Lent, as always, gives us opportunity to take stock, reflect, pray, and undertake a discipline which enhances our Christian life for an...
Glimpses of God Glimpses of God in gold autumnal trees,Now rustling in cool equinoctial breeze;In the friendly face of...
Join us via Facebook or Zoom for a simple service of Night Prayer through Lent, led by members of our Worship Team at St John's. The...
A Soup Lunch and Discussion Group around Bradley Jersak's book Out Of The Embers - Faith after the great deconstruction. To book a...
An online Discussion Group around Bradley Jersak's book Out Of The Embers - Faith after the great deconstruction. It will take place on...
The first time I heard Gregori Allegri's Misere Mei Deus was on Ash Wednesday Morning in the College Chapel at my Theological School,...
I have said many times, I love weddings. It has been my privilege over the past twenty seven or so years to officate at hundreds of...
When I was eighteen years old, and at the end of my twelfth year of school, I entered into my first romantic relationship. Our...
A submission today from Parishioner and Artist Sara Chu " About twenty years ago, Tim and I took a minibus trip through the Australian...
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A contribution from another Parishioner at St John's for today - a song lyric from 'The Celtic Women" submitted by Terry Needham, PC...
More glimpses from Artist and St John's Parishioner, Sara Chu I love reading books about quantum physics although I do not...
I get glimpses of the Divine in a lot, and wide variety, of music - sometimes because of the beauty of a composition, or the depth of...
It was 11:20am on September 27th, 2021, and I’d just arrived at St. John’s from Victoria General Hospital. My beloved Nana, Iris, six...
Over the course of pandemic I have had the opportunity to connect with more members of the Street Community than I ever did before....
I've tried hard not to overload the community of St John the Divine, or my friends, or family, with stories of my sabbatical - it was a...
Ordination day! To the Diaconate, that is - I’m sure I’ll write about my Priesting too, because there were definitely “Glimpses of...
At the entrance of our 'Walking Together Chapel' (previously known as The Emmaus Chapel) we have an artwork entitled Grandmother Moon...
Poetry does it's own talking - no need for a reflection on this! Unfold Your Own Myth by Rumi Who gets up earlyto discover the moment...
Anyone who has heard me talk about my time in Mombasa will have heard me talking repeatedly and excitedly about Matatu. In the...
As well as my expressive visual art practice I like drawing ‘from life’. During my art training it was a requirement to learn...
My golden years of nursing was spent at the Jubilee Hospital on 3-West, the Orthopaedic Unit. We were a team of nurses and allied...
So... When I was younger, way back when, I shared with a Spiritual Director that I was not happy with the direction I had been given by...
In my late teens, when I first encounter the picture of Jesus laughing, aka The Laughing Christ, it was a revelation to me. Up to...
Today I read a headline from The Guardian. ‘Nobody has ever been astonished by an apple’ – sorry Cézanne, but still lifes are dull...
“Oh, don’t worry. We’re gonna feed you supper.” These were the words uttered to me by a good friend this past Wednesday during a Lenten...
If the thing we call "religion" has any heft and depth to it, if it is not entirely rooted in fantasy, it must call attention to...
Often when I share a piece of music in a blog post it's the combination of lyric and music that has particularly moved me. There...
Do you want to change the world? Then change yourself first. Do you want to change yourself? Then remain completely silent inside the...
Have you ever felt that moment of anticipation just before the curtain rises on a play, or a concert, or the opera, or a sporting...
I'm a doggy person. It's not that I don't like cats, I do - and most other common furry and not furry companions that people share...
Not so long ago, I was driving home from St. John’s and decided to take the drive-thru at MacDonalds to get a burger and fries. As I...
On the weekend, I went walking to visit the daffodils by Dallas Road below the slope of Beacon Hill Park. The bright sunlight, breeze...
One of the most moving viral videos I have seen on the internet was a collection of fans singing the Cranberries song 'Zombie' after...
Today is the day set aside in the Turtle Island (North American) Anglican Churches' calendar for the Commemoration of John Keble,...
Approximately four years ago, in Vancouver, I was deep into my Clinical Pastoral Education Residency at Mount St. Joseph’s hospital....
Most months I attend, on the last Tuesday of the month, the Downtown Service Providers. This is a group comprised of agencies such as...
Palm Sunday is tomorrow, and Jesus’s words have been on my mind: ‘Unless a seed falls to the ground and dies it remains alone, but if...
Today, and in some of the days ahead, I want to link some of these Glimpses of God blogs with those things which stand out for me in...
Since I met Sabina, my partner, I have discovered dance. Not that I didn't know it wasn't there before, but I have learned how...
Who’s Driving the Bus? Many of you know I’ve been working in the counselling field for a long time, and I’ve seen and heard some...
The reason I am drawn to nature, to the visual arts, to design, to philosophy, to poetry, to music, to various cultures, is all...
On this Maundy Thursday we remember the Last Supper, the final gathering of Jesus with his friends. It is this meal that is the...
Good Friday is the most solemn day of the Christian Year. A reminder of the suffering and death of Jesus, who we call Christ. We...
Within the midst of the fear and uncertainty of our recent pandemic years were present small everyday acts of compassion and kindness...
Alleluia, Christ is risen! The Lord is risen indeed, Alleluia! We can’t say it enough. It is the balm in Gilead, the water to a...
