September 2025 Archives - Faith Tides

Diocese launches online learning series for parishes

Faith Tides — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 22:08:44 +0000

The Parish Learning Hub is a new, annual, online learning series provided by the synod office. The topics for this year’s series were based primarily on requests made by parish administrators. Everyone is welcome to attend these free sessions, regardless of their role within the parish or whether they are a volunteer or employee. Sessions […]

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Shane Parker elected 15th primate of the Anglican Church of Canada

Naomi Racz — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 22:06:30 +0000

The election of a new primate took centre stage at General Synod 2025, held in London, Ontario on June 23-29. Back in April, the order of bishops selected four candidates for the office of primate: Christopher Harper, Greg Kerr-Wilson, David Lehmann and Riscylla Shaw. The election was held on June 26, in St Paul’s Cathedral, […]

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Dioceses in BC join Alongside Hope’s Wild Ride to light the way to safe births

Jacqueline Tingle — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 22:05:24 +0000

Alongside Hope’s 2025 Wild Ride aims to raise funds to equip eight off-the-grid rural health clinics with life-saving renewable energy. Thanks to a generous donor, all gifts this year will be matched, doubling the impact. At Muripotana Health Centre in Nampula, midwife Ancha Amido Abdala used to begin every night shift in darkness, with no […]

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The ordinary self and the divine Self

John J. Thatamanil — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 22:04:08 +0000

Learning from Hindu and Buddhist wisdom Three religious traditions dear to me all share a common insight: within each of us there is a twoness, an ordinary or conventional self and an ultimate Self. Those three traditions are Hinduism, Buddhism and Christianity. Christians don’t ordinarily talk about two selves—the expression is not native to Christian […]

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‘I felt God tapping on my shoulder’

Norman Knowles — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 22:03:17 +0000

In this edition of My Journey we meet Norman Knowles, who joined our diocese in July as the incumbent of St. John’s in Duncan and St. Michael’s in Chemainus. I grew up in a small, rural village (Ilderton) in southwestern Ontario. My parents were hardworking people who instilled in me a strong sense of right […]

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First Nations Version of the New Testament ‘deepens racial stereotypes’

Martin Brokenleg — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 22:02:02 +0000

In 2021, Terry Wildman, who is of Ojibwe (Ontario, Canada), Yaqui (Sonora, Mexico) and European decent, published a translation of the New Testament that is intended to be “by and for the Indigenous Peoples of North America.” The translation, called the First Nations Version, is written in English, but is intended to reflect the idioms, […]

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‘A deeper intimacy with our creator’

G. Wayne Short — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 22:01:39 +0000

“In the tiny spaces between breaths and the silence between your thoughts, I have placed a door that leads directly to me.” — Rumi Oblation. It’s a strange word out of the writing and records of monastic communities ancient and modern. From this word we have a more familiar one: oblate. Oblation means “offering.” […]

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How should the church communicate?

Naomi Racz — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 22:00:02 +0000

As the editor of a diocesan newspaper, I have taken an interest in the recent discussions around communications and the Anglican Journal at the national level and the reports published by the primate’s commission, as well as the recent resolutions at General Synod. I thought I’d offer readers of Faith Tides an overview of these […]

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