The Diocese of Niagara has managed to alienate a significant segment of Guelph’s inhabitants by selling its buildings to property developers rather than other churches. It isn’t often that the Diocese of Niagara stirs up enough passion to convince anyone to parade around with a sign that has “Anglican” on it. In this case, though, “Anglican” is accompanied by another word: “greed”.
After a couple of church closures by the diocese, the Anglican Network in Canada is starting a new church: it’s Anglican and Christian.
From here:
At this season of renewal, Guelph is also experiencing a renewed expression of Anglicanism. Under the leadership of the Reverend Zena Attwood, “St Jude, Guelph” wants to be a spiritual home for seekers and Christians who value ordered worship combined with serious Biblical and theological scholarship.
St Jude belongs to the Anglican Network in Canada, an alternative Anglican jurisdiction that Ms Attwood says embodies the best of Anglicanism’s catholic, reformed, evangelical, and charismatic traditions. She explains that the impetus to form the St Jude community predates the demise of two of Guelph’s four Anglican congregations, but she hopes that St Jude may help to stanch the hemorrhaging of Guelph’s Anglican community.
Well………….I wish her well. Having said that, couldn’t someone come up with a better name for this than the patron Saint of lost causes will most certainly exude? Curious.
It was God’s choice, after lots of prayer.
Well………..there you go. A ‘higher power’……the Holy Spirit made the “name call”. No need for apologies of any kind. As I say, I wish you well. I have left the Anglican Church of Canada. The trials and tribulations of the protracted dying process of St. Luke’s Anglican Church, Brantford has taken more than its “toll on me”. As I mentioned to a number of people…………I leave and Michael Coren joins! Its a ‘win win’. Tongue firmly planted in cheek…………….
Well….we’re all lost causes. I kinda like the name. 🙂
It is encouraging to find a clergy person who is prepared to stand up for the faith in an atmosphere of deceit and apostasy. We belong to an ANIC congregation and we are a vibrant and growing congregation. With the ACoC rapidly descending into the pit of apostasy true genuine Anglicans will have a home.
Thank you David. I am a member of that new Guelph church – St Judes.
D’Arcy