| # | Name | Comments |
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| 101 | Canon Steve Harnadek | We cut cut cut and our Church gets smaller smaller smaller. Where's the vision to grow? I can't really believe that God is calling us to cut one of our best means of communicating with one another which helps us in our being Church. Stop the madness and let's walk by faith. |
| 102 | D. Bowyer | |
| 103 | Maureen Press | There is no other way to keep in touch with what is going on the Anglican community across the country than via the Journal.
To lose this valuable resource would be shameful - especially at this critical time for the Church and the wider Anglican Communion. |
| 104 | Susan Paulton | |
| 105 | Steve Schuh | |
| 106 | Olive and John Charnell | I heartily endorse Peter Davison's comments, beginning with, "Asking The Journal and diocesan papers to bear the brunt of the deficit would be short-sighted, to say the least. ... " Crippling The Journal, and all the diocesan papers, is shear folly. |
| 107 | Anonymous | |
| 108 | Leslie and Catherine Hughes | The Anglican Journal is the major intstrument of communciation between diverse parts of the Canadian Anglican community. Do not let it die. |
| 109 | Val Johnstone | It would be a great pity to see the cuts to the Angl. Journal materialize. The Journal is an excellent communication tools for our dioceses. |
| 110 | Archdeacon Tom Corston | NUmerous people whom I know and have known for years, including myself, read the Anglican Journal from end to end each month and would hate to lose it. Personally, since my own days as a Diocesan Editor, I have received all of the Diocesan papers monthly and always read every one of them thoroughly. As communication tools, even with the internet, these papers are invaluable. |
| 111 | berni and Gerald Thorneycroft | |
| 112 | bill white | The Journal and the Diocesan's newapapers that go with it are very informative. They are a must for communications with Anglicans in the whole country and let people know what is going on in the national and international scene.Paper information cannot be replaced with e-mail communications for most of our congregations in our Diocese are older and many don't have computers. I like the paper print as one can save it and use it for future uses |
| 113 | Marilyn R. Davenport | I have supported these two papers for many years. They are the only means by which we are in touch with the various issues which affect all Anglicans locally and World wide. |
| 114 | Pierre Simard | |
| 115 | Douglas Budden | never cancel the Angllican...it is a very welcome publication that I read from cover to cover. |
| 116 | Dion C Lewis | |
| 117 | Jonathan Malton | |
| 118 | Davena Davis (Rev. Dr.) | Save the Anglican Journal. It has been an important part of our Canadian Anglican heritage since its inception. |
| 119 | Anonymous | I have supported these papers for many years. They are the major source of local and World wide issues.
We need to find a way to continue their publication. Thank you. MRD |
| 120 | Rev. Frank Tyrrell | |
| 121 | Robert Dickson | |
| 122 | Michael Bryan | This is NOT where cuts should be made, primarily because slashing the Journal will have an almostb unique multiplier effect in negatively impacting other areas of church life and ministry |
| 123 | Anonymous | |
| 124 | Rev. Ann E. Wood | I am greatly concerned that the Anglican Journal is facing huge cuts to its budget and in turn, the effect this will have on the Diocesan newspapers. The Journal has been a constant source of information and interest for over 35 years in my household, and I look to it for all kinds of information about my church. I do not like to receive such information on the Internet. I like to read it at my leisure in my hand after I receive it in the mail. Many older Anglicans do not use the internet for their sources of information, so would be cut off from their National and Diocesan church news, should the Journal cease to exist - and along with it the Diocesan paper.
Please reconsider the decision to cut back funding for the Journal and consider other means to keep it alive and well. |
| 125 | Anonymous | |
| 126 | Daniel B. Benson | As a some-time Anglican, and former staff member of the General Synod Offices (Anglican Book Centre), it is obvious to me that the Anglican Journal and the diocesan papers are essential instruments of unity and communication. How else can the average Anglican-in-the-pew know what is happening in their diocese, national church, or in the world-wide communion, or relate to these bodies?
To diminish the status or role of the editorially independent church newspapers fatally undermines communication and, unity but also brings into question accountability. We rely on freedom of the press to inquire, on our behalf, into the governance and actions of our institutions (whether government or church). Without that inquiry, transparency is lost and accountability compromised. |
| 127 | Liam J. Southall | |
| 128 | Margaret Peake | |
| 129 | Joy Cox | |
| 130 | The Rev Canon Chris Harwood-Jones | |
| 131 | The Rev. Tim Smart | |
| 132 | Andrew O'Donnell | Although I would like to see some changes, Please keep the journal. |
| 133 | Nicola Scott | |
| 134 | Coline Bettson | Please revisit this issue in ten years - today, our elders only read newsPAPERS ! |
| 135 | Elizabeth Falconer | I am almost 89. Please continue to send my Anglican news on paper, otherwise I will be left "out of the loop." |
| 136 | Phyllis Cathcart | We would be losing a very valuable resource if our local NB Anglican was reduced to a few times a year. |
| 137 | Hazel MacKenzie | Communication & a sense of community are of utmost importance in today's world. Our national & diocesan newspapers are important tools in the Anglican family. Incredible as it may seem, everyone isn't computer literate! |
| 138 | Peter Zimmer | |
| 139 | the Rev. Chris Hayes | the papers are too important to loose! |
| 140 | Anonymous | For many homes, the Anglican Journal is the only contact with the wider church and the work of the church. I know many people who look forward to their Journal every month. Many are homes without computer email access. |
| 141 | Susanne Abbott | It seems folly to me to cut communications to the back bone of the church as it is today. We may want to go primarily online with an option for a hard copy, ten or fifteen years from now. I suspect the bulk of the supporters of the church are not getting their reading material on their computer. As with most things that have always "been there" maybe this will be a wakeup call and will generate a willingness to support a yearly subscription fee. That which we pay for or may lose, seems to gain importance in our lives.
At this time of extreme polarization in the church, it would seem to me that anything that is easily accepted as common to all, should be protected. |
| 142 | Anonymous | |
| 143 | Paul Bunnell | |
| 144 | Pete Molloy | |
| 145 | Jhapendra Chudhary | |
| 146 | Sandy Davis | |
| 147 | carolyn purden | Although we live in the age of electronic communications, we still need to have print vehicles. People have to choose to visit the diocesan or General Synod web sites; the diocesan newspapers and the Anglican Journal regularly come into their households, in a sense, "uninvited." They remain an important means by which the church can communicate with its people. The Journal (and its predecessors) has also been vital to the distribution of diocesan papers because of its ability to command favourable postage rates. Should the Journal cease to exist, the diocesan papers will have a hard job surviving on their own. |
| 148 | Jeno Kohner | The Angl.Journal is essential to keep the Church together in times of mistrust.Its objective reporting is an invaluable tool for the Church and its agencies. |
| 149 | The Rev'd Bradley Smith | It seems to me that, of many of the resources available through the national Church, the ongoing availability of national and diocesan church papers/journals is essential for two reasons. One, they are a visible means of demonstrating the larger context in which all Christians operate and are therefore a national symbol of unity in the Anglican Church of Canada. Two, they report on the activities of all levels of Church organisations and governance and today, more than ever, I believe our leaders are accountable to us for every dollar they spend. I pray that those responsible for the national budget will ensure the survival of this fundamental instrument of Canadian Anglican communication. |
| 150 | Todd Townshend | |
