April 2023 Archives - Faith Tides

Lending a warm and helping hand

Faith Tides — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 22:42:15 +0000

This past winter, some parishes in the diocese opened warming centres for those in need. At St John the Divine, Victoria, the church’s lower hall was used as the City of Victoria’s Emergency Overnight Warming Centre during extreme weather. The centre was operated and staffed by the municipal emergency planning group (within the fire safety […]

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New incumbents – Stephanie Wood and John Perris

Faith Tides — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 22:41:39 +0000

Faith Tides congratulates Stephanie Wood as the new incumbent of St Peter, Campbell River, and St Saviour, Cortes Island, beginning on April 15, 2023. She will leave her current position as associate priest at St John the Divine, Victoria, to take on this new challenge in the Mid-North Island Region. Stephanie comes from Vancouver Island where […]

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Summer programs at the Sorrento Centre

Christine Conkin — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 22:40:55 +0000

We’ve been talking about it for 60 years — at least! In March 1963, Bishop John Robinson wrote in the preface of his landmark book Honest to God: “I believe we are being called, over the years ahead, to far more than a restating of traditional orthodoxy in modern terms. Indeed, if our defence […]

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Pentimenti – a lecture by Holly Ratcliffe on April 6

Faith Tides — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 22:39:56 +0000

We had the pleasure of speaking with Holly Ratcliffe in our February 2023 issue. She will be lecturing at the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society (CSRS) at the University of Victoria as the 2022–2023 artist-in-residence. She invites all to attend: https://www.uvic.ca/research/centres/csrs/assets/docs/s2023-12-holly-ratcliffe_april6.pdf Holly will be speaking about the research and ceramic work she […]

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This May – Land, Law, Religion and Reconciliation: A Colloquium

Brendon Neilson — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 22:27:18 +0000

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Nominations for the Order of the Diocese of BC

Faith Tides — Mon, 02 Jan 2023 19:10:16 +0000

Do you know someone deserving of the Order of the Diocese of BC? On Oct. 21, 2023, Bishop Anna Greenwood-Lee will invest the next group of worthy people into the Order of the Diocese of British Columbia. The nomination process thrives on the active participation of each parish submitting the name of one of their […]

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