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1. 1. Anglican Journal: Moving bio details ‘uniquely Tutu’ model of peace

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   Published on: 2/1/2007   Last Visited: 2/1/2007

   Hugh McCullum
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   Hugh McCullum is a Canadian author and journalist who lived and worked in Africa for 15 years until 2002. He worked for the All Africa Conference of Churches based in Nairobi, during the time Archbishop Tutu was president of the continent-wide ecumenical body. He travelled extensively with Archbishop Tutu in that capacity to many parts of Africa, including Liberia and Sierra Leone. Mr. McCullum is a former editor and general manager of Canadian Churchman, predecessor to the Anglican Journal.

2. 2. Archbishop Ted Scott dies in car accident -- 2004-06-22

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   Published on: 6/22/2004   Last Visited: 8/20/2004

   But God called," wrote Hugh McCullum in the Observer . (Mr. McCullum would later write a biography of Archbishop Scott, Radical Compassion , which was released by ABC Publishing last month.)
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   Mr. McCullum echoes those sentiments: "When Ted Scott believes something he cannot waffle on it. That, and a vacuum in church leadership elsewhere, thrust him into the centre," he wrote. "It made him the butt of criticism from many quarters, including more than a few of his brother bishops." In 1975 he was elected as moderator of the central committee of the World Council of Churches (WCC), a position he would serve for seven rough years. "In 1978 when the WCC granted money to the Popular Front in the Zimbabwe civil war, he was crucified by the media, attacked by business interests in all churches, severely questioned by the conservative elements of the Anglican church," wrote Mr. McCullum. Controversy also dogged him when he challenged the Church of England regarding its stand on the ordination of women. He said that its refusal to allow overseas women priests to officiate in England was causing a rift in the Anglican Communion. He told the Ontario Churchman newspaper in 1985: "One of the crucial issues of this age of history is whether or not we can create a church and a society where women are equal partners with men without having to become imaged by men." Archbishop Scott also spoke out against the support of Western governments for military dictatorships overseas, against cruise missile testing and in favor of native as well as homosexual rights. He also became part of the Commonwealth's Eminent Persons Group, which worked towards a peaceful end to apartheid in South Africa. Jesus, he observed in the Anglican Messenger newspaper in 1986, "was involved in transforming the structures of the society of his day." Coming from a background of "almost poverty" he declined invitations to join elite business clubs, to which former primates had belonged. "I felt I wanted to give every indication of the church's concern for people who cannot afford to belong to a club," he once said. When he ended his term on June 15, 1986, people remarked that it was "the end of an era." His biggest disappointments, he later said in interviews, were the failed union of the Anglican church with the United Church of Canada and racial segregation in South Africa. His tenure made him "much more aware of the complexities of the kind of issues that we confront and the complexities that confront other people," he told Toronto Star's Michael McAteer in an interview. "I've acquired a much greater sensitivity to the pressures that people live under." Asked about how he wanted people to remember him, he said, "I'd like to be remembered as somebody who helped the church develop a sense that human beings are important, that they counted and were taken seriously." Upon retirement he resumed his hobby of carpentry - something which he picked up when he worked as a carpenter's helper to put himself through college. But his retirement did not end Archbishop Scott's activism. He continued to campaign against apartheid in South Africa and was elated when it ended in 1994. He later worked with the South African Education Trust Fund and the International Defence and Aid for South Africa. He also served as a member of the Scott-McKay-Bain health panel that looked at health conditions among native populations in the Sioux Lookout Region of northwestern Ontario. He also became an advocate for the blessing of same-sex unions in the Anglican church, performing a blessing at Toronto 's Church of the Holy Trinity last September for two women who were legally married. In his keynote address to the 150th synod of the diocese of Toronto on November 2003 Archbishop Scott perhaps summed up what made him the kind of person that he was. He said, "There are two key questions which I believe we as Christian persons ought, from time to time ask ourselves: What kind of a person am I becoming?

3. 3. oakvillebeaver.com

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   Published on: 2/4/2006   Last Visited: 2/4/2006

   Canadian journalist and author Hugh McCullum, who lived and worked for 14 years in Africa, will speak about Rwanda - Then and Now, at a Power of One lecture at St. John's United Church on Monday.
   
   He will speak about Rwanda's 100 days of genocide from 7:30 - 8:30 p.m.
   
   Admission is free.
   
   In 1994, McCullum was travelling the blood-soaked streets of Kigali, Rwanda in a decrepit armoured personnel carrier with other reporters when he witnessed the genocide.
   
   During the spring of that year, in the space of 100 days, 800,000 Tutsi minority were massacred by Rwanda's Hutu majority in a 20th century genocide which was largely ignored by the Western world.
   
   McCullum witnessed this genocide first-hand and appeared as an expert witness before the continuing International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. He testified the church in Rwanda, and its leaders, were aware of the mass killings and assisted in the massacres.
   
   He will speak about his experiences in Rwanda and share his views on the current state of its government and democracy there.
   
   McCullum has written 13 books, including The Angels Have Left Us: The Churches and the Rwanda Genocide and Radical Compassion: The Life and Times of Archbishop Ted Scott.
   
   A former editor of the United Church Observer and the Anglican Journal, he has been a contributing writer from Africa for the Toronto Star and Globe and Mail and hosted the CBC's Meeting Place.