April 2025 Archives - Faith Tides

AFC grants to strengthen collaboration between Anglican churches and community partners

Michelle Hauser — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 20:48:44 +0000

The Anglican Foundation of Canada (AFC) is calling on Canadian Anglicans to strengthen community connections and expand ministry partnerships through its 2025 request for proposals for community ministry partnerships. The AFC board of directors has approved $50,000 in funding, with grants available for both local and regional projects that foster collaboration between Anglican organizations and […]

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Softening the heart and mind

John J. Thatamanil — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 20:47:15 +0000

A letter from an American theologian to his Canadian church Dear Canadian friends, I am guessing that you are as dazed and confused as I am about how American politics could have become so quickly and easily corrupted. Explanations are not easy to come by, and neither are solutions. So much has to go wrong […]

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Lent, gender and revelation

Juli Mallett — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 20:46:21 +0000

Confession, and Lent in its penitential character, is not about adding guilt or punishment to our suffering, but the removal of shame. We are liberated from the oppression of things done and left undone when we are able to face them plainly, and to accept reality as it is, rather than as we wish it […]

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Where are we on our exodus journey?

Sandy Cotton — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 20:45:46 +0000

Christians ought to be really good at any venture involving change and transformation. Throughout every year, we explore the great transforming narratives of our faith tradition. When it comes to leading change, we are given privileged and reverential access to profound role models. We are fundamentally, and irrevocably, people who are called by God to […]

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Decolonizing Christian art

Jessica Ziakin Cook — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 20:44:43 +0000

In October 2024, and with the financial support of the Diocese’s Educational Trust Board, I attended the Universities Art Association of Canada (UAAC) conference at Western University in London, ON. I traveled with two professors and three graduate student colleagues from the department of art history and visual studies at the University of Victoria (UVic), […]

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Letter to the editor (March & April 2025)

Faith Tides — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 20:43:05 +0000

Dear Editor, Bravo to Kieran Wilson for his well-researched and excellently written article on Bishop George Hills’ resolute opposition to racial segregation in Anglican churches in BC in the 19th century (Bishop George Hills and Anglican opposition to segregation in early Victoria). This story recounts one of the better instances of episcopal leadership in our […]

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