Bishops discuss changes to church structures, marriage canon
http://archives.anglican.ca/en/permalink/article40158
- Author
- Williams, Leigh Anne
- Record Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2015 June
- Author
- Williams, Leigh Anne
- Record Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2015 June
- Volume
- 141
- Issue
- 6
- Page
- 12
- Notes
- "When the House of Bishops met in Niagara Falls, Ont., from April 13 to 17 [2015], they discussed some contentious issues, including possible amendments to the marriage canon and a call from the Anglican Council of Indigenous Peoples (ACIP) for significant changes to church structures. But Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, said there was, nevertheless, 'a spirit of hopefulness' at the gathering". "The bishops discussed the document, 'Where We Are Today: Twenty Years after the Covenant, an Indigenous Call to Church Leadership', in terms of what they thought needed more clarification, what they found encouraging and what they found challenging." "Hiltz observed that what underlies much of these discussions is the question, 'What is everybody's understanding of self-determination ?' This is a conversation that needs to continue, he said. People are not sure what self-determination will mean in terms of concrete changes, said Hiltz". "Bishops also endorsed the #22days campaign calling Anglicans to commit to working toward healing and reconciliation with Indigenous peoples. ... Hiltz noted that Bishop Robert Hardwick of the diocese of Qu'Appelle shared plans to ring church bells for murdered and missing women and girls, and other bishops decided that could be done in all of their dioceses".
- Subjects
- Anglican Church of Canada. House of Bishops - Meetings
- Marriage (Canon law) - Anglican Church of Canada
- Marriage - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Same sex unions - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Native peoples - Canada - Anglican Church of Canada
- Leadership - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Anglican Church of Canada - Structure
- Where We Are Today: Twenty Years after the Covenant, and Indigenous Call to Church Leadership
- 22 Days Campaign
- Hardwick, Robert, 1956-
- Church bells - Anglican Church of Canada
- Native women - Crimes against - Canada
- Missing persons - Canada
- Murder - Investigation - Canada
For God so Loved the World ...
http://archives.anglican.ca/en/permalink/article27724
- Journal
- Anglican World
- Date
- 2000 Trinity
- Issue
- 98
- Page
- 30-31
- Notes
- The author, a priest in the Anglican Church of Canada, reviews the Christian, scripture-based commitment to creation and hence to environmental action. He describes the history and work of the Arocha Ecumenical Christian Conservation Centre [i.e. ARocha Christian Field Study Centre and Bird Observatory] at Cruzinha in southern Portugal which was founded by Peter Harris, a Church of England priest and member of BCMS. "The centre works with local environmental groups and is now managed by a local board. It welcomes visitors, mostly student groups coming to study the birds and plants of the Alvor estuary close to the centre. In addition to the work of Christian hospitality, the staff are actively involved in research." "[T]he Anglican Consultative Council is seeking to set up an Anglican Environmental Network. This work will be co-ordinated by the Rev. Canon Eric Beresford, Consultant for Ethics for the Anglican Consultative Council. Our hope is that the network will help Anglicans to work together and, with our ecumenical partners, to reflect something of God's love for all creation, and to promote more just and sustainable environmental practices."
- Subjects
- A Rocha Christian Field Study Centre and Bird Observatory (Cruzinha, Portugal)
- Ecology - Religious aspects - Anglican Communion
- Ecology - Religious aspects - Christianity
- Environmental protection - Religious aspects - Anglican Communion
- Environmental protection - Religious aspects - Christianity
- Anglican Communion Environmental Network
- Harris, Peter, 1952-
- Beresford, Eric B. (Eric Brian), 1957-
Under the bright wings
http://archives.anglican.ca/en/permalink/catalog3697
- Author
- Harris, Peter, 1952-
- Publication Date
- 2000, c1993
- Material Type
- Book : Paper
- Location
- Trinity College, Graham Library
- Call Number
- BT 695.5 H37 2000
- Author
- Harris, Peter, 1952-
- Place
- Vancouver BC
- Publisher
- Regent College Publishing
- Publication Date
- 2000, c1993
- Physical_Description
- xi, 182 p. : ill. ; 20.5 x 12.8 cm.
- Material Type
- Book : Paper
- Notes
- "[By] Peter Harris".
- "Illustrations by Susan Rubira".
- "Copyright 1993 Peter Harris. First published 1993 in Great Britain by Hodder and Stoughton. Reprinted 2000 by Regent College Publishing". -- verso of t.-p.
- Bibliography: pp. 175-176
- This book "tells the story of a pioneering work in the beautiful but ravaged Portuguese Algarve. Keenly aware of their Christian responsibility for the environment and towards their neighbours, Peter [a Church of England priest] and Miranda Harris learn from scratch about cross-cultural evangelism, community living and conversation. The A Rocha Christian Field Centre and Bird Observatory [in Cruzinha, Portugal] has now welcomed hundreds of visitors from all over the world". -- back cover.
- Contents: Acknowledgments -- Foreword dated July 1992 / John Stott -- [Text] -- Bibliography -- A Rocha: Christmas in Conservation: Postscript dated September 2000 / Barbara Mearns, A Rocha International Staff Member.
- Subjects
- Harris, Peter, 1952-
- Harris, Miranda
- A Rocha Christian Field Study Centre and Bird Observatory (Cruzinha, Portugal)
- Human ecology - Religious aspects - Christianity
- Birds - Religious aspects - Christianity
- Environmental ethics
- Environmental protection - Religious aspects - Anglican Communion
- Ecology - Religious aspects
- Ecology - Religious aspects - Christianity
- Lusitanian Church
- ISBN
- 0-88865-697-1 (Canada)
- 1-57383-188-3 (U.S.A.)
- Call Number
- BT 695.5 H37 2000
- Location
- Trinity College, Graham Library
Walking together: A justice that is waiting
http://archives.anglican.ca/en/permalink/article38722
- Author
- MacDonald, Mark L. (Mark Lawrence), 1954-
- Record Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2013 December
- Record Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2013 December
- Volume
- 139
- Issue
- 10
- Page
- 5
- Notes
- The author considers "the over 600 missing and murdered indigenous women -- women who died because of their vulnerability to violence, women whose deaths seem neither to be mourned nor even noticed by the government of Canada and the majority of the Canadian public. There are close to one and a half million indigenous people in Canada, slightly more than the population of Ottawa. Imagine if 600 women from Ottawa were to disappear in a similar fashion. Would the government -- or anyone -- tolerate their disappearance ? Wouldn't we work urgently and tirelessly until every woman was accounted for, until all women were safe ?" "We are sadly, witnesses of such hideous evil -- certainly, in the growing worldwide poverty, which so disproportionately impacts women and children, but just as really and dramatically in the indigenous women whose tragic lives have been denied justice".
- Author is "national indigenous bishop of the Anglican Church of Canada".
- Subjects
- Peter, Titus, 1920-2008
- Indigenous women - Violence against - Canada
- Native women - Crimes against - Canada
- Indian women - Violence against - Canada
- Native women - Violence against - Canada
- Missing persons - Canada
- Murder - Investigation - Canada
- Marginality, Social - Canada
- Indigenous women - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Justice - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Justice - Canada