Anglicans on the prairies pursue reconciliation through new name: Northern Lights

Sometimes reconciliation involves grand actions that garner a lot of attention, like Pope Francis issuing an apology on behalf of the Roman Catholic Church to Indigenous people in Canada or the city of Winnipeg changing the name of Bishop Grandin Boulevard to Abinojii Mikanah.  

But other times it’s about things that are quieter and happen mostly out of sight — but which are also significant. 

That’s what happened in late May when the Anglican Ecclesiastical Province of Rupert’s Land, which includes ten Anglican dioceses in Manitoba, Northwestern Ontario, Saskatchewan, Alberta and the Arctic, changed its name to the Ecclesiastical Province of Northern Lights. 

Read about it in my column in the Free Press.