From our Bishop

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Several Inuit boys fishing on an icy shore.

From the High Arctic to the national capital

Bishop Shane Parker June 1, 2022

In 1996, the Right Reverend Paul Idlout became the first Inuk bishop in the world. Paul, with his father Joseph and four other traditional Inuit hunters, were famously ...

May 31, 2020. In the midst of the uncertainties of the pandemic, we walked out of our cathedral into the late afternoon sunshine, ready to face the future together.

Telling our story, listening for new possibilities

Bishop Shane Parker May 1, 2022

When my children were little, a cherished routine was to “tell the story of the day” at bedtime. It was a lovely way to connect ...

The Sea of Galilee from the Mount of Beatitudes

Standing with those who seek peace and reconciliation

Bishop Shane Parker April 1, 2022

A number of years ago, I was privileged to represent the Anglican Church of Canada at an awards ceremony in Rideau Hall. The Imagine a Canada ...

Listening for God to answer

Bishop Shane Parker March 1, 2022

The photograph accompanying this column was taken on March 13, 2020, a couple of days before everything changed in a heartbeat, and we took up ...

Keeping one another’s spirits up on a long trek

Bishop Shane Parker February 1, 2022

I have written before about my snowshoe travels in the snow-laden forests of Algonquin Park—trips that lasted several days between destinations, by way of frozen creeks, ...

Comforting those who mourn in this difficult time

Bishop Shane Parker January 1, 2022

I write this column in early Advent, as the “New Year” of the church has just begun. When you read this column, the new calendar year ...

Holding on to holy simplicity at Christmas

Bishop Shane Parker December 1, 2021

For a number of years, just before and after the turn of the millennium, I wrote for the Ottawa Citizen in a weekly feature called ...

The encompassing communion of “all my relations”

Bishop Shane Parker November 1, 2021

As the child of Irish immigrants, I grew up with the expression “back home.” We moved frequently as a military family and, without a permanent ...

Bishop Shane and Albert Dumont walking on a path under a tree canopy

Reconciliation is not a spectator sport

Bishop Shane Parker October 1, 2021

In 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada called upon the federal government, in collaboration with Indigenous Peoples, “to establish, as a statutory holiday, ...