Vernon Foster, Author at Faith Tides https://faithtides.ca News from the Diocese of Islands and Islets in the Anglican Church of Canada Mon, 03 Nov 2025 21:17:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://faithtides.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/cropped-Faith-Tides-Icon-32x32.png Vernon Foster, Author at Faith Tides https://faithtides.ca 32 32 207835967 Rethinking the Anglican divide https://faithtides.ca/rethinking-the-anglican-divide/ https://faithtides.ca/rethinking-the-anglican-divide/#respond Mon, 03 Nov 2025 17:28:23 +0000 https://faithtides.ca/?p=176603 The Anglican Communion is experiencing a profound realignment. GAFCON is now increasingly framing itself as an alternative to the historic instruments of communion. This signals more than doctrinal disagreement; it reflects a challenge to long-standing colonial patterns of authority. Many provinces aligned with GAFCON are in Africa, Asia and Latin America — all former colonial […]

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]]> https://faithtides.ca/rethinking-the-anglican-divide/feed/ 0 176603 White South African “refugees” in the US offer a troubling tale of selective sympathy https://faithtides.ca/white-south-african-refugees-in-the-us-offer-a-troubling-tale-of-selective-sympathy/ https://faithtides.ca/white-south-african-refugees-in-the-us-offer-a-troubling-tale-of-selective-sympathy/#respond Tue, 03 Jun 2025 17:04:08 +0000 https://faithtides.ca/?p=176111 When my partner and I moved from South Africa to Canada, we did so in search of a different lived experience. We wanted to live in a society where we could feel safe, contribute meaningfully and encounter a broader diversity of perspectives. We did not come as refugees, nor did we claim persecution. Our move […]

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]]> https://faithtides.ca/white-south-african-refugees-in-the-us-offer-a-troubling-tale-of-selective-sympathy/feed/ 0 176111 The winding path to ministry, ‘Pranglicanism’ and sailing https://faithtides.ca/the-winding-path-to-ministry-pranglicanism-and-sailing/ https://faithtides.ca/the-winding-path-to-ministry-pranglicanism-and-sailing/#respond Thu, 29 Feb 2024 20:24:08 +0000 https://faithtides.ca/?p=174701 Vernon Foster will be joining the Diocese of Islands and Inlets as the incumbent at St Paul, Nanaimo, from May 1, 2024. Here he tells us a bit about his upbringing, his education and career, the challenges he sees facing the Anglican Communion, and the most inspiring sermons he’s heard.  I was born and grew […]

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