The Salvation of Church?
Some years ago, when I was in seminary, I came across a flyer posted outside the Trinity College Chapel, advertising a seminar, in Burlington, on Church renewal offered by someone … Continue Reading
Toronto has become an unaffordable city for the average Canadian. There are still many reasons to live here, but unless one comes from money, or has a significant income, to … Continue Reading
It’s Been 2 Years, Near Enough… We have endured two years of fear, self-isolation, social-distancing, masking, vaccination and lockdowns, plural. Covid has now morphed into its nth variant. It doesn’t … Continue Reading
When the people of Jerusalem were exiled to Babylon they needed to come to terms with their loss. Everything that was familiar, their very way of life, just disappeared. Their … Continue Reading
We are now in the ninth month of Coronavirus, an event that the philosopher Andrew Harvey has called “a defining crisis of human evolution, an apocalyptic situation: Apocalypse is a word that turns … Continue Reading
Many Anglican Churches throughout the GTA, and the surrounding 905 area code, are experiencing decline. Congregations are aging. Churches have been closed as congregations have grown old and tired, and … Continue Reading
Young adults, between ages 17 and 30, are significantly under-represented – if not absent – in many Anglican congregations. That is a troubling fact; particularly given the greying of the … Continue Reading
Those of us who are not Roman Catholic have little direct experience of monastics – either monks or nuns. Our impressions of them have, therefore been conditioned by what we … Continue Reading
Many of us have come to the City from somewhere else, leaving our friends and family behind to make a new life and seek new opportunities. While life in the … Continue Reading