Sean Frankling

Mild-mannered reporter. Currently writing for the Anglican Journal (https://t.co/72H5dh46qj), occasional freelancing for the Toronto Star

Articles

Panel outlines six paths to ‘big change’ in church

2 weeks ago | anglicanjournal.com | Sean Frankling

Acting primate urges Anglicans to join work of transformationThe church is approaching a time of important decisions—one which Anglicans can and should embrace with hope, Archbishop Anne Germond, acting primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, told Council of General Synod (CoGS) in her opening remarks March 7.
Beloved Bishop Robert Bennett remembered for people-first ministry

3 weeks ago | anglicanjournal.com | Sean Frankling

Friends and colleagues remember Bishop Robert Bennett, formerly of the diocese of Huron, as a caring, hilarious and deeply pastoral bishop who invariably put his relationships with parishioners first. Bennett died April 14 after a life touched by the love of his wife, Kathleen, their daughters Meghan and Jessica and countless Anglicans, an amazing number of whom Bennett always remembered by name, say his friends.
Israel bombs Anglican hospital in Gaza

1 month ago | anglicanjournal.com | Sean Frankling

An Israel Defence Forces (IDF) air strike on Palm Sunday destroyed and damaged several buildings at Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza. The hospital, which has at some points been the only one functioning in Gaza amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, is funded and operated by the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem. The IDF warned the hospital 20 minutes before the bombing, and the hospital was evacuated.
Canadian priest’s Lego church replicas draw life-sized attention

1 month ago | episcopalnewsservice.org | Sean Frankling

[Anglican Church of Canada] The Rev. James Spencer has been building with Lego since he was eight years old. Today, that lifelong hobby is getting his parish, St. Mary’s Anglican Church with buildings in Clarenville and Burgoyne’s Cove, Newfoundland, Canada, noticed online—and forming the heart of a new ministry to local children.
Priest’s Lego church replicas draw life-sized attention

1 month ago | anglicanjournal.com | Sean Frankling

The Rev. James Spencer has been building with Lego since he was eight years old. Today, that lifelong hobby is getting his parish, St. Mary’s Anglican Church with buildings in Clarenville and Burgoyne’s Cove, Nfld. noticed online—and forming the heart of a new ministry to local children.
Regional parish development programs aim to improve organization and outreach

1 month ago | anglicanjournal.com | Sean Frankling

In the diocese of Ottawa, it started in 2020 with a two-year consultation process looking into the state of parish ministry, says the Rev. Jon Martin, rector at St. John’s Kanata and chair of the diocese’s parish development sub-committee. “We met with people and asked them about the challenges and fears, successes, hopes,” he says. “A number of our parishes were in frightened survival mode.” What they found was a desire for tools to get out from under the shadow of decline, he says.
Harper, Kerr-Wilson, Lehmann and Walsh-Shaw chosen as candidates for next primate

1 month ago | anglicanjournal.com | Matthew Puddister |Sean Frankling

The Order of Bishops has chosen four nominees for this June’s election of the next primate of the Anglican Church of Canada. They are: National Indigenous Anglican Archbishop Chris Harper; Archbishop Greg Kerr-Wilson, bishop of Calgary and metropolitan of the ecclesiastical province of the Northern Lights; Bishop of Caledonia David Lehmann; and Bishop Riscylla Walsh-Shaw, suffragan bishop in the diocese of Toronto.
Rod BrantFrancis elected bishop of Moosonee

1 month ago | anglicanjournal.com | Sean Frankling

The newly reinstated diocese of Moosonee has elected the Rev. Rod BrantFrancis, a Mi’kmaq priest currently ministering to a Mohawk parish in Ontario, as its first bishop in a decade. BrantFrancis was elected March 26 on the first ballot. Financial problems forced the northern Ontario diocese to make itself a mission area of the Anglican Church of Canada, without its own bishop, in 2014.
Parishes struggle with money woes, uncertainty

1 month ago | anglicanjournal.com | Sean Frankling

Many parishes in the Anglican Church of Canada are finding themselves torn between their own desire to survive and their obligation to support the higher structures of the church, says Ed Willms, a parishioner at All Saints Anglican Church in Huntsville, Ont. Willms reached out to the Anglican Journal after reading in its January edition about a presentation on finances at the fall meeting of Council of General Synod (CoGS).
The Rev. Chad McCharles elected bishop of Saskatoon

1 month ago | anglican.ink | Sean Frankling

When he initially got the call to let his name stand for bishop of Saskatoon, the Rev. Chad McCharles, a Manitoba priest and part-time school bus driver, said his first impulse was “a hard no.” He was happy in his current ministry situation and at home in a community his family had been part of for nearly two decades. However, his wife convinced him the family should at least pray about it.