Cydney Proctor, “What do we hear?”
On March 2 the Council of General Synod, the highest governing body of the Anglican Church of Canada, received an […]
Church Reflections, Guest Posts
Church Reflections
Church Reflections, Guest Posts
Madeleine Urion, “On Responding to Survivors: A Reflection on John 12:1-8”
The church must tell survivors that their testimony matters, and “admit our failures to protect one another from the unchecked and unwanted desires of those who have exploited their leadership and hurt others,” writes the Rev. Madeleine Urion. “Without true repentance we create the conditions for our own demise.”
Church Reflections, Public Archive
Finn Keesmaat-Walsh
Earlier this week I joined over 300 Anglicans across Canada in signing ACCtoo’s open letter (if you haven’t read it, I would recommend reading it before reading the rest of this post, you can find it at acctoo.ca/open-letter).
As a member of the Council of General Synod (CoGS) (one of the groups/people the letter is addressed to), I didn’t sign earlier because I wanted to see what CoGS’s response would be before signing, and it felt weird to be signing a letter that was technically addressed to me. But I can’t just sit back and keep quiet anymore. I can’t let the statement from CoGS (https://bit.ly/3L4pxmD) be the only thing coming from me on this. I want to publicly say that I did not support the CoGS reply to ACCtoo. I’m part of why the CoGS statement was “not unanimous”. I didn’t support it because it isn’t enough. We did not endorse the three calls to action in ACCtoo’s letter; we didn’t even address all of them.