Reports of the recent demise of Anglican News are premature.CHURCH communications are a complicated business. We who attempt this craft are expected to be informative, erudite er·u·dite adj. Characterized by erudition; learned. See Synonyms at learned. [Middle English erudit, from Latin , even inspiring. Often, our jobs are made more difficult by forces beyond our control. Unnecessary levels of bureaucracy aggravate us. Uncooperative sources challenge us. Incorrect information frustrates us. In a recent e-mail from one of the many lists to which I subscribe, I noticed a passing reference to the "the collapse of official (Anglican An·gli·can adj. 1. Of or characteristic of the Church of England or any of the churches related to it in origin and communion, such as the Protestant Episcopal Church. 2. Of or relating to England or the English. n. ) news sources in Canada Canada (kăn`ədə), independent nation (2001 pop. 30,007,094), 3,851,787 sq mi (9,976,128 sq km), N North America. Canada occupies all of North America N of the United States (and E of Alaska) except for Greenland and the French islands of ". A flurry Flurry A drastic volume increase in a specific security. of e-mails between myself, my director, and the author of the quote which had originally appeared on a well-known Anglican portal website revealed that the writer believed that since the Anglican Church of Canada hadn't issued a press release in months, its communications department was defunct DEFUNCT. A term used for one that is deceased or dead. In some acts of assembly in Pennsylvania, such deceased person is called a decedent. (q.v.) . Despite all the effort and time poured into the Anglican Church of Canada's communications, one incorrect comment could easily undo To restore the last editing operation that has taken place. For example, if a segment of text has been deleted or changed, performing an undo will restore the original text. Programs may have several levels of undo, including being able to reconstruct the original data for all edits months of work on the national church's website. If people believed that our communications had, indeed, collapsed, it would not be too much of a stretch to believe they might begin avoiding the site in droves. It is no secret that the national church's finances are in peril The designated contingency, risk, or hazard against which an insured seeks to protect himself or herself when purchasing a policy of insurance. Among the various types of perils for which insurance coverage is available are fire, theft, illness, and death. PERIL. . Perhaps when there had not been any official press releases from the Anglican Church of Canada in a while, some concluded that communications had broken down. Nothing could be further from the truth. While it is true there has been no reason in recent months to issue press releases from the national office, news abounds. The Anglican Journal continues its 127-year tradition of offering Anglicans news in their mailboxes and, since 1998, online (www.anglicanjournal.com). MinistryMatters, General Synod's three-times yearly magazine aimed at those in ministry, is available at www.anglican.ca/mm and Anglican News Service will issue press releases as required and offer them on the national church website at www.anglican.ca/news/ans/ Then there is the original news and features on the site's home page (www.anglican.ca) and in its news section (www.anglican.ca/news). You can also subscribe to Verb 1. subscribe to - receive or obtain regularly; "We take the Times every day" subscribe, take buy, purchase - obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company"; have the news, features and press releases from the website e-mailed to you. To subscribe, simply send an e-mail to majordomo@anglican.ca with only the following in the body (not the subject) of the e-mail: subscribe acc-news That's all there is to it. Let it not be said that we are not good news people. |
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