Mags Storey is a writer, editor and journalist. Born in Canada she grew up in the United States and Middle East before studying journalism at Ryerson in Toronto. She has written for various publications in the UK, USA and Canada, and is currently a correspondent with ChristianWeek. She now lives in Canada with her husband Mike and their two daughters. Her first novel, If Only You Knew, was published in February 2009.
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Click below for a selection of Mags' news features and other writing:
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an interview with Father Hernan Astudillo
"As I wait for Hernan Astudillo, pastor of Toronto’s San Lorenzo Anglican Church, I find more questions than answers—and not just because the elderly Latin American man who is showing me around can’t speak English … It is hard to imagine that this small church in west Toronto has sent more than $3 million of aid to Latin America …
It is even harder to believe that someone has threatened to murder
Astudillo,
Canada’s first Latin American Anglican priest."
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Mystery worshippers spy on church
They infiltrate churches disguised as ordinary worshippers, but with a secret assignment. Mags Story has the inside scoop on a British website and the sanctuary sleuths who keep it informed.
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Furniture salesman turns "unchurch" pastor
When pastor Jeff Edwards turned a derelict
Main Street movie theatre into a church and youth centre he received a mixed reaction from some local Christian leaders. Not for the flashing strobe lights, hover-hockey and pool tables, or even the iguana in the foyer—but for the name: “Unchurch.”