Investigating the Toronto Blessing: A beautiful mystery

By Christine Chubb

Posted June 1, 2020 5:06 am.

This article is more than 5 years old.

In today’s Big Story podcast, on January 20, 1994, strange things started happening at a small Christian church in Toronto. Worshipers found themselves laughing, shaking, falling, rolling around on the ground. That was only the beginning. How did the church suddenly become one of Toronto’s ‘Top Tourist Attractions’? Was something supernatural truly happening? Did gold teeth miraculously appear in people’s mouths?

Tara Jean Stevens was a teenager when this bizarre movement spread from Toronto to her childhood church on the other side of the country. More than 25 years later, her new podcast, Heaven Bent, searches for the truth behind the miracles and explores big questions of faith and feeling. The first episode was released today, and you can find it right here.

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