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Graffiti on Oakville church being investigated as a hate crime

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St. Aidan’s Anglican church in Oakville has been daubed with graffiti.

Pride month seems to have been the inspiration for the artwork and, since it includes homophobic slurs, it is being investigated as a hate crime.

Although I have little in common with the liberal version of Christianity promoted by St. Aidan’s, I doubt that this is a productive way of protesting it.

Still, if the graffiti had celebrated Pride Month and denounced the traditional view of marriage, while declaring St. Aidan’s a “False Church”, would it be investigated as a hate crime?

Here is the graffiti:


And here is the article:

Halton police are investigating a recent act of vandalism at an Oakville church as a hate crime.

Sometime between the afternoon of Saturday, Aug. 19 and the morning of Sunday, Aug. 20, two signs reading “We Stand In Unity With The Halton Community” were cut in half at St. Aidan’s Anglican Church, 318 Queen Mary Dr., police say.

The church had set up the signs during Pride Month and left them up afterwards.

The church and attached daycare were also vandalized with graffiti in five areas, according to police.

“They include homophobic slurs and are being investigated as a hate-motivated crime,” said Halton Police Media Officer Const. Ryan Anderson.

No arrests have been made and no suspect descriptions are available.

When reached for comment Reverend Fran Wallace said that as a community of faith St. Aidan’s wished to acknowledge the sadness of this act.

St. Aidan’s displays Black Lives Matter sign

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St. Aidan’s is in London Ontario in the Diocese of Huron. Its rector is Rev. Kevin George.

The organisation, Black Lives Matter which Kevin George is keen to advertise, declares on its website that it is dedicated to overturning the nuclear family, dismantling cisgender privilege, dismantling the patriarchy, fostering a queer‐affirming network and uplifting Black trans folk. Among other things.

The founders of BLM, Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Alicia Garza were accused recently of not having an ideological framework. They have hastened to assure us that they do: they are Marxists. They want to overturn capitalism and Western civilisation.

As you can see, this fits in nicely with the agenda of the Anglican Church of Canada.

So as to leave no doubt about his political bias, the rector of St. Aidan’s, Rev. Kevin George has a twitter feed on which he displays things like this:

And this:

If he had said similar things about Justin Trudeau, would he still be employed by the Diocese of Huron?

Anglican church converts to Buddhism

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The Anglican Church of Canada hasn’t converted to Buddhism in its entirety – not yet, at least, and not that it would make much difference – just St. Aidan’s in Kelowna, BC.

From here:

Anglican church to be reincarnated as Buddhist cultural centre

KELOWNA – St. Aidans church, a small heritage building in Rutland, should soon see new life under an adaptive reuse agreement with the Okanagan Buddhist Cultural Society.

Staff are recommending three parcels near Mugford and Rutland Road North be rezoned and consolidated, then sold to the society along with a memorandum of understanding about the church’s preservation.

Plans are to relocate the historic Anglican church, opened in 1933, to the centre of the consolidated site where it will be restored under a heritage revitalization agreement with the city. The society will build a new entranceway, church hall and develop the old church as a cultural centre.

Built by volunteer labour on donated land, the original church was designed by Enoch Mugford, superintendent of the Black Mountain Irrigation District and local developer Hector Maranda.

Diocese of Huron is ready to grow now it’s rid of its evangelicals

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From here:

After an almost decade-long rift among Anglicans that led to a breakaway group trying and failing to gain control of a Windsor church, Rev. Robert Bennett says the diocese is ready to move on and “regrow.”

I had no idea that the parishioners of St. Aidan’s, Windsor were the reason the Diocese of Huron was busily closing parishes. In my naïvety, I had assumed that, like many other Anglican Church of Canada dioceses, they were so obsessed with being inclusive that almost everyone had lost interest and left.

But no! It was really those pesky fundamentalists in St. Aidan’s holding the diocese back; now they are gone, the diocese can focus on being really inclusive and start growing. Hallelujah.

 

How churches are surviving in the Diocese of Niagara

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They are becoming community centres.

St. Peter’s in Hamilton, having been given to the diocese by the ANiC parishioners, is now no longer used for Christian worship, but is a community centre used by HARRRP.

St. Aidan’s in Oakville is still used part time as a church but seems to be placing most of its emphasis on becoming a community centre too; sharing its building with many service agencies is, apparently, now an act of outreach. Coincidentally, it also happens to bring in a lot of cash.

From here:

The ‘little church on the corner’ — St. Aidan’s — that serves Oakville’s West River and Kerr Village neighbourhood recently celebrated a new look…..

The first phase of the changes are now complete and Oakville MPP Kevin Flynn,  Angelo Di Cintio of the Ontario Trillium Foundation and the Rev. Bishop Michael Bird of the Niagara Diocese were on hand to participate in the ribbon cutting at the open house.

A $130,000 Ontario Trillium Foundation grant in 2009 provided a springboard to get the project underway. More fundraising is underway and phase two plans are in the works.

To date, a new ramp and electric door at the church’s north entrance have been added to make the building more accessible.

The first floor of the building has been reconfigured to make the space more usable and comfortable for groups that meet there throughout the week.

As well, two new washrooms, a kitchenette and servery area, lighting and sound systems were completed this fall as part of phase one.

Through its local outreach, St. Aidan’s shares its space with many service agencies and partners who are able to offer innovative educational and support services for those in need.

St. Aidan’s has again become a hub in the community and a much needed gathering place for the neighbourhood, according to Fricker.

In partnership with organizations like T.E.A.C.H., the Halton Multicultural Council, Art House, Ace, Hopedale Nursery School and Kindermusik, to name just a few, quality programs that directly serve the needs of children, youths, seniors, and new immigrants are offered