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TAP. Church journalism with all the flavour and half the fat.
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HOLY WEEK 2008
Niagara Network churches celebrate Easter in their churches Anglican realignment in Niagara, Ottawa and Toronto By SUE CARELESS On Maundy Thursday a judge in the Ontario Superior Court decided to allow three Ontario parishes belonging to the Anglican Network in Canada to continue worshipping in their buildings for Good Friday, Holy Saturday & Easter Sunday. Mme Justice Jane Milanetti, reserved her decision on whether St George's Lowville, Milton, St Hilda's, Oakville and Church of the Good Shepherd, St Catharines will retain exclusive use of their church facilities while the bigger legal issues of who owns the buildings are sorted out. Une mort sur la croix (miniature du XIII siecle, from the Venezia Biblioteca Marciana). |
March 2008 Vol. 4. No.3
The Carrying of the Cross, Hans Memling, 1491. |
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WE HAVE HAD so many people, both through Sean’s illness and death, remark to us how strong we are. Not at all. As the children’s hymn says, “We are weak, but He is strong!”
Photo: George Zubick
A Canadian mission agency, SOMA (Sharing of Ministries Agroad), has been invited to return to Rwanda this April to minister to a group of women devastated by genocide. SOMA is an Anglican-based mission agency which desires to see Christians of all churches renewed in the Holy Spirit.
It would be a gift to the Anglican Communion if conservative Anglicans in Canada distinguished themselves, not as top-heavy with bishops, but bottom-heavy with increasing numbers of faithful clergy and laity worshipping God, growing in holiness, and declaring to the world that Christ has died for the remission of their sins. Photo: K.B. Wales Sean Laskey was only eleven when he contracted meningococcemia. Surrounded by love and prayer he died on St. George’s Day, April 23, 1998. Now ten years later Sean’s parents, the Rev. Gerry and Siobhan Laskey, share with Sue Careless how their family has carried on.
Reviewed by JOSEPH WALKER Spong claims to be aware of something called “our postmodern scientific world.” That statement in itself tells us something of Spong’s limited attention to the shift from modernity and its religion within the limits of reason alone--to borrow from Kant--to a postcritical reading of sacred texts and a postmodern critique of the limits of the scientific worldview and method. Spong’s entire approach has not moved beyond the limits of empiricism and so he fails to grasp how there can be a “Being” beyond Tillich’s ground of being.
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February 2008 Joe Walker: Replacing ourselves? Raymond deSouza: Hope which saves Sue Careless: What's up with that Catechism?
January 2008 James I. Packer: Anglicans adrift Ron Csillag: Paul Ken Imai, a TAP Tribute R.I.P. Sue Careless: Art after the Incarnation
December 2007 Catherine Edward: What Child is This? Some Books the West Coast Recommends
November 2007 David Reed: CULTS: Dangerous Religion or Maligned Minority? Mouneer Anis: An Ambiguity of Non-Compliance Michael Hawkins: Deadly Sorrow: Accidie the sin we don't like to talk about
Autumn 2007 Margaret Avison (1918-2007): Leading Questions, a poem Raymond deSouza: The Dark Night of the Soul
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By SUE CARELESS Abp Williams told the BBC that Britain had to “face up to the fact” that the encroachment of Islamic Sharia law into the British legal system is “unavoidable.” Pakistani-born Bp of Rochester, Dr. Michael Nazir-Ali was quick to reply.
Staff On Feb. 2 Archbishop Peter Jensen, Diocese of Sydney, notified the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, that “with regret” neither he nor his five assistant bishops would attend the Lambeth Conference.
Spirituality key to children's happiness Staff According to a new study from the University of British Columbia, spirituality is a major contributor to children’s overall happiness.
Staff A 2nd draft of the Anglican Covenant was published on Feb. 2 with a commentary, framework for resolving disputes and cover letter. Abp Drexel Gomez, believes the Covenant can hold the Communion together and is urging bishops to attend Lambeth.
New Anglican Catechism in the works Staff The Global South Primates have released an Anglican Catechism in Outline to the Communion for study and feedback by April 30.
Staff A new book accuses an Anglican bishop of smuggling thousands of historical artifacts out of China in the 1930s, violating a strict Chinese ban on cultural exports.
• Prince Caspian movie out in May • Bishop locked out in Turkey • Continued violence in Kenya
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By SUE CARELESS Although the pain of losing their daughter Barbara will never quite go away, Bruce and Betty Catchpole are healing and helping other bereaved families along the way. Originally interviewed five years after their daughter’s death now it is fourteen years since the tragedy.
Photos: Sue Careless
By SUE CARELESS In a secret ballot on Feb. 13, St. John's Shaughnessy in Vancouver voted 475 to 11 (with 9 abstentions) to leave the ACC and come under the authority of Bp Donald Harvey of the Province of the Southern Cone. Articles in TAP by J.I. Packer:
Canada only civilized nation with no restrictions on abortion By WILL JOHNSON Abortion advocates in and out of the medical profession continue to falsely claim a consensus on this open practice, yet polls repeatedly show that two-thirds of Canadians want some legal protection for the unborn child.
Staff A refugee claimant who says she was baptized in an underground church in China has won an appeal in Canada and will not be forced to return to China--yet.
• Anglican Professor wins prestigious award • Bishop Cowan opposes vote
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Some TAP contributors. Click their faces - know their thoughts.
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By GAVIN DUNBARWhy are we allowed to break our Lenten fast on Sundays? Lent is 40 days, but from Ash Wednesday until Easter Sunday there are actually 46 days. This is to account for the six Sundays that fall in Lent. All Sundays in the Christian Year are set aside for the celebration of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. Traditionally Christians are forbidden from fasting or any form of penance on those days. Thus it is customary to set aside Lenten disciplines on Sundays.
Sacramentalism: the teaching that observance of the sacraments is generally necessary for salvation and that such participation can confer grace. The English Reformers and the Caroline Divines (17th century Anglican theologians), developed the Anglican conception of the nature of a sacrament following the Christological paradigm that Jesus has two natures, human and divine, but his divine nature does not overwhelm his human nature. “Characteristic of that conception [of a sacrament] is the insistence that the natural element, the outward and visible sign, retains always its natural integrity, while it becomes the instrument of a supernatural presence; thus exemplifying the basic Augustinian and Thomistic theological principle, that grace does not destroy nature, but perfects it.” (R.Crouse) |
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risen from the dead: and become the first-fruits of them that slept. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son: and to the Holy Ghost; As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be: world without end. Amen.
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