October 2020 Issue
News
Archives seeks stories, photos
Even though there were 300,000 recorded cases of the Spanish flu in Ontario in 1918-19, resulting in nearly 9,000 deaths, there is very little mention ...
Comment
Prayer shawl offers more than just warmth
If you have ever spent time in the emergency department, you know well what it means to wait. And more than wait, you know what ...
Parish News
Cottager swims laps for church
Anglicans in the diocese raised money in lots of different ways this past summer despite COVID-19, but Grace Olds’s efforts were probably the most unusual. ...
Comment
Where do we go from here?
This column is the second of two parts. In his letter to the diocese in July, Bishop Andrew Asbil made a statement that should become ...
News
Thinking anew about what God is calling us to do and be
What happens when church isn’t church anymore? Or perhaps more precisely, when the form of church we’ve known all our lives simply isn’t there for ...
News
God loves us more than we could ask or imagine
The Rev. Claudette Taylor is an educator, a deacon at Epiphany and St. Mark, Parkdale and the Social Justice Officer for York-Credit Valley. At Epiphany ...
Comment
The highs and lows of chaplaincy during COVID-19
The Rev. Canon Joanne Davies is the chaplain and spiritual care coordinator at St. John’s Rehab, part of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto. St. ...
Comment
How are we doing during COVID-19?
How do 25 Sisters, three Companions, one retired priest and a few employees get along in close quarters for almost six months at the Sisterhood ...
Comment
Consider the horror from up close
The annual commemoration of the American atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki usually focuses on the overwhelming statistics. I used to think about the horror ...
News
Grants help parishes reach more people online
For Sue Taylor, the first days of the COVID-19 lockdown were like going from the familiar to the unknown. With only a laptop, which was ...
News
Urban farm delivers during pandemic
In 2017, food prices were skyrocketing. The Rev. Beverley Williams picked up a head of cauliflower at a grocery store, and, looking at the price, ...
Jesus is always going before us every day