Michael Shapcott, Author at The HighWay

Chaos or Community

Michael Shapcott — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 09:49:57 +0000

What does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.” – Micah 6:8 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in “Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community” (the last book he wrote before his assassination) set out the “great new problem” for humanity: […]

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Season of Creation

Michael Shapcott — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 08:47:52 +0000

Servant’s Heart — From the Desk of a Deacon As late summer turns to early fall, the Season of Creation is a reminder that we are called not simply to be good stewards with all our relations across Mother Earth, but also to be in a deep and loving relationship with all of the created […]

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Sorrento’s New Mission, Vision & Values

Michael Shapcott — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 09:12:23 +0000

From the desk of a deacon “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.” John 10:10 The Sorrento Centre has adopted a mission, vision and values statement that begins: “The Sorrento Centre exists to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ in […]

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Acts of Kindness

Michael Shapcott — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 09:37:21 +0000

Deacons are called to a ministry at the intersection of Church and community. In the summer and early fall in the Shuswap, that has meant a focus on wildfire. The Bush Creek East wildfire was started by lightning on the east and west sides of Adams Lake in mid-July. The two separate fires grew over […]

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Grateful in a Time of Crisis

Michael Shapcott — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 08:38:58 +0000

Servant’s Heart from the Desk of a Deacon It’s a global story with a terrible impact right here in the Diocese of Kootenay: Extreme weather events triggered by human-induced climate change. But it was not simply abstract science for the guests, staff and neighbours of the Sorrento Centre, the Anglican retreat and conference centre in […]

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From the Desk of a Deacon

Michael Shapcott — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 09:18:00 +0000

Servant’s Heart Imagine! Coming home for your 60th birthday! What joy! Now, spread that over an entire year, and you have some sense of the 60th anniversary of the Sorrento Centre, the Anglican retreat and conference centre on the shoreline of the beautiful Shuswap in the Diocese of Kootenay. We’ll embrace old friends, some of […]

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Mindfullness & Indigenous Law

Michael Shapcott — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 16:52:09 +0000

SERVANT’S HEART From the Desk of a Deacon “Our land gave us our language,” said Dr. Marianne Ignace, Secwepemc language and culture scholar at Simon Fraser University, to more than 100 participants in the Mindfulness and Indigenous Law event on Oct. 22, 2022, at the Sorrento Centre. “Our law professors are the animals, the birds, […]

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Servant’s Heart and the Sorrento Center

Michael Shapcott — Sat, 01 Oct 2022 19:47:52 +0000

Listening deeply to our Indigenous neighbours as we seek to walk together in the journey of reconciliation – that is an important part of the apology for spiritual harm that was made by Anglican Church of Canada Primate Fred Hiltz in 2019. Deacons, as an ordained ministry within our Church, play a critical role in […]

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Choose Light Over Darkness

Michael Shapcott — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 12:20:41 +0000

Servant’s Heart: From the Desk of a Deacon The Diocese of Kootenay includes some of the most beautiful and nourishing natural places in all of Canada, and indeed, the world. The Christian mystic Hildegard of Bingen spoke of “viriditas” (the greening force of the divine in nature). Those of us who live in the mountains […]

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At Sorrento Centre

Michael Shapcott — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 17:25:15 +0000

For the second time in four months, evacuees from natural disasters have crowded into the Shuswap region in the northwest corner of the Diocese of Kootenay. In July, it was people fleeing the wildfires, and in November, it was people fleeing landslides and flooding.

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