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- Christianity and culture - 21st century
'Anglicans in Canada are in exile'
http://archives.anglican.ca/en/permalink/article42361
- Author
- Hartin, Cole (Cole William)
- Record Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2020 January
- Author
- Hartin, Cole (Cole William)
- Record Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2020 January
- Volume
- 146
- Issue
- 1
- Page
- 20
- Notes
- One of seven responses by "20-40" aged Anglican "theological thinkers" reflecting on recent statistical reports and possible end of the Anglican Church by 2040.
- "The Anglican Church of Canada is hollowing out. It's in steep decline. Some might call this a 'free fall'." "This is deeply discouraging, certainly. What can be done about this ? I think the first step is to grieve and to lament. I for one, feel deeply grieved. I grieve often". "Then, I think it's time to pray". "It's not the time to abandon ship on traditional parochial ministry either. I'm all for Fresh Expressions and innovative contexts for worship, but I don't see these as a viable way forward. Perhaps I am naive, but I think local congregations are the lifeblood of the church, and they always will be, though thinned out and scattered farther apart than they have been. One of the ways I see God at work in all of this is his purgative role. And sense of pride one may have felt as an Anglican a generation of two ago is vanishing. We do not have the cultural clout we once did. We are divided amongst ourselves over sexuality, tradition and how we read the Bible. We are in decline. The mercy in all of this is that this suffering has the potential to make us humble. Humility allows us to recognize our own strengths and weaknesses with a clear head. It also enables us to recognize the blessings we can give and receive in the wider body of Christ".
- Author is "Assistant Curate, St. Luke's Anglican Church, Saint John, N.B."
- Subjects
- Anglican Church of Canada - 21st century
- Anglican Church of Canada - Forecasting
- Church renewal - Anglican Church of Canada
- Church growth - Anglican Church of Canada
- Christianity and culture - 21st century
Beyond Christendom : globalization, African migration, and the transformation of the west
http://archives.anglican.ca/en/permalink/catalog6330
- Author
- Hanciles, Jehu J., 1964-
- Publication Date
- c2008
- Material Type
- Book
- Location
- Trinity College (Graham Library)
- Call Number
- BR 115 G59 H36 2008
- Author
- Hanciles, Jehu J., 1964-
- Place
- Maryknoll NY
- Publisher
- Orbis Books
- Publication Date
- c2008
- Physical_Description
- xviii, 430 p. ; 23.5 x 15.2 cm.
- Material Type
- Book
- Notes
- "[By] Jehu J. Hanciles".
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- "This book by Jehu Hanciles, who is himself an immigrant from Sierra Leone, could not be timelier. He argues that the rapid exchange of ideas, investments, people, and products that we know as globalization is having a very surprising effect. While we Americans often think of it as bringing Coca Cola to the world and exporting factory jobs to lower-wage nations, Hanciles argues that globalization is propelling a great increase in personal mobility, and that people on the move are bringing their own ideas and outlook with them. The great majority of the new immigrants to the United States are Christians, Hanciles informs us, but their faith is not merely another American cultural import. It partakes of their unique views of life and of God's work in the world. The United States would be moving much more rapidly toward a post-Christian status, he argues, were it not for these fresh infusions of believers. With a focus on the hundreds of African immigrant congregations arising in our cities and suburbs, Hanciles gives us an intimate look at the new missions movement happening in our land. It will change the character of American Christianity, he insists, and perhaps, of Christianity worldwide". -- Foreword.
- Contents divided into three main parts: Transforming the Margins -- Migration and the New World Order -- Mobile Faiths.
- Contents: List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- A Note on Sources and Documentation -- Foreword / Joel B. Carpenter -- Introduction -- Globalization: Descriptions, Debates and Destinies -- Globalization or Culture: "We Are the World" -- Cultures of Globalization: Funny Things about Elephants -- The Birth and Bankruptcy of Christendom -- Twentieth Century Transformations: Global Christianity and Western Intellectual Captivity -- "A Wandering Aramean Was My Ancestor": Exile, Migration and Mission in Biblical Perspective -- The Making of a New World Order: Empire, Migration and Christian Mission -- South-North Migration: Old Story, New Endings -- African Migrations: A Single Bracelet Does Not Jingle -- The Emperor Has New Clothes: Assimilation and the Remaking of the West -- Immigration and Religion: Reflections on Islam -- Sacred Canopies: Immigrant Congregations and American Religious Life -- On the Road with Ancestors: America's New African Immigrants -- Have Faith, Will Travel: African Migrants and the Making of a New Missionary Movement -- African Immigrant Churches in America: "Switch Off Mobile Phones, The Only Urgent Call" -- Conclusion: New Age, New Movement, Old Mission -- Appendix 1: List of African Christian Leaders and Pastors in Kenya and Ghana Interviewed in Spring 2004 -- Appendix 2: List of Churches in the Study -- Select Bibliography -- Index.
- Subjects
- Globalization - Religious aspects - Christianity
- Emigration and immigration - Religious aspects - Christianity
- Christianity - Forecasting
- Africans - United States
- Religion - United States
- United States - Emigration and immigration - Religious aspects - Christianity
- North and south - Religious aspects - Christianity
- Christianity and culture - 21st century
- Christianity and culture - Africa
- ISBN
- 978-1-57075-790-7
- Call Number
- BR 115 G59 H36 2008
- Location
- Trinity College (Graham Library)
The declining church formed me
http://archives.anglican.ca/en/permalink/article42360
- Author
- Tatarnic, Martha
- Record Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2020 January
- Author
- Tatarnic, Martha
- Record Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2020 January
- Volume
- 146
- Issue
- 1
- Page
- 19
- Notes
- One of seven responses by "20-40" aged Anglican "theological thinkers" reflecting on recent statistical reports and possible end of the Anglican Church by 2040.
- "The decline of the church doesn't surprise me. It formed me. That being said, my 15 years of ordained ministry in this declining church have been full of surprises. In passion: Although it is tempting to long for the 'golden days' of the church, when a leader (always male then, so these imaginings only take me so far) could look out on congregations that seemed eternally full and generative, the joy of ministering in congregations that consist of people who have made a very distinct choice to be there cannot be underestimated. People no longer come to church out of habit, to be part of a club or because it is in any way expected of them. They are choosing to be there rather than choosing to be hundreds of other places. The church may be declining, but so is the polite Anglicanism with which many of us grew up. Our spiritual hunger is being laid bare".
- Author is "Rector, St. George's Anglican Church, St. Catharines, Ont."
- Subjects
- Anglican Church of Canada - 21st century
- Christianity and culture - 21st century
- Anglican Church of Canada - Forecasting
- Church renewal - Anglican Church of Canada
- Church growth - Anglican Church of Canada
Editorial : Gonna Rock the Town Tonight
http://archives.anglican.ca/en/permalink/article36057
- Author
- Jenkins, Marion
- Record Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Liturgy Canada
- Date
- 2010 Lent
- Author
- Jenkins, Marion
- Record Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Liturgy Canada
- Date
- 2010 Lent
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 1
- Page
- 2
- Notes
- The editor comments specifically on the article "Gonna Rock the Town Tonight" : Liturgical Challenge in the 21st Century" by John Stephenson and responses to it and the dilemma or "elephant in the room" namely "how we can both hold that which the church has found to be good and valuable liturgically down through the last several centuries and respond to the religious and spiritual needs of a generation with little or no religious memory". Jenkins mentions Tex Sample, "a keynote speaker at the Nurturing Healthy Parishes Symposium sponsored by General Synod in March of 2007 [who] spoke of three distinct culture: oral, literate, and electronic". "Jesus routinely met and ministered to people where he found them. Surely, we can do no less and we don't have to abandon our liturgy and sacraments to do it".
- See also "A Response" by Richard J. Salt, pp. 8-9; "Is This Why Cranmer Went to the Stake ?" by Alan T. Perry, pp. 9-10, "Bring Back Reverence, Transcendence and Beauty" by Hilde Lorenz, pp. 11-12, "Good Biscuits" by Marian Jeffries, pp. 12-13 and "My Needs Weren't Being Met" by Robin Walker, pp. 14-15, all responses to the Stephenson article in the same issue.
- Subjects
- Liturgical renewal - 21st century
- Liturgical renewal - Anglican Church of Canada
- Paradigms (Social sciences) - Religious aspects - Christianity
- Technology - Psychological aspects
- Technology - Religious aspects - Christianity
- Christianity and culture - 21st century
- Contemporary Christian music
- Church music - 21st century
- Music - Religious aspects - Christianity
- Public worship
Get to know the primatial candidates : Gregory Kerr-Wilson
http://archives.anglican.ca/en/permalink/article42152
- Author
- Kidd, Joelle
- Record Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2019 June
- Volume
- 145
- Issue
- 6
- Page
- 9
- Notes
- At the July 2019 meeting of the General Synod, clergy and lay delegates will elect the 14th primate of the Anglican Church of Canada. "The 'Anglican Journal' asked the five primatial candidates to share how they would serve the church, and where they see Good leading the Anglican Church of Canada. To read the candidates' complete responses to primatial nominee forms, visit the General Synod website at gs2019.anglican.ca". Five nominees: Jane Alexander, Bishop of Edmonton; Ronald Cutler, Bishop of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island; Gregory Kerr-Wilson, Bishop of Calgary and Metropolitan of the Ecclesiastical Province of Rupert's Land; Linda Nicholls, Bishop of Huron; and Michael Oulton, Bishop of Ontario.
- "How would you serve the church as primate ? I see carrying out the ministry of the primate as working collegially with the bishops and all of our members through the councils of the church and in a ministry of presence, teaching and encouragement .... Where is God leading the Anglican Church of Canada ? I would say that two of the core pieces which need to lead and fuel our life as a church are the Great Commandment and the Great Commission (Matt. 28:18-20 / Mark 16:15). ... While we have talked for quite some years now about how we no longer live in 'Christendom', I believe we are still strongly influenced by a Christendom mindset ....".
- Subjects
- Anglican Church of Canada. Primate - Election
- Kerr-Wilson, Gregory, 1962-
- Leadership - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Christianity and culture - 21st century
- Christianity and culture - Anglican Church of Canada - 21st century
Get to know the primatial candidates : Ronald (Ron) Cutler
http://archives.anglican.ca/en/permalink/article42151
- Author
- Kidd, Joelle
- Record Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2019 June
- Volume
- 145
- Issue
- 6
- Page
- 8
- Notes
- At the July 2019 meeting of the General Synod, clergy and lay delegates will elect the 14th primate of the Anglican Church of Canada. "The 'Anglican Journal' asked the five primatial candidates to share how they would serve the church, and where they see Good leading the Anglican Church of Canada. To read the candidates' complete responses to primatial nominee forms, visit the General Synod website at gs2019.anglican.ca". Five nominees: Jane Alexander, Bishop of Edmonton; Ronald Cutler, Bishop of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island; Gregory Kerr-Wilson, Bishop of Calgary and Metropolitan of the Ecclesiastical Province of Rupert's Land; Linda Nicholls, Bishop of Huron; and Michael Oulton, Bishop of Ontario.
- "How would you serve the church as primate ? The primate needs to be a person of prayer and a person who will help the church to discern, among the many options and opportunities, what the church should be following in order to be faithful to God's mission. .... Where is God leading the Anglican Church of Canada ? We are living in a culture with at least two generations of people who know little or nothing of the Christian message and who have a distorted or non-existent understanding of Jesus. The Anglican Church of Canada will either live out of a sense of fear and defeat occasioned by the change going on around and within the church or embrace the opportunity to speak hope and liberation to a culture blinded with consumerism as the way to fulfillment".
- Subjects
- Anglican Church of Canada. Primate - Election
- Cutler, Ron (Ronald Wayne), 1958-
- Leadership - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Christianity and culture - 21st century
- Christianity and culture - Anglican Church of Canada - 21st century
- Evangelism - Anglican Church of Canada
Is This Why Cranmer Went to the Stake ? [A Response to: Gonna Rock the Town Tonight]
http://archives.anglican.ca/en/permalink/article36059
- Author
- Perry, Alan T. (Alan Thomas), 1962-
- Record Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Liturgy Canada
- Date
- 2010 Lent
- Record Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Liturgy Canada
- Date
- 2010 Lent
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 1
- Page
- 9-10
- Notes
- "In his book 'The Entertainment Economy", American media consultant Michael J. Wolf argues that Americans (and, by extension, Canadians) increasingly make decisions to purchase goods and services based on which option is perceived to be the most entertaining, and which appears most likely to make the consumer feel good. As one reviewed put it, 'Americans now consider 'fun' as an entitlement'." "When I first read John Stephenson's paper, my immediate reaction was 'Yes !' The sort of narcissistic, pseudo-religious search for a high -- the entertaining or feel-good aspect of Wolf's e-factor -- that Stephenson describes is indeed a dangerous force in the Church. In its misguided search for a replica of transcendence, it more resembles the drunken orgies of ecstasy in the Dionysian mystery cults than authentic Christian worship, and ultimately produces the sort of litur-tainment that can never be more than an unconscious parody of authentic liturgy." "For Anglicans, it is a fundamental principle that authentic public worship is worship that is duly authorized, which implies first that the text of the liturgy comes from a source that us authorized, and second that the worship leader has been properly trained and has agreed on oath to operate within the parameters of authentic Anglican liturgy".
- Subjects
- Liturgical renewal - 21st century
- Liturgical renewal - Anglican Church of Canada
- Christianity and culture - 21st century
- Contemporary Christian music
- Public worship - Anglican Church of Canada
- Liturgy - Anglican Church of Canada
Letter to the editor: Easter must be Easter
http://archives.anglican.ca/en/permalink/article40617
- Author
- Burrill, Glen
- Record Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2011 June
- Author
- Burrill, Glen
- Record Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2011 June
- Volume
- 137
- Issue
- 6
- Page
- 4
- Notes
- "I found the article 'Why don't we use the "P" word ?' (Apr. 2011, p. 5) interesting. But I must agree to Easter being called Easter although it's apparent that the spiritual practices of Christian societies everywhere include both indigenous and Christian elements. The article also mentioned that hot cross buns were banned because they might offend non-Christians. This was not likely the work of Muslims or Hindus living in England but of atheists. Atheism is just as responsible for the destruction of culture as some religions". [Text of entire article.]
- Subjects
- Easter (The English word)
- Easter - Anglican Church of Canada
- Christianity and culture - 21st century
- Atheism and Christianity
New wineskins for new wine
http://archives.anglican.ca/en/permalink/article42363
- Author
- Hari-Singh, Alison
- Record Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2020 January
- Author
- Hari-Singh, Alison
- Record Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2020 January
- Volume
- 146
- Issue
- 1
- Page
- 21
- Notes
- One of seven responses by "20-40" aged Anglican "theological thinkers" reflecting on recent statistical reports and possible end of the Anglican Church by 2040.
- Reflecting on the possible reasons for the ongoing decline of the Anglican Church of Canada reported in its recent statistics report, the author discusses the rise of global migration and the reality of many religious traditions now in Canada; secularism; "the exposed record of abuse in the church" -- including sexual abuse perpetrated by Anglican and Roman Catholic clergy; and new developments in scientific knowledge which challenge the cosmology found in our liturgy and hymnody. "We must reimagine the entire edifice of our faith, including what we mean by 'God' and divine attributes of sovereignty, providence and love that we so often instinctively depend on. In short, we must embrace a radical theology of risk, unhindered by suspicion and fear of the unknown. ... What will happen when we undertake together this fundamental reimagination ? Our liturgies will become more creative. Our mission -- our love for the world -- will be intensified. Our imitation of Jesus will be palpable. The decline of our church fills me with anticipation, even hope. What will we do with the new wine ? Will we pour it into the old wineskins and lose everything when those wineskins burst ? Or will we find new wineskins to pour the new wine into ?"
- Author is "Assistant Curate, St. Martin-in-the Fields, Toronto [Ont.]"
- Subjects
- Anglican Church of Canada - Statistics
- Anglican Church of Canada - 21st century
- Anglican Church of Canada - Forecasting
- Christianity and culture - 21st century
- Church renewal - Anglican Church of Canada
- Church growth - Anglican Church of Canada
- Change - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Organizational change - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
Recapturing our lost virtues -- mission and evangelism
http://archives.anglican.ca/en/permalink/article42362
- Author
- Lao, Orvin
- Record Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2020 January
- Author
- Lao, Orvin
- Record Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2020 January
- Volume
- 146
- Issue
- 1
- Page
- 20, 22
- Notes
- One of seven responses by "20-40" aged Anglican "theological thinkers" reflecting on recent statistical reports and possible end of the Anglican Church by 2040.
- "The recent statistics on trending decline in the Anglican Church of Canada came as no surprise to me. I have only been a confirmed Anglican for almost five years and an ordained minister for a couple of months" (p. 20). "I believe the cultural decline of the Anglican Church of Canada is the work of God. It is the pruning work of the Master Vinedresser to discipline and refine us. He is removing the fence on which many Anglicans have sat too long and comfortably. .... It is God's merciful action to displace our church from her improper place of cultural power, societal clout, and generational wealth and ease" (p. 20) "The Anglican church should be making more Christians, inviting everyone in and around our parishes to become followers of Jesus Christ. We need to recapture and embody our lost and forgotten Anglican virtue of mission and evangelism" (p. 20). "I am hopeful that the Anglican Church of Canada will persist 20 years from now. God has granted us still the management of enormous resources, assets, materials and real estate. But those are not our most treasured possessions. We have the creeds, our Bible, our common prayer, our history of missionary and theological enterprise, our liturgical heritage, the beauty of biblical language and sacred music, our global presence and ecumenical relationships, our sacramental conviction and participation -- these are our Anglican conduits through which the Holy Spirit still chooses to do work" (p. 22).
- Author is "Community Pastor, Little Trinity, Toronto [Ont.]"
- Subjects
- Anglican Church of Canada - 21st century
- Anglican Church of Canada - Forecasting
- Christianity and culture - 21st century
- Church renewal - Anglican Church of Canada
- Church growth - Anglican Church of Canada
- Evangelism - Anglican Church of Canada