January 2022 Archives - Faith Tides https://faithtides.ca/tag/january-2022/ News from the Diocese of Islands and Islets in the Anglican Church of Canada Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:33:49 +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 January 2022 Archives - Faith Tides https://faithtides.ca/tag/january-2022/ 32 32 207835967 The epiphanies of life https://faithtides.ca/the-epiphanies-of-life/ https://faithtides.ca/the-epiphanies-of-life/#respond Sun, 02 Jan 2022 02:33:06 +0000 https://faithtides.ca/?p=171666 Piano tuners have to hit single notes again and again. However, now and again they play a chord and you realize how infinitely richer a musical chord is than a single note. Epiphany is like that. In fact, many of the great words of Christian faith — Revelation, Epiphany, Ascension, Resurrection — are much more […]

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]]> https://faithtides.ca/the-epiphanies-of-life/feed/ 0 171666 Projects across the diocese receive AFC funding https://faithtides.ca/projects-across-the-diocese-receive-afc-funding/ https://faithtides.ca/projects-across-the-diocese-receive-afc-funding/#respond Sun, 02 Jan 2022 02:30:56 +0000 https://faithtides.ca/?p=171659 The 2021 fall grant cycle is one of the biggest in the AFC’s 64-year history, with close to $650,000 disbursed in grants and bursaries to 110 applicants. The grant program received a huge boost from the AFC’s Say Yes to Kids! campaign, which saw $468,000 in funding disbursed. Seven programs in the Diocese of Islands […]

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]]> https://faithtides.ca/projects-across-the-diocese-receive-afc-funding/feed/ 0 171659 Making time to think about place https://faithtides.ca/making-time-to-think-about-place/ https://faithtides.ca/making-time-to-think-about-place/#respond Sun, 02 Jan 2022 02:28:43 +0000 https://faithtides.ca/?p=171651 Come January, we all get to thinking about the passing of time. We look back and look forward like the two-faced god, Janus, after whom the month is fittingly named. Some even wax philosophical about time, only to be frustrated. As Augustine famously put it, “What, then, is time? If no one asks me, I […]

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]]> https://faithtides.ca/making-time-to-think-about-place/feed/ 0 171651 Humility and hope https://faithtides.ca/humility-and-hope/ https://faithtides.ca/humility-and-hope/#respond Sun, 02 Jan 2022 02:26:35 +0000 https://faithtides.ca/?p=171645 “Liminality: A quality of ambiguity and disorientation that occurs in transitory situations and spaces, when a person or group of people is betwixt and between something that has ended, and a new situation not yet begun. During liminal seasons, we occupy space on both sides of a boundary or threshold. We have one foot rooted […]

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]]> https://faithtides.ca/humility-and-hope/feed/ 0 171645 God had his hand on me https://faithtides.ca/god-had-his-hand-on-me/ https://faithtides.ca/god-had-his-hand-on-me/#respond Sat, 01 Jan 2022 23:34:11 +0000 https://faithtides.ca/?p=171637 I was born in Vancouver, and we emigrated to Southern California in 1960. It was an exciting time to live in California: culture crazes, social justice issues and race relations were coming to the forefront of daily life in my childhood. I was raised in the Anglican church, and when we moved to Huntington Beach […]

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]]> https://faithtides.ca/god-had-his-hand-on-me/feed/ 0 171637 Diocesan council approves stewardship motions and regulations https://faithtides.ca/diocesan-council-approves-stewardship-motions-and-regulations/ https://faithtides.ca/diocesan-council-approves-stewardship-motions-and-regulations/#respond Sat, 01 Jan 2022 23:32:02 +0000 https://faithtides.ca/?p=171629 With pandemic restrictions still in effect, the November diocesan council meeting was once again held over Zoom. Transforming Futures A motion was passed that the Transforming Futures focus over the next two years will be congregational development and implementing the vision at the parish level. This effectively means that the fundraising component of the initiative […]

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