Opinion

The world calls the church to act

The church has seen better days. It stands as a bruised and battered institution with diminished moral credibility. The Anglican Church, as well as every ...
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Rest in love and work from that love

Stepping into parish leadership can be daunting at the best of times and particularly challenging in today’s climate of less financial resources, competing priorities and ...
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A note from the editor

Dear Readers, I wanted to remind you all that Faith Tides will be taking it’s usual summer break. We will be back in September and ...
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Reaching across diocesan boundaries to work together

It has been a joy to travel across our beautiful diocese these past weeks and months. I can report that from Port Alice to Salt ...
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When things turn out differently than we’d hoped

I’ve been reflecting on how often I’m caught unawares in situations where I’m expecting one thing and something entirely different happens. Not the happy coincidence ...
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“Come on bishop, let’s dance!”

Diocesan council is grateful to the parish of St. Peter, Quamichan for hosting most of our meetings in their lovely hall. Not only is it ...
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Remembering the Sacred Journey ten years on

Ten years ago, in March 2016, a pilgrimage began in Port McNeill as an act of penance for the sins of a colonial past that ...
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Speaking our inner stories out loud

Last month I asked us to think about the stories we tell ourselves. Now it’s time to start taking some risks with this curiosity stuff. ...
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God speaks in the stillness

“Be still, and know that I am God!” (Psalm 46:10) In a world filled with constant noise, the presence of silence in the Anglican eucharist ...
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Baseball and the ‘how’ of faith

I have been a baseball fan for most of my life. I was seven when I first visited the SkyDome in Toronto. We were on ...
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Welcoming everyone to the table

Perhaps this is an inappropriate topic for Lent, a season of fasting, but as bishop I am pleased to see that many of our parishes ...
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The stories we tell ourselves

I have a vivid imagination and one of the things I do to entertain myself when I’m waiting is make up stories about people using ...
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How a Salt Spring Island experiment recovered Christian contemplation

This article originally appeared in the Anglican Journal and is republished here with the permission of the Journal and the author. When the parish of ...
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The proper order of things

On Sunday, Jan. 4, 2026, at an evening prayer service at the cathedral, Jenny Replogle was collated as executive archdeacon. “Collating” is a very funny ...
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Getting curious when conflicts arise at parish AGMs

It’s the season of spring buds, early cherry blossoms, new daffodils, longer days and …. parish vestry meetings. Depending on your personal preferences, some of ...
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