December 2024
Lay leadership in worship course to run in spring 2025
Many of the parishes in the diocese are “in transition” and do not necessarily have a priest to celebrate the eucharist each Sunday. Additionally, parishes ...
Churches in the diocese host a year of prayer in the style of Taizé
This year, three churches in the diocese hosted prayer in the style of Taizé, as part of an effort by ecumenical churches to bring this ...
What price, a blanket?
I am on a trip from Canada to the UK, where most members of my family live. I walk into my cousin’s family room, where ...
Baby Jesus in a walnut shell
In the weeks before Christmas, many years ago, a little girl in my extended family pleaded with her mother for a My Little Pony. You ...
Historical St Stephen’s a hidden gem
We acknowledge that this church property is on the ancestral lands of the W̱SÁNEĆ and Coast Salish peoples. As you enter the five-acre grounds of ...
All Saints by-the-Sea celebrates 30th anniversary
For Anglicans on Salt Spring Island, this year’s season of Thanksgiving was the perfect opportunity to share with the community their celebrations for the 30th ...
On Scrooge, the prophets and God’s love
For years, Alastair Sim in the 1951 A Christmas Carol has been so dear to my heart that Christmas does not feel complete unless I’ve ...
Acting Primate signs letter to PM on Gaza, Canadian Christian declaration on antisemitism
Acting Primate Anne Germond and National Bishop Susan Johnson have co-signed a letter (see below) to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, calling for “a full and ...
Bishop's Column
Instruments of love and compassion
In April of 2024 Archbishop Linda, Archbishop Chris and I wrote a letter to the federal government asking that the day school settlement agreement be ...
May Christ be born anew
“For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; there will be earthquakes in various places; there will be famines. This is but the ...
‘God is indeed making all things new’: Bishop’s charge to synod
The following is the text Bishop Anna prepared for her charge to synod. To see the recording of the charge please go to the recorded ...
Reflections
Remembering Herbert O’Driscoll
October 17, 1928 – July 25, 2024 With immeasurable sadness, we announce that the Rev. Canon Dr. Thomas Herbert O’Driscoll (known to many as Herb) ...
My Journey
‘What it means to be the church today’: interview with Jenny Replogle
In September, the diocese welcomed Jenny Replogle as the canon for lay-led parishes and parishes in transition. Faith Tides editor Naomi Racz talked to Jenny ...
Diocesan Theologian
How to be salt and yeast
In my September reflection in Faith Tides, I mused about whether it might be possible for the church to learn how to be small but ...
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