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from Midwest Conservative Journal by The Editor

The Rev. Canon Gordon Baker thinks the Anglican Organization of Canada needs to change its name:

So I raise the question, “Is it time for a name change from The Anglican Church of Canada?” After all, we changed it once before, in 1955, from The Church of England in Canada to The Anglican Church of Canada. This was done to recognize and proclaim our existence and autonomy as something other than a colonial religious outpost. However appropriate the use of the word “Anglican” was at that time, it is now more than 50 years later, and our church has changed in its understanding of itself and its mission in a greatly changed Canadian social context.

Today we are developing new mature relationships with the aboriginal peoples of Canada and they are our sisters and brothers in faith and mission. Our clergy in Quebec are becoming totally bilingual so as to work comfortably within a French culture. The tag in western Canada of being the “English Church” no longer holds true.

I submit that it is time for us to be fully grown up and give thanks for all we have received from the Church of England, and others, but have a name that more truly expresses who we are. I believe that the name, “The Episcopal Church of Canada,” would do just that.

Yeah, that’s what’s holding the AOoC back. The word “Anglican.” Dump that and you freaking dominateQuebec and cause whatever’s left of the United Organization of Canada to give up their ridiculous charade.

Snark aside, Canon Baker is on to something. Except I think that it’s going to eventually be called the Episcopal Organization of North America once Mrs. Schori and the Episcopalians get around to the Anschluss.