Pastor Janaki's Blog

A small church with a big heart—rooted in faith, hospitality, and tradition along the beWelcome to Pastor’s Corner. Our Pastor has wide and varied interests, having been an engineer, hiker, teacher, diver and small-business owner before coming to serve here. This space offers a mix of spiritual reflections, fiction, sermons, podcasts, and social justice materials via her substack:

https://janakibandara.substack.com

Some of these posts will be cross-posted on her blog here. Her welcome letter explains what drew her to work on the Saugeen (Bruce) Peninsula as a pastor.

Hope at the Wild Edge of Sorrow:
medicine for our tendency to anesthesia and amnesia.
Janaki Bandara Dec 04, 2025
Awaiting Eruption:
"the eruption of divinity into humanity"
Janaki Bandara Dec 09, 2025
Why I Write [here]
playing with puzzle pieces...
Janaki Bandara Oct 08, 2025
Asleep or Awake?
where are we as believers in Jesus?
Janaki Bandara Nov 25, 2025
Reign of Christ / The King Sunday
A reimagining of royalty.
Janaki Bandara Nov 28, 2025
Fall Harvest
And giving thanks for the farmworkers.
Janaki Bandara Oct 05, 2025
Lazarus Gets to Heaven:
A reflection on doing vs being.
Janaki Bandara Sep 30, 2025
The Summer Blur
getting to Labour Day Weekend.
Janaki Bandara Sep 01, 2025
Holy Skipping Flat Rocks
a child's lens of abundance.
Janaki Bandara Aug 26, 2025
The Value of a Good Hair Job

Janaki Bandara Apr 25, 2025
Hospitality in the Context of Race:
Doing what you can, where you can.
Janaki Bandara Mar 31, 2025
Buying Local & Loving Your Neighbour:
when tariff-based shopping may fail to see the bigger picture of neighbour.
Janaki Bandara Mar 24, 2025
Skin & Responsibility:
Lessons on the (dis)advantages of race, and invitations to responsibility.
Janaki Bandara Apr 25, 2025
Noticing Inner Responses:
Lenten Study for first week of Lent.
Janaki Bandara Mar 04, 2025
Growing in Grace:
the nine whys on gathering to study for Lent 2025.
Janaki Bandara Feb 25, 2025
The Feather in the Fire:
memories of cremation at Shooter's Hill.
Janaki Bandara Feb 16, 2025
Capybara Privilege:
rodent, fish, mammal, shit-eater, meme icon, spirit animal - and lessons for us all.
Janaki Bandara Feb 06, 2025
United Nations of Fruit:
immigration in the produce department, and privilege on farms and airplanes.
Janaki Bandara Jan 28, 2025
Mango Time:
the United Nations nature of fruit (part one)!
Janaki Bandara Jan 21, 2025
Stop the Bleeding:
understanding hospitality in the context of race.
Janaki Bandara Jan 14, 2025
On Percepticide & Perspecticide:
when we lose perception and perspective, what next?
Janaki Bandara Jan 03, 2025
Canada Post, Purolator & Power:
a witness account of helplessness conquered!
Janaki Bandara Dec 10, 2024
Can you hear me now?
on the trail between despair and hope: hearing aid batteries and red cups.
Janaki Bandara Dec 01, 2024
My Father's Skin.
Thanksgiving for the protective skin my father provided for me.
Janaki Bandara Nov 29, 2024
Emptied
and ready for replenishment & rest.
Janaki Bandara Oct 22, 2024
We Are Hiring
Please share with your networks.
Janaki Bandara Aug 01, 2024
The Pressure Cooker Principle:
Grief & Pain under Pressure.
Janaki Bandara Jul 22, 2024
Hurricane ...
Fear & Trepidation, Faith & Trust
Janaki Bandara Jul 02, 2024
Balancing Act
Cirque du Soleil imitates life.
Janaki Bandara Jun 13, 2024
Lenten Busy-ness:
An update.
Janaki Bandara Mar 10, 2024
Eyeballs on Sticks
and the ability to (possibly) see around corners.
Janaki Bandara Feb 17, 2024
Access Janaki's earlier postings
Janakibandara.substack.com

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