January 2020

Progressively bigger stacks of coins grow plant shoots.

A tipping point of our own

Peter Misiaszek January 1, 2020

Here’s a fresh idea: Encouragement Sunday! What’s that, you might ask? It’s a new way of looking at a longstanding idea – of prayerfully making ...

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I am certain God is always with me

The Anglican January 1, 2020

Lydia Cordie is a bi-vocational youth minister at St. Peter, Erindale, a member of York-Credit Valley’s Area Council, co-chair of the Children and Youth Ministry ...

Bishop Andrew Asbil in green chasuble gesticulates as he speaks

This is not a time to be afraid. It is a time to have courage

Bishop Andrew Asbil January 1, 2020

In the summer between Grade 7 and Grade 8, my older brother and I formed a lawn-cutting business. We borrowed the Gestetner machine at the ...

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What is Jesus calling you to in 2020?

Bishop Riscylla Shaw January 1, 2020

God is good! And so is gracious disruption. In turning over the tables in the temple, teaching that the last shall be first and uplifting ...

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Vestry motion helps us care for creation

Elin Goulden January 1, 2020

It’s time to get serious about creation care. From widespread fires in Australia and the Amazon to the flooding of Venice’s council chambers, the disrupting ...

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Christian vocation counter-cultural, says theologian

Elaine Rowe January 1, 2020

Noted American author and theologian the Rev. Dr. William Willimon spoke at Grace Church on-the-Hill, Toronto, on Nov. 16 on the topic “The Calling of ...

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Youth leaders learn faith, skills

Stuart Mann January 1, 2020

About 50 youth ministry leaders from the dioceses of Toronto and Niagara gathered at Trinity and Wycliffe colleges in Toronto on Dec. 1 for a ...