December 2025 Issue
News
Marketplace helps items find new home
Across the diocese, items once used in beloved church communities are finding new life and purpose through a creative new initiative. A new online Marketplace ...
News
‘Go back and spread the word’
The Rev. Dr. Alvardo Adderley gave Anglicans some stirring words to live by at the diocese’s fifth and final Lift Up Our Hearts service, held ...
Comment
On the incarnation
Imagine the scene, some nine months prior. A messenger comes to Mary, a strange greeting: hail, favoured one, the Lord is with you. And then ...
Feature
Transformed on the way to Lindisfarne
Embarking on a pilgrimage is a serious undertaking. Pilgrims respond to a heavenly call to take leave of their ordinary lives, to travel to a ...
News
Poet-priest enlightens, entertains
Malcolm Guite is on a mission to bring music back to English poetry. So it’s fitting that the UK sonneteer and Anglican priest often finds ...
News
Conference seeks signs of resurrection
This year’s diocesan Outreach and Advocacy Conference broke new ground through the use of modern technology and a dramatically new approach for one of its ...
Parish News
Wonderful day
St. Martin, Bay Ridges (Pickering) celebrated its 60th anniversary on Oct. 4 with a community barbecue that featured delicious food, lively music and vibrant activities ...
Comment
What might theology look like beyond us?
In the first article of this series, we explored what I called the anthropoterminal impulse: our habit of imagining that the story of the universe ...
News
Despite early difficulties, hybrid ministry is worth it
The crew running the hybrid services at Christ Church St. James, Toronto is tiny but mighty. During the pandemic, there had been six hosts, but ...
News
Dinner hears resurrection story
The theme of this year’s outreach and advocacy conference was “seeking signs of resurrection,” but guests at the 64th annual Bishop’s Company Dinner, held the ...
News
Diocese hires DEI advisor
The diocese has hired Dilesha Stelmach as its new Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Advisor. Ms. Stelmach has over seven years’ experience in the DEI ...
News
Priest wins prize, then encampment torn down
The Rev. Canon Maggie Helwig, incumbent of St. Stephen in-the-Fields, Toronto won this year’s Toronto Book Award for Encampment, a nonfiction work about the encampment ...
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