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Are we there yet? I have vivid memories of our family hitting the road for vacation in July each year. The old blue Pontiac station ...

Churches have responded to the pandemic with exciting worship innovation and adaptation. They have found new ways to maintain contact with congregants, to socialize and ...

The Rev. Don Downer, OSE, was asked to speak on the healing of Creation by the Bishop’s Committee on Healing at a refresher day for the diocese’s ...

I gaze out my living room picture window at a snowy landscape. The frigid scene seems to mirror my spirit. It has been a long ...

I recently attended a virtual retreat led by Brother James Koester of the Society of St. John the Evangelist in Boston. Normally I like to ...

On Ash Wednesday, the presiding celebrant invites us to step into Lent with these words: I invite you, therefore, in the name of the Lord, ...

Peter Mentis is the diocese’s FaithWorks campaign manager. FaithWorks is a charitable program of the Diocese of Toronto. We offer support to our ministry partners ...

2020 provided new perspectives on the work that we do at the Mission to Seafarers, none of which we could have predicted or even expected. ...

Surviving this pandemic is difficult, but can you imagine being locked into a white room a little larger than your cot, with no window, no ...

God is good and hope is a gift from God. As we enter the one-year mark of this global pandemic, I encourage you to take ...

The normal point of departure for an article about pilgrimage would be the beginning. But it’s 2020, so let’s shake things up and start at ...

New Year’s resolutions. Mention the topic and the responses will likely be an enthusiastic, “I don’t make resolutions anymore because I always break them… Life ...

Happy New Year! 2020 was certainly a year for the history books, if not for the dustbin, and by time you are reading this article, ...

I’m a maker of lists, a setter of schedules, a taker of tests. I love online quizzes – IQ scores, Myers-Briggs, history, geography, the bible ...

At 6:31 a.m. on Dec. 8, 2020, 90-year-old Margaret Keenan received the first of two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine at University Hospital in Coventry, ...

It has been a tumultuous year. Despite its wild uncertainty, 2020 – the year of the pandemic – will go down as one that forced ...

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 ...

When I was invited to be the speaker for this event, I had visions of the past dinners I had attended during my ministry in ...

What would Christmas be without traditions? For some families, Christmas just wouldn’t be Christmas without decorating the tree together, or hanging the mistletoe in the ...

This summer was marked by heightened visibility of police violence in the United States and Canada, leading to an eruption of protest, prayer, and public ...

Greg Lane is the lay pastoral care coordinator at St. Philip, Etobicoke, coordinating and helping to train a team of eight lay pastoral care members ...

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

April 6, 2013 was an historic day in the life of the Anglican Church of Canada. On that day, the then Ven. Peter DeCourcy Fenty, ...

God is good! It is a privilege and an honour for me to be serving God, in this time, in this place. Recently having been ...

The annual commemoration of the American atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki usually focuses on the overwhelming statistics. I used to think about the horror ...

How do 25 Sisters, three Companions, one retired priest and a few employees get along in close quarters for almost six months at the Sisterhood ...

The Rev. Canon Joanne Davies is the chaplain and spiritual care coordinator at St. John’s Rehab, part of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto. St. ...