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Carlynn Reed is a dancer and teacher. Twenty-five years ago, I was teaching academic subjects and drama at a private high school in Toronto. Then ...

I want to share some personal thoughts with parish leaders about the idea of presenting a deficit budget at vestry time. I can appreciate that ...

It haunts me still. When I finished walking the 800 km Camino de Santiago pilgrimage in early June 2017, I was convinced I would never ...

The Easter message is about new life and hope for new beginnings. The season of spring brings a welcome change from the cold to warmer ...

The Rev. Beverley Williams is the executive director of Flemingdon Park Ministry in Toronto. Flemingdon Park Ministry (FPM) is a Canon 29 ministry of the ...

I set out with a twenty-dollar bill in my pocket. Attending the Christmas Lessons and Carols service at a nearby parish on the last Sunday ...

“The report of my death was an exaggeration.” Mark Twain, ending a letter written in 1897 to a newspaper journalist, in response to reports that ...

Nicodemus went under cover of darkness. The Samaritan woman left her jar at the well to go back and tell the others. With mud in ...

It might seem odd to draw attention to a major milestone or anniversary one year before it happens.  It would be strange, for example, to ...

“There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you ...

Our great nephew was born in Australia on March 1, 2012. The news of his birth reached us the day before, on Feb. 29. It ...

Here’s a fresh idea: Encouragement Sunday! What’s that, you might ask? It’s a new way of looking at a longstanding idea – of prayerfully making ...

Lydia Cordie is a bi-vocational youth minister at St. Peter, Erindale, a member of York-Credit Valley’s Area Council, co-chair of the Children and Youth Ministry ...

In the summer between Grade 7 and Grade 8, my older brother and I formed a lawn-cutting business. We borrowed the Gestetner machine at the ...

God is good! And so is gracious disruption. In turning over the tables in the temple, teaching that the last shall be first and uplifting ...

Everyone loves to receive a letter. Even at a time when fewer people send letters and e-mail and text are the preferred vehicles of communication, ...

I begin this article with a word of profound thanks to Almighty God for the healing I have been experiencing since my surgery in June. ...

Here’s the amazing story of how one man’s generosity and another’s insight and perseverance resulted in a gift to my parish, the Church of St. ...

I have heard many Elders say, “Children are the center of our bundle.” In Anishnawbe culture, the bundle holds ceremonial items and is greatly revered. ...

“I don’t think we’ll understand Advent correctly until we see it as a preparation for a revolution.” The Rt. Rev. Robert Barron Advent and Christmas ...

Ryan Ramsden is a churchwarden at Grace Church in Scarborough and a member of the diocese’s Synod and General Synod. He is a member of ...

One statistic stands out for me more than any other when assessing the health of stewardship in a parish: the total number of donors who ...

On their first day of school in September, our children were asked to share with the class how they had spent the summer. At the ...

With the arrival of autumn comes the departure of the heat and humidity of summer. Short sleeves are changed out for sweaters. The days become ...

First, the good news: 28 per cent of the parishes in the diocese are experiencing growth in attendance, number of givers or both. That means ...

“There are many who say, ‘O that we might see some good!’” – Psalm 4:6 Climate change, worsening inequality, the rise of hate groups, racist ...

God is good. People make mistakes. In Inuvik in 2012, at the Northern National Event of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Indian Residential Schools, ...