Sean Frankling

2 weeks 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.

2 weeks 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.

3 weeks 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.

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).

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.