{"id":21178,"date":"2014-03-24T13:00:19","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T18:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=21178"},"modified":"2014-03-24T13:00:19","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T18:00:19","slug":"anglican-church-of-canada-participates-in-truth-and-reconciliation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anglican-church-of-canada-participates-in-truth-and-reconciliation\/","title":{"rendered":"Anglican Church of Canada participates in Truth and Reconciliation"},"content":{"rendered":"

From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

From March 27 to 30, several thousand Indigenous and non-Indigenous people will gather in Edmonton, Alberta for the seventh and final national Truth and Reconciliation Commission event.<\/p>\n

The Anglican delegation will include Archbishop Fred Hiltz, Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, National Indigenous Anglican Bishop Mark MacDonald, the Venerable Michael Thompson, General Secretary, and Archbishop Terry Finlay, Primate\u2019s Envoy on Residential Schools.<\/p>\n

Bishops, clergy, and parishioners from the dioceses of Edmonton, Athabasca, and Calgary will also be present for TRC events including the lighting of the sacred fire, statement giving by residential school survivors, church listening circles, and a public Anglican expression of reconciliation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The purpose<\/a> of the Sacred Fire is:<\/p>\n

The Lighting of the Sacred Fire happens before we begin each National Event to ensure that the Spirits and the Teachings guide and protect us while the Commission does its work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The fire is generally started during the first part of opening ceremony after sacred space has been set. The Fire Keeper quietly calls in the powers of the directions as well as the fire powers when the Sacred Fire is first lit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The most curious thing that strikes me about the Church’s attempts to atone for thrusting Western religion and cultural values on Indigenous North Americans is its eagerness to now do the opposite: displace Christianity with Indigenous Animist practices. The Church seems to be saying: \u201cwe were wrong all along and to prove it we will adopt your religious beliefs in favour of our own.\u201d<\/p>\n

I have a suspicion that this would not be happening if the church did not secretly think that any belief system is just about as good as any other. If Anglican Church of Canada clergy truly wanted to provide compensation for those their predecessors abused, they could sell their church buildings \u2013 many of which are almost empty \u2013 and donate the proceeds to the ex-inmates of the much loathed Residential Schools. A lot more practical than a \u201cfull-colour historical timeline of evolving relations between Indigenous peoples and the Anglican Church of Canada.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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