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Discerning a postcolonial presence on ‘Yalis

Anna Greenwood-Lee — Mon, 02 May 2022 02:10:27 +0000

During the second week of May, I will be travelling with Brendon Neilson, vision animator, and Elizabeth Northcott, archdeacon of the Mid-North Islands region, to ‘Yalis (‘Namgis Nation, Alert Bay, Cormorant Island) to engage in an intentional listening process with the people there as to how the Anglican church can best be present on ‘Yalis. […]

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Holding space for climate grief

Selinde Krayenhoff — Mon, 02 May 2022 02:09:08 +0000

Because we’ve just come through Holy Week, it strikes me that the way to be church for people who are grieving climate change, grieving anything, is to have the courage to stay close to the cross. For if we are willing to stay there, close to suffering, grounded in our hope and in mystery, it […]

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Divesting from the dystopian real estate market

Rob Crosby-Shearer — Mon, 02 May 2022 02:08:17 +0000

or, why flipping your house is an unjust act When we bought our house in Victoria, BC, eight years ago, we had already been selected for a Habitat for Humanity build. The executive director of Habitat at the time told me that, because of their model, where Habitat holds the loan at very low interest […]

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Three empty graves

Roy Darcus — Mon, 02 May 2022 02:07:38 +0000

I have recently learned a piece of family history many years after the event. I learned that two grave plots in St Luke Cedar Hill cemetery had been unclaimed for many years. The cemetery committee was seeking descendants of the original purchaser. My great-grandmother Leonie Staveley is buried in the central plot and, beside her, […]

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A silencing of doubt

Herbert O’Driscoll — Mon, 02 May 2022 02:06:36 +0000

Sometimes when I wonder at the scriptures of the resurrection, asking the questions and experiencing the doubts that people have voiced since the extraordinary events of that long-ago weekend, I find it helpful to come at it all from another direction. Let’s start at something wonderful that we do most certainly know. Sometime in the […]

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