DIOCESAN POST
December 2021
God wishes us small
God must be huge, or at least, that’s what I thought when I was a child. I understood that God was all-powerful and knew all ...
Thought-provoking fiction adds to a very familiar Bible account
Book Review: The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd. New York, Viking, 2020.
Darkness and light
Christmas at St John the Divine, Victoria We are all familiar with the recurring images of light that we use around Christmas time: festive lights on the Christmas tree, ...
The truth within the story
St. Christopher, Saturna Island, is small in size but rich in sacred imagination. Like most churches during the pandemic, the lights were out and the ...
Seeing Christmas through Herod’s eyes
Menacing danger sets the tone in Matthew’s telling of the Christmas story. Why? Might the danger inherent in the Messiah’s birth be worth remembering lest we forget it amidst the ...
The night the stars sang
Hollywood loves the word “apocalypse.” To them it means “dollars.” It means a big-screen disaster movie, complete with toppling high-rises, mile-high tsunamis engulfing cities and terrified humans running in all ...
We are one
I started in full-time ministry at the age of 22. I had the opportunity to work for a faith-based organization in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, that ...
Watching for the light
In 1944 on the first Sunday in Advent, Alfred Delp, a Jesuit priest incarcerated in a Nazi prison on charges of high treason against the Third Reich, offered the ...
Bishop Anna sets out six diocesan priorities
In her remarks to the recent meetings with synod office staff, archdeacons and the diocesan council, Bishop Anna set out six current priorities as a way of focusing the ...
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