June 2021 Archives - Faith Tides

Pride in the church

Naomi Racz — Wed, 02 Jun 2021 00:00:13 +0000

Karen Coverett is assistant warden at St. John the Divine, Victoria, and first attended worship at the church during Pride Week 2016. I spoke to Karen about Pride, inclusivity in the Church and Zoom tech support. In 2016, Karen Coverett and her friend decided to go on a “church quest.” Karen’s friend was facing pressure […]

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What is home?

Andrea McCoy — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 23:50:05 +0000

What is home? Maybe home is the place you were born or the place you live now. Maybe home is where your family is. Or maybe you have not found a home yet. I believe many of us would have different responses. And I believe that despite all the differences, there would be a core […]

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Corpus Christi

Herbert O’Driscoll — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 23:37:14 +0000

Herb O’Driscoll’s newest book of memoirs, I Will Arise and Go Now: Reflections on the Meaning of Places and People, was released Feb.17 by Morehouse Publishing. Patrick Street, Cork, 1937 It was my best friend Jim who suggested we go downtown to watch the Corpus Christi procession. As Church of Ireland boys, we were not […]

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A life worth living

Carole Gill — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 23:35:14 +0000

“A Life Worth Living” was the topic for the Women’s Spring Retreat that took place on April 10, 2021. Due to COVID-19, we met via Zoom, with Primate Linda Nicholls as our facilitator and guest speaker. We were blessed to have Bishop Anna Greenwood-Lee, from the diocese of Islands and Inlets, open our meeting with […]

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A tree and a church

Tony Reynolds — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 23:30:00 +0000

St. Peter, Comox, and Garry oaks have one thing in common: longevity. A Garry oak can live 300 years. St. Peter celebrates its 130th anniversary this year. To mark this occasion, Bill Henderson and Karen Cummins, two members of Comox Valley Nature, a not-for-profit society dedicated to conserving these unique trees, planted a Garry oak […]

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Identifying hope where we find it

Brendon Neilson — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 23:28:44 +0000

In his small book The Canada Crisis, originally published in 1980, Canadian theologian Douglas John Hall wrestles with hopes and despairs that are uniquely ours as Canadians. While I commend the whole of this little book, two concepts have stuck with me since reading it. First, that in order to truly hope, we must become […]

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A listening, learning church

John J. Thatamanil — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 23:14:57 +0000

Addressing racism has become an urgent matter in the wake of the murder of George Floyd (a year ago on May 25, 2020) and the rise of anti-Asian violence during the pandemic. Now, the latest heart-wrenching discovery of the remains of 215 Indigenous children at the Kamloops Indian Residential School reminds us of how much […]

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The borrowed tomb

Bob Quicke — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 23:09:14 +0000

I have a strange mental aberration (whether a gift from God or not I will leave to you to decide) in that my mind, upon hearing a phrase or story, will often wander off, trying to speculatively fill in the missing pieces of the tale. It is this quirk that has inspired some of my […]

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Diocesan Council Zooms along

Faith Tides — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 22:53:36 +0000

This regular column reports on the activities and decisions of diocesan council, the “synod between synods” of our diocese. Download monthly meeting minutes at www.bc.anglican.ca/programs/diocesan-council. Streamlining bureaucracy As reported last month, at its March meeting the diocesan council approved motions regarding canonical wording changes to Canons 3 and 4. The changes stipulate that the frequency […]

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Let’s walk together gently into our future

Anna Greenwood-Lee — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 12:45:55 +0000

This summer, I am inviting the entire diocese, lay and clergy, to read Challenging Racist “British Columbia”: 150 Years and Counting. The book was co-produced by the University of Victoria research project Asian Canadians on Vancouver Island: Race, Indigeneity and the Transpacific, and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (BC office). It contains 80 illustrated […]

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