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The altar in the chapel at St. John the Divine

Pride in the church

Karen Coverett is assistant warden at St. John the Divine, Victoria, and first attended worship at the church during Pride Week 2016. I spoke to ...
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Candle House

What is home?

What is home? Maybe home is the place you were born or the place you live now. Maybe home is where your family is. Or ...
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Lon Towstego, incumbent in the parish of Central Saanich, outside his home in Victoria.

The illicit drug overdose crisis in British Columbia and our response as a church

April 14 marked the fifth anniversary of the declaration of an opioid overdose emergency in B.C. Since the public health emergency was declared in April ...
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Corpus Christi

Herb O’Driscoll’s newest book of memoirs, I Will Arise and Go Now: Reflections on the Meaning of Places and People, was released Feb.17 by Morehouse ...
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Identifying hope where we find it

In his small book The Canada Crisis, originally published in 1980, Canadian theologian Douglas John Hall wrestles with hopes and despairs that are uniquely ours ...
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A listening, learning church

Addressing racism has become an urgent matter in the wake of the murder of George Floyd (a year ago on May 25, 2020) and the ...
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Let’s walk together gently into our future

This summer, I am inviting the entire diocese, lay and clergy, to read Challenging Racist “British Columbia”: 150 Years and Counting. The book was co-produced ...
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Uncharted territory

As a church in the 2020s, one of the things we need to realize is that we are living in changing times and uncharted territory. ...
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Highway 1 near Banff

A sense of déjà vu: on the Trans-Canada Highway from Calgary to Banff

During our years at the Anglican Parish of Christ Church, Elbow Park in Calgary, I used to take Monday as my day off. Sometimes, my ...
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God is persistent, and so should I be

Our new editor of the Post asked me an interesting opening question: “What made you decide on the role of deacon as a career?” It ...
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Hallelujah, Anyhow

Just over one year ago, on March 13, 2020, Bishop Barbara Harris died in hospice, and the Anglican Communion lost one of our great leaders ...
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Flowers in a cemetary

Nature and the church

How the natural world shapes our worship spaces Here in the Diocese of Islands and Inlets, we’re lucky to be surrounded by beautiful natural spaces ...
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Reflections on nature at Holy Trinity, North Saanich

“Morning has broken,” and the bells of Holy Trinity welcome all into the church’s quiet, spiritual presence. Flowers and greenery, lovingly arranged by the altar ...
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Calvary

Herb O’Driscoll’s newest book of memoirs, I Will Arise and Go Now: Reflections on the Meaning of Places and People, was released Feb. 17 by ...
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The work that Jesus prepared us for

I grew up in Halifax, N.S., in the 1940s, the sixth of seven children. We lived in the city until I was 15 years old, ...
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