Embracing the world
Anna Greenwood-Lee
March 31, 2023
“…the burden belongs to the nation, and the hands of none of us are clean if we bend not our energies to righting these great
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“…the burden belongs to the nation, and the hands of none of us are clean if we bend not our energies to righting these great
March is the month when the diocese asks that all parishes complete their annual Parish Information Return (PIR). The data collected in this form helps
Those in our diocese taking part in the lay leadership in worship course have read Joan Chittister’s The Liturgical Year: The Spiraling Adventure of the
As we begin 2023, I’d invite us all to consider the recent census that suggests we are the most secular diocese in North America. According
Advent, the first season of the liturgical year, is a season of waiting. But it’s not a passive or a bored or an empty waiting.
One of the realities of church life and being church leaders, whether clergy or lay, is that we inevitably get wrapped up in property issues.
In 2021, Russell Daye and Robert Fennell published Turning Ourselves Inside Out: Thriving Christian Communities. Having researched thriving mainline Christian communities in Canada, the thesis
At the end of September, our diocesan conference, We Together, was held in Nanaimo. In the opening address on the Friday night, I spoke about
While I am incredibly proud of how all our parishes have innovated and persevered through COVID-19, I am also hearing a common refrain about how,
As a diocese we are all experiencing the shifting realities of our lives in similar and distinct ways. Our past is marked with both stories
As we move towards the summer months, I have had a few questions about the Lambeth Conference that is taking place in the UK this
During the second week of May, I will be travelling with Brendon Neilson, vision animator, and Elizabeth Northcott, archdeacon of the Mid-North Islands region, to
About a month ago, all the clergy of the diocese gathered (on Zoom, of course) and, together, we pondered the question of where God might
Recently I found myself talking with members of the Parish of Pender and Saturna Islands and one of them reflected that COVID-19 has brought out
During the month of January, the lectionary worked its way through some of Paul’s first letters to the church in Corinth. We heard Paul remind
