Messages
“Through Stained Glass” is the regular email sent to congregants by our minister, the Reverend John C. Perkin.
March 5, 2025
Today is Ash Wednesday, and in the lectionary-appointed readings one text is constant and appears every year: Joel 2:1-2, 12-17. It is an appropriate text for today in Canada . . .
February 5, 2025
There is so much I want to say this week, and a single pastoral e-pistle does not seem sufficient for me to respond to the disorder and anxiety of the world . . .
January 29, 2025
When I first arrived in Ottawa to take on the work of ministry at First Baptist, the nation was just emerging from the first wave of the COVID pandemic . . .