September 2025
Ripples of change in the diocese
Following the great response to the call for stories for the Signs of new life in the diocese piece that appeared in the May 2025 ...
Eric Partridge retires
This summer Eric Partridge retired from his role as the diocesan executive archdeacon, a role he stepped into at the beginning of 2023. The executive ...
Cathedral connects young people to music education
Cathedrals have music in their DNA, and as Anglicans, we hold firmly that making beautiful things (including beautiful sounds) is a worthwhile mission. For centuries, ...
Photo gallery: summer events across the diocese
Faith Tides may have been on it’s summer break, but there have been a number of events across the diocese since the June 2025 issue ...
Diocese launches online learning series for parishes
The Parish Learning Hub is a new, annual, online learning series provided by the synod office. The topics for this year’s series were based primarily ...
Shane Parker elected 15th primate of the Anglican Church of Canada
The election of a new primate took centre stage at General Synod 2025, held in London, Ontario on June 23-29. Back in April, the order ...
Dioceses in BC join Alongside Hope’s Wild Ride to light the way to safe births
Alongside Hope’s 2025 Wild Ride aims to raise funds to equip eight off-the-grid rural health clinics with life-saving renewable energy. Thanks to a generous donor, ...
The ordinary self and the divine Self
Learning from Hindu and Buddhist wisdom Three religious traditions dear to me all share a common insight: within each of us there is a twoness, ...
‘I felt God tapping on my shoulder’
In this edition of My Journey we meet Norman Knowles, who joined our diocese in July as the incumbent of St. John’s in Duncan and ...
First Nations Version of the New Testament ‘deepens racial stereotypes’
In 2021, Terry Wildman, who is of Ojibwe (Ontario, Canada), Yaqui (Sonora, Mexico) and European decent, published a translation of the New Testament that is ...
‘A deeper intimacy with our creator’
“In the tiny spaces between breaths and the silence between your thoughts, I have placed a door that leads directly to me.” — Rumi ...
How should the church communicate?
As the editor of a diocesan newspaper, I have taken an interest in the recent discussions around communications and the Anglican Journal at the national ...
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