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 Church of the Holy Trinity Statement
Occupy Wall Street Movements
November 2011
“…in our society, casino capitalism prevails in lockstep with an inexorable
rise of poverty and inequality. Wall Street and Bay Street
have become vehicles for the takeover of the state and the
public square by corporations whose sole loyalty is increasing
profits…Our faith traditions call on their followers to place the most
vulnerable – the homeless, the widow, the orphan, the
unemployed, and the stranger – at the centre of our living
concern.”—Occupy Movements, An Interfaith Response (ISARC)
The Occupy Wall Street Movements (OWS) are drawing critical attention to the gaps between the wealthiest and the rest of society, including the role that banks, corporations and governments have played in increasing this gap. OWS is a movement for [...]
 A very special welcome on this ‘Back to Church Sunday’ to our visitors this morning. Last year, at this time, I was welcomed back to Holy Trinity after I spotted Archbishop Colin Johnson in his full vestments standing in front of Union Station.
I took up the invitation last year… and here I am today.
Let’s begin with a plunge into the deep end of the doctrinal pool, starting with the words of the great American Anglican theologian, Robin Williams. Our sisters and brothers in the Anglican communion in the US prefer to call themselves Episcopalians. Here the esteemed Mr. Williams sets out the top ten reasons for being an Episcopalian:
10. No snake handling.
9. You can believe in dinosaurs.
8. Male and female, [...]
Genesis 2:4b-8, 18-23 Song of Solomon 2:8-13 Galatians 3:23-29 Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30
Rhythms of Grace
“I do not understand the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where we are and does not leave us where it found us.” — Anne Lamott
If our forebears could join us today, I can only imagine the range of their reactions to Pride Sunday. “What?! a Sunday to celebrate one of the Seven Deadly Sins? What has the world come to? I suppose you have a Greed and Gluttony Sunday as well?” And we would get to explain that ‘Pride’ in this context is not about one of the cardinal sins, but about undoing the millennia of shaming that human societies and the church [...]
 On Sunday, June 26th, 2011 the Rev. Jim Ferry’s license as priest was reinstated by Archbishop Colin Johnson of the Diocese of Toronto, and he was appointed Honorary Assistant of Holy Trinity, Trinity Square. It is 20 years since he was made an outcast by the previous Bishop of Toronto, Terence Finlay, for being in a same sex relationship. His outing and subsequent public trial in a Bishop’s Court garnered worldwide media attention.
Jim’s sermon “Pride and Prejudice” marked the opening of Toronto’s Pride Week celebrations at Holy Trinity, and highlighted the Pride 2011 theme: You Belong. It is available [...]
Readings: Acts 2:42-47; Psalm 23; 1 Peter 2:19-25; John 10:1-10
When I received this week’s readings after having agreed to share this morning, I will be honest and say I had a sinking feeling. A guilty, sinking feeling. A feeling that I would, in the process of preparing this homily, have to face something I mostly avoid because I’m just not sure what to do with it. So today I will share, but I will share in many ways the anxieties of the rich. And I want to recognize up front that for many in our midst, these are not your anxieties. And that reality is in some ways at the heart of the question. [...]
Sun, damn it, I want sun:
After the endless grey
Fast and famine of winter, winter is done:
Let us have bright sun:
Bright sun at break of day… [...]
 Briallen Hopper is a divinity student at Yale, a faith blogger, and a future leader of the Church of NALT. She shared her Passion Week sermon with Dan Savage and gave him permission to post it on his blog. This is an incredible piece of writing that get’s to the heart of the the Christian message for us today. [...]
In the fall of 2010, Marilyn Ferrel, a woman who all her life has battled the physical challenges of cerebral palsy and the emotional challenges of a society that did not understand her condition, was found to have an inoperable brain tumour. A member of The Church of the Holy Trinity, an Anglican parish in downtown Toronto, Marilyn was supported by a group of friends from that community as well as other friends and her ex-husband, Michael, as she moved into palliative care.
A few years earlier, Marilyn had embarked on an ambitious program of reading a number of contemporary Christian theologians and responding to their ideas out of her personal experience. It must have been an arduous process, physically, for [...]
 My journey of Lent started with an air flight to Los Angeles to visit my daughter and her family last week. I had packed the book Best Laid Plans and was about to begin reading it when my seat mate asked me about the book. I talked about the CBC Canada Reads contest and the books chosen for this year, some of which I had read.
My seat mate, Yilmaz Alimogul, told me that he was an author and had recently published his first book. In response to my enthusiasm and questions, he presented me with a copy.
I began reading it at once and in response to my questions about the setting and circumstances of the story Yilmaz disclosed that [...]
This is the first one I’ve been able to get to. I’m very glad I went. The focus was on International Women’s day and the Echo choir and a movement/dance group were both guests. Very quick and refreshing service. The pot-luck supper afterwards was great and most folks seemed to stay. Several of us brought instruments and had a bit of a sing-song/jam after the meal. An excellent time. Thank you to everyone who made [...]
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