Category: The Lead

Canadian Anglicans faced with yet another issue of inclusion.

UPDATE – Tonight, 11 JUL 2016, the resolution to bring marriage equality to the ACoC failed in the House of Clergy by 1 vote. It passed by the needed 2/3s majority in the Houses of Bishops & Laity. A motion to reconsider the vote on the resolution was defeated.

During his sermon for the opening eucharist for the Anglican Church of Canada’s 2016 triennial synod, the most Revd Fred Hiltz, reminded those gathered that the Canadian Church had passed through questions of inclusion a number of times since it’s first synod held in 1893.

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First wedding cakes, now birthday cakes too!

It appears that in the name of religious liberty, at least one baker has decided that not only will she not create wedding cakes for same gender couples, if she finds out that someone is LGBT, she won’t make them a birthday cake either.

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As we mourn

Exalted and hallowed be God’s great name in the world which God created, according to plan. May God’s majesty be revealed in the days of

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Where are the theologians?

In an age where religious motivations can cause people to do great harm or great good, and where every idea–good and bad–has equal weight, where are the theologians who can help ground us and guide our reflections?

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