February 2021

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Moving through Transfiguration Sunday into Lent

Written by

Lynne McNaughton

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. ...

Written by

John Lavender

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 ...

Written by

Leon Rogers

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 ...

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The HighWay

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 ...

Written by

Nick Pang

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.

Written by

Yme Woensdregt

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 ...

Written by

Jeff Donnelly

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 ...

Written by

Patricia Simons

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 ...

Written by

Jane Bourcet

Epiphany Reflection: Daring Discipleship

Written by

Lynne McNaughton

The Beginning

What if this is only the beginning? While empires clash, while sea levels rise, while markets crash, and temperatures rise, how might we live if ...

Written by

Andrew Stephens-Rennie

Carols into January!

Well, it’s January, and the Christmas season has been over for quite some time … according to the secular commercial world. Going by their calendar, ...

Written by

Norene Morrow

Around and About the Diocese

98th Birthday Celebrated, St Margaret’s, Peachland A beloved member of St Margaret’s Parish in Peachland for some 68 years, Betty Sutherland, recently celebrated her 98th ...

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Unfolding the New

2025 has come, and in the transition to this new year, many of us have embraced the ritual of the many familiar occurrences and cultural ...

Written by

David Burrows

In Memoriam

Kootenay Contact announced the passing of three retired priests in November: The Rev. Mark Mealing, the Rev. Brock Lupton, and the Rev. James Kiddel: May ...

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The HighWay

It’s a Matter of Time

We live in a world filled with time. There’s not enough of it, or too much of it. We save it, or we waste it. ...

Written by

Andrea Brennan

Epiphany 2025: All Through the Year!

As we open our hearts to God’s presence around us and to the ways God speaks to our hearts in this liminal season of ...

Written by

Trish McCarthy

Milestone Ministries

Michelle Collins is a Lutheran Deacon who offers a workshop sponsored by the North American Deacon’s Conference. With the transitions happening in our churches today, ...

Written by

Patricia Simons

God Bless the Diocese!

I am writing this article on the cusp of our new church year, and as you read it, a new calendar year is just beginning. ...

Written by

Catherine Ripley

Whose Cloud? Which Light?

Back in 2021, the Rev. Canon Dr. Herb O’Driscoll (1928-2024) served as the speaker (by Zoom) to our annual clergy conference for the Diocese of ...

Written by

David Tiessen

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