What do you do when you’ve been given the gift of preaching and you’re a Catholic woman? Marie-Louise Ternier-Gommers faced that dilemma. Ironically, she discovered her gift for preaching at the Lutheran Theological Seminary (LTS) where she enrolled in 1990 with the intention of taking a class or two to better equip her for the
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Foi et constitution a fêté, le 25 août, ses 75 ans d’activité depuis sa première conférence mondiale à Lausanne, en 1927. Les participants à cette célébration à la cathédrale de Lausanne étaient invités à se rappeler et à se réapproprier les perspectives de l’assemblée fondatrice de 1927. À Lausanne, les représentants des Églises ont identifié
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La révérende Karen Hamilton, ministre de l’Église unie du Canada, est la nouvelle secrétaire générale du Conseil canadien des Églises. Elle succède à Janet Somerville dont le mandat de cinq ans se termine fin septembre. Mme Hamilton est membre fondateur du Greater Toronto Council of Christian Churches, directrice du Dialogue judéo-chrétien de Toronto et membre
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Ouest Pour la première fois au Canada, un pasteur luthérien, James Buenting, est devenu pasteur à plein temps de l’église anglicane All Saints, à Regina. Le passage a été rendu possible grâce à l’accord de Waterloo entre l’Église évangélique luthérienne au Canada et l’Église anglicane du Canada signé en juillet 2001 à Waterloo, Ontario. Le
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On 25 August, 2002, the Faith and Order Commission celebrated 75 years of work since the first world conference on Faith and Order in Lausanne (1927). The celebration in the Lausanne cathedral invited participants to remember and reappropriate the insights of the 1927 founding assembly. The Lausanne conference identified central aspects of Christian faith that
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Rev. Karen Hamilton, a minister of the United Church of Canada, has been appointed as the new general secretary of the Canadian Council of Churches, succeeding Janet Somerville whose five-year term expires at the end of September. Hamilton is a founding member of the Greater Toronto Council of Christian Churches, a director of the Christian-Jewish
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West In the first appointment of its kind in Canada, Lutheran minister James Buenting has become the full-time pastor at All Saints Anglican Church in Regina. The crossover was made possible by the Waterloo Accord between the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada and the Anglican Church of Canada, signed July 2001in Waterloo, Ontario. Rev. Buenting
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“Interchurch families may present and model the hope for the eventual visible unity of the Church.” So says the Catholic / Reformed Dialogue in the United States. While we believe that to be the case, we interchurch couples insist we didn’t consciously choose this path. We simply met someone from another Christian tradition, fell in love and, despite the differences, decided to continue that love for each other, exclusively, for the rest of our lives. Everything else flowed from that ongoing decision and commitment.
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Les foyers interconfessionnels peuvent représenter un espoir et un modèle pour l’éventuelle unité visible de l’Église: c’est ce que déclare le Dialogue catholique-réformé aux États-Unis. Tout en croyant que c’est le cas, nous, les foyers interconfessionnels, tenons à souligner que nous n’avons pas choisi cette voie consciemment. Nous avons tout simplement rencontré quelqu’un d’une autre tradition chrétienne, l’amour est né et, en dépit des différences, nous avons décidé de conserver cet amour l’un pour l’autre, exclusivement, pour le reste de nos jours. Tout le reste découle de cette décision et de cet engagement permanents.
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It’s almost always front-page news when a bishop says something obviously true. Dr George Carey has spent most of his time in office pretending he is the spiritual leader of 70 million people in the worldwide Anglican Communion (a figure that assumes about 24 million followers in England alone).

Now, in a final gesture towards his liberal successor, he has cited the obvious, that the Communion is deeply divided over homosexuality. It has, he says, reached “crisis point”.
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To virtually all the 70 million Anglicans spread in an arc from London to Kuala Lumpur, the name Capilano College has no significance. But, if the outgoing Archbishop of Canterbury is to be believed, the college on the Pacific shores of Canada could soon be a name as infamous for religious schism as the Diet of Worms, the Edict of Nantes or the Council of Trent.
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A public feud has broken out between the Archbishop of Canterbury and the British Columbia bishop he accused of creating a worldwide schism in the Anglican Church by deciding to bless homosexual relationships.

Dr. George Carey, the spiritual head of the Anglican Church, warned this week of a possible split in two over divisions caused by liberal-minded North American bishops. He specifically mentioned Michael Ingham, Bishop of the Diocese of New Westminster, B.C., which includes Vancouver.

Bishop Ingham shot back, questioning the Archbishop’s ethics and accusing him of using his office to meddle in local affairs.
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The growing split between factions of the worldwide Anglican Communion has reached “crisis proportions” and the issue of homosexuality is tearing the church apart, the outgoing Archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey, has said.

In his swansong address as president of the Anglican Consultative Council, Dr Carey also took a swipe at the Sydney Diocese for its drive to allow lay people to give Holy Communion.
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The issue of homosexuality could push the Anglican Church to the brink, the Archbishop of Canterbury has warned.

Dr George Carey said divisions in the Church had reached “crisis” point.

In a farewell address as president of the Anglican Consultative Council, a senior church body, he warned of the danger of breakaway groups emerging.
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The retiring archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey, yesterday warned of the risk of fragmentation in the 70 million-strong worldwide Anglican communion, of which he is the nominal leader, on the issue of homosexuality in the church.
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A flurry of new acronyms is appearing on the ecumenical stage: ACR (The Association for Church Renewal); CCT (Christian Churches Together in the U.S.A.); FCFONA (Foundation for a Conference on Faith and Order in North America); GCF (Global Christian Forum). All affect evangelicals.

These acronyms represent attempts to transcend and to some extent replace, redefine, or reconfigure the older acronyms of the NCC (National Council of Churches) and the WCC (World Council of Churches), the carriers of ecumenical vitalities and viruses during their last 50 years.
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If believers are to follow Jesus, they must work and pray for Christian unity. But unity means vastly different things, and some efforts toward unity are more faithful to the biblical vision than others.

In May of 2001, I went to Malaysia to attend the General Assembly of the World Evangelical Fellowship (since renamed the World Evangelical Alliance, or WEA). In December 1998 I attended the General Assembly of the World Council of Churches in Zimbabwe. What I saw in these very different meetings helps us think about cohesion and cooperation between Christians—about our participation in global, national, and even local efforts at “being one.”
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Last weekend, taking a brief respite between bouts of ‘Bread of Heaven’ and the national anthem in our exhaustive school end-of-term ceremonies, I dived into a paper and turned on the radio. Bad mistake. I was assaulted from two directions.

First, in a seemingly authoritative survey, a quarter of Church of England clergy and nearly one in five of the laity say that even now, eight years after the first women priests were ordained, there ‘should not be any women bishops, anywhere’. So the old horror of an oestrogenated ministry still lurks strongly within that Church, despite the shake-out when herds of outraged clergy and miffed laity defected to Rome over the issue (their worries about transubstantiation and papal infallibility strangely vanishing overnight in their greater worry about women in cassocks).
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Plus de 1200 leaders religieux aux Etats-Unis ont lancé un appel interreligieux pour la préservation de l’énergie et la justice environnementale. Dans leur déclaration, les responsables religieux reprennent les préoccupations du protocole de Kyoto de 1997, qui définit des normes internationales en vue de réduire les émissions de gaz à effet de serre dans l’atmosphère
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Une religieuse orthodoxe syrienne étudie présentement la théologie et l’anglais à l’Université de Toronto et à la Toronto School of Theology, grâce à une bourse d’études Saint Basil le Grand, de la Anglican Foundation of Canada. sœur Tabitha, âgée de 48 ans, membre de la communauté de Saint-Jakoboite de Baradaos, est le quatrième récipiendaire de
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