Tobermory United Church is gearing up to once again host the annual Shrove Tuesday pancake supper, Feb. 17, 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. at the Tobermory Community Centre. The meal includes pancakes, farmers’ sausages, homemade baked beans, fruit, desserts and refreshments. Not only will you be served a wonderful meal, but in the midst of a stormy winter, it will be great to get out and see some friends and neighbours! Admission is by donation. The following morning, February 18, all are welcome to...

Well, it’s been a week… One of those weeks where the weather dictates our activities, a week of cancelling, rescheduling, shovelling, shifting meetings to Zoom, but in the midst of all that, also gratitude. Gratitude for warm shelter, for the people who plow the roads and the ones who show up in emergencies even in a blizzard. The key to winter in Tobermory seems to be flexibility. As I said in a Zoom meeting on Thursday, “Blessed are the flexible.” We are in the middle of the Season of...

It’s a powerful question. Powerful now and powerful in the Gospel of John when Jesus asks it of two of John the Baptist’s disciples. The disciples answer, “Rabbi, where are you staying?” And so it begins, the teaching relationship that unfolded over three years and countless miles and the witnessing of miracles and the authorities always hovering in the background, ready to shut things down. A relationship that begins here and will end at the cross… Each of the Gospels has a different take on...