Featured - December 2021 Archives - Faith Tides https://faithtides.ca/tag/featured-december-2021/ News from the Diocese of Islands and Islets in the Anglican Church of Canada Tue, 30 Sep 2025 05:59:14 +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 Featured - December 2021 Archives - Faith Tides https://faithtides.ca/tag/featured-december-2021/ 32 32 207835967 Ezekiel in the garden https://faithtides.ca/ezekiel-in-the-garden/ https://faithtides.ca/ezekiel-in-the-garden/#respond Thu, 02 Dec 2021 02:07:53 +0000 https://faithtides.ca/?p=171127 St. Peter, Comox, reclaims Halloween Sulin Milne, incumbent at St. Peter, Comox, wanted to reclaim Halloween, or All Hallows Eve, as part of the triduum along with All Saints and All Souls. “It’s become a secular event,” says Sulin, “But people don’t realise that ‘hallow’ means ‘holy.’ The Bible is rich in images of the otherworldly, of life and death, good and evil. […]

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]]> https://faithtides.ca/ezekiel-in-the-garden/feed/ 0 171127 God wishes us small https://faithtides.ca/god-wishes-us-small/ https://faithtides.ca/god-wishes-us-small/#respond Thu, 02 Dec 2021 02:00:12 +0000 https://faithtides.ca/?p=171077 God must be huge, or at least, that’s what I thought when I was a child. I understood that God was all-powerful and knew all there was to know — so surely, God is huge. God, I imagined, is so big that the galaxy is cradled in God’s arms. Big things are always powerful.

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]]> https://faithtides.ca/god-wishes-us-small/feed/ 0 171077 Thought-provoking fiction adds to a very familiar Bible account https://faithtides.ca/thought-provoking-fiction-adds-to-a-very-familiar-bible-account/ https://faithtides.ca/thought-provoking-fiction-adds-to-a-very-familiar-bible-account/#respond Thu, 02 Dec 2021 01:01:34 +0000 https://faithtides.ca/?p=171044 Book Review: The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd. New York, Viking, 2020.

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]]> https://faithtides.ca/thought-provoking-fiction-adds-to-a-very-familiar-bible-account/feed/ 0 171044 Darkness and light https://faithtides.ca/darkness-and-light/ https://faithtides.ca/darkness-and-light/#respond Thu, 02 Dec 2021 00:20:01 +0000 https://faithtides.ca/?p=170986 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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]]> https://faithtides.ca/darkness-and-light/feed/ 0 170986 The truth within the story https://faithtides.ca/the-truth-within-the-story/ https://faithtides.ca/the-truth-within-the-story/#respond Wed, 01 Dec 2021 13:43:45 +0000 https://faithtides.ca/?p=171098 St. Christopher, Saturna Island, is small in size but rich in sacred imagination. Like most churches during the pandemic, the lights were out and the doors were locked, and late autumn leaves and pine needles had hidden the walkway...

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