Moving through Transfiguration Sunday into Lent

Editorial – February 2022

I’m writing this editorial just as the power went down, and just prior to watching on television, the storming of the capital in Washington DC. ...
Fr Leon Rogers with his children

For Everything There is a Season…a time for every purpose under heaven

... a time for every activity under heaven. A time to be born and a time to die. A time to plant and a time ...
Amanda Bath plays the organ to an empty church at St Mark’s, Kaslo on the evening she rings the bells of the church. Photograph by Keili Bartlett.

St Mark’s, Kaslo Sound the Bells

Throughout the years, the churches in Kaslo have served as a place of community and solace. But during the COVID-19 pandemic, congregations have not been ...
The Rev. Nick Pang of St. Saviour’s Anglican Church in Penticton lights an advent candle in preparation for Christmas Eve service, which was available on YouTube. Photograph by Mark Brett

A Silent Night

“But Mary treasured all these words and pondered them in her heart.” (Luke 2:19) The story of the first Christmas is the story of a ...

The Two Popes

A year ago, Netflix streamed a wonderful movie called “The Two Popes”. Combining fiction and nonfiction, the movie is actually about two differing theological visions.

Satyagraha

There’s a scene in the film Gandhi where photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White is interviewing Gandhi for Life magazine.  He is talking to her in prison for ...

When God Calls

As I talk to different people, the one question that I continue to hear is: “How could God allow this to happen?” We all have ...

How about Lent This Year?

It’s hard to believe that we are on the cusp of living a year with a global pandemic - not an anniversary anyone wishes to ...

Colonies of Heaven

Another World Possible

A few weeks ago, meeting with colleagues from across the country about developing the church’s capacity to participate in God’s mission, our discussion took a ...

Innocent Wonder

When my granddaughter was 4 years old, her mother was helping her get ready for bed one evening. My granddaughter was being her usual pixelated ...

Report on Anglican Deacons Canada Conference 2024

Servant’s Heart — from the desk of a deacon Anglican Deacons Canada in Partnership with Deacons of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada gathered to ...

Ode to First Responders

“Code Yellow! Lockdown!” I can’t say how often I heard this swift exclamation over the prison PA system while serving as Chaplain at the Vancouver ...

Gordon Light: Inside the Mind of a Songwriter

I have had the privilege of knowing Gordon Light for the last 47 years starting at St. Luke’s Anglican Church in Winnipeg. Back then, he ...

Saints, Souls, Grief, Joy

Autumn in the Kootenays has brought an abundance of fruit, with cooler temperatures, and a crispness to the air. The waters of Kootenay Lake no ...

The Dancing Saints — St Gregory of Nyssa

When living in Marin County in California, I had the opportunity to visit St Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church in San Francisco. There are many ...

40th Anniversary, St John the Evangelist, Salmon Arm

Timeline Cards For the 40th Anniversary of the Consecration of St. John’s, Salmon Arm Salmon Arm began as a farming hamlet centred on Hedgeman’s Corners ...
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