David Tiessen, Author at The HighWay

Computer Connections

David Tiessen — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 08:19:32 +0000

There are so many and various ways in which creation care is possible, and yet also so many and various ways in which it feels like an overwhelming task in a world that is constantly advancing the new, departing from the old, and leaving heaps of waste behind. The scale of human impact upon the […]

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“What is Truth?”

David Tiessen — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 08:00:39 +0000

By David Tiessen ( Dean of the Cathedral Church of St Michael & All Angels, Kelowna, and Elise Lafleur (Postulant for Ordination, Diocese of Kootenay) DAVID: In the Good Friday Passion Gospel we will hear again Jesus’ words before Pilate: “For this I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify […]

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Minding the Gaps

David Tiessen — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 09:00:10 +0000

“Rent-a-Stranger” is not a headline easily passed over; it caught my eye back in 2022 in The Washington Post. The article spoke of the generally accepted practice in Japan and South Korea of hiring a stranger as company/companion to attend certain social functions as a matter of saving face/observing social expectations for public events. Interesting […]

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Properly Aghast?

David Tiessen — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 08:33:21 +0000

Once far enough removed, everyone will be properly aghast that any of this was allowed to happen.” (Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This [McClelland & Stewart, 2025], 25). El Akkad writes a sentence designed to simultaneously stop us in our tracks and to make us leap ahead to consider […]

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The Feast(s) of General Synod

David Tiessen — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 08:15:10 +0000

The General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada gathered June 23-29 in London, ON. I was delighted to be able to serve as part of the delegation from the Diocese of Kootenay, and to be gathered with representatives hailing from every Province and Territory across the country. For the church to be gathered in […]

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“The Startling Prayer Life of Søren Kierkegaard”

David Tiessen — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 08:48:53 +0000

In a reflection titled “The startling prayer life of Søren Kierkegaard,” Karen Wright Marsh refers to the 19th century Danish philosopher as “a role model for future generations of angsty, overwrought people” (Marsh, in America: The Jesuit Review, March 2020: https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2020/02/28/startling-prayer-life-soren-kierkegaard (Wikimedia) Angsty and overwrought. Hmm. That resonates. For good reason (many, in fact). Marsh […]

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Anxious Toil and Daily Bread

David Tiessen — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 09:50:44 +0000

In an essay on ministry in the midst of the many changes facing the church in the world, the Ven. Dr. Alex Hughes (Archdeacon of Cambridge, Church of England) writes of “Anxious Toil and Daily Bread,” and traces how the many anxieties about the future tempt the church to find (secure) our future by ‘managing’ […]

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Whose Cloud? Which Light?

David Tiessen — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 09:10:02 +0000

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 Kootenay and the Territory of the People. O’Driscoll spoke on a wide range of matters pertaining to carrying the Good News of the Gospel into the 21st century. I found […]

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“Thankful Hearts …with Hungry Hearts”

David Tiessen — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 08:47:15 +0000

7th Century Syrian Monk St John Climacus said that, “Hunger is the stuff of prayer.” October brings us to another Thanksgiving Day – and in our churches the celebration of Harvest Thanksgiving, in which we give thanks for the “fruit that comes forth from the earth” – often happily represented by a variety of gourds […]

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The Primate Visits Kootenay

David Tiessen — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 08:50:06 +0000

Archbishop Linda Nicholls, Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, was present with us in the Diocese of Kootenay for Holy Week and Easter 2024. The Primate started Holy Week at All Saints, Vernon for Palm-Passion Sunday. During the week she joined the Tuesday Coffee and Conversation Group at the Cathedral for a wide-ranging conversation […]

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