A man throws a birthday party and instead of gifts or cards, his guests bring money for a family of Syrian refugees. A pair of Beach churches host a sold-out dinner with a live band, history talks, and a ‘lifeboat’ that fills with $36,000 in pledges. Moved by the news and by stories he heard […]
St. Aidan’s Anglican Church is looking to sell its aging Memorial Hall and renovate the attached church on Queen Street East for its next 100 years. The parish still needs a final go-ahead from the Anglican Diocese of Toronto, which actually owns the properties at Queen and Silver Birch Avenue, along with a city permit […]
If you want to pull an 8,083 kg truck in your running shoes, it sure helps to have level ground. Homelessness advocate Lia Grimanis felt that firsthand on Dec. 12, her 42nd birthday, when she set a new Guinness world record for the heaviest vehicle pulled 100 feet by a woman. “You’re either being chased […]
What comes to mind when you think of the word ‘spirituality’? In connection with church we often picture Sunday services, prayers and sermons about how to get to Heaven. In bookstores the spirituality section will typically have numerous books on meditation, world religions or the afterlife. But there’s a spirituality which is about getting your […]
I moved to the Beach just two months ago to serve as priest at St Aidan’s Anglican Church, while my husband serves Grace Anglican Church in Scarborough. We moved here from Victoria, BC, but prior to that we had lived for 17 years in Guelph, so Toronto was not unknown to us. But the Beach […]
