May 2015

Small team sets out on mission

The Rev. Canon Don Beatty May 1, 2015

After the stoning of Stephen, the first Christian martyr, the persecution of Christians became intense in Jerusalem, causing many followers of the Way to flee, ...

A group of people pose for a photo with a sign that says "Progressive youth ministry conference"

Youth leaders inspired, challenged

Rosemary MacAdam May 1, 2015

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’

Stuart Mann May 1, 2015

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 ...

Progressively bigger stacks of coins grow plant shoots.

Make giving regular, reliable and real

Peter Misiaszek May 1, 2015

I have a confession to make: I’m not a tither. After you get over the shock that the director of Stewardship Development for the diocese ...

Group of young people at tables around a room.

Ministry is a commitment to God

The Anglican May 1, 2015

Constance Kendall is the program director at the Downsview Youth Covenant and the lay pastoral minister and youth director at St. Stephen, Downsview. The Downsview ...

When a bishop is away

Bishop Patrick Yu May 1, 2015

From time to time you will read in The Anglican that your bishop is away from the diocese. You may wonder, even aloud, “Why are ...

Cable channel connects residents

Stuart Mann May 1, 2015

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

Martha Holmen May 1, 2015

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 ...