Anglican Journal

The Anglican Journal serves as the official newspaper for the Anglican Church of Canada. It operates independently and features news and opinions about Anglicanism both in Canada and around the world. In addition, the Journal includes a comprehensive section dedicated to arts and culture, as well as classified ads. Marites N. Sison holds the position of editor, with the newspaper’s main office located in Toronto.

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Beloved Bishop Robert Bennett remembered for people-first ministry

15 hours 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.
Complaint—now resolved—was made against one or more episcopal candidates, Montreal bishop says in correction of previous remarks - Anglican Journal

1 week ago | anglicanjournal.com | Matthew Puddister

Controversy surrounds electoral synod after search committee members resignBishop Mary Irwin-Gibson has corrected a previously reported statement that no formal complaints have been made against any of the candidates nominated to succeed her as bishop of Montreal after being asked by the Journal about a harassment complaint made against at least one of them in 2020. The diocese’s electoral synod is slated for May 3.
Israel bombs Anglican hospital in Gaza

1 week 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.
Priest’s Lego church replicas draw life-sized attention

1 week 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

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.
Harper, Kerr-Wilson, Lehmann and Walsh-Shaw chosen as candidates for next primate

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.
Looking for God in ‘the devils’ gospels’

3 weeks ago | anglicanjournal.com | Matthew Puddister

An interview with Christopher GassonIf God is truly the Almighty and the basis of our existence, Christopher Gasson says, then everything anyone can say about life and the world will tell us more about God’s nature—to the point, he believes, that “we can find God in works that are savagely opposed to God.”A journalist, publisher, Anglican and amateur theologian, Gasson is the author of The Devils’ Gospels: Finding God in Four Great Atheist Books.
Montreal bishop stands by episcopal election process

3 weeks ago | anglicanjournal.com | Matthew Puddister

Search committee members resign citing concerns over safe church policy, ballot integrity Bishop Mary Irwin-Gibson stands by the process to choose the next bishop of Montreal after four of nine search committee members resigned March 10, including the chair—forwarding their nominations to the electoral synod without endorsement and citing concerns over safe church policy and “limitations imposed by canon law” that might prevent them from protecting “the integrity of the ballot.” Irwin-Gibson,...
Rod BrantFrancis elected bishop of Moosonee

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.
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).