Noticings… (Weekly Spiritual Reflection)

Be You”He didn’t mean to try to cop his licks note-for-note.” One of the things guitar players like to do is to learn to play riffs and licks that their guitar heroes play. We obsess over these things. We’ll go over the riffs, over and over, slowing down the videos and recordings to see/hear just…

(This is our Moderator’s Easter message. I hope you enjoy it!) Hello, I’m the Right Rev. Dr. Carmen Lansdowne, Moderator of The United Church of Canada. For the past several months, I have been thinking a lot about the nature of life and work in the church. Specifically, I have been thinking about the “bad…

Holy Week and Church”It’s heavy.” An answer to prayer arrived in my inbox. In the busyness of putting together all of our Holy Week services and the numerous reflections and sermons therein I was not sure what I had left in the creativity tank for today’s Noticings. And then my inbox went ‘ding’ and the…

Holy Week Looms”Our boats are different.” Buying and selling music gear is an interesting endeavour. This past week I did both. The characters you meet are fascinating. I was wanting to trade up one of my pedals to a more feature rich model so I went to the local music store to try to make…

PIE Day”I wonder how we might do it on our sleeves?” If you attended church at Faith on Sunday (in-person, livestreamed, or tuning in later) you heard me talk at Kids Time about this Thursday (tomorrow) being National Affirming / PIE Day. PIE is an acronym for Public, Intentional, and Explicit. March 14th has been…

El Salvador”A rich and spirit-filled experience.” Back in 2018, my wife Cynthia and I had the sincere privilege of being part of that year’s mission awareness trip to El Salvador. The trip is organized through the East Central Ontario Regional Council (our wider church body – formerly known as Bay of Quinte Conference). The roots…