Department of Information and Stewardship (see page 214)
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/official3427
- Date
- 1967 August 22-31
- Source
- General Synod. Minutes
- Type
- Resolution
- Mover
- Very Rev. E.B.N. Cochran
- Seconder
- Ven. T.J. Matthews
- Text of motion
- Canon G.H. Tucker introduced the report of the Department of Information and Stewardship.
- Whereas the peoples of the world are increasingly basing decisions on information received through new forms of communication, including over 2,000 television stations, 8,000 daily newspapers and 160,000 film theatres, and are expressing their beliefs through new channels,
- Whereas ideas and learning processes themselves have been altered by the present electronic revolution,
- Whereas it is of the nature of the Gospel that it be preached where people are in their daily life and it is of the nature of the mass media that they continuously reach into the lives of even the most remote inhabitants of the earth.
- Be It Resolved that the Anglican Church of Canada recognizes its ministry in and through the mass media as an area of primary mission; that it accepts the responsibility of pioneering in the development of fresh ways of expressing the Gospel, and urges its members and organizations at all levels of the Church to give priority to the discovery and exploration of creative and imaginative avenues of effective communication, especially through the arts and the mass media. CARRIED in both Houses.
- Subjects
- Mass media in religion - Anglican Church of Canada
- Mass media - Social aspects - Canada
- Evangelism - Anglican Church of Canada
- Evangelistic work - Anglican Church of Canada