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The Rev. Leigh Kern is the assistant curate at St. James Cathedral, Toronto. My work is dynamic and fluid. One moment I might be listening ...

A word to bishops-elect: there is a world of discovery awaiting you on your Sunday episcopal visits. There will be surprises, and some of them ...

By the time you read this we will have three new suffragan bishops-elect for the Diocese of Toronto. We have also just approved a new ...

As we look at Paul’s life, it is difficult to determine what happened in the three- to five-year period between his two imprisonments. We usually ...

I immigrated to Canada when I was just 20.  I am no longer the girl I was when I left my family nearly 55 years ...

For many parishes in our diocese, autumn is the time of year when activity flourishes as congregants return after their summer vacation. It is also ...

It’s fascinating how packing up and moving house compels you to visit places in your home you haven’t visited in years. The packing process has ...

When I was growing up in small-town Ontario, September was a time of fall fairs – parades, displays of prized local produce, the best of ...

After his third missionary journey around the Aegean Sea, Paul returned to Jerusalem to report to James and the other leaders and to present the ...

One of the joys of my ministry is having the privilege of being in a different parish each week. I enjoy the opportunity to visit ...

“Which is your church?” It is a question I’m asked in almost every parish I visit, and my answer is almost always a surprise to ...

Let us begin our discussion about Paul’s theology. The place to start would be with his Epistle to the Romans. This is Paul’s most theological ...

The Rev. Liska Stefko serves as pastoral minister to the L’Arche Daybreak community in Richmond Hill and associate priest at St. Timothy, North Toronto.  L’Arche ...

In the weeks following the birth of our first child, my wife and I had our wills drawn up. Being in our early 30s, we ...

There is great delight in the church when we come to celebrate Pentecost, as we look for creative ways to honour the power of the ...

“Inspiring reconciliation requires going far beyond our reach.” For this teaching, I am grateful to Commissioner Marie Wilson of our national Truth and Reconciliation Commission ...

Easter Week, 2016 To the Clergy and People of the Diocese of Toronto, We are in the midst of the Easter season, when the death ...

As we continue our dialogue with the epistles of Paul, we come to his longest and most important letter: the Epistle to the Romans. This ...

The Rev. Jacqueline Daley is the part-time assistant curate at St. Hilary, Cooksville, Mississauga. I recently went to a local fundraiser to support TC3 (the ...

Paul sat down in his tiny cell after saying goodbye to his friend and marvelled at the irony of his present circumstance. He resented being ...

From a very young age, we are taught about “stranger danger” – fear and skepticism of the stranger, the other. They are unknown, unpredictable and ...

A proposed change in the Canon on Marriage will come before our General Synod in July. Because statements from the gatherings of the Anglican Primates ...

Elizabeth Áine Achimah is the Lay Neighbourhood Chaplain for the Church of the Resurrection, Toronto. The main part of my job is overseeing The Side ...

The following motion was passed by the diocese’s Synod last fall. Preamble Because climate change caused by human-generated greenhouse gas emissions is an undeniable threat ...

The more that I think about it, the more I am convinced that passing a collection plate for money is a practice that needs rethinking. ...

I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the Earth; and though this body be destroyed, yet ...

Paul’s epistles to the Corinthians were probably written after his letter to the Galatians. There are two letters in the New Testament addressed to the ...