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Nobody wants to sleep out in the cold

“I don’t want to sleep in the cold,” I confessed sheepishly to our team of volunteers as we discussed keeping the idea of an extreme ...
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Crafty St. Philip’s parishioners make quilts for women in recovery

St. Philip’s Anglican Church in Nanaimo is home to the Angel Sewers and Crafters, a group of around eight parishioners who meet once a week ...
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Ripples: December 2025

Alert Bay at Sacred Circle 2025  The 12th Sacred Circle took place Aug. 4-10, 2025, in Calgary, Alberta. There were six attendees from Alert Bay ...
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St. Dunstan’s holds final service at church in Gordon Head

For decades, St. Dunstan’s Anglican Church provided a venue for worship and community service in the Greater Victoria neighbourhood of Gordon Head — pursuing its ...
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Final women’s retreat explores faith in the turbulent 2020s

On Sept. 27, 2025, women from across the diocese gathered for the final women’s retreat. Attendance at the retreat has declined in recent years, reflecting ...
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Welcoming Naod

This August, several members of the St. George’s community found themselves in the chill of the early morning, with the stars still out, at the ...
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Cathedral welcomes three new ‘gap year’ scholars

A “gap year” is a term common in the UK, referring to a year off full-time education between high school and university. After an intensive ...
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Ripples: October 2025

A family service on the beach  On Sunday, Aug. 17, St. Philip’s, Oak Bay, held a family service at Willows Beach. Most of what happens ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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Churches help Victoria bid to become pipe organ capital of Canada

April 26 is International Pipe Organ Day and this year the Victoria Centre of the Royal Canadian College of Organists set itself an ambitious challenge: ...
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Signs of new life in the diocese

In the midst of Lent, I reached out to all the churches in the diocese asking them to share with me any signs of new ...
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Making transgender history visible

March 31 marks International Transgender Day of Visibility (TDOV). The event was founded in 2009 by transgender activist Rachel Crandall Crocker, with the intention of ...
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Anglican teen organizes environmental expo

On Saturday, January 11, 2025, Church of the Advent, Colwood hosted an environmental expo. But the idea for the event started life in the brain ...
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Historical St Stephen’s a hidden gem

We acknowledge that this church property is on the ancestral lands of the W̱SÁNEĆ and Coast Salish peoples. As you enter the five-acre grounds of ...
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