Canada: Anglican Church faces falling membership, deeper divisions

Posted on September 22, 2013 
Filed under Anglican Communion

back-to-the-future-sm“More than 15,000 packed Toronto’s Maple Leaf Gardens. Crowds thronged the lobby of the Royal York Hotel. Two hundred reporters scrambled for news and The Globe and Mail splashed the story on its front page.

Not for the Beatles or Muhammad Ali, but a congress of the Anglican Church. It was late summer, 1963, and the Anglican Church, bastion of the old order, was at its demographic peak in Canada. …”

The Globe and Mail in Toronto reports on the Back to the Anglican Future conference held last week.