January 2024 Issue

Welcome to Cathedral Cafe: Warming Centre Expands to Five Days per Week

Ancient Church, Future Mission: The Mixed Ecology Parish

It has now been more than three months since I started as the Community Missioner and I am excited to ...

Little Things Make Big Things Happen: Our Individual Impact on Climate Change

There isn’t a day that goes by where we are not presented with so much information on the climate crisis. ...

The Presentation in The Temple: More Than a Cute Story

When we were doing Messy Church at our parish, one evening it was my turn to do the Bible story. ...

Matching Gift Boosts Food Security Ministries During Winter Months

More than 2.3 million people across Ontario can’t access nutritious food on a regular basis, including one in every five ...

The Holy Land of Sorrows

There is a long history behind the recent war in the Holy Land. The tragedy of religious hatred and strife ...

Living Shalom and Salam

I may be a Christian priest but I have three Jewish grandparents,so, to an anti-Semite I’m a Jew. Even worse, ...
The Deacon's Bench logo

The Dangerous Word Hastily

Hastily is an adverb from the word haste. Hastily, according to the Oxford Language dictionary, means “with excessive speed or ...

Clearing the Air at St. Paul’s, Fort Erie

With the arrival of the COVID- 19 pandemic in 2020, St. Paul’s Anglican Church in Fort Erie faced the challenge ...

Jodey Porter Installed As Renison Chancellor

Renison University College installed Jodey Porter as its 10th Chancellor on Wednesday, November 29, 2023. Porter brings to her new ...

Sorry But Not Guilty

Sometimes I fail as a pastor. I am someone who can turn myself inside out about all of the ways ...

Vestry Meetings Offer Chance to Reflect & Discern

After the Feast of the Epiphany is celebrated, a parish’s collective energy shifts to what is an important period in ...
Skip to content