October 2025 Archives - Faith Tides https://faithtides.ca/tag/october-2025/ News from the Diocese of Islands and Islets in the Anglican Church of Canada Thu, 02 Oct 2025 23:51:17 +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 October 2025 Archives - Faith Tides https://faithtides.ca/tag/october-2025/ 32 32 207835967 Diocesan conference to explore the God who is not elsewhere https://faithtides.ca/diocesan-conference-to-explore-the-god-who-is-not-elsewhere/ https://faithtides.ca/diocesan-conference-to-explore-the-god-who-is-not-elsewhere/#respond Thu, 02 Oct 2025 16:04:44 +0000 https://faithtides.ca/?p=176450 We Together is a diocesan conference hosted by the Diocese of Islands and Inlets every other year. The aim of the conference is to strengthen connections across the diocese. This year’s We Together will take place on Nov. 14-15 at St. Paul’s, Nanaimo. On Friday evening, Nov. 14, there will be a banquet at St. […]

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]]> https://faithtides.ca/diocesan-conference-to-explore-the-god-who-is-not-elsewhere/feed/ 0 176450 Keeping company with love https://faithtides.ca/keeping-company-with-love/ https://faithtides.ca/keeping-company-with-love/#respond Thu, 02 Oct 2025 16:03:41 +0000 https://faithtides.ca/?p=176500 How would our lives be different if we believed that God is not elsewhere (the theme for our We Together gathering)?   Scratch that question. “Believe” is a broken word. We take for granted that the word means something like, “accept the truth of a proposition.” Suppose I’m inside a drab, windowless hotel conference room. You […]

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]]> https://faithtides.ca/keeping-company-with-love/feed/ 0 176500 Ripples: October 2025 https://faithtides.ca/ripples-october-2025/ https://faithtides.ca/ripples-october-2025/#respond Thu, 02 Oct 2025 16:02:02 +0000 https://faithtides.ca/?p=176474 A family service on the beach  On Sunday, Aug. 17, St. Philip’s, Oak Bay, held a family service at Willows Beach. Most of what happens at a regular eucharist was reprised, though parts of the liturgy reflected the ocean setting; some participants chose to feel the sand between their toes! The children present constructed a […]

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]]> https://faithtides.ca/ripples-october-2025/feed/ 0 176474 ‘A moment that turned me back towards God’ https://faithtides.ca/a-moment-that-turned-me-back-towards-god/ https://faithtides.ca/a-moment-that-turned-me-back-towards-god/#respond Thu, 02 Oct 2025 16:01:36 +0000 https://faithtides.ca/?p=176496 Content warning: mention of miscarriage  My name is Theo Robinson, and I am the new incumbent at St. Peter’s, Quamichan in North Cowichan. I have been asked to tell you the story of how I came to be where I am today. Because it’s important to my story, I need to preface by mentioning that […]

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]]> https://faithtides.ca/a-moment-that-turned-me-back-towards-god/feed/ 0 176496 Letter to the editor (October 2025) https://faithtides.ca/letter-to-the-editor-october-2025/ https://faithtides.ca/letter-to-the-editor-october-2025/#respond Thu, 02 Oct 2025 16:00:17 +0000 https://faithtides.ca/?p=176502 Dear Editor,   I continue to be impressed with the work of Christ Church Cathedral’s director of music, Donald Hunt. His article (Cathedral connects young people to music education) is yet another fine description of the effort he and his colleagues and choirs are making, not only to educate young people in the centuries-old traditions of […]

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