“You have to look in the mirror”: CoGS wraps up with reflections from partners, … – Anglican Journal

November 13, 2019

“You have to look in the mirror”: CoGS wraps up with reflections from partners, general secretary that stress racial justice, church’s future

Mississauga, Ont.

The meeting of the Council of General Synod (CoGS) heard messages about the importance of racial justice and looking toward the future of the church in a day of reflections that wrapped up the meeting Nov. 10.

Canon (lay) Noreen Duncan, the U.S.-based Episcopal Church’s representative to CoGS, gave a reflection in which she praised the council for its work on reconciliation and held it to task for a lack of diversity.

“On the issue of racism and reconciliation…the Anglican Church of Canada has much to teach the rest of the communion—has much to teach the world,” she said, praising the church’s ongoing reconciliation work with Indigenous peoples and the creation of a self-determining Indigenous church within the Anglican Church of Canada.

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