"2-Year Course Offered in Canada: Spiritual Direction Training. Mt. Carmel Spiritual Centre. Ontario, Canada. In association with The Haden Institute of Flat Rock, North Carolina, the Mount Carmel Spiritual Centre of Niagara Falls, Ontario offers a 2-Year ecumenical training program for Christian clergy, religious lay ministers, directors of religious education, chaplains, counselors and individuals discerning a call to the spiritual direction ministry. The program consists of distance learning (homestudy) plus two seven-day intensive sessions each year in residence at Mount Carmel. The course trains and certifies people to be Spiritual Directors in the Jungian, Mystical, Dream, and Christian traditions, or to integrate the spiritual dimension into their chosen vocations. Program begins October 15, 2014".
Advertisement for Primate's World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) which lists the "5 A's of Food Security: 1. Availability - food is available to all people at all times; 2. Accessibility - people have economic and physical access to food; 3. Acceptability - food is culturally acceptable; 4. Appropriate - nutritious, free from harmful chemicals; 5. Agency - people have the ability to influence policies or processes that affect their lives".
Advertisement for Primate's World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) which lists the "5 A's of Food Security: 1. Availability - food is available to all people at all times; 2. Accessibility - people have economic and physical access to food; 3. Acceptability - food is culturally acceptable; 4. Appropriate - nutritious, free from harmful chemicals; 5. Agency - people have the ability to influence policies or processes that affect their lives".
Advertisement for Primate's World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) which lists the "5 A's of Food Security: 1. Availability - food is available to all people at all times; 2. Accessibility - people have economic and physical access to food; 3. Acceptability - food is culturally acceptable; 4. Appropriate - nutritious, free from harmful chemicals; 5. Agency - people have the ability to influence policies or processes that affect their lives".
Ten short questions with answers. "1. What's being commemorated this year ? ... 2. What's the significance of this event ? ... 3. How did this lead to the existence of Protestant churches ? ... 4. What was Luther so upset about ? ... 5. What do the 'Ninety-five Theses' say ? ... 6. Is that all the Reformation was about ? ... 7. What is justification by faith ? ... 8. Was there one single idea behind the Reformation ? ... 9. Some of Luther's ideas sound very modern ... 10. Why is this event being 'commemorated' rather than 'celebrated' ?" Includes bibliographical references.
Colour photo of Hope Bear wearing a sweater with hearts and embroidered: Be Mine. "Hope Bear wishes you and your loved ones, near and far, a Happy Valentine's Day. Hope Bear's favourite Bible verse: 'May the God of hope fill you with joy and peace'." [Text of entire article.]
"In 1996 PWRDF Executive Director Robin Gibson hired [Jose Zarate] to visit and consult with Indigenous communities with whom the Anglican Church had worked. These communities identified four areas as strategic ways in which PWRDF could come alongside: restoring language and culture; working with youth; empowering women, health and wellness; and inter-Indigenous networking. Our aim was to build a new partnership based on principles of trust, equal respect and the assurance that indigenous peoples would be the ones who identify the work -- the who, when, where, how and what they would like to accomplish. Later that year [1996] PWRDF hosted a face-to-face Indigenous partners gathering in Six Nations of the Grand River; Ohsweken, Ontario. Together with the 2011 Indigenous Partners Roundtable in Calgary, Alberta, these consultations have shaped our vision and activities".
"I have recently been introduced to the Sunday Assembly, or as their members like to call themselves, 'the godless church'. One of their more quotable quotes is: 'We need the benefits that church provides without the god element'. The brainchild of two British comedians, the Sunday Assembly began in England in 2013, aiming to provide atheists with all the good things church offers -- all the good things that is, except God". "Humour and acceptance often go a longer way toward conveying the message of Jesus and teaching the tenets of faith than doctrine and exclusion. Hospitality is central to a worldview that includes God and therefore is central to the church. It would be a shame if God is left behind because we are unable to communicate this hospitality in a way that 21st-century listeners can receive".
Author is "dean of the Cathedral Church of St. Michael and All Angels", diocese of Kootenay.
"The Anglican Church of Canada's General Synod has requested bishops and deans to focus, for 22 days, from May 31 to June 21 [2017], on renewing the church's commitment to support the work of the Anglican Fund for Healing and Reconciliation through prayers, participation in awareness-raising campaigns and donations. Early this year [2017], Council of General Synod (CoGS) agreed to dedicate the undesignated proceeds of Giving with Grace, General Synod's annual fundraising campaign, to replenish the fund. For the next five years, the fund -- created in 1992 as part of the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement -- will focus on language recovery". General Secretary, Archdeacon Michael Thompson, "stressed that while the Anglican Church of Canada has met its legal obligations under the settlement agreement, 'we're far from finished with our spiritual and moral obligation to continue to support the healing work that is underway among those survivors and in those communities'."
"Anglicans across Canada are being called to demonstrate -- in the 22 days following the closing event of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission -- that this ending is only the beginning of healing and reconciliation with Canada's Indigenous people. Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, and National Indigenous Anglican Bishop Mark MacDonald have issued a call to the whole church today to participate in #22days, a campaign that will stretch from the start of the closing of TRC event in Ottawa on May 31 [2015] to National Aboriginal Day on June 21 [2015]. 22days was first conceived of by a group of cathedral deans from cities in which a national TRC event was held and was 'heartily endorsed' by the House of Bishops" (p. 10). "The General Synod communications team has created a web page -- 22days.ca -- that will offer resources, including 22 videos featuring former residential school students and staff describing their experiences in the schools. The videos are not the typical 30-second sound bytes people are used to viewing on television, they are about 15 to 20 minutes each, in order to tell the stories in a more whole and sensitive way, said Anglican Video senior producer Lisa Barry. One video will be added daily to the website during the 22-day period and each will be accompanied by a prayer, written by various people in the church" (p. 11).