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November 2017

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Cookbook helps people living in poverty

As part of an employment program at The Bridge, a centre for ex-prisoners in Brampton, staff were teaching a cooking classes when they asked the ...
Excavators on a dig.

In the heart of ancient Jerusalem

For two weeks in July, I was privileged to participate in something that has been on my bucket list for years – an archaeological dig ...
A group of people at a pow wow.

Parish visits First Nation’s pow wow

When it comes to living out the call to reconciliation with First Nations, St. Saviour, Orono is a small parish that thinks big. The parish ...
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St. Aidan’s celebrates life in the Beach

Throughout the Beach’s history – from forest to farmlands, from resort to city neighbourhoods – St. Aidan, Toronto has served the lakeside community in the ...
People talk and write ideas on large papers.

Large turnout for town hall

More than 100 people – twice the number hoped – attended Bishop Jenny Andison’s first town hall meeting in York-Credit Valley to hear people’s hopes, ...
People with Indigenous drums walk along Toronto's waterfront.

Diocese gives $100,000 to healing fund

The Diocese of Toronto is giving $100,000 to help replenish the national church’s Anglican Fund for Healing and Reconciliation. The fund, which has provided grants ...
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Where faith might be caught

Fall brings a new term of Sunday School to my parish. We use a lectionary-based curriculum and have a good cadre of dedicated men and ...
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Reclaiming disciple-making

William Temple – an Archbishop of Canterbury in the ’40s – once famously remarked that the Church is the only institution that exists primarily for ...

Pastoral statement

This is a pastoral statement on the commitment to diverse theological positions in the Diocese of Toronto, written by Archbishop Colin Johnson and endorsed by ...
The Rev. Sheilagh Ashworth with her beehives near St. Mary Magdalene, Shomberg.

Beekeeping good for her soul

In the village of Schomberg, an Anglican priest has found unusual common ground to help her connect with her neighbours: bees. The Rev. Sheilagh Ashworth, ...
The deacon's cupboard at St. Peter, Erindale with some dry goods inside.

Cupboard connects church, homeless

In a new twist on a neighbourhood service that usually provides food for the mind, an updated version is providing food for the body. The ...
The Rev. Dr. Pearce Carefoote, Archbishop Colin and Ellen Johnson at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.

I am enormously grateful to God

On Sept. 21, I informed the members of Diocesan Council that, after many months of prayerful discernment, I am asking diocesan Synod to concur with ...
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