Chapman carefully consult with them before setting a myself available to the Church in a less appointments,” noted, allow his successor to attend the date for the event. formal manner.” Chapman said. Lambeth Conference, the international Chapman was elected bishop of Ottawa Chapman said he wanted to “allow the photo: art babych gathering of Anglican bishops normally in 2007. g

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“Together, let us pray that all may continue to celebrate the presence of God in our lives and in our world.” — Archbishop and Primate Linda Nicholls, General Synod 2019 We invite you to honour our beloved church in welcome and support of the Primate’s ministry.

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Giving thanks for our Primate For twelve years, Archbishop Fred Hiltz led “our beloved Church” as primate. Generous donors like you have supported his ministry as he helped the whole church focus on God’s mission and our response. His presence as a gracious listener and compelling speaker has enriched the meetings he attended (and often chaired), the parishes he visited and the people he met.  Archbishop and Thank you, Fred, for your long servant ministry, Primate Fred Hiltz retired in July 2019. as a lay person, deacon, priest, bishop, and photo: general synod primate. 2 • THE ANGLICAN CHURCH OF CANADA ANNUAL REPORT 2018

 Clockwise from top: Reconciliation Animator Melanie Delva addresses graduates at Montreal Dio’s annual Choral Evensong and Convocation; teaching lodge at the Shingwauk Kinoomaage Gamig; break-out small group at the Ninth Indigenous Anglican Sacred Circle, August 2018. photos: montreal diocesan theological college, general synod Reconciliation in action Healing in Indigenous communities “I believe that reconciliation needs to become The 94 “Calls to Action” of Canada’s and reconciliation between Indigenous Truth and Reconciliation Commission and non-Indigenous people and a spiritual practice, so that it becomes part of and the 46 articles of the United Nations communities have emerged as our day-to-day thinking and the way that we Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous priorities across the Anglican Church Peoples are key commitments, not just of Canada, in parishes large and small, approach everything that we do.” — Melanie Delva, in principle, but also in action, across rural, urban, and remote. Reconciliation Animator, Office of the Primate our church. Generous donors like you The Anglican Healing Fund, with its help support the General Synod in coordinator, Martha Many Grey Horses, reconciliation animator, Melanie Delva, Synod supports these priorities in the life supporting reconciliation and healing and the ministry of General Synod’s are two key vehicles by which General of the church and the life of the world. across this land.

Building and Resources for Mission (3%) THANK YOU for generously supporting Administration (12%) Resources for Mission the ministries of General Synod in 2018. Administration Program (45%) Your generosity, and the generosity of parishes and dioceses across the Governance (6%) How Governance country, makes it possible for our church to respond to God’s call here at home and abroad. funds were Anglican Journal Through your gifts, you have made an impact on the lives of many women, spent in men and children. They are deeply grateful for your support, as are we. Council of the North Grants Stay up to date on the news of our church and how you can make a difference Anglican 2018 by visiting www.anglican.ca and Giving with Grace at www.anglican.ca/give. Journal Program and Diocesan Support (16%) 80 Hayden St., Toronto, ON M4Y 3G2 Charitable Registration No. 108082835RR0001 Council of the North Grants (18%) THE ANGLICAN CHURCH OF CANADA ANNUAL REPORT 2018 • 3

 Clockwise from top left: National Indigenous Anglican Archbishop Mark MacDonald and Primate Fred Hiltz at the Ninth Indigenous Anglican Sacred Circle, August 2018 in Prince George, B.C.; new members are commissioned to the Anglican Council of Indigenous Peoples; participants gather for the opening ceremony of Sacred Circle. photos: anglican video, general synod Sacred Circle: The national gathering of Indigenous peoples Many years ago, Indigenous elders Self-determination is the land for a time of spiritual renewal and to a spiritual crisis. Generous donors envisioned a truly self-determining deliberation on important matters, and like you play an important part in that church within the Anglican Church of described as a spiritual offers a national forum for the National response. As we develop a secure financial Canada. Over the years since then, such response to a spiritual Indigenous Anglican Archbishop and the base for a self-determining Indigenous a church has begun to take shape. One Anglican Council of Indigenous Peoples. church, your generosity will continue to important part of the emerging church crisis. National Indigenous Anglican be a key part of your church’s support for is the meeting of the Sacred Circle, held Archbishop Mark MacDonald describes the inherent right of Indigenous peoples every three years. Sacred Circle gathers Indigenous Anglican leaders from across self-determination as a spiritual response to make choices for and by themselves. Indigenous youth suicide prevention In 2008, General Synod’s “Amazing Grace Project” united Canadian Anglicans in song. The $100,000 it raised became the first national investment of our church in suicide prevention in Indigenous communities. Since then, The General Synod’s Indigenous Ministries have developed a suicide prevention initiative with three workers serving largely in  The Rev. Rachel Carnegie, Anglican Communion Office, presenting at an Engage Freedom northern and remote communities.  The program logo is a traditional Christian event in Pickering, Ont. photo: the rev. canon dr. michael mondloch This is not a “one-size-fits-all” program. fish image presented in colours of the Networks of lay and ordained volunteers medicine wheel, an Indigenous symbol of Human trafficking work with individual communities to healing, help them discern which prevention Combatting human trafficking and violent reality of missing and murdered app­roaches are best suited for their “We’re looking forward to working modern-day slavery is a priority across Indigenous women and girls. Indigenous contexts. with them and developing a strate- the Anglican Communion. It is an issue Generous donors like you have helped Generous donors like you make it gy that will alleviate suicides in our that encompasses migrant farm workers, General Synod shine a light into this dark possible for the suicide prevention communities,” says Canon Ginny domestic workers and forced sex trade place, through the production of a video, workers to develop volunteer teams, Doctor, Indigenous Ministries coor- work here in Canada and around the and “Engage Freedom” gatherings in each and to train and equip community dinator. “It’s a start. It’s not going to world. It also has a particular impact ecclesiastical province to build awareness leaders in dioceses where the need for end everything really quick, but we’ve on Canadians as part of the tragic and and develop Anglican responses. suicide prevention is especially urgent. got to start somewhere.” 4 • THE ANGLICAN CHURCH OF CANADA ANNUAL REPORT 2018 Consolidated Statement Consolidated Statement of of Operations Financial Position

Year ended December 31 2018 2017 Year ended December 31 2018 2017 REVENUE ASSETS Contributions from dioceses $ 7,898,264 $ 8,416,738 Current Other 1,528,777 1,556,498 Cash and cash equivalents $ 865,041 $ 1,363,150 Anglican Journal 1,260,387 1,357,383 Cash held in trust 757,201 — Resources for Mission 432,142 611,846 Accounts receivable 1,985,909 1,960,570 11,119,570 11,942,465 Inventory 108,464 137,463 Prepaid expenses and other assets 125,592 EXPENSES 120,026 Council of the North Grants 2,150,000 2,150,000 Total current assets 3,836,641 3,586,775 Other Diocesan Support 32,172 123,003 Investments 19,527,738 20,468,368 Anglican Journal 2,066,107 1,924,824 Car and staff housing loans 368,792 411,272 Administration 1,431,582 1,467,270 Capital assets 2,454,785 2,529,952 Other Program Initiatives 1,134,690 1,057,560 $ 26,187,956 $ 26,996,367 Indigenous Ministries 1,073,741 691,251 Primate and House of Bishops 795,984 841,206 LIABILITIES Communications 678,107 766,071 Current Governance 680,899 585,731 Global Relations 633,100 Accounts payable and accrued $ 937,716 $ 934,428 577,631 liabilities Faith, Worship and Ministry 400,841 437,033 Other accounts payable — Resources for Mission 337,445 367,589 757,201 Deferred contributions 2,955,610 Affiliations 275,112 274,544 2,585,582 Public Witness for Social and 182,791 129,660 Total current liabilities 4,280,499 3,890,038 Ecological Justice Annuities 1,538,679 1,816,604 11,844,693 11,421,251 Total liabilities 5,819,178 5,706,642 (Deficiency) excess of revenue over (725,123) 521,214 expenses before the following: NET ASSETS Unrestricted 4,080,502 4,655,706 Investment (loss) income (296,603) 998,523 Internally designated 11,734,930 Undesignated legacies 286,404 211,686 11,574,812 (Deficiency) excess of revenue over Endowments 4,713,464 4,899,089 $ 1,731,423 expenses $ (735,322) Total net assets 20,368,778 21,289,725 $ 26,187,956 $ 26,996,367 Transfers from (to) internally 160,118 (867,103) designated net assets (Decrease) increase in unrestricted net assets (575,204) 864,320 This information has been extracted from the full audited financial Beginning balance unrestricted net assets $ 4,655,706 $ 3,791,386 statements, which are available at www.anglican.ca/fm. Excess of revenue over expenses $ 4,080,502 $ 4,655,706

For almost a quarter century, Ms. Cynthia Haines-Turner, from the Diocese of Western Newfoundland has supported the national life of the Anglican Church of Canada with her time and financial resources. She describes being part of national ministry as “amazing, actually...life-giving, fun, challenging and illuminating.” “You get a glimpse of how national ministry impacts us all at the local level…. From healing and reconciliation to human trafficking, from suicide prevention to Jerusalem Sunday, the work of the national church is felt at home.” Thank you to all donors and volunteers who gave of their time, talent, and treasure to make the

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