February 2026 Archives - Faith Tides https://faithtides.ca/tag/february-2026/ News from the Diocese of Islands and Islets in the Anglican Church of Canada Thu, 05 Mar 2026 23:56:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://faithtides.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/cropped-Faith-Tides-Icon-32x32.png February 2026 Archives - Faith Tides https://faithtides.ca/tag/february-2026/ 32 32 207835967 Ripples: February 2026 https://faithtides.ca/ripples-february-2026/ https://faithtides.ca/ripples-february-2026/#respond Thu, 05 Feb 2026 17:10:54 +0000 https://faithtides.ca/?p=176910 Pictured (left) are (l-r) Norman Knowles, incumbent at St. John the Baptist, Duncan and St. Michael & All Angels, Chemainus; Trish Vollmann-Stock, deacon; and Jenny Replogle, executive archdeacon at an Epiphany service held at St. John the Baptist, Duncan. Image by Jodie Phillips. (Right) an Epiphany potluck shared by St. John the Baptist, Duncan and […]

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]]> https://faithtides.ca/ripples-february-2026/feed/ 0 176910 ‘I would have entertained anything but priesthood’ https://faithtides.ca/i-would-have-entertained-anything-but-priesthood/ https://faithtides.ca/i-would-have-entertained-anything-but-priesthood/#respond Thu, 05 Feb 2026 17:09:34 +0000 https://faithtides.ca/?p=176856 My life began in Canton, Ohio, where my parents bought an unremarkable house in the barely middle class environs of an expanding hospital. My parents had been married just over 10 months, after my father was excused from the Roman Catholic priesthood, refusing to be laicized, or renounce his holy orders, convinced of his call to marriage. […]

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]]> https://faithtides.ca/i-would-have-entertained-anything-but-priesthood/feed/ 0 176856 Using video to bring the local community in https://faithtides.ca/using-video-to-bring-the-local-community-in/ https://faithtides.ca/using-video-to-bring-the-local-community-in/#respond Thu, 05 Feb 2026 17:08:31 +0000 https://faithtides.ca/?p=176937 Before coming to Victoria and starting his incumbency at St. Philip Anglican Church in Oak Bay, Allen Doerksen  was the incumbent at St. Matthew’s in Abbottsford.   St. Matthew’s was one of the parishes that left the Diocese of New Westminster in 2002 when then-Bishop Michael Ingham consented to allowing churches to conduct same-sex blessings. After the congregation vacated […]

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