May Christ be born anew

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

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 ...

A month of thanksgiving

“Test me in this,” says the Lord Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much ...

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) ...
John Thatamanil

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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