The next John Albert Hall Lecture will take place on November 13, 5:30pm to 6:45pm, in the David Strong Building on the University of Victoria Campus.

Speaker: Sarah Kathleen Johnson

Understanding and Valuing Occasional Religious Practice

The pews overflow on Christmas Eve and Easter Sunday. A mother reaches out to a local church for the first time to request the baptism of her newborn. The death of a public figure is marked with an extravagant funeral at a cathedral. These are all examples of what Sarah Kathleen Johnson (Assistant Professor of Liturgy and Pastoral Theology at Saint Paul University in Ottawa) calls occasional religious practice and explores as a primary way that people continue to relate to Christianity in increasingly nonreligious and religiously diverse contexts.

This event is available online via Zoom. To watch this event via Zoom, please visit: uvic.ca/csrs/events and register with CSRC to received the Zoom link.

The next CLAY (Canadian Anglican-Lutheran Youth) gathering will be in Nanaimo, August 19-22, 2027. If you are interested in getting involved there are lots of ways to help out, both before and during the event. 

There will be a Zoom info session on November 18, 2025 starting at 6:30pm. To register for the info session CLICK HERE.  

Rooted in the foundations of Lutheran/Anglican expressions of faith, CLAY amplifies, celebrates and commissions youth to claim their place in the church and the world by facilitating spiritually authentic, hope-filled, youth-centered experiences of God.

The Parish Learning Hub is a new, annual, online learning series provided by the Synod Office. The next session, on the new payroll system, has been moved from November 25 to December 2, 2025. During this session Meghan Thonger will provide a brief overview of the program QuickBooks, and both Meghan and Finance Director Samantha Wilson will focus the majority of the session on our new payroll system, which will be rolled out in the new year.

Faith Tides is the online, faith-based publication of the Anglican Diocese of Islands and Inlets (BC). Through news stories, reflections and feature articles Faith Tides aims to showcase the work God is doing through our churches. It is a space where people of faith and doubt can walk alongside one another, share their stories and grow together.

In this issue, read about St. Dunstan's final service, how Anglicans have supported Indigenous language revitalization, and a reflection on the Anglican divide from Rev. Vernon Foster. 

Read the November 2025 issue of Faith Tides. 

Photo submissions for the Canadian Church Calendar are open. The deadline for photos for the 2027 calendar is November 30, 2025. Entries after the deadline will be considered for the following year. If you have questions email publications@national.anglican.ca. For more information and to submit your photos CLICK HERE. 

The Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of British Columbia seeks a full-time incumbent for the parish of St. Michael and All Angels, Royal Oak. 

If your priestly vocation aligns with where God seems to be leading St. Michael’s, we want to hear from you. The parish profile can be obtained from the Rev. Canon Jenny Replogle, Canon for Lay-led Parishes and Parishes-in-Transition. Deadline for applications is December 1, 2025. 

www.stmikevictoria.ca