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MinistryMatters stories about General Synod 2001
General Synod 2001
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. ...
Towards healing, reconciliation
and the new life
(
full text of MinistryMatters
story can be found here ...
)
General Synod
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. ...
Meeting at a time of crisis
(
full text of MinistryMatters
story can be found here ...
)
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. ...
(
full text of MinistryMatters
story can be found here ...
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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. ...
(
full text of MinistryMatters
story can be found here ...
)
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. ...
(
full text of MinistryMatters
story can be found here ...
)
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. ...
(
full text of MinistryMatters
story can be found here ...
)
What will it mean locally?
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. ...
Lutherans and Anglicans at a
historic threshhold
(
full text of MinistryMatters
story can be found here ...
)
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. ...
(
full text of MinistryMatters
story can be found here ...
)
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. ...
( full text of MinistryMatters story can be found here ... )