Churches get creative to raise funds for new keys
Music is an important aspect of Anglican worship and for many, services wouldn’t feel complete without the accompaniment of a pipe organ or piano. That’s ...
Lenten challenge enters its tenth year
Lent 2026 will see the tenth installment of the Metchosin Challenge, a Lenten challenge set up and run by St. Mary, Metchosin parishioner and long-time ...
New year brings new energy to St. Peter, Quamichan
There is some exciting new energy happening at St. Peter, Quamichan! A new year seems to have brought with it a desire for new liturgical ...
Diocese to host a summer retreat on Salt Spring Island
Bishop Anna and Christine Conkin, incumbent at St. George, Cadboro Bay, will be hosting a diocesan retreat this summer on beautiful Salt Spring Island. The ...
100 years since breaking ground at the cathedral
This year is the 100th anniversary of the beginning of construction on Christ Church Cathedral in Victoria. This building is the 3rd iteration of Christ ...
Ripples: March 2026
Pictured (left) are (l-r) Brendon Neilson, executive director; Bishop Anna Greenwood-Lee; and Jenny Replogle at Jenny’s collation as executive archdeacon. And (right) St. Michael and ...
The stories we tell ourselves
I have a vivid imagination and one of the things I do to entertain myself when I’m waiting is make up stories about people using ...
Alongside Hope partners understand the challenges their communities face
Alongside Hope supports projects in Canada and around the world in collaboration with local partners. These partners understand the cultural, social, economic and political contexts ...
How a Salt Spring Island experiment recovered Christian contemplation
This article originally appeared in the Anglican Journal and is republished here with the permission of the Journal and the author. When the parish of ...
Bishop's Column
Welcoming everyone to the table
Perhaps this is an inappropriate topic for Lent, a season of fasting, but as bishop I am pleased to see that many of our parishes ...
The proper order of things
On Sunday, Jan. 4, 2026, at an evening prayer service at the cathedral, Jenny Replogle was collated as executive archdeacon. “Collating” is a very funny ...
Walking home by another road
Dr. Gordon Smith was one of the speakers at our incredible 2025 We Together conference. He shared a story of how when he retired from ...
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
‘I would have entertained anything but priesthood’
My life began in Canton, Ohio, where my parents bought an unremarkable house in the barely middle class environs of an expanding hospital. My parents had been ...
Diocesan Theologian
The church and the culture of addiction
Facebook knows me (almost) better than God knows me In capitalism’s latest phase, we are the products being bought and sold. If we think we ...
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