December 2025

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Priest wins prize, then encampment torn down

The Rev. Canon Maggie Helwig, incumbent of St. Stephen in-the-Fields, Toronto won this year’s Toronto Book Award for Encampment, a nonfiction work about the encampment ...
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Diocese hires DEI advisor

The diocese has hired Dilesha Stelmach as its new Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Advisor. Ms. Stelmach has over seven years’ experience in the DEI ...

Dinner hears resurrection story

The theme of this year’s outreach and advocacy conference was “seeking signs of resurrection,” but guests at the 64th annual Bishop’s Company Dinner, held the ...

Despite early difficulties, hybrid ministry is worth it

The crew running the hybrid services at Christ Church St. James, Toronto is tiny but mighty. During the pandemic, there had been six hosts, but ...
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What might theology look like beyond us?

In the first article of this series, we explored what I called the anthropoterminal impulse: our habit of imagining that the story of the universe ...

Wonderful day

St. Martin, Bay Ridges (Pickering) celebrated its 60th anniversary on Oct. 4 with a community barbecue that featured delicious food, lively music and vibrant activities ...

Conference seeks signs of resurrection

This year’s diocesan Outreach and Advocacy Conference broke new ground through the use of modern technology and a dramatically new approach for one of its ...

Poet-priest enlightens, entertains

Malcolm Guite is on a mission to bring music back to English poetry. So it’s fitting that the UK sonneteer and Anglican priest often finds ...

Transformed on the way to Lindisfarne

Embarking on a pilgrimage is a serious undertaking. Pilgrims respond to a heavenly call to take leave of their ordinary lives, to travel to a ...

On the incarnation

Imagine the scene, some nine months prior. A messenger comes to Mary, a strange greeting: hail, favoured one, the Lord is with you. And then ...

‘Go back and spread the word’

The Rev. Dr. Alvardo Adderley gave Anglicans some stirring words to live by at the diocese’s fifth and final Lift Up Our Hearts service, held ...

Marketplace helps items find new home

Across the diocese, items once used in beloved church communities are finding new life and purpose through a creative new initiative. A new online Marketplace ...

Allow God to love you

“Love came down at Christmas” by Christina Rosetti calls to mind childhood memories of our little country church, singing this anthem with the choir, Mom ...