The first time Dr. Stephen Foster put in a pacemaker, he didn’t know how to turn it on.

The Hamilton doctor working in Angola had to call an American colleague to ask him how to get it started. But that’s business as usual for Foster, who has just won a major humanitarian award for his work at the African hospital he runs.

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This article originally appeared on May 13, 2010.

On the face of it the odds would seem to have favoured General Synod 2010 passing legislation approving at least a “local option” for blessing same-sex unions. The time seemed ripe, especially given the recent history of the two previous synods.

Commentary by Sue Careless