Salal and Cedar Watershed Discipleship Community

08/26/2026

Look at what our friends are doing!

08/21/2026

Join us in solidarity with Tsleil Waututh people protecting the Salish Sea. Registration link here. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/seven-sisters-speak-stand-for-our-lands-and-waters-tickets-1995421254688

08/21/2026

Salal + Cedar was part of the final prayer circle at the Watch House on Burnaby mountain. In the comments is a link to CBC coverage.

08/13/2026

Season of Creation is fast approaching and folks have been asking about our Eucharistic Prayer. Here it is

Download PDF This Eucharistic Prayer was created for the Salal + Cedar Watershed Discipleship Community and is authorized for use in the Anglican Diocese of New Westminster on Coast Salish Territory. It includes references to the First Nations, species, waterways and human activities of our regi

08/12/2026

Expansive Sabbath: 12th Sunday after Pentecost - Rev. Emily E. Ewing

While this week’s readings are packed full with some tricky verses, they also provide a lot for fruitful reflection.  From the ways Sabbath and ritual observances appear, scattered throughout the readings, to the expansiveness of God’s affirmation, mercy, and reconsideration, there is more

08/12/2026

CBC report on the prayer circle on Burnaby Mountain

Un groupe de manifestants de différentes confessions religieuses et opposés aux oléoducs s'est rassemblé.

08/11/2026

Planning to celebrate the Season of Creation? Here is Laurel's resource for week 3.

SEASON OF CREATION: Week Three2025/2026, Season of Creation WK3, SEASON OF CREATION: Week Three, Year A / August 4, 2026 Lectionary 1st Reading Psalm 2nd Reading Gospel Anglican Lectionary Exodus 16:2-15 105:1-6,37-45 Philippians 1:21-30 Matthew 20:1-16 Catholic Lectionary Is 55:6-9 – Phil 1:20c-2...

08/03/2026

Body in Creation: Eleventh Sunday After Pentecost, Yr A - Rev. Alecia Greenfield

I study these passages while reading Deep Listening by Emily Kasriel and facilitating a series of workshops on Holy Listening. While none of these texts are explicitly about listening, I am paying particular attention to my own attentiveness this month. In both the Genesis story and the Gospel, we r

07/29/2026

Dandelions on the Lawn of Empire: A reflection on the goodness of weeds - Lanni Lantto

“We are dandelions on the lawn of Empire.”  When Wendy Janzen of Burning Bush Forest Church spoke those words at a Wild Church Retreat in Ontario, Canada, the entire audience began scribbling it down in their notepads. Wendy was referring to how we were coming out of the religious narra

07/26/2026

9th Sunday after Pentecost (A): Costly, Subversive Kingdom - Laurel Dykstra

The life-ways of plants, cultivated and wild, are used in the Gospel in a suite of parables conveying the subversive and costly qualities of the Kingdom, and in the Psalm to portray the flourishing of the faithful. As we consider our own relationships with the plants of our bioregion and the product