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The harvest is plentiful

Anna Greenwood-Lee — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 16:11:08 +0000

“The harvest is plentiful, but the labourers are few” (Matthew 9:37) It has been such a joy to begin 2024 with the very happy news that many of our churches are growing. Everyone, from Lake Cowichan to the cathedral, is reporting full services on Christmas Eve, and many of our parishes are slowly but surely […]

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Decolonizing the archives

Jessica Ziakin Cook — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 16:10:36 +0000

This year the archives will begin a long-term project of decolonizing its finding aids. These keys to the collection can contain dated language. Combing through them to update them is a way for the diocese to make good on its intentions to practice reconciliation in all aspects of our work. The project is an initiative […]

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Thank you, Padre

Logan McMenamie — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 16:09:41 +0000

In one of the parishes I served in this Diocese of Islands and Inlets, I was honoured to get to know Douglas Kendell. Dougie, as I called him, had served in World War I with the Black Watch. By World War II he had become chaplain to the Montreal-based Black Watch. Dougie said to me […]

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Let’s talk faith and justice

Lyndon Sayers — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 16:08:53 +0000

How to use podcasting to have public conversations about theology For over a year, Boston Laferté and I dreamed about producing a podcast featuring themes that are progressively Christian and justice focused. We launched Let’s Talk Faith & Justice in the late summer of 2023, and we have now produced 19 episodes that are hosted […]

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Behaving not believing

John J. Thatamanil — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 16:07:03 +0000

When Christians encounter people from other traditions, they are often inclined to ask, in a spirit of curiosity, “What do you believe?” This might seem a perfectly reasonable question to pose. The only trouble is that many other traditions are practice centred, not belief centred. The scholarly term for this priority for practice over […]

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