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Looking injustice in the eye

Anna Greenwood-Lee — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 18:32:42 +0000

Recently I found myself talking with members of the Parish of Pender and Saturna Islands and one of them reflected that COVID-19 has brought out both the best and the worst in people. We had been talking about how disturbing it was to see the images of Confederate and Nazi flags in Ottawa as part […]

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Celtic spirituality and the great injustices of our times

Adela Torchia — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 18:32:15 +0000

Book Review: Persistent Resistance: Calls for Justice from the Celtic Traditions: A Collection of Essays edited by Ellyn Sanna. Vestal, NY, Anamchara Books, 2019. Although Celtic Christianity predates Roman Christianity in the Celtic Isles by centuries, it is often seen as a superficial New Age flower-power mashup — accused of being “pagan” by those unaware of […]

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St Mary memorial garden consecrated, virtual tour created

Selinde Krayenhoff — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 18:31:40 +0000

Memorial garden consecrated by bishop Over five years of vision, determination and grace finally brought the long-awaited day when the memorial garden at St Mary, Nanoose Bay could be consecrated. On Jan. 15, Bishop Anna arrived at St Mary to find 33 people gathered in the memorial garden, some of whom had the ashes of […]

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Living out the Sermon on the Mount

John J. Thatamanil — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 18:31:01 +0000

This past week, I finally got around to reading a letter of historic importance — lost for nearly 90 years and republished only last January. On Oct. 17, 1934, a 28-year-old German pastor wrote to a revered Indian leader who had just turned 65, requesting permission to visit and study under him. He writes with […]

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‘Love is a many-splendored thing’

Herbert O’Driscoll — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 18:30:16 +0000

You may remember this as the title song in a long-ago movie of the same name. The stars, as we used to say, were William Holden and Jennifer Jones. The other day, I found myself humming the melody, and since a remembered melody is a sure way to open one’s memory banks, I found myself […]

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