Enjoy tea and home-baking while learning about political, cultural and social issues.

Tea Talks offer the opportunity to broaden one’s understanding, over tea and home-baked scones, about political, cultural and social issues impacting us today and tomorrow. Previous topics have included Faith & Politics, the refugee crisis, Right to Die legislation, the simple life, the question of evil, the music of the old testament, Exploring the Beatitudes and more! Admission is by donation. Everyone is welcome! From 3 - 4:30p.m. and childminding is available.

Final Tea Talk of 2025:

November 2: Fr. Travis O'Brian, Hannah Main-Van Der Kamp & Charles Douglas |Poetry and Poets: Readings from Three Parish Poets

Upcoming 2026 Dates:

January 25: Julie Lane Gay — “Living in the Book of Common Prayer”

February 8: Dr. Elaine Drysdale — “The Hope Found in Near-Death Experiences”

March 8: John Plommer — “Pilgrimage to the Holy Land”

April 26: Dr. Cristalle Watson — “Interpretatio Christiana and Religious Bridge-Building in the Early Christian World”

September 13: Kamilla O’Brian — “Volunteering at the Joy of God Orphanage, Tanzania”

October 4: Dr. Inna Vlassev — “Living with Indigenous Art: The Relationship Between Artist and Collector”

November 8: Benjamin Jones — Topic: Money and Spirituality

 

Recent talks include a talk on children's formation and spirituality from our Community Life Minister Jasmin O'Brian, and a talk on Dealing With Trauma in Late-Medieval Florence--Judgement, Compassion and Redemption, in which Dr. Brian Pollick took us through a unique manuscript by Domenico Lenzi, called Lo specchio umano (the Mirror of Humanity). The manuscripts were created in response to periods of severe famine and devastating floods in recent Florentine history.

Here are posters of some recent Tea Talks:

Please contact admin@stbarnabaschurch.ca for more info about upcoming Tea Talks and other parish events.