[Magdalen] Acronyms and initialisms (was TECnical question)

[Allan Carr]

The two churches I remember from the 1930s and 1940s were the Queen Street
Methodist Church, which had a postal service for immigrants, holding mail
until claimed by the recipient after they'd ridden the rails looking for
jobs, and Agricola Finnish Lutheran Church where I was baptized and
confirmed. it was in a home converted into a church on Huron near Queen's
Park. The church is now located at Yonge and York Mills and has dropped the
Finnish reference.
Many years later, I was a member of a Unitarian fellowship that bought a
house here in Thousand Oaks and used it as a church until it fell afoul of
zoning regulations and had to move elsewhere.
A bit later, I practiced and, eventually, accepted Soto Zen which met, and
still does, in a group of houses south of Koreatown in Los Angeles.
All these years, I've wondered if zoning laws only apply to suburbs but not
big cities like Toronto and Los Angeles, where lots of people have started
churches in old residential housing.



On Sunday, May 10, 2015, Susan Hutchinson <shutchinsonca at gmail.com> wrote:

> There is of course the well known United Church parish in Toronto. At the
> time of Union (between the Methodists, Presbyterians and Congregationalists
> in Canada) in 1925, St James' Church merged with the Bond Street Church,
> becoming, of course, St. James Bond Street ...
>
> Marion will no doubt be familiar. ;-)
>
> love and blessings
> Susan
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-- 
Allan Carr