Tali Folkins

Mar 1, 2024 | anglicanjournal.com | Tali Folkins

In a 2013 article for Scientific American (“Beyond Ishtar: The Tradition of Eggs at Easter”), writer Krystal D’Costa helpfully demolishes the hoax, circulating on the internet at the time, that the ultimate origin of Easter was the celebration of Ishtar, ancient Babylonian goddess of love and war (an interesting combination of spheres over which to preside, I’ve always thought). She also writes of the remarkable frequency with which the egg has cropped up as a symbol in the world’s religions.

Nov 24, 2023 | anglicanjournal.com | Tali Folkins |Sean Frankling

Mississauga, Ont. In her opening remarks to the 2023-2025 members of the Council of General Synod (CoGS), Archbishop Linda Nicholls, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, said she has yet to decide on a retirement date. Nicholls also discussed the church’s continued plans to promote peace and condemn any and all violence in the Holy Land and commented on division and unity in the international Anglican Communion amid disagreement on same-sex marriage.