Western Peninsula and Gulf Islands Archives - Faith Tides

Lenten challenge enters its tenth year

Naomi Racz — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:09:55 +0000

Lent 2026 will see the tenth installment of the Metchosin Challenge, a Lenten challenge set up and run by St. Mary, Metchosin parishioner and long-time parish council member Sharleen Thompson. Sharleen was inspired to start the challenge because she saw a need to reach out to the wider community and to show the community that […]

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How a Salt Spring Island experiment recovered Christian contemplation

Nicholas Fournie — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:02:32 +0000

This article originally appeared in the Anglican Journal and is republished here with the permission of the Journal and the author. When the parish of All Saints by the Sea consecrated its new church in 1994, it did something unusual: it placed meditation and silent prayer at the very centre of the celebration. That choice, […]

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Nobody wants to sleep out in the cold

Kelly Duncan — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 22:19:17 +0000

“I don’t want to sleep in the cold,” I confessed sheepishly to our team of volunteers as we discussed ways of keeping the idea of an extreme weather shelter in Sidney front and centre in the community member’s minds. Recently, a motion that would have seen a shelter open this winter was defeated. Our church […]

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