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Unlearn and Learn

I thought I knew a fair bit about Indigenous Peoples in Canada. I lived in Labrador for three years and went to school with Indigenous students, although it was as a teenager. I was married to an Inuit man. I did my grad project at AST on Residential Schools. NOTHING however, prepared me for aContinue reading “Unlearn and Learn”

Midweek Message – September 24, 2025

Worship – This week you are going to hear Genesis 27:1-4, 15-23… if you were in church 2 Sundays ago, it was read then to set up the story of Jacob, but I didn’t preach on that section. This week I’m preaching on that part. It’s a story of betrayal and trickery. Themes that areContinue reading “Midweek Message – September 24, 2025”

Midweek Message – September 17, 2025

“What will the future need from a congregation like ours?” What a profound question! It turns most visioning upside down and/or inside out. Instead of thinking what WE need/want, what is God calling us to be in the future. I encourage you to read the article that is linked; the question was posed by theContinue reading “Midweek Message – September 17, 2025”

Presence

Surely, the presence of the Lord is in this place. As I pondered the very long reading this week, that line from the hymn we sang a few minutes ago, kept ringing through my head. Surely the presence of the Lord is in this place. I could remember singing it… I went searching in theContinue reading “Presence”

Midweek Message – September 10

I’m back! 😉 Most of you know that I wound up having an emergency appendectomy this summer; thankfully we were home from PEI! I spent most of the next two weeks on the deck under the pergola. Between that an wildfire smoke induced migraines, (I stopped sitting on the deck!) the rest of the summerContinue reading “Midweek Message – September 10”

Midweek Message – June 25, 2025

This will be my last message until September, I may post on my personal blog occasionally over the summer. the summer schedule is below. We had a great time at Open Streets Dartmouth last Sunday! So many people expressed appreciation for our ministry and presence. The Leadership Team had a productive meeting with folks fromContinue reading “Midweek Message – June 25, 2025”

Light and Life

A few weeks ago, I attended a reading by Marie Wilson, one of the commissioners to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. And of course, bought her book, North of Nowhere! I’ll get back to a story that she told in a minute. Did any of you attend one of the public sessions when it wasContinue reading “Light and Life”

Midweek Message – June 19, 2025

I’m a day late… between trying to take some of the hours that are owed to me and trying to get ready to go on vacation… I’m a bit behind on my regular tasks. Worship this week is the last in our series of Who Are the People in the Neighbourhood, with Elder Debbie EisanContinue reading “Midweek Message – June 19, 2025”

Midweek Message – June 11, 2025

What a wonderful service we had at Woodlawn United with all six of the Dartmouth Churches participating! All six clergy participated in some way; I co-presided at communion along with Michael Mugford from Cole Harbour Woodside. A choir of 60, including four from St. James, an almost full house, we ran out of communion elements,Continue reading “Midweek Message – June 11, 2025”

Midweek Message – June 4, 2025

I was supposed to be on Study Leave from June 4-10, but my mother-in-law died in the early hours of Tuesday morning, so I’m on Bereavement Leave instead. I’ll still be participating in the combined worship service at Woodlawn on Sunday, June 8th. Thank you to those who responded to the request for cookies! IContinue reading “Midweek Message – June 4, 2025”