Featured - January 2024 Archives - Faith Tides https://faithtides.ca/tag/featured-january-2024/ News from the Diocese of Islands and Islets in the Anglican Church of Canada Wed, 26 Mar 2025 19:37:03 +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 - January 2024 Archives - Faith Tides https://faithtides.ca/tag/featured-january-2024/ 32 32 207835967 “That all children of God live in safety” https://faithtides.ca/that-all-children-of-god-live-in-safety/ https://faithtides.ca/that-all-children-of-god-live-in-safety/#respond Mon, 01 Jan 2024 19:10:36 +0000 https://faithtides.ca/?p=174285 While our secular culture today likes to leave the baby Jesus at the manger and go shopping on Boxing Day, for the Church, the night in the stable is but a stop on a long and dangerous journey. No sooner is the Christ Child born then his life is in danger; his family must flee. […]

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]]> https://faithtides.ca/that-all-children-of-god-live-in-safety/feed/ 0 174285 The executive https://faithtides.ca/the-executive/ https://faithtides.ca/the-executive/#respond Mon, 01 Jan 2024 19:10:22 +0000 https://faithtides.ca/?p=174253 Over the last few years, we have gotten to know and respect one another. I think — and certainly hope — that this has become mutual. He lives in a world very different to mine. His skills are very different. All his adult life, he has had a real gift for the intricacies of business […]

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]]> https://faithtides.ca/the-executive/feed/ 0 174253 My New Year’s resolution? “I am loved” https://faithtides.ca/my-new-years-resolution-i-am-loved/ https://faithtides.ca/my-new-years-resolution-i-am-loved/#respond Mon, 01 Jan 2024 19:09:54 +0000 https://faithtides.ca/?p=174430 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 exercise in failed optimism. The following statistics from a recent Forbes survey are sobering: “The Forbes Health/One Poll survey found that the average resolution lasts just 3.74 months. Only 8% […]

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]]> https://faithtides.ca/my-new-years-resolution-i-am-loved/feed/ 0 174430 Knowing the Creator — Writing icons as a spiritual practice https://faithtides.ca/writing-icons-as-a-spiritual-practice/ https://faithtides.ca/writing-icons-as-a-spiritual-practice/#respond Mon, 01 Jan 2024 19:00:58 +0000 https://faithtides.ca/?p=174319 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, Minnesota to participate in its intensive workshops hosted at St Mary’s Orthodox Cathedral. The entry point for students learning to write icons in the Russian Byzantine tradition is to write […]

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]]> https://faithtides.ca/writing-icons-as-a-spiritual-practice/feed/ 0 174319 Pressing forward — High Church Anglicanism in print and practice https://faithtides.ca/pressing-forward-high-church-anglicanism-in-print-and-practice/ https://faithtides.ca/pressing-forward-high-church-anglicanism-in-print-and-practice/#respond Thu, 21 Dec 2023 14:49:22 +0000 https://faithtides.ca/?p=174360 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 had come to the city and to the parish from afar, and both were greatly devoted to the Anglo-Catholic worship of St John’s as parishioners, altar servers, and members of […]

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