Anglican Military Ordinariate

by Padre Canon Baxter Park I must confess as I look around this Anglican Church of Canada, an institution that I love, I sometimes find myself feeling pretty morose about the future.  I may be wrong but the church gives the impression its downsizing. Staff layoffs at our national office and once healthy and viable…

One Week Later… One week later the reality of the election is just starting to settle in. It has been some time that the possibility of being elected was present but the actuality is of a different order. That I will soon be releasing from the CAF in order to undertake these new responsibilities is…

Rev. Capt. Catherine Askew distinctly remembers the moment when she knew she wanted to be a military chaplain to the Canadian Forces. She was 17 years old and an undergraduate student at university. She had been thinking that a job as an administration clerk would give her a useful skill and some pocket money. Then…

From the Anglican Journal Two Anglican chaplains spent Christmas in Afghanistan, in a month when nine Canadian soldiers died. Peter Coffin, Bishop Ordinary to the Canadian Forces, and Rev. Col. John Fletcher made the trip to support other chaplains as well as the Canadian troops. The visit coincided with a particularly hard time for all…