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Instruments of love and compassion

December 17, 2024

In April of 2024 Archbishop Linda, Archbishop Chris and I wrote a letter to the federal government asking that the day school settlement agreement be ...

An artistic expression of liturgical colour

December 17, 2024

We the church are light the light shining in darkness the darkness vanquished The Christian calendar year, portrayed in colour blocks painted by my daughter, ...

May Christ be born anew

December 1, 2024

“For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; there will be earthquakes in various places; there will be famines. This is but the ...

What price, a blanket?

December 1, 2024

I am on a trip from Canada to the UK, where most members of my family live. I walk into my cousin’s family room, where ...

Baby Jesus in a walnut shell

December 1, 2024

In the weeks before Christmas, many years ago, a little girl in my extended family pleaded with her mother for a My Little Pony. You ...

On Scrooge, the prophets and God’s love

December 1, 2024

For years, Alastair Sim in the 1951 A Christmas Carol has been so dear to my heart that Christmas does not feel complete unless I’ve ...

‘God is indeed making all things new’: Bishop’s charge to synod

November 7, 2024

The following is the text Bishop Anna prepared for her charge to synod. To see the recording of the charge please go to the recorded ...

How to be salt and yeast

November 7, 2024

In my September reflection in Faith Tides, I mused about whether it might be possible for the church to learn how to be small but ...

Letter to the editor (November 2024)

November 7, 2024

Dear Editor, Since autumn is often a time for church stewardship campaigns, when tithing might be promoted, I’m writing about concerns I’ve had for years ...

A month of thanksgiving

October 1, 2024

“Test me in this,” says the Lord Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much ...

Oh God, it’s Otter!

October 1, 2024

Fur gives and fur gets, my dog told me. No wiser words were ever spoken. In 2017, I decided to attend church in my new ...

Letter to the editor (October 2024)

October 1, 2024

Dear Editor, I was both shocked and interested to read your article about the Gwa’sala-‘Nakwaxda’xw Nations and their troubles (Gwa’sala-‘Nakwaxda’xw Nations building hope for the ...

The story of our church in this land

September 2, 2024

The following is a sermon delivered by Jesse Robertson at Christ Church Cathedral, Victoria on June 23, 2024. For those of you who don’t know ...

Can the church learn to be small but mighty?

September 2, 2024

Church and world: how are we to think about the relationship between the two? Once upon a time, the question would have made little sense. ...

‘It is easier to talk about reconciliation than to do reconciliation’

June 4, 2024

Dear friends, At the end of 2023 the Yellowhead Institute, which monitors progress on the 94 Calls to Action from the 2015 Truth and Reconciliation ...

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