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Purple wild flowers among fall foliage

Paying attention to the layers all around us

There are always many layers in nature, seen and unseen. Every human situation has many layers, physically and politically—and certainly emotionally and spiritually. Most of ...
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15. Archives - March 2023

Clapboard buttresses

What are we to make of Saint Mark’s Church, Avonmore, viewed here as photographed in the mid twentieth century?  It looks so pristine, so perfect, ...
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Photo of the Sea of Galilee

Following in Jesus’ footsteps through Jerusalem and Galilee

I know only a few words of Arabic, the language spoken by our partners in the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem. One beautiful, frequently used phrase ...
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Feeding the multitudes

The Gospel of John reports that Jesus fed the multitudes with five loaves and two fish. We have all been told of that miracle, but ...
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Saint James, Perth

Anglican worship at Perth formally dates back to 1819 when the Rev. Michael Harris, a War of 1812 veteran, arrived to minister to a huge ...
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My prayer is that the “helpful” sorting out of people will cease

I am a direct beneficiary of the extraordinary efforts of Anglican missionaries to spread the gospel around the world. The Anglican Church established itself as ...
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A new year and another great line up of interns

A new year of the Youth Internship Program (YIP) began in the fall with another great line up of interns, faith formation team members and ...
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Living faithfully doesn’t just happen

In early January I went to the Habitat for Humanity ReStore in Ottawa East to donate a number of items left over from a renovation ...
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Saint Peter’s, Purdy

Neither the place name Bangor nor Purdy appears in traditional accounts or maps of the parishes and missions of the Anglican Diocese of Ottawa. It ...
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