September 2025 Issue

Archbishop Shane Parker at the installation service in St. Paul's Cathedral in London, Ont. in. June. Photo; Charlotte Poolton/General Synod/Anglican Church of Canada

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

Archbishop Shane Parker in his office at Ascension House

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 ...
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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 ...

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 ...
Homes constructed from shipping containers

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 ...
The Rt. Rev. Shane Parker

From our Bishop

A letter to the clergy and people of our diocese

June 27, 2025   Dear Clergy and People of our Diocese, Our journeys in faith often bring us to a place where we are faced ...

An abiding sense of thanksgiving

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

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 ...
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Reflection

Creating church in the forest

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 ...

Listening to and following the Holy Spirit

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 ...

Qui suis-je ?

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 ...