Featured - June 2025 Archives - Faith Tides https://faithtides.ca/tag/featured-june-2025/ News from the Diocese of Islands and Islets in the Anglican Church of Canada Mon, 03 Nov 2025 18:39:10 +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 - June 2025 Archives - Faith Tides https://faithtides.ca/tag/featured-june-2025/ 32 32 207835967 Christ with shopping bags https://faithtides.ca/christ-with-shopping-bags/ https://faithtides.ca/christ-with-shopping-bags/#respond Tue, 03 Jun 2025 17:07:57 +0000 https://faithtides.ca/?p=176105 If you were able to go to the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria between December 2024 and April 2025, you will have been able to see the From Warhol to Banksy exhibit. Part of that exhibit was a small piece by street artist Banksy called Christ with Shopping Bags.    I saw this piece during a […]

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]]> https://faithtides.ca/christ-with-shopping-bags/feed/ 0 176105 Cultivating an undogmatic faith https://faithtides.ca/cultivating-an-undogmatic-faith/ https://faithtides.ca/cultivating-an-undogmatic-faith/#respond Tue, 03 Jun 2025 17:06:08 +0000 https://faithtides.ca/?p=176116 It has been a difficult and beautiful month. For just shy of three weeks, I was at Dad’s bedside as he had entered at-home hospice care. This last week has been marked by his passing and funeral arrangements. Those first three weeks were sacred time, for many reasons. Dad was largely pain-free despite stage IV […]

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]]> https://faithtides.ca/cultivating-an-undogmatic-faith/feed/ 0 176116 Revitalizing Indigenous arts and music https://faithtides.ca/revitalizing-indigenous-arts-and-music/ https://faithtides.ca/revitalizing-indigenous-arts-and-music/#respond Tue, 03 Jun 2025 17:05:47 +0000 https://faithtides.ca/?p=176119 The Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Call to Action #61 calls on churches to provide funding for Indigenous community-controlled culture and language revitalization projects. From 2015 to 2024, Aboriginal Neighbours took up this call by raising funds for the mentor-apprentice Indigenous language learning program run by the First Peoples’ Cultural Council.   Initiated by our diocese in […]

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]]> https://faithtides.ca/revitalizing-indigenous-arts-and-music/feed/ 0 176119 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 Episcopal Church ends its refugee resettlement ministry https://faithtides.ca/the-episcopal-church-ends-its-refugee-resettlement-ministry/ https://faithtides.ca/the-episcopal-church-ends-its-refugee-resettlement-ministry/#respond Tue, 03 Jun 2025 17:03:22 +0000 https://faithtides.ca/?p=176123 On May 12, 2025, presiding bishop of The Episcopal Church, Bishop Sean Rowe published a letter announcing that The Episcopal Church will be terminating its refugee resettlement grant agreements with the US federal government.  For over 40 years this refugee resettlement ministry has been carried out by the Episcopal Migration Ministries, which has helped nearly […]

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