“Never tire of doing what is right,” urges Paul in 2 Thessalonians, but how can we not tire of battling the enormous, amorphous, problem of global poverty?
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I am delighted that this edition of MinistryMatters is devoted to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and I want to thank all who have contributed articles. I trust they will provoke thought and action, locally and globally.
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At the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000, all 189 member states committed themselves to improving the lives of the world’s most impoverished people before 2015. It was a compact between rich and poor countries: wealthy countries, including Canada, promised to deliver more, and more effective, aid, faster and deeper debt relief, and fairer trade rules.
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Last year I was privileged to participate in two separate events of the global Anglican Communion. Although they were quite different, both events gave me insight into what is distinctive about how Anglicans understand “mission” and how the much-championed Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) fit into that understanding.
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The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) has been engaged in community development work for most of its 50-year history. It has, therefore, lived and breathed the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) long before the United Nations created them in 2000.
read moreMany books will help you find this will to act with practical suggestions, stories of hope, and data analysis. But we need spiritual resources, too. As congregational sales representative for Anglican Book Centre and Augsburg Fortress, I offer you a few of the latter.
read moreCharles Longworth feels passionately about the work of the Anglican Church in Canada’s North. He has worked in northern dioceses as an engineer and is particularly interested in supporting ministry in First Nations communities. Charles has thought about how he might do this, and has concluded that making a charitable gift with stocks and other [...]
read moreFifteen years ago, Archbishop Michael Peers stood in a Minaki, Ont. lodge and, as Primate, apologized to Aboriginal Anglicans for the church’s involvement in residential schools. He was at the National Native Convocation, and for almost a week he had listened while former residential school students told their stories: of lost homes, foreign education, abuse, [...]
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The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod? Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil; [...]
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Lately I have been thinking a great deal about the concept of pilgrimage as a spiritual exercise. In part this is because my wife and I are in the final stages of planning a six-week trip that will take us to a number of significant holy sites-Lindisfarne in England and the Greek island of Patmos, [...]
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