September 2025 Issue
Archbishop Shane Parker begins new ministry leading the Anglican Church of Canada

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Leigh Anne Williams
On his way
Archbishop Shane Parker graciously took time a few weeks after his installation as Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada to reflect on his time ...

Written by
Leigh Anne Williams
Timeline for electing the 11th bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Ottawa
Synod Secretaries, the Rev.Canon Stephen Silverthorne (Clerical Secretary) and Margaret Porter (Lay Secretary) provided this information about the process and timeline for the Episcopal Election, which is set ...

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Perspective
Belong Ottawa launches Ride for Refuge fall fundraiser
At its three locations in downtown Ottawa — Centre 454, St. Luke’s Table and The Well—Belong Ottawa serves more than 600 meals a day and ...

Written by
Leigh Anne Williams
How a coffee conversation led to a transitional housing project in Gatineau
There must be a better way to help people who are homeless and living in tents in winter as part of an encampment. That was ...

Written by
David Humphreys

From our Bishop
An abiding sense of thanksgiving
May 24, 2025
In the early weeks following my consecration as your bishop on the Feast of Pentecost in 2020, we were in lockdown, and I was limited ...
The heart of prayer
April 25, 2025
This year, Ascension Day falls late in May (a couple of days before the fifth anniversary of my consecration as your bishop). I have always ...
Reflection
Creating church in the forest
August 24, 2025
There is something sacred, imperfect and beautiful when you take church into the forest. To walk along a path with a group of people, who ...

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Listening to and following the Holy Spirit
May 23, 2025
In what the Rev. Dr. Jesse Zink, principal of Montreal Dio College, calls this time of polycrisis, we are still called to rejoice in the ...

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Qui suis-je ?
May 23, 2025
À la fin de mon adolescence, j’ai participé à un programme d’été organisé par l’Ordre of the Holy Cross, la Society of St John the ...

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A letter to the clergy and people of our diocese