Creation Care

Raised garden beds with a metal watering can

Speaking with a voice of faith in a dark time

Elin Goulden May 1, 2019

In February, Bishop Andrew Asbil met with the diocese’s Creation Matters committee as it was finalizing the Diocesan Policy Paper on Environmental Issues. The paper ...

A pair of hands holds a mound of soil with a green sprout.

Observe a green Lent with these resources

Elin Goulden April 1, 2019

Lent is traditionally a time for turning to God in self-examination and repentance. It is a time for adopting practices that draw us closer to ...

It’s time to find our gardening tools

Bishop Andrew Asbil April 1, 2019

Things tend to happen in the garden. Our story of faith begins in the garden. The garden was verdant, luscious, brimming with life. The soil, ...

Hopeful signs for outreach, environment

Elin Goulden November 1, 2018

The 2018 Parish Outreach & Greening Survey was launched in May to gain insight into the outreach, advocacy and environmental efforts of parishes in our ...

Speakers urge kinship with creation

Diana Swift November 1, 2018

“We are the earth” is a compelling statement, but what does it mean and how can urban people of faith live it in reality? Those ...

Church celebrates Season of Creation

Elin Goulden, Heather Bennet September 1, 2018

In 1989, Ecumenical Patriarch Dimitrios I declared Sept. 1 as a day of prayer for creation in the Orthodox Church. Since then, Christian churches of ...

A group of people receive a certificate.

Church wins top environmental award

Stuart Mann June 1, 2018

St. Cuthbert, Leaside is an attractive red brick church, but in environmental circles its known by another colour – dark green. The church has won ...

What does it mean to care for creation?

Diane Marshall April 1, 2018

The Anglican Communion’s fifth Mark of Mission calls us to “strive to safeguard the integrity of creation and to sustain and renew the life of ...

This year, care for God’s creation in a fresh way

Elin Goulden April 1, 2017

The Fifth Mark of Mission for the Anglican Communion calls us “to strive to safeguard the integrity of creation and sustain and renew the life ...