Alastair Singh-McCollum, Author at Faith Tides

Learning to love a hybrid Lent

Alastair Singh-McCollum — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 07:45:57 +0000

As we continue to journey through the COVID-19 pandemic, we at St John the Divine, Victoria — along with so many of our church communities — are continually adapting and responding to changing needs and restrictions. To that end, we have decided to go with a Lent that combines what we’ve learned during the past […]

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Darkness and light

Alastair Singh-McCollum — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 00:20:01 +0000

Christmas at St John the Divine, Victoria We are all familiar with the recurring images of light that we use around Christmas time: festive lights on the Christmas tree, “Carols by Candlelight”, the celebration of the Word of God in Christ from John’s gospel chapter one — shining a light in the darkness which the darkness cannot extinguish, or understand, or cover. Over the […]

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Pandemic offers launchpad for message

Alastair Singh-McCollum — Fri, 01 Jan 2021 18:24:04 +0000

St. John the Divine, Victoria, began this pandemic like many other Christian communities, taking a reactive rather than a proactive approach to using technology in order to try and maintain some sense of ‘normalcy’ in the strange times we found ourselves in. Our services, initially broadcast live through Facebook and YouTube, soon became Zoom meetings […]

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