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VST Sunday

This Sunday is Vancouver School of Theology (VST) Sunday. This brought to my mind my own seminary experience at...
Cameron Gutjahr
January 28, 2024
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God is Calling You

This Sunday and last Sunday the readings have seemed to be all about calling: Samuel with Eli in the temple, Philip...
Cameron Gutjahr
January 19, 2024
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Grace: Spiritual Exercises and Spiritual Muscles

How is 2024 treating you so far? Have you set any New Year's goals for yourself? While I am a little wary sometimes...
Cameron Gutjahr
January 12, 2024
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The Baptism of Jesus: Remember, You Are My Beloved Child

This Sunday we mark the baptism of Jesus (as well as sneaking in the Feast of the Epiphany). The sacrament of...
Cameron Gutjahr
January 6, 2024
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Don't Keep Christ in Christmas

In 2018, the Rev. Daniel Brereton, a priest serving at St. John’s Dixie in the Anglican Diocese of Toronto, made a...
Cameron Gutjahr
December 24, 2023
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Mary, Full of Grace

This is the irrational season when love blooms bright and wild. Had Mary been filled with reason there’d have...
Cameron Gutjahr
December 22, 2023
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Advent, John the Baptist, Who We Are and Who We Are Not

In the gospel from this Sunday (John 1: 6-8, 19-28), we hear again, for the second time this Advent, about John the...
Cameron Gutjahr
December 15, 2023
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Advent and the Candle of Peace

This Sunday, we light the candle of peace. It is a brave (or maybe foolish) thing, I think, to light a candle for...
Cameron Gutjahr
December 8, 2023
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Advent, Judgement, Madeleine L'Engle and the Love of God

During my study leave in October, I read a number of wonderful books, two of which were by Madeleine L’Engle. Most...
Cameron Gutjahr
December 1, 2023
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Stewardship and Small Churches

This Sunday is the Reign of Christ, the end of the Christian year, and the end of our month of stewardship.  During...
Cameron Gutjahr
November 24, 2023

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