{"id":42296,"date":"2014-01-28T05:06:40","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T05:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/inside_toronto_profiles_st-_georges-on-the-hill_anglican_church\/"},"modified":"2014-01-28T05:06:40","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T05:06:40","slug":"inside_toronto_profiles_st-_georges-on-the-hill_anglican_church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42296","title":{"rendered":"Inside Toronto Profiles St. George\u2019s-on-the-Hill Anglican church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWelcome. God\u2019s Peace to All who enter this place,\u201d\u009d reads Rev. Canon John Wilton\u2019s message posted on a sign near the church\u2019s front doors.<\/p>\n<p>Wilton took over as interim pastor two years ago following a controversy in which the Anglican diocese removed the church\u2019s former rector.<\/p>\n<p>Its parishioners come from all walks of life. Some reside in the area and have been members of the congregation for a half-century. Others live in neighbourhoods across Toronto, Mississauga, Oakville and Stouffville. Many are former members of St. Agnes\u2019 Long Branch, which the Diocese closed several years ago, and of Christ Church Mimico, lost in recent years to fire.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the parish\u2019s leadership are 15- to 20-year congregants.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidetoronto.com\/news-story\/4333840-st-george-s-on-the-hill-anglican-church-defined-by-outreach-music-and-love-of-god\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWelcome. God\u2019s Peace to All who enter this place,\u201d\u009d reads Rev. Canon John Wilton\u2019s message posted on a sign near the church\u2019s front doors. Wilton took over as interim pastor two years ago following a controversy in which the Anglican<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42296\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,48,39,50,388,74,207,183,132,184,108,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-church-of-canada","category-anglican-provinces","category-canada","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-music","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-urbancity-life-and-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}