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David Ewart
Vancouver, BC CANADA
Husband, father of two grown sons, United Church of Canada minister
Interests: brain-mind research, physics, cosmology, process theology, evolution, leadership
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Welcome to Holy Textures, Year A, Season of Pentecost up to the End of August
Posted May 1, 2023 at Holy Textures
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Welcome to Holy Textures, Year A, Season of Easter
Posted Apr 3, 2023 at Holy Textures
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The United Church of Canada Needs a Big Vision
What the United Church of Canada (UCCan) needs now is a Greta Thunberg approved vision of a plausible future for the planet. Here’s what I think the UCCan can offer: 100% commitment to zero carbon by 2030. This would apply not only to buildings, but also to all programs and activities including worship, meetings, travel, etc. It would also include active participation in existing climate crisis networks, political activism at all levels, boycotts and other economic pressures. Multi-generational community. We have decades of experience creating and maintaining personal connections of caring and friendship that are open and inclusive across all categories of gender, race, age, ability, orientation, culture, etc. We also have firsthand experience of learning to apologize and what it takes to make amends and seek reconciliation. We have gained understandings of the shapes of personal well-being and life-giving relationships. A big story. Being rooted in a multi-thousand-year story helps give perspective to present experiences. We are not the first generation to fear there is no plausible future. Our big story helps us to avoid fear-mongering and false-hopes. Spiritual practices. Dealing with the pressures of everyday life, work, and family as well as global issues of the climate, war, and the economy can be a recipe for toxic stress and anxiety. We have experience with practices that help one stay centred and connected. A church that isn’t religious. The UCCan locates itself within the globally diverse and conflicted collective... Continue reading
Posted Mar 18, 2023 at David Ewart
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Matthew 24:36-44
Posted Feb 20, 2023 at Holy Textures
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Mark 14:26-31, Jesus' Last Week - Thursday - Post 2 of 4
Posted Feb 15, 2023 at Holy Textures
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Mark 15:xx-yy, Jesus' Last Week - Saturday
Posted Feb 15, 2023 at Holy Textures
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Mark 16:1-8, Jesus' Last Week - Easter Sunday
Posted Feb 15, 2023 at Holy Textures
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Mark 13:1-8, Jesus' Last Week - Tuesday - Post 4 of 4
Posted Feb 15, 2023 at Holy Textures
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Mark 12:38-44, Jesus' Last Week - Tuesday - Post 3 of 4
Posted Feb 15, 2023 at Holy Textures
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Mark 12:28-34, Jesus' Last Week - Tuesday - Post 2 of 4
Posted Feb 15, 2023 at Holy Textures
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Mark 11:1-11, Jesus' Last Week - Palm Sunday
Posted Feb 13, 2023 at Holy Textures
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Welcome to Holy Textures, Year A, Season of Lent and Holy Week
Posted Feb 12, 2023 at Holy Textures
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Matthew 2:13-23
Posted Feb 8, 2023 at Holy Textures
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Spirit Given Gifts
Spirit given gifts are special abilities that God gives to every Christian to be used cooperatively for the strengthening of the Body of Christ so that it might better fulfill God's purposes. Learning what our Gifts are - and are not - can bring clarity of purpose and meaning for our lives. Knowing what our gifts are not can ease feelings of failure and frustration. Acknowledging our limitations and seeking support from others who have gifts we do not have frees us to focus on our strengths, on the gifts we do have. Going where our gifts are takes us to the place where the giver of those gifts, God, is closest to us in our lives. Our skills may not be our gifts. When we are using our gifts, we may end the day feeling tired, but we will also feel deeply satisfied. But if our skills are not also our gifts, then we will simply end the day feeling tired and drained. This Descriptions Booklet - PDF and Questionnaire Booklet - PDF will help you begin to identify your Spirit Given Gifts. Continue reading
Posted Jan 31, 2023 at David Ewart
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Welcome to Holy Textures, Year A, Season of Lent and Holy Week
Posted Jan 13, 2023 at Holy Textures
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Welcome to Holy Textures, Year A, Season of Epiphany
Posted Nov 28, 2022 at Holy Textures
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Welcome to Holy Textures, Year A, Seasons of Advent and Christmas
Posted Oct 10, 2022 at Holy Textures
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A Prayer about Prayer
Posted Sep 5, 2022 at Holy Textures
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A Prayer about Prayer
Gracious Love, in whom we live and move and have our being, Teach us how to pray as you would have us pray: bring to mind what you would have us remember, and give us the words to pray for what is needed. Help us to feel your presence which is always with us. Help us to trust that the words we use to offer our gratitudes and concerns are adequate, and help us to trust that if we have no words, and can only offer groans, or silence, or smiles that your Spirit lifts these to you in all of their fulness. Help us to trust that we feel called to pray, so that we can tell you what is in our hearts and minds; and, help us to trust that you also call us to pray so that your Spirit moving within us helps us to see as you see; to love as you love; giving us the words to say what needs to be made real for the good of all. Help us to trust that we are not the only one offering the prayers that are needed this day. Help us to feel the presence of others in this room and across this land who are also praying. Lifting up gratitudes; lifting up concerns. Help us to feel our connection as part of the whole – so much larger than each of us alone. Help us... Continue reading
Posted Aug 22, 2022 at David Ewart
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Welcome to Holy Textures, Year C, Season After Pentecost, September to November
Posted Jun 30, 2022 at Holy Textures
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The Holy Threesome
Posted Jun 20, 2022 at Holy Textures
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Why I Am Almost an Atheist - Take 2
I have abandoned my first take on this post. For one thing, there are at least as many ways to be an atheist as there are to be a Scottish Presbyterian. And my initiative for writing is not to argue with atheism - nor Presbyterianism - in all their many forms. My goad is to write about what still nags at the "faith" I seem to still have. I am also today weighed down by the news of the slaughter of 19 children and 2 teachers at Robb Elementary School, Uvalde, Texas. What, in the name of a trustworthy, good, God can one say? I wonder how I would re-present Jesus at any of these funerals. What could one say that wouldn't be offensive; not be off the mark. (Learning how not to be like Job's friends is a start.) Let's begin by remembering that Christians do not believe in God. Christians do not believe in a singularity; they believe in a Community; a foundational Threesome that underlies and infuses all realities. If there is a "god", that "god" is relationship; not a separate, single, self. And, if there is a "god" who is relationship, Christians assert that this relationship is epitomized by love. Love that holds nothing back. Love that is totally committed to the good of the other. Love that gives with no strings attached. Love that has no pre-conditions. Love that never forgets; never looses attention; never... Continue reading
Posted May 28, 2022 at David Ewart
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Welcome to Holy Textures, Year C, Season After Pentecost, From Trinity Sunday to the End of August
Posted May 16, 2022 at Holy Textures
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Reunion 2023
2023 marks the 100th Anniversary of the founding of the school that would eventually become Daniel McIntyre Collegiate Institute. A reunion is planned for April 21-23, 2023. Check the Alum Facebook page for news. (I'll repost things here as I... Continue reading
Posted May 4, 2022 at DMCI Class of 63
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Welcome to Holy Textures, Year C, Season of Easter
Posted Mar 19, 2022 at Holy Textures
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