A spiritual director may help you find your direction, but won’t tell you how to live. image

A spiritual director may help you find your direction, but won’t tell you how to live.

Donald Grayston In one week in the fall of 1983, just before I left All Saints’, Burnaby, on a six-month...
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Diocesan priest aids Mexican protesters

I will never, as long as I live, forget last November. It was a time when all that I said I believe about my faith...
Lawyer for refugee at St. Michael’s files new information. image

Lawyer for refugee at St. Michael’s files new information.

Primate Andrew Hutchison and Amir Kazemian, on one of the Primate’s visits to the refugee at St. Michael’s,...
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New expectations issued for clergy

Bishop Michael Ingham Bishop Michael Ingham has reissued new “Bishop’s Expectations for All Clergy” for...
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Second set of consultations in February

Undoubtedly some of you participating at the Task Force on Physical Resources consultations last October were...
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Book Review

Christianity for the Rest of Us by Diana Butler Bass, (HarperSanFrancisco, 2006) 321 pages, $31The Emerging...
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This year why not plan for gratitude

Glen Mitchell, diocesan director for planned giving Gratitude, Cicero observed, is more than just a virtue; it...
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TOPIC’s faithful readers have been around a while

Readers of the Anglican Journal in British Columbia – a group that includes readers of TOPIC – are considerably...
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St. Andrew’s parishioner takes top folk award

St. Andrews Anglican Church on BC’s Sunshine Coast is celebrating with parishioner, Penny Lang for taking two top...
The story of Ruthie and her stuggle on Vancouver’s mean streets image

The story of Ruthie and her stuggle on Vancouver’s mean streets

In 1981, a small group of individuals established the 127 Society for Housing to meet the need for decent and...