Opinion

A visit from Canterbury

May 31, 2022

More that we might have feared; less that we might have hoped The recent visit of the Archbishop of Canterbury to Canada has predictably generated ...

Why stay in the Church? On pursuing integrity not purity

May 31, 2022

As we become increasingly aware of the historical cruelty of Anglican, Catholic and other Canadian churches — the most recent papal apology serving as yet ...

Applying hospice philosophy to climate grief

May 31, 2022

The church has an opportunity to help support people experiencing ecological distress. Ecological distress refers to “any forms of emotional, psychological or existential distress related ...

Celtic teachers show us the divine in all matter

May 31, 2022

Book Review: Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul by John Philip Newell. New York, NY, HarperOne, 2021 “We’re in for quite a stretching,” said an Irish midwife ...

The prie-dieu

May 31, 2022

The antique shop was large. I found myself in it only because my family was in a nearby store, and, since I’m not much of ...

Discerning a postcolonial presence on ‘Yalis

May 1, 2022

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 ...

Holding space for climate grief

May 1, 2022

Because we’ve just come through Holy Week, it strikes me that the way to be church for people who are grieving climate change, grieving anything, ...

Divesting from the dystopian real estate market

May 1, 2022

or, why flipping your house is an unjust act When we bought our house in Victoria, BC, eight years ago, we had already been selected ...

Three empty graves

May 1, 2022

I have recently learned a piece of family history many years after the event. I learned that two grave plots in St Luke Cedar Hill ...

A silencing of doubt

May 1, 2022

Sometimes when I wonder at the scriptures of the resurrection, asking the questions and experiencing the doubts that people have voiced since the extraordinary events ...

Q&A with a military chaplain

May 1, 2022

Sarah Priebe is a military chaplain at CFB Esquimalt and a parishioner of the Church of the Advent, Colwood. Faith Tides editor Naomi Racz spoke ...

Where God might be calling us next

April 1, 2022

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 ...

The Friday we dare to call Good

April 1, 2022

Those who wrote the four gospels did so because they were convinced that the three fleeting years of the public ministry of Jesus of Nazareth, ...

The work of attention: a Lenten discipline

April 1, 2022

“Not only does the love of God have attention for its substance; the love of our neighbour, which we know to be the same love, ...

St. Brigid spans pagan and Christian traditions

April 1, 2022

Book review: Brigid’s Mantle: A Celtic Dialogue Between Pagan and Christian by Lilly Weichberger & Kenneth McIntosh. Vestal, NY, Anamchara Books, 2015 Saint Brigid of ...