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It was late July, and I was at a small reception around the corner from St. Stephen in-the-Fields to celebrate a couple of community awards
The Rev. Canon Maggie Helwig is the incumbent of St. Stephen-in-the-Fields, Toronto.
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It was late July, and I was at a small reception around the corner from St. Stephen in-the-Fields to celebrate a couple of community awards

This column will be published in January, but as I write, it is just about one year since the City of Toronto partially evicted the

For the past six years, the Kensington Market Overdose Prevention Site has operated just around the corner from St. Stephen in-the-Fields church in Toronto. It

After a year of intermittent threats to clear the encampment of unhoused people at St. Stephen-in-the-Fields in Toronto, staff from the City of Toronto’s Encampment

As Jerusalem fell in flame and death, or just after, as the population was scattered in a diaspora which has never really ended, and it

There has probably never been a time in the last few decades that there has not been one or two people living in the yard

I have spent a possibly troubling amount of time reading, analysing and teaching the Revelation to John of Patmos, not to mention directing several dramatized readings

We, who are many, are one body.” This should be – this could be – one of the most important sentences our tradition has to

Nights in Advent are dark and very long. In a drafty old church in Kensington Market, people sit below the dim stained glass, six feet

An eagle hovers over the intersection as we gather. Around us, high smokestacks, overhead pipelines, huge corroded storage drums – the landscape of an industrial