Stories … they’re funny things. This A Deacon’s Musing feature will share vignettes of voices that are (often) an amalgamation of experiences, contexts and people. They will frequently be monologues, which will be speaking both directly to our United Church of Canada and generally to faith communities. As with all stories, this may not have actually happened, but all stories are true. And as story-tellers know, once you hear them, they are happening to you …
Please explore the Tabs above for previous Vignettes.
Dice (March 29/13)
A Bible (January 15/15)
Chris (March 13/15)
Notre Mère (April 18/15)
Techne (July 10/15)
A Basement (September 25/15)
A Letter (October 30/15)
Silence (January 22/16)
Pen & Mirror (April 08/16)
Honour Roll (October 14/16)
Shepherd (November 25/16)
An Ant (March 03/17) A Garden (March 10/17) Gunn’s Stone (March 17/17) The Microphone (March 24/17) McCrae’s Table (March 31/17) The Cat (October 14/17) Prayer Beads (May 5/19) Lent|Vignette (The River) (April 2/20)
1988/ (May 13/20)
Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin . . . (June 21/22)
The Story of Then (June 21/22)
Lent|Vignette (A Garden)
Without a community, it is nearly impossible to achieve voice: it takes a village to raise a Rosa Parks. Without a community, it is nearly impossible to exercise the “power of one” in a
Lent|Vignette (An Ant)
Sorry … we haven’t tried to talk to ground-shakers before. Well, that’s what we call you, I think you use the word people? Humans? It’s rather funny to finally be trying this. It’s interesting, as long as we can remember, we never knew what caused all the shaking and why it didn’t regularly. We knew there was a pattern, but it was hard to figure out. We think part of the challenge for us – you call it time – life moves differently.
Advent: Vignette|Shepherd
Advent: It’s time to wait. For whom are we waiting? As Christians, we say that is Jesus! This is a Holy Time in our Christian calendar when we might make space for reflection, silence
Vignette|Honour Roll
Stories … they’re funny things. This A Deacon’s Musing feature will share vignettes of voices that are (often) an amalgamation of experiences, contexts and people. They will frequently be monologues, which will be speaking
Vignette|Pen & Mirror
Stories … they’re funny things. This A Deacon’s Musing feature will share vignettes of voices that are (often) an amalgamation of experiences, contexts and people. They will frequently be monologues, which will be speaking
Vignette|Silence
Stories … they’re funny things. This A Deacon’s Musing feature will share vignettes of voices that are (often) an amalgamation of experiences, contexts and people. They will frequently be monologues, which will be speaking
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