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June 2015

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Social media shares Easter with thousands

This year, Archbishop Colin Johnson delivered his annual Easter message in a new way – by YouTube video. At 6 a.m. on Easter morning, the ...
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Paul focussed life on Christ

Before we look at Paul’s second missionary journey and the beginning of his correspondence, we need to look at the man himself. He was born ...
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Business leader gives thanks to God

One of Canada’s foremost business leaders spoke passionately about his faith at the Bishop’s Company Dinner, held May 7 in Toronto. Prem Watsa, chairman and ...

Tree cutting brings church, community closer together

Over the past three years, Guildwood Village in Toronto – and Holy Trinity church at the heart of the village – has been devastated by ...
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Ten-minute talks ‘inspiring’

The social justice team at St. Mary Magdalene, Toronto, hosted a discussion evening in April at which six “table speakers” shared their experiences of HIV ...
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New minister transforms kids’ program

St. Olave, Swansea in Toronto received a $49,000 grant from the Our Faith-Our Hope campaign last summer to hire a children’s and youth minister for ...
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Pair ride in Europe to raise funds for soldiers

On June 12, Major the Rev. Canon David Warren, incumbent of St. George, Allandale in Barrie, and parishioner Dr. Phil Burridge, a retired emergency ward ...
Karen Isaacs with three young kids.

Ethiopia a diverse, complex and beautiful land

The air smelled of a unique mixture of dust, smoke, warmth, roasting coffee and incense as we took our first breaths in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. ...
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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I became fascinated by the monster in the corner

Canon Giles Bryant is the organist and choirmaster at All Saints, Peterborough. He will be retiring on Sept. 6. He is also the organist and ...
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I see blessings at every step

Matthew Li is the Wasa-Nabin Urban Aboriginal Youth Program Worker at the Timmins Native Friendship Centre’s satellite site in Moosonee. He is the son of ...
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Holy moments

The indefatigable and somewhat unlucky Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton said somewhere that he was always amazed at how quickly a bad situation can turn into ...
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Keeping good stats can help a lot

In an article in the Anglican Journal, General Secretary Michael Thompson asked, “How can we understand what’s going on in the lives of our congregations ...
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God had a message for me

Faith Journeys Stories of lives that have been changed by Christ   It was pretty much the same each week. There were meetings and classes ...
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There can be no letting up in this work

In the Old Testament, we see the prophets calling for justice in the communities to which they proclaimed the word. The call for justice in ...

This summer, share a meal

We were looking to buy our first house (now 32 years ago.) It was far more expensive than we had imagined. In narrowing the choices ...
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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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