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Four people on the church steps of St. Margaret, New Toronto.

Stewardship program bearing fruit

A resource created by the diocese to help parishes with stewardship is showing significant results after only two years. Of the 16 parishes that took ...
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Expansion a dream come true

St. Elizabeth, Mississauga, took another step into the Promised Land on April 12, breaking ground for a church expansion project that will see the current ...
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Youth leaders inspired, challenged

When the Rev. Alise Barrymore began her sermon with a music video, “No Church in the Wild,” by rap artists Kanye West and Jay Z, ...
Archbishop Colin Johnson and Maureen Taylor sit in seats at the front of a lecture hall.

Transition from life to death ‘is a holy moment and a winding path’

In a thought-provoking address at SickKids hospital in Toronto on March 12, Archbishop Colin Johnson raised a number of questions about physician-assisted death, an issue ...
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Cable channel connects residents

When the Rev. Canon Derwyn Shea visited his wife in palliative care at Grace Hospital in Toronto, he saw that she avidly watched a television ...
Primate Fred Hiltz shares hands with a woman at the back of a church.

Primate spends Holy Week at local church

St. Martin in-the-Fields, Toronto, welcomed a special guest for Holy Week as part of its 125th anniversary celebrations. Archbishop Fred Hiltz, Primate of the Anglican ...

Proposed changes to mandatory retirement

A motion was brought to Diocesan Council proposing that the matter of mandatory retirement as it relates to members of the clergy be abolished.  Currently, ...

Proposed changes to Synod composition

In 2012, Diocesan Council set up a working group with membership drawn from all of the episcopal areas. The group’s mandate was to review and ...
The Rev. Jennifer Schick standing in the centre aisle of St. Mary Magdalene, Toronto.

Grant helps church connect with youth

St. Mary Magdalene, Toronto, is finding new ways to connect with its youngest members, thanks to the leadership of the Rev. Jennifer Schick. Ms. Schick ...
People carrying national flags in procession in St. Paul, Bloor Street.

Black heritage service turns 20

Twenty years ago, Glenda Samuels-Greenidge was a young liturgical dancer at the first diocesan black heritage service, held at St. James Cathedral in Toronto. The ...
A line of folded paper houses

New house a ‘huge step up’

A mother and her three children who live below the poverty line in Toronto can now afford to buy their own house, thanks to a ...
Indigenous women drum and sing.

Service celebrates the Earth, calls for its protection

About 45 people gathered in the chilly sanctuary of Holy Trinity, Trinity Square on Jan. 14 for the annual Keepers of the Water vigil to ...
Women sit talking around a table.

Parish teams learn to be missional

More than 160 people from across Canada gathered at the ninth annual Vital Church Planting Conference, held Jan. 29-31 at St. Paul, Bloor Street. This ...
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Churches get set for Games

The population of the parish of Little Trinity, Toronto, is about to get a lot bigger. This summer, 10,000 athletes, coaches and team officials will ...
The Anglican

Church builds app for those on the move

Like many parishes, Grace Church on-the-Hill, Toronto, seeks to equip our parishioners to practice their faith outside Sunday morning. For the past several years, we ...
Three young kids.

Writer meets Christians who fled from Iraq

When Christians in Mosul, Iraq were faced with the choice of either converting to Islam or death at the hands of ISIS, which had taken ...
Flowers on the bench inside a streetcar shelter in downtown Toronto.

Anglicans rally for homeless

Advocates for the poor and homeless, including an Anglican priest and a member of Holy Trinity, Trinity Square, took part in a press conference on ...
Canon Robert Falby speaks from a lectern at Synod.

Canon Falby retires as chancellor

In his understated way, Canon Robert Falby succinctly sums up the history of the Anglican Church in the past two decades. “It’s been an exciting ...
Canon Clare Burns greets people at the cathedral.

New chancellor for diocese

When Canon Clare Burns was growing up, her mother and father made it clear to her and her brothers that it was their responsibility to ...
The Anglican

Ads invite seekers at Christmas

For the second year in a row, the diocese invited seekers to church for Christmas using social media advertising. This was the fourth time the ...
Group of people pose for a photo in a church.

Church plans to help refugees

As the tide of refugees and displaced persons in the Middle East grows, a church in Toronto is doing its part to help. St. Matthew, ...
The Anglican

Work of school chaplains celebrated

Representatives from Anglican-affiliated independent schools in the Diocese of Toronto gathered on Nov. 12 for a dinner to celebrate the work of school chaplains and ...
Katie MacDougall speaks into a microphone.

More people seek housing, forum hears

About 60 people, some from as far away as Thunder Bay and London, Ont., attended a recent forum in Toronto on the challenge of ending ...
The Rev. Canon. Dr. Andrew White holds up a dollar bill.

‘Vicar of Baghdad’ shares plight of Christians

The Rev. Canon Dr. Andrew White recalls the time he was kidnapped and locked in a dark room. Turning on his mobile phone for light, ...
Memorial with photos of people who have died of AIDS.

AIDS vigil joins communities

The diocese’s annual World AIDS Day Vigil took on a new dimension this year, as it also marked the start of Aboriginal AIDS Awareness Week. ...
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Churches worship, plan together

As the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity approaches, some congregations are finding that worshipping with others of different denominations can be an enriching experience, ...
Bishop Poole preaching from the pulpit of Washington National Cathedral.

Bishop preaches in Washington

Bishop Philip Poole, the area bishop of York-Credit Valley, was given a rare honour – to preach at the Remembrance Sunday service at Washington National ...
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