September 2025 Issue
News
Storyteller to retire after long career
When Canon Stuart Mann opened the Globe and Mail and saw a tiny job ad for an editorial assistant with the Anglican Diocese of Toronto, ...
News
Anglicans renew faith at Whitby service
With joyful music, heartfelt testimony and a call to holy disruption, Anglicans from across the diocese gathered at All Saints, Whitby on May 31 for ...
Comment
Solitude enriches our inner lives
We live in an age in which many of us are deeply affected by loneliness. Many elements of modern life separate us from other people, ...
Comment
Statistics indicate continued growth
The lead story in the January 2020 edition of the Anglican Journal read, “Gone by 2040?” Archbishop Linda Nicholls, then Primate of the Anglican Church ...
News
Solar Suitcase brings light to maternity wards
At the Muripotana Health Centre in Nampula, Mozambique, midwife Ancha Amido Abdala begins each shift by greeting her colleagues, checking admissions and examining patients in ...
Feature
Calligraphy draws parishioners closer to God
St. Olave, Swansea held a special Lenten series this year in which members combined prayerful meditation with hands-on medieval calligraphy. “Grace in Every Stroke: Lenten ...
News
Old registers find good home in the Archives
The diocesan Archives is asking congregations to bring their old, fragile or inactive parish registers to Synod for transfer to the Archives, where they can ...
News
General Synod team
Members of the Diocese of Toronto gather in London, Ont. with Anglicans from across Canada June 23-29 to participate in the meeting of General Synod, ...
Comment
We need to get our hands into the soil
“With the forests falling faster than the minutes of our lives we are saying thank you.” – W.S. Merwin Too many of the world’s forests ...
Comment
Communion Forest takes root
Hiking solo in the Adirondacks, I hit a sweet, gentle downhill section of the trail as it curved to my right. I slowed my pace ...
Comment
We can hear God’s heartbeat in nature
Ten years ago, Pope Francis released Laudato si’, an encyclical exhorting all people of good will to care for the Earth, our common home. Grounded ...
Parish News
Church welcomes more children
Intergenerational connections are well worth the effort. For children, they build confidence that will serve them throughout their lives. At the same time, children’s participation ...
Parish News
Church explores 20 Calls during retreat
On a crisp Saturday morning in February, 60 members of St. Peter, Erindale gathered for a retreat – an intentional time set aside to reflect ...
Parish News
Giving thanks
Members of St. Andrew, Scarborough celebrate and give thanks in June and early July. Above, the church dedicates new Stations of the Cross panels made ...
News
Proud Anglicans
Sixty-six Anglicans from a dozen parishes in the diocese walk in the Pride Parade in downtown Toronto on June 29, with thousands of people lining ...
News
Cathedral provides catechesis for confirmation
A new “Catechesis for Confirmation” program at St. James Cathedral will start on Nov. 1. Last year’s program prepared 13 people (seven adults and six ...
News
Conference explores children’s ministry
The annual Toronto Children’s Ministry Conference will take place on Nov. 1 at Bayview Glen Alliance Church, 300 Steeles Ave. E., Thornhill. With 30 speakers ...
News
Church calendar welcomes photos
Anglicans are invited to submit photos for the 2027 Canadian Church Calendar. The calendar is a cherished publication in Anglican households and sacristies from coast ...
News
Outreach conference next month
The diocese’s 2025 Outreach & Advocacy Conference, “Seeking Signs of Resurrection,” will take place online on Oct. 18 from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The ...
News
Copies of diocesan history available
The diocesan Archives has extra copies of By Grace Co-Workers: Building the Anglican Diocese of Toronto 1780-1989, produced as part of the diocese’s sesquicentennial celebrations ...
News
Season offers fall workshops
The Season of Spiritual Renewal fall workshops are now open for registration. Some are offered during the day and some in the evening. Workshops include ...
News
Youth invited to fall retreat
Registration is open for the ReCharge Youth Retreat on Sept. 26-28 at Muskoka Woods, open to youth age 12-18. The cost is $130 for the ...
News
Bishop’s Company Dinner returns
The 64th annual Bishop’s Company Dinner will be held on Oct. 17 at the Sheraton Parkway Toronto North Hotel & Suites. Funds raised by the ...
News
Churches help city claim organ title
VICTORIA – With the help of local churches, Victoria has become the pipe organ capital of Canada. International Pipe Organ Day was held on April ...
News
Christians around world join marathon reading
EDMONTON – Eighty-two Christians from different church denominations all over the world contributed to another successful Bible Reading Marathon put on by the Diocese of ...
News
Archdeacon sworn in as police chaplain
THUNDER BAY – Archdeacon Deborah Kraft of the Diocese of Algoma was sworn in as chaplain to the Thunder Bay Police Service in July. “The ...
News
Church plans to restore ‘irreplaceable’ window
SAINT JOHN – Trinity Church in Saint John, N.B., has launched a campaign to restore its stained-glass window. The iconic stone church in the heart ...
News
Group makes fidget mats
ST. JOHN’S – Many people in the Parish of Bay Roberts/Coley’s Point in Newfoundland know somebody who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s or dementia, and ...
News
Secretary assisted diocesan bishops
Margaret Banks, an administrative assistant at the Synod Office for more than 35 years, died in April at the age of 91 in Port Hope. ...
News
Organist and composer honoured for work
Edward Moroney, ODT, has been honoured by the Royal School of Church Music (RSCM) in the U.K. Mr. Moroney, an organist and composer in the ...
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