Opinion

The executive

January 1, 2024

Over the last few years, we have gotten to know and respect one another. I think — and certainly hope — that this has become ...

My New Year’s resolution? “I am loved”

January 1, 2024

Nothing will make you feel like real change is impossible than personal struggles with transformation. The beginning of the New Year is almost always an ...

The day my muse went on vacation

January 1, 2024

She was always with me, my muse. My writing and my poetry would come to me readily with an idea partly fleshed out, waiting ...

Knowing the Creator — Writing icons as a spiritual practice

January 1, 2024

The Prosopon School of Iconology has presented me the experience of writing icons as a spiritual practice. I have travelled nearly annually to Northeast Minneapolis, ...

Pressing forward — High Church Anglicanism in print and practice

December 21, 2023

During their time at St John the Evangelist, Montreal a few years ago, I had the pleasure to know Arlie Coles and Kieran Wilson. Both ...

Be present and celebrate

December 1, 2023

Words are not enough. We are coming again to that time in the church year when we celebrate the Word that becomes flesh and dwells ...

A child’s Christmas

December 1, 2023

The word “Christmas” is more than a mere word. In the world of music, a chord is composed of notes, but it is infinitely richer ...

“Falling in love with God” — monasticism in the 21st century

December 1, 2023

In anticipation of Brother James Koester’s visit to the diocese to host a workshop for the clergy this December, Faith Tides had the pleasure to ...

December — joyful and challenging

December 1, 2023

We are at the opening of the Christian year, a time of reflection in Advent, of joy and celebration at Christmas and entering into a ...

A human voice — a deacon’s voice

November 1, 2023

For this short reflection, let’s use the word voice to define “a person’s expression of personal experience or opinion.” Humans are born with the ...

“To do things of great courage”

November 1, 2023

Not many of us know what a “collation” is. Even Bishop Anna Greenwood-Lee who presided at such an event, held on Sept. 27 at Christ ...

“And all the company of Heaven…”

November 1, 2023

Our church year set this time aside to honour those who have gone before us — All Hallows Eve on October 31, All Saints ...

“Tusitala” — “Teller of Tales”

November 1, 2023

Not that many years ago (says he defensively), I was assembling some material for a pilgrimage I had been asked to lead. I had decided ...

Breaking bread together — practices for the church in an interreligious era

November 1, 2023

As someone committed to the work of interreligious dialogue, I take it for granted that others walk their own valid paths to ultimate reality. But ...

Do churches deserve queer and racialized people?

October 1, 2023

Those of us in churches often find ourselves asking how we can become more queer-affirming and anti-racist. To put it another way, maybe we need ...

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