PAGE 2 PAGE 7 PAGE 12 Pacifist headed Doctors heal, Summer program to court teach in the Congo reaches youth TheTHE NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF TORONTO A A SECTION OF THE ANGnLICAN JOURNAL g l www.tiorontoc.anglican.ca n OCTOBER 2013 Major exhibit coming to cathedral Ecclesiastical embroidery, textile art on display BY CAROLYN PURDEN exhibition, celebrating the needle - workers’ achievements along with THE work of women will be hon - the embroidery and textile art of oured through a large exhibition other faiths. of ecclesiastical embroidery and With only a few months to plan, textile art that opens at St. James Ms. Mallett convened a committee EARTH’S BOUNTY Cathedral on Oct. 25. made up of representatives from Sarah Strang, holding her son, sells produce from her stall at All Saints, King City’s farmers’ market. For story Some 80 items will be on dis - the Coptic Museum, the Roman and photos, see Page 6. PHOTOS BY MICHAEL HUDSON play, lent by individuals, faith or - Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto, ganizations and museums. They the Pomegranate Guild of Judaic range from a magnificent beaded Needlework and the Muslim faith, icon and gold-embroidered ban - among others. Anglican helps ‘connect the dots’ ners from a Russian Orthodox “I never dreamed that it would cathedral to an embroidered Jew - grow to this, but there’s been such ish chuppah or wedding canopy. enthusiasm,” she says. “People “We’re celebrating the role of want to be part of it, and we’ve on climate change at conference women in that so much of the been flooded with offers to lend us making and repairing of this work things.” was done by women,” says Nancy Five museums have been in - BY MURRAY M AC ADAM cluded meetings with his MPP Mallett, curator of the exhibition volved in the exhibition. Some and his MP. When he recalls the and head of the cathedral’s have lent items while others, such WHEN he looked into the Earth’s biblical story of Adam and Eve in Archives and Museum. as the Royal Ontario Museum, changing climate, David Fal - the Garden of Eden, and the The idea of an exhibition came have provided stands and show - tenhine realized he needed to do beauty of God’s creation, it re - about when it was discovered ear - cases to display items. something about it. Now he minds him of the damage that hu - lier this year that the diocese’s Ec - The pieces in the exhibit cover serves as a volunteer ambassa - mans are inflicting on the Earth. clesiastical Needleworkers were a wide range and come from far dor for climate change education “We’re not being responsible to celebrating their centennial and afield. They include a Coptic head - and action with The Climate Re - the beautiful planet that’s been wanted to set up a display in the piece, beautifully embroidered ality Project, begun by former given us,” he says. Cathedral Centre. with jewels; family baptismal U.S. vice-president Al Gore. Mr. Faltenhine admits that at Dean Douglas Stoute said the dresses that are more than a cen - As the national energy manag - times it’s hard to remain hopeful, cathedral should stage a bigger tury old; an Orthodox crown-like er for a large engineering firm, with powerful political and eco - mitre; a 19th century ceremonial Mr. Faltenhine was invited to a nomic interests opposing action cloth from a Ukrainian Climate Reality Project training on climate change. “It’s almost monastery; a funeral pall de - session in California last fall. “It like a David and Goliath situa - signed by Canadian artist Doris was a really powerful experi - tion,” he notes. “But David did McCarthy; a Turkish imam’s ence,” he recalls. Mr. Gore, a slay Goliath.” prayer cap, turban and cloak; and prominent environmental ac - Ms. Marshall says, “The Angli - embroidered gloves given by Pope tivist, led a presentation on the can Church’s fifth Mark of Mis - John XXIII to a Toronto cardinal science behind climate change, David Faltenhine sion calls us to care responsibly after Vatican II. and what can be done in response. for the creation. Part of this work - As well, there will be some 20 Mr. Faltenhine, a member of ing up climate change. “We con - shop will include a discussion on copes and chasubles on display. the Church of the Redeemer, nect the dots,” says Mr. Fal - how we, as Christians, can take The Primate is lending the Cana - Toronto, will present a Climate tenhine. The workshop will wrap responsibility in our personal and da Cope, which is embroidered Reality Project workshop at the up with suggestions for action. public lives as citizens in a time of with the provincial and territorial diocese’s Outreach Conference In his work, Mr. Faltenhine has climate change.” flowers, and the accompanying on Oct. 5 with Diane Marshall, a helped companies save millions The climate change workshop mitre that shows the map of Cana - member of the diocese’s Creation of dollars on energy costs. But it’s is just one of many at the Out - da and maple leaves. Matters environmental group. the environmental benefits that reach Conference, which takes Nancy Mallett holds a mitre from The exhibition is open from 7 The floods in Toronto and Cal - give him the most satisfaction. place from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on the Ukrainian Catholic Church, one a.m., to 7 p.m. from Oct. 25 to Nov. gary, and other startling weather His Christian faith helps inspire Oct. 5 at Holy Trinity School, of 80 items that will be on display. 1. Entrance is free but donations episodes, will be covered, fol - Mr. Faltenhine in his environ - Richmond Hill. Other workshops PHOTO BY MICHAEL HUDSON are appreciated. lowed by scientific evidence back - mental advocacy, which has in - Continued on Page 12 AUTHOR URGES ADVOCACY FOR POOR – SEE PAGE 9 2 The Anglican N E W S October 2013 Pacifist prepared to go to jail ignored it. A few months later, Stand on she received a phone call from a woman who asked if she could come and talk to her about it. census leads “A very lovely woman,” recalls Ms. Tobias. “So we had a cup of tea and we chatted and I ex - to court plained to her why. She wrote co - pious notes.” BY CAROLYN PURDEN She thought that would be the end of it, but after a few months, AUDREY Tobias, an Anglican another woman phoned. “So she parishioner and longtime pacifist, came, another cup of tea, and this is so ashamed of Prime Minister time I wrote a little letter for her Stephen Harper that she’s pre - to include in her report as to why pared to go to jail to protest a de - I wasn’t filling in the census.” cision he’s made. Time passed, then one day she In 2011, Ms. Tobias refused to received a letter from the Public complete and sign Statistics Prosecution Service of Canada, Canada’s short form census, a telling her she had been charged criminal offence. As a result, the with a criminal offence. Whether 89-year-old will appear in federal her action was a criminal offence court in Toronto on Oct. 3 to an - Friends of Audrey Tobias, seen here in front of Old City Hall and Toronto’s war memorial, plan to be with her was of no interest to her—and swer charges. in court to provide support. PHOTO BY MICHAEL HUDSON still isn’t. “If that’s what they A parishioner at St. Cuthbert, want to do, let them do it,” she Leaside, Ms. Tobias explains her the information technology of the tech companies in Canada who pany. I don’t like that.” says. position succinctly. “Mr. Harper census to Lougheed Martin,” she could have done it, and Lougheed Ms. Tobias is a veteran of the She hired lawyer Peter Rosen - in Cabinet gave the contract for says. “There are plenty of high- Martin is the largest manufactur - Second World War and also a thal, one of a group of lawyers er of military weapons in the member and former coordinator committed to civil rights and so - world. 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