Kieran Wilson, Author at Faith Tides

Bishop George Hills and Anglican opposition to segregation in early Victoria

Kieran Wilson — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 20:04:24 +0000

If, in the year 1860, you were to stand on Beacon Hill in Victoria and look south across the Strait of Juan de Fuca, you would see in the Olympic mountains the westernmost rampart of a continent-spanning, slaveholding republic. In that last full year before the outbreak of the American Civil War, traffic in Black […]

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A review of Touching Cloth: Confessions and Communions of a Young Priest

Kieran Wilson — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 23:26:44 +0000

Perhaps you have found yourself wondering, what is the correct response for an Anglican cleric in street clothes when he or she is offered ketamine at a house party? If you are the Reverend Fergus Butler-Gallie, the answer comes easily: “It’s all right, thanks. I’m C of E.” Butler-Gallie shares this useful and virtually unanswerable […]

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The golden thread: an Anglican’s reflection on the coronation of King Charles III

Kieran Wilson — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 12:38:56 +0000

For as long as I can remember, I have always sought out what I like to call the “golden thread,” a thread of meaning, of holiness, and — dare I say — of enchantment, that runs through the tapestry of human thought and culture from its earliest dawn to the present day. Throughout my […]

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Parenthood and Faith

Kieran Wilson — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 16:32:47 +0000

There is an old Thomistic adage that grace does not destroy nature but rather perfects it. This means in part that God uses the ordinary stuff of human existence—our bodies, our intellect and will, our hopes and aspirations—to fulfill his creative and redemptive purposes, perfecting our natural aptitudes, appetites, and potential and, in so doing, […]

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