Anglican Journal editor resigns

Anglican Journal editor Leanne Larmondin has announced her resignation effective June 13, 2008. Ms. Larmondin served General Synod in three roles over 15 years, first as staff writer for the Journal, then as web manager, where she helped launch anglican.ca. In 2002, she began as editor of the award-winning Journal, the largest circulation religious publication in Canada.

Court rules for diocese of Niagara

A Superior Court judgment released yesterday has ordered three parishes in the diocese of Niagara that voted earlier this year to affiliate themselves with the Province of the Southern Cone to share the use of their property with the diocese.

What makes a group of bishops a House?

It’s because they meet as a family – as brothers and sisters in Christ – says Archbishop Fred Hiltz, the Primate, in a new webcast recorded from Mount Carmel Spiritual Centre in Niagara Falls, Ont., where bishops met April 14 – 18.

Women’s network strategizes for Lambeth

Domestic violence, women in leadership, and women’s access to technology—these are a few of the issues that the International Anglican Women’s Network (IAWN) would like to discuss with bishops and their spouses at the Lambeth Conference, the meeting of all Anglican bishops in July 2008.

Bishops’ hands-on mission education

Bishops wear many hats—and not just those pointy mitres in processions. In their day-to-day work they are pastors, administrators, preachers, and on occasion, they are even travellers alongside Partners in Mission and Ecojustice (PMEJ) staff when they go overseas.

St. Basil scholarship grows, seeks applications

Bishop Henry Hill was a man passionate about dialogue between Anglican and Orthodox churches. So passionate, in fact, that the former Diocese of Ontario bishop not only served as the Archbishop of Canterbury’s representative in related dialogues, but in 1991 he set up the St. Basil Scholarship so scholars from Canadian Anglican and Oriental Orthodox churches could travel overseas to learn more about each other’s faith.