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I was privileged but deeply saddened to participate in the funeral of Archbishop Terry Finlay in March.  He was my mentor and friend. Twenty-five years ...

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

Beck Schaefer is a member of St. Stephen-in-the-Fields, Toronto, where he is the treasurer and a reader. He co-facilitates workshops in the diocese on trans ...

I want to share some exciting, promising news. We have all heard, time and again, that the church is in crisis, that attendance is down ...

Lenten greetings everyone! As a parish priest, I value the richness of our Anglican tradition. One of the ways that rich tradition is expressed is ...

I am writing this shortly after Ash Wednesday, a day when we acknowledge to one another that we need God’s mercy far more than we ...

Fear motivates us to do many things. We often fall into the fight-flight pattern. We turn around and put up strong resistance, sometimes more than ...

Jenn McIntyre is the director of Romero House. Romero House is a community of welcome and support for refugee claimants in the west end of ...

Can you imagine what your community or church would be like without Anglican outreach? Imagine no parish food bank or mission trip to Africa. No ...

Over the past two years, Anglicans across Canada have stepped up to sponsor hundreds of refugees, mainly from war-torn Syria. Many parishes across our diocese ...

I read The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde’s only novel, when I was a teenager. It contains the famous quip, “Nowadays, people know the ...

God is good. In preparation for our ordination, we had the privilege of spending retreat time at the Community of the Transfiguration – the Episcopal ...

When I was in elementary school, I always hated the post-holiday writing assignment, “What I did on my (summer/Christmas/spring break/fill-in-the-blank) holidays.” I truly enjoyed the ...

A few months back, I penned an article on whether the passing of the collection plate had run its course. Given the volume of emails, ...

On Nov. 21, Archbishop Colin Johnson and the diocese’s Poverty Reduction Committee submitted the following brief to the Government of Ontario’s pre-budget consultations.   About ...

My great-great grandparents left the Scottish Hebrides and settled in Ontario in the mid-19th century as a consequence of the potato famines. Canada has been ...

I hope the past few columns have helped you to look again at Paul, our first theologian, and realize his importance to the books of ...

When I became the interfaith minister for ministry to St. James Town in 1970, Barry Morris, with his mass of black hair and huge black ...

Sarah Moesker is in the Companions on an Ancient Path program, run by the Sisterhood of St. John the Divine. The SSJD’s convent is in ...

I have always admired the zeal and commitment early Christians had for founding a new church and facing untold opposition from those with an interest ...

In celebrating the birth of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, we rejoice in the knowledge that God chose to come among us. It is ...

About the only book in the New Testament not affected by Paul’s theology is the Epistle of James. There are several reasons this epistle has ...

Michael Burgess is the artistic director of Stage Centre Productions in Toronto and is a priest of the diocese. I am responsible for choosing the ...

Archbishop Colin Johnson has often remarked that “FaithWorks is one of the best things we do together as a diocese.” Since 1997, FaithWorks has raised ...

I look forward to welcoming to the College of Bishops of the Diocese of Toronto our bishops-elect, the Rev. Riscylla Walsh Shaw, Canon Kevin Robertson ...

It almost didn’t happen. And when it did, it was truly providential. Back in the early days of my ministry, almost 40 years ago, the ...

Before we leave the apostle Paul, we need to take a look at his impact on the theology of the early church. Much has been ...