'Barriers' to native ministry remain
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article40105
- Author
- Forget, Andre
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2015 May
- Author
- Forget, Andre
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2015 May
- Volume
- 141
- Issue
- 5
- Page
- 1, 11
- Notes
- "Indigenous Anglican leaders stated at a recent meeting of the Anglican Council of Indigenous Peoples (ACIP) that they hope their most recent call for greater self-determination will be the last one needed". "The statement, titled 'Where Are We Today: Twenty Years after the Covenant, an Indigenous Call to Church Leadership', was presented to Council of General Synod (CoGS) in November and has already led to some discussion among the council and at the House of Bishops. Feedback from those discussions has led to a second draft, which ACIP presented to Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, during ACIP's annual meeting in March 20 [2015] at the Six Nations territory in Ohsweken, Ont" (p. 1). "Changes have been made in the language and tenor of the text, said National Indigenous Anglican Bishop Mark MacDonald. 'We know that some things we said got people's backs up'. The revised statement notes that ACIP has experienced 'a significant level of co-operation and partnership' with the House of Bishops and CoGS' (p. 11). "One of the key barriers, many ACIP members suggested, was the bishops. Freda Lepine, of the diocese of Brandon, noted that bishops were not consistently accommodating of Indigenous needs or co-operative with Indigenous leadership across the church. 'Some are co-operative, others aren't', she said. 'I don't know whether it's the fact that racism still exists or that they still don't understand what we're trying to do. We need to evaluate that, and where we stand relative to that'" (p. 11).
- Subjects
- Indigenous peoples - Canada - Anglican Church of Canada
- Native Covenant (1994)
- Anglican Church of Canada. Anglican Council of Indigenous Peoples
- MacDonald, Mark L. (Mark Lawrence), 1954-
- Leadership - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Indigenous ministry - Anglican Church of Canada
- Anglican Church of Canada - Bishops