Columns and regular features
Bishop’s Column: Welcoming everyone to the table
“As we prepare for the Easter feast, I invite you to think about what your parish could do to spend more time at table with one another and to invite more people, from all walks of life, to join you at the table.”
Canon Lisa: The stories we tell ourselves
What stories to you tell yourself during conflict or challenging interactions? And how do these stories seperate you from the love of God?
From the Archives: 100 years since breaking ground at the cathedral
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the beginning of construction on Christ Church Cathedral in Victoria. Our diocesan archivist shares a few items from the archives from this ground breaking event.
Ripples: March 2026
Find out what’s been happening around the diocese in this regular feature.
Alongside Hope partners understand the challenges their communities face
In Uganda, one of Alongside Hope’s partners provides women and girls with vocational and business training to help them overcome poverty, patriarchy and social inequities.
Parish news
Churches get creative to raise funds for new keys
A number of our parishes are currently fundraising to buy new pipe organs and pianos — and finding creative ways to raise those funds.
Lenten challenge enters its tenth year
Lent 2026 will see the tenth installment of the Metchosin Challenge, a Lenten challenge set up by a St. Mary, Metchosin parishioner.
New year brings new energy to St. Peter, Quamichan
St. Peter’s teaches Holden evening prayer during Lent, and welcomes all for a youth and young person service.
Diocesan news
Diocese to host a summer retreat on Salt Spring Island
Retreat participants will spend time reflecting together on our call to be the salt of the earth amidst the challenges of these turbulent 2020s.
Features
How a Salt Spring Island experiment recovered Christian contemplation
In the 90s, the Parish of Salt Spring Island became a testing ground for a hypothesis: that the Anglican tradition already possessed the spiritual depth many Western seekers were crossing oceans and “going East” to find.
