Opinion

Mission and Discernment: A Summer of Challenge and Growth

March 19, 2025

Often, when I think of the word ‘mission’, I recall Jesus sending out the twelve and the events in Acts. Yet, from time to time, ...

Listening – Talking – Anger (Which one of these is your “Achilles heel”?)

November 27, 2024

Do you ever feel that, in our hustle and bustle world of mega information, it’s sometimes harder to get a word in edgewise? Not only ...

Child Friendliness in Church – embracing the chaos

November 25, 2024

You may have noticed blessing bags in Churches around the Diocese. This is part of our effort to encourage a child and family friendly culture ...

Reflections on Vocations Day

Danica Meredith May 23, 2024

“Vocation is where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet” – Frederick Buechner* On April 27th, I attended an amazing Vocation Day at ...

Rewilding of Church Properties

Lee-Ann Matthews May 23, 2024

I recently approached the Stewardship of the Environment Committee with a proposal to embark on a campaign encouraging the rewilding of Church properties in the ...

Jesus at 2000: A Retrospective

Neil Mancor May 23, 2024

Searching through some old boxes a while ago, I was surprised to find an old Macleans magazine from 1999. The cover article was: Jesus at ...

A Personal Reflection; my experience at the Retreat for Exhausted People at All Saints by The Lake, Dorval

Lee-Ann Matthews February 14, 2024

I wasn’t the only one who was drawn to a retreat for exhausted people. In fact, there were over 20 of us who made our ...

The Post-Everything Church: The model that isn’t a model

Neil Mancor November 15, 2023

There have been many models proposed to us to grow our churches or re-grow them. And recently there has been a deluge of articles, events ...