'You can't be selfish and survive' in Canada's harsh but beautiful North
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article41661
- Author
- Kidd, Joelle
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2018 March
- Author
- Kidd, Joelle
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2018 March
- Volume
- 144
- Issue
- 3
- Page
- 1, 6
- Notes
- "The Ungava Peninsula in Nunavik, northern Quebec, is flanked by Hudson Bay on one side and Ungava Bay on the other. Here, above the treeline, wide open skies frame sweeping views of snow through the cold, crisp air. 'It's a beautiful place, amazingly beautiful', says Esther Wesley, co-ordinator of the Anglican Healing Fund. 'But life is harsh'. Wesley, along with Melanie Delva, reconciliation animator for the Anglican Church of Canada, travelled to the area in December [2017], during a two-week visit with Bishop David Parsons, of the diocese of the Arctic. Travelling with the bishop gave them the chance to experience church services in eight communities" (p. 1). In a phone interview, Bishop David Parsons said: "'The people have a vibrancy. That spiritual part of their life is awake' he said. As churches are closing across the rest of the country, he said, in these communities, 'congregations are doing very well .. we're needing to build larger churches'" (p. 6). "But the parishes in the Ungava deanery face their fair share of challenges as well. Despite large congregations, there is a lack of ordained clergy. 'We rarely see Anglican clergy from Canada', says Parsons. He says some people 'can't handle' the remoteness and isolation of the Arctic" (p. 6). Article describes meeting with the Rev. Bobby Nakoolak in Quataq, "a retired elder in his mid-80s who continues to do the work of a priest" (p. 6) and "Jeannie Nungak, a lay reader at Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Kangirsuk ... In the community of between 500 and 600 people, 110 attend Holy Trinity Church, she says. But there is no priest" (p. 6).
- Subjects
- Canada, Northern - 21st century
- Canada, Northern - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Anglican Church of Canada. Diocese of the Arctic
- Anglican Church of Canada. Diocese of the Arctic - Clergy
- Indigenous clergy - Anglican Church of Canada
- Inuit - Canada - 21st century
- Inuit - Canada - Anglican Church of Canada
- Inuit - Quebec (Province)
- Wesley, Esther
- Delva, Melanie
- Parsons, David W.
- Nakoolak, Bobby
- Nungak, Jeannie