Category Archives: Anglican Church of Canada
Canada and the Refugee Crisis: Part Two
This is the second part of a talk I gave on Ascension Day 2017 at Christ Church Cathedral, Victoria, on Canada and the Refugee Crisis. The first part was where I give an overview of the history and current situation … Continue reading
Is the Legacy of the Indian Residential Schools an Issue for Theology?
The following is a continuation from my previous post and part of the serialization of the first draft of my dissertation Unsettling Theology. One might argue that while the legacy of the Indian Residential Schools is an issue for the … Continue reading
Unsettling Theology: Introduction
How do good people wind up doing evil things? How are Christians to deal with an evil legacy? Behind these simple, very general questions, is an actual story, and a very real theological legacy. Between the 1870s and the 1970s … Continue reading
It Was More Like 80%
It Wasn’t Two-Thirds, It Was More Like 80% That’s the conclusion that I’ve reached about the level of support for the First Reading of the Amendment to the Marriage Canon. As most Canadian Anglicans know, the motion required a two-thirds … Continue reading
Not All Delegates are Alike
General Synod Delegates and the Populations They Represent In the last blog post I reviewed the raw statistics collected by the General Synod in order to determine the number of clergy and lay delegates each diocese could send to General … Continue reading
The 21st Largest City in Canada: Anglican Church Attendance in Canada
This will be the first of three posts I am going to put up here on my blog. This one is going to be about the attendance statistics collected by the General Synod. The second will be about how the … Continue reading
That Other Blog I’ve Been Working On
I haven’t posted much on this blog lately because I’ve been posting on another blog – the Diocese of BC at GS2016. It’ll give you a partial view of the 41st meeting of the General Synod of the Anglican Church … Continue reading
Refugee Settlement Update June 21, 2016, Refugee Program of the Anglican Diocese of British Columbia
Part of my life is being the Refugee Coordinator for the Anglican Diocese of British Columbia. When I took this on in February 2015 we had only one settlement of a family taking place, and it was soon completed. We … Continue reading
On Being a Priest
At the age of twenty-six I became an elder. Not an elder in age, of course, but I was ordained to be an elder in the church. Elder in the Greek of the early church is πρεσβύτερος or presbuteros. This … Continue reading
Will Our Bishops Have Faith?
I feel sorry for C. C. J. Carpenter, who was a bishop in the Episcopal Church of the US between 1938 and 1968. He was undoubtedly a decent man and an effective leader. But that is not what he is … Continue reading
The Island Parson 