Due to the Covid-19 outbreak there is only one said service in St. James’ Church, at 9 am on Sunday. Max attendance is 50 and pre-registration is required. All other in-parish activities are suspended. Be sure that the Church’s prayer continues, for the DTES, our medical services, and for an end to this pandemic. For details of Sunday Worship via Zoom and other updates, please see the News section.
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BLOG: Jesus Christ: No Tech – Goes Viral #MicDrop
We have learned to see our world through megapixels. Our reality is affirmed by likes and taps on screens. Today walking down the street I saw two men engaged in a verbal fight that almost came to blows over one having walked into the other while looking at his phone instead of where he was […]
BLOG: Wild Beauty, God’s Altar in the Wilderness
By —Paul Stanwood How can we begin to build a new altar at St. James’? Our celebrations are rich and plentiful, and the church is a centre of beauty. Yet we still want to see what isn’t there: a wonderful world of ecological harmony, of ourselves and of all creation at peace. A special kind […]
BLOG: “The eyes are the window to the soul.” SUNDAY MORNING @ ST. JAMES ANGLICAN CHURCH: PART III, by Elsie K. Neufeld
Photo by Connor Botts on Unsplash Part III “The eyes are the window to the soul.” You saw him first at the table set up outside the small kitchen, helping himself to baked goods set on a table. He was slight, slim, and dark-haired. He might have been your sons’ peer, mid-30s or so. He wore a […]
BLOG: “But God be with the clown” SUNDAY MORNING @ ST. JAMES ANGLICAN CHURCH: PART II, by Elsie K. Neufeld
Photo by A. L. on Unsplash Part II. “But God be with the clown” (Emily Dickinson). @St. James Anglican church, Sunday July 9, 2018. I arrived on time, though too late to hear the church bells ring at the corner of Gore & Powell. Parked my car, and hurried up the steps, was greeted by an usher at […]
BLOG: “Could We be horses?” SUNDAY MORNING @ ST. JAMES ANGLICAN CHURCH: PART I, by Elsie K. Neufeld
“Could We be horses?” SUNDAY MORNING @ ST. JAMES ANGLICAN CHURCH: PART I, by Elsie K. Neufeld I left the Mennonite church at age 34, and except for funerals and weddings, have not attended since. Two and a half decades later, there is little I miss about it – except the four part singing. I’ve […]