January 2022

The epiphanies of life

January 1, 2022

Piano tuners have to hit single notes again and again. However, now and again they play a chord and you realize how infinitely richer a ...

Projects across the diocese receive AFC funding

January 1, 2022

The 2021 fall grant cycle is one of the biggest in the AFC’s 64-year history, with close to $650,000 disbursed in grants and bursaries to ...

Making time to think about place

January 1, 2022

Come January, we all get to thinking about the passing of time. We look back and look forward like the two-faced god, Janus, after whom ...

Humility and hope

January 1, 2022

“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 ...

God had his hand on me

January 1, 2022

I was born in Vancouver, and we emigrated to Southern California in 1960. It was an exciting time to live in California: culture crazes, social ...

Diocesan council approves stewardship motions and regulations

January 1, 2022

With pandemic restrictions still in effect, the November diocesan council meeting was once again held over Zoom. Transforming Futures A motion was passed that the ...