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Rev Elaine Julian ‘Season of Creation, land season: East of Eden’ Sunday, Sept 17th

September 29, 2023
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Invitation: Listen… Land is inviting us in. She asks us to join in her song deep within the earth. Land cries out from the ground. There is grief in her song but there is…

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Rev Julianne Kasmer ‘Energy as Spirit’ Times Colonist July 15th

August 31, 2023
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Photo by Bart on Unsplash Traditions and religions teach about energy as Spirit The ancients knew it. Modern physics confirms it. We live in a universe suffused with energy. Many traditions and religions call it Spirit. In…

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Rev Elaine Julian ‘Out of the Boat’ Sunday, August 13th

August 30, 2023
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Voice of the Day: John August Swanson on “The Storm” I began a painting in March, inspired by Pope Francis’s message in Urbi Et Orbi, “We were caught off guard by an unexpected, turbulent…

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Rev Ingrid Brown ‘One River, Many Wells’ Sunday, May 7th

July 7, 2023
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gilakas’la / čɛčɛ haθɛč, I respectfully acknowledge that I live, work, play, and pray within the traditional territory of the K’ómoks Nation Good News: Joshua 1: 9 “Strength! Courage! Don’t be timid; don’t get…

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Rev Elaine Julian ‘Pentecost: Wind, Fire and Spirit’ Sunday May 21st

June 1, 2023
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Pentecost: Wind, Fire and Spirit Officially, Pentecost isn’t until next week. It is sometimes referred to as the birthday of the church, the day when the Holy Spirit arrived in wind and fire and…

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Rev Elaine Julian ‘Easter: to be Continued’ Sunday April 16th

May 3, 2023
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EASTER: TO BE CONTINUED! The story of the life and death of Jesus contains all the other stories that we have ever told each other over the ages, the many, many stories of the…

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Rev Ingrid Brown ‘The Earth is Sacred’ Sunday April 2nd

May 3, 2023
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gilakas’la / čɛčɛ haθɛč, I respectfully acknowledge that I live, work, play, and pray within the traditional territory of the K’ómoks Nation I have a reading from thousands of years ago – from the…

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Rev Ingrid Brown ‘Your Body is a Temple’ Sunday March 5th

May 3, 2023
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Your Body is a Temple gilakas’la / čɛčɛ haθɛč, I respectfully acknowledge that I live, work, play, and pray within the traditional territory of the K’ómoks Nation Have you ever heard the phrase, “your…

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Rev Elaine Julian ‘Living Water’ Sunday March 19th

March 29, 2023
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LIVING WATER Good News: John 4:4-30 Common English Bible and The Inclusive Bible 4 Jesus had to go through Samaria. 5 He came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, which was near the land…

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Rev Elaine Julian ‘Love Without Limits’ Sunday Feb 19th

March 2, 2023
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LOVE WITHOUT LIMITS Good News:  Matthew 5:38-48  The Inclusive Bible “You’ve heard the commandment, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth,’ But I tell you, offer no resistance whatsoever when…

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Reflections

  • Rev Elaine Julian ‘Loaf Mass’ Sunday, August 3rd
  • Rev Elaine Julian ‘Tipping Points’ Sunday, May 18th
  • Rev Elaine Julian ‘The Gift of Mary’ Sunday, April 20th
  • Rev Elaine Julian ‘Don’t look back’ Sunday, March 16th
  • Rev Elaine Julian ‘Blessings and Woes’ Sunday, Feb 16h

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