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Urban farm delivers during pandemic

In 2017, food prices were skyrocketing. The Rev. Beverley Williams picked up a head of cauliflower at a grocery store, and, looking at the price, ...
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Grants help parishes reach more people online

For Sue Taylor, the first days of the COVID-19 lockdown were like going from the familiar to the unknown. With only a laptop, which was ...
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God loves us more than we could ask or imagine

The Rev. Claudette Taylor is an educator, a deacon at Epiphany and St. Mark, Parkdale and the Social Justice Officer for York-Credit Valley. At Epiphany ...
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Thinking anew about what God is calling us to do and be

What happens when church isn’t church anymore? Or perhaps more precisely, when the form of church we’ve known all our lives simply isn’t there for ...
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Archives seeks stories, photos

Even though there were 300,000 recorded cases of the Spanish flu in Ontario in 1918-19, resulting in nearly 9,000 deaths, there is very little mention ...
The Anglican

Volunteers help with reopening

Joy Marshall has some simple advice for churches that are planning to reopen. “Don’t panic,” she says. “Do the best you can. Be as kind ...
The Anglican

Fresh Start gets revamp for clergy in transition

For 17 years, the diocese’s Fresh Start program has supported hundreds of clergy to make successful transitions from one parish to another. Now, the program ...
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Annual cycling fundraiser takes left turn

For the past six years, volunteers across Canada have participated in the Ride for Refuge on behalf of The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund ...
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Church leaders come together for creation

Churches around the world will be participating in an ecumenical Season of Creation, to be held from Sept. 1 to Oct. 4. Delegates to General ...
The Anglican

Pandemic doesn’t stop outreach

In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, as Queen’s Park was implementing public health measures and essential service providers were closing their doors, Angie ...
FaithWorks

Walk raises funds for FaithWorks

The Rev. Phil Gearing has a routine. He leaves his house every morning at 6 a.m. and walks 5.5 km, and then walks another 5.5 ...
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‘I would do it all over again’

When he was just five years old, Bishop Peter Fenty told his family that he would like to be a priest when he grew up. ...
The Anglican

Bishop to host conversation about future of rural churches

“As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.” Genesis 8:22I sit here ...
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Anglicans help most vulnerable

Anglicans continue to do good work to care and advocate for the most vulnerable at this critical time. While the COVID-19 pandemic has shuttered church ...
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Moments that inspired us

We asked clergy and laity in our diocese to tell us about a moment during the COVID-19 pandemic that inspired them. Neighbours hold street isolation ...
The Anglican

Parishes asked to alter practices due to virus

Due to the spread of the coronavirus, Bishop Andrew Asbil wrote a pastoral letter to parishes in the diocese in early March, asking them to ...
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Indigenous ministry welcomed to new home

On the feast of the Transfiguration, Feb. 23, more than 115 people gathered at Holy Trinity, Trinity Square to formally welcome Toronto Urban Native Ministry ...
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Youth, leaders seek support for CLAY trip

About 25 youth and youth leaders in the diocese plan to travel to Calgary this summer to take part in one of the biggest Christian ...
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Bishop chosen for global gathering

Bishop Riscylla Shaw, the area bishop of Trent-Durham, is one of two people chosen to represent the Anglican Church of Canada at the World Council ...
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Jubilee service celebrates Black heritage of Church

On the last Sunday in February, about 700 members of the diocesan family and the wider community gathered at St. Paul, Bloor Street for the ...
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Big changes coming to Toronto’s port

Last year will not go down as our favourite year, but as it’s now 2020, I think we can say that we made it through, ...
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Homeless memorial adds 1,000th name

Many Anglicans were among the nearly 200 faith leaders, advocates, frontline street workers and community members who gathered outside Holy Trinity, Trinity Square at noon ...
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Happy day

Newly installed honorary canons of St. James Cathedral join the diocese’s bishops, bishop’s chaplains and dean after the service on Jan. 19. Front row, second ...
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Spiritual gap year gives women space to reflect, deepen faith

One is a music therapist, recently graduated from Wilfried Laurier University. The second is a spiritual director from Hong Kong. And the third, from Lethbridge, ...
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Indigenous elder honoured

Members of Toronto’s Indigenous community and many non-Indigenous friends and colleagues came to pay tribute to a beloved elder, the Rev. Canon Andrew Wesley, on ...
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Committee to link healing ministries

The newly re-formed Bishop’s Committee on Healing Ministries is expanding its vision and looking to connect with people and parishes across the diocese that are ...
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Diocese doubles youth ministry apprenticeships

One of the diocese’s most successful programs – and best kept secrets – is doubling in size. Since 2009, 37 people have gone through the ...
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