Anglicans in public life: Mia Anderson: On the stage, on the page and in the pulpit
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article40029
- Author
- Williams, Leigh Anne
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2014 May
- Author
- Williams, Leigh Anne
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2014 May
- Volume
- 140
- Issue
- 5
- Page
- 15
- Notes
- A profile of the Rev. Mia Anderson who has been an actress in England and Canada,a sheep farmer, Anglican Church of Canada priest and poet. Anderson is married to Archdeacon Thomas Settle. A late vocation, Anderson was ordained in 2001 at St. Michael's Anglican Church in Quebec City "the only parish in which she served" before retiring. When she arrived the "average age of parishioners was 75. The neighbourhood, predominantly francophone, assumed that an Anglican church would be English-only and have nothing to offer them. During Anderson's time, Saint Michael became a bilingual parish. A garden and a labyrinth were built on the church grounds to serve as an invitation to the surrounding community. and hymns were also sung in French. When Anderson left, the parish was still small, but the average age was 34. Her theatre experience proved useful ... she acknowledged, but said the connection to drama is sometimes overrated". "Anderson has also published books of poetry" and in 2013 her poem "The Antenna" won the $20,000 Montreal International Poetry Prize. "Now retired from parish ministry, she and Settle live in the country in the Portneuf region along the St. Lawrence River".
- Subjects
- Anderson, Mia
- Christian poetry - Anglican Church of Canada
- Christian poetry, Canadian (English)
- St. Michael's Anglican Church (Quebec City, Que.)