Redeveloping our future
Anna Greenwood-Lee
November 30, 2022
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.
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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
“Liminality: A quality of ambiguity and disorientation that occurs in transitory situations and spaces, when a person or group of people is betwixt and between
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
At a recent meeting of the Canadian House of Bishops, we were discussing the possibility of asking General Synod 2022 to pass an aspirational statement
On Sunday, September 12 Stephanie Wood, John Thatamanil, Colleen Lissamer and Marion Edmondson were ordained to the Sacred Order of Deacons. Prior to the recent
There is an old joke, “How many Anglicans does it take to change a lightbulb?” “Change!? My grandmother donated that lightbulb!” This joke illustrates the
