Kevin Arndt, Author at The HighWay

Ode to First Responders

Kevin Arndt — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 08:37:23 +0000

“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 Island Regional Correctional Centre. It was at least once a day and sometimes three or four times in a single shift. Every time, it felt like a bolt of lightning […]

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A Hatful of Change

Kevin Arndt — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 08:38:46 +0000

The story is told about a woman who was walking on a stormy beach with her husband when a great wave fell onto the shore and swept him out to sea. The woman cried out, “O God, O God, please, please give me back my husband!” Sure enough, moments later, another giant wave crashed and […]

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SOWING SEEDS in the Public Square: Agape, Metanoia and Koinonia

Kevin Arndt — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 08:47:52 +0000

Prison Ministry This issue of The HighWay shows the many ways we have changed as a Diocese and as a church in the last 60 years. It’s understandable to see ourselves primarily on the receiving end of change. However, it’s important to remember that we have also been agents of change, actively transforming the people […]

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The Sunset of Privilege

Kevin Arndt — Sat, 01 Apr 2023 08:24:04 +0000

Years ago, when I joined BC Corrections as Chaplain, in Victoria’s maximum-security prison, one of the first places in the jail I reported to was “Stores.” This is the department that receives all the goods and products from the outside world needed to operate the Correctional Centre: food, bedding, cleaning supplies, recreational equipment, computers, and […]

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Fear, Façades, and the Courage to be Free

Kevin Arndt — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 16:53:14 +0000

Prison Ministry “Do not be afraid; I am the first and the last, and the Living One. I was dead, and see, I am alive, forever and ever.” (Revelation 1.17-18) In 1912, the prolific architect William Ridgway-Wilson finished overseeing construction of the Anglican Church of St. John the Divine, in downtown Victoria, BC. In 1913, […]

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Bones, Bodies, and the Wisdom of the Spirit

Kevin Arndt — Sat, 01 Oct 2022 19:48:57 +0000

We can cage a human body, but we cannot cage the human spirit. According to many spiritual traditions, stilling the body can make way for our spirit to speak to us, or perhaps more accurately, for us to hear the Spirit speaking. Abba Moses, one of the great desert fathers, would counsel his monks, “Go, […]

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Rough Healing — Grace In Unexpected Places

Kevin Arndt — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 08:58:07 +0000

Prison Ministry For more than a decade, I was a public servant with BC Corrections. As the chaplain at the province’s maximum-security prison in Victoria, I encountered inmates and staff from every background and walk of life. Often the only things we held in common were the stones and steel of a very rough prison, […]

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St. Joe of Segregation

Kevin Arndt — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 12:40:55 +0000

Prison Ministry “I was in prison, and you visited me,” Matthew 25:36 For more than ten years, I served as the fulltime chaplain at the Vancouver Island Regional Correctional Centre, a maximum-security provincial prison on Wilkinson Road in Victoria. In my time with BC Corrections, we struggled to support and care for incarcerated men while […]

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Cranbrook & Golden Update

Kevin Arndt — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 17:40:17 +0000

In 2020, the Parish of Christ Church, Cranbrook suffered a double blow: the first was the shutdown that we all experienced in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The second came in June, with the retirement of the Reverend Yme Woensdregt after sixteen years of ministry at Christ Church and in the surround- ing community. The parish was at a crossroads.

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