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I don’t remember how I first learned about prayer or how to pray. I guess it was as a small child. I was taken to ...

Last month’s article on The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Churches garnered considerable interest, as evidenced by the emails and conversations I have had concerning ...

The Anglican Communion’s fifth Mark of Mission calls us to “strive to safeguard the integrity of creation and to sustain and renew the life of ...

The wonderful seasons of Easter and spring are with us once again as we anticipate warmer weather, outdoor activities, longer days, gardening and enjoying spring. ...

In early March, I presided at the election of the Coadjutor Bishop of Niagara, my last as Metropolitan of the Province. I am delighted that ...

The Rev. Louise Peters is the vicar of St. James Cathedral.   As vicar, I am a member of the clergy team and share in ...

First, the good news: 25 per cent of the parishes in the Diocese of Toronto are experiencing growth in attendance and number of givers – ...

“A Church without youth is a Church without a future.  Moreover, youth without a Church are youth without a future.” Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria ...

Wikipedia defines “pilgrimage” as “a journey or search of moral or spiritual significance. Typically, it is a journey to a shrine or other location of ...

It took 1,136,875 steps for me to walk the 800 kilometres of the Camino de Santiago through northern Spain last spring. And it meant climbing ...

The Rev. Augusto Nunez is the priest-in-charge of St. Saviour, Orono. One of the highlights of my ministry came when I was appointed priest-in-charge at ...

It’s never too late to go back to school, as the three not-so-new suffragan bishops in our diocese can attest. Since our consecration as bishops ...

When I was in seminary four decades ago, I spent part of Lent meditating on the life of Jesus. Over the period of those six ...

Anglicans in Canada may be surprised to learn that they are, by extension, winners of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize. This October, the Nobel committee ...

What a privilege it is to serve you as the bishop of this wonderful diocese and to represent you in the wider councils of the ...

God is good. I have met the peace and beauty of God in living colour. By early January, we will have made it through the ...

“When you are in pastoral leadership, the business of the church demands so much of your attention,” says the Rev. Canon Stephen Peake. “I just ...

This past summer my wife, our three kids and I visited Great Britain. It was, first and foremost, a vacation. Over the course of three ...

In Luke 2:11 we read, “to you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, who is the Messiah, the Lord.” We ...

Fall brings a new term of Sunday School to my parish. We use a lectionary-based curriculum and have a good cadre of dedicated men and ...

William Temple – an Archbishop of Canterbury in the ’40s – once famously remarked that the Church is the only institution that exists primarily for ...

This is a pastoral statement on the commitment to diverse theological positions in the Diocese of Toronto, written by Archbishop Colin Johnson and endorsed by ...

One and a half years on from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s release of its 94 recommendations, the term “reconciliation” often feels like ...

Sister Deborah Stewart is a member of The Worker Sisters and Brothers of the Holy Spirit. My position is that of Canadian director, president of ...

Most Christians would agree that we are called to care for the vulnerable in our midst. Whether directly through food banks, Out of the Cold, ...

As a boy growing up in the parish of Holy Trinity, Thornhill, there was a rule that you had to be 10 years old before ...

I stood on a street corner in London, Ontario after the morning service at St. Paul’s Cathedral. Mass had just ended at St. Peter’s Basilica ...