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Carey’s remarks damage unity, says Ingham

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Bishop Michael Ingham of the diocese of New Westminster has issued the following statement in response to the presidential address by George Carey, Archbishop of Canterbury, who told the Anglican Consultative Council Sept. 16 that the Anglican Communion “is being steadily undermined by dioceses and individual bishops taking unilateral action … in matters to do with sexuality.” A link to Archbishop Carey’s statement appears below Bishop Ingham’s response.

'The Bell of Hope'

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At this hour exactly one year ago, the part of lower Manhattan in which we are gathered was in the grip of a waking nightmare. The scale of the human tragedy of September the eleventh 2001 was not, could not, be clear. But the extent of the physical devastation in New York was certainly becoming evident, despite the choking pall of smoke and dust that obscured most things. By this time both of the twin towers – just a few hundred yards away – had collapsed, and in their place Ground Zero was coming eerily into existence.

Sacred Jazz coming to Toronto Cathedral

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Conference highlights include workshops on improvisation, liturgical jazz music, music for worship and movement in worship. The keynote speaker is Rev. Bill Carter, jazz pianist and founder/arranger of the Presbybop Quartet; presenters include Christopher Dawes, Sally Armour-Wotton, John Campbell, Rev. Graham Cotter, Rev. Tim Elliott, Thomas Fitches, Douglas Cowling.

Diocesan group sees new vision of conservatism

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While eight dissident parishes in New Westminster continue to court and receive national and world media attention in their campaign for another bishop, some Anglicans who also consider themselves conservative and orthodox are waging a separate, quiet campaign for the established structures of the church.

New West rally draws 1,500

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If any of the 1,500 people who turned up at a worship and rally for conservative Anglicans protesting the liberalization of their church expected any irregular episcopal consecration or offers of episcopal oversight, they went away disappointed.

A call to stop the rush to war

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As representatives and participants from the United States, British and Canadian churches meeting at the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches, we have heard and share the concern of those of other nations about the apparent drift towards military confrontation in Iraq.

Canadian, British and U.S. church leaders call on U.S. government to ‘stop the rush to war’

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From the National Council of Churches News Service Thirty-seven Christian leaders from three Western nations, gathered in Geneva, Switzerland, for a meeting of the World Council of Churches Central Committee, have issued an urgent call to the American government to pull back from its unilateral movement toward pre-emptive military action against Iraq, and to seek … Continued

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