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General Synod 2001
Towards healing, reconciliation and the new life

Last edition began a series of articles looking towards General Synod 2001 in Waterloo, Ont., this July. This series continues in this edition with forward glances by Archdeacon Jim Boyles, General Secretary of General Synod. Also featured are articles by Bishop Steve Charleston of the Episcopal Church in the United States, who will be a visiting partner and who will preach at the opening service; by Canon Alyson Barnett-Cowan, who looks at liturgical issues likely to be before synod; and by Maylanne Maybee of Partnerships who explains a joint meeting with Lutherans that will reflect on food. On a lighter note, website manager Leanne Larmondin does a bit of visioning of her own, striving, fruitlessly, as it turn out, to imagine Anglican meetings without paper. ...
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General Synod
Meeting at a time of crisis

For the thirty-sixth time in 108 years Anglicans from across the country will come together in July to consider the affairs of their national church. For the fourth time they will be meeting in the diocese of Huron. ...
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Colonialism: the american apartheid

Several months ago, I was invited by Archbishop Michael Peers, the Anglican Primate, to participate in a dialogue between the Canadian house of bishops and representatives of the Canadian Anglican Council of Indigenous People. ...
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Liturgy at the heart of our spiritual lives

For some time now, Canadian Anglicans have been living, sometimes comfortably, sometimes contentiously, with two major liturgical books. The Book of Common Prayer (1962) is the official, canonical book. The Book of Alternative Services (1985) was produced to provide alternatives to the language and style of the standard text, based on the insights of the ecumenical liturgical renewal movement; in many parishes the "alternative" has virtually replaced the BCP. ...
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Thoughts on food, food for thought

General Synod participants, Anglicans and Lutherans together, will be given food for thought when they meet for a brown bag lunch. ...
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Imagine a paperless General Synod

A paperless society? Maybe some of us can't completely kick our addiction to paper, but scores of futurists and inventors continue to predict and work on real alternatives for those who, for instance, regularly print out their e-mails. ...
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What will it mean locally?
Lutherans and Anglicans at a historic threshhold

Next July, an historic meeting takes place in Waterloo, Ont. Two Canadian churches will hold national decision-making gatherings side by side. The Anglican Church of Canada's General Synod, and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada's National Convention, will meet on the neighbouring campuses of the University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University, and are scheduled to vote on whether or not to enter a relationship of full communion with each other. ...
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What we bring, what we must do

I have been asked to reflect on the forthcoming General Synod, and the matters with which it will be concerned when it meets next July. The problem with writing about an event that is still some months away is that what I think important today may well have changed by the time of meeting. From where I sit, prospects for the future seem to change daily! Nevertheless, silence is not an option. ...
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General Synod 2001
Towards healing, reconciliation and the new life

This is a General Synod year. This July, about 400 General Synod members and staff will gather in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ont., for what promises to be a defining moment in the life of the Anglican Church of Canada. ...
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