Bishop’s Column

“…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 ...

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, ...

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 ...