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The Diocese of Islands and Inlets has title to 46 church properties. How these properties came to be part of our diocese are stories we …
“…the burden belongs to the nation, and the hands of none of us are clean if we bend not our energies to righting these great …
March is the month when the diocese asks that all parishes complete their annual Parish Information Return (PIR). The data collected in this form helps …
Those in our diocese taking part in the lay leadership in worship course have read Joan Chittister’s The Liturgical Year: The Spiraling Adventure of the …
As we begin 2023, I’d invite us all to consider the recent census that suggests we are the most secular diocese in North America. According …
Advent, the first season of the liturgical year, is a season of waiting. But it’s not a passive or a bored or an empty waiting. …
In 2021, Russell Daye and Robert Fennell published Turning Ourselves Inside Out: Thriving Christian Communities. Having researched thriving mainline Christian communities in Canada, the thesis …
At the end of September, our diocesan conference, We Together, was held in Nanaimo. In the opening address on the Friday night, I spoke about …
While I am incredibly proud of how all our parishes have innovated and persevered through COVID-19, I am also hearing a common refrain about how, …
As a diocese we are all experiencing the shifting realities of our lives in similar and distinct ways. Our past is marked with both stories …
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 …
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 …
Recently I found myself talking with members of the Parish of Pender and Saturna Islands and one of them reflected that COVID-19 has brought out …
During the month of January, the lectionary worked its way through some of Paul’s first letters to the church in Corinth. We heard Paul remind …
“Liminality: A quality of ambiguity and disorientation that occurs in transitory situations and spaces, when a person or group of people is betwixt and between …
