Advent and Hope

Changing Church – Part 2

Ordaining Women She stood out in her red tartan mini dress as she walked through the staid sleepy cloisters of St Albans Abbey in England. ...
LOCALLY-TRAINED PRIEST MINISTRY: (Left to right) Ann Wood, Marcella Mugford, Archbishop David Crawley, Maxine Maclean, and Mary Johnson.

Twenty-Five Years of Locally-Trained Priest Ministry – Part 1

Twenty-five years ago, Archbishop David Crawley took a bold and visionary step in the ministry of the Diocese of Kootenay. Innovation and creativity have always ...
CHURCH MICE WILL NOW BE WARM: Two new boilers for St Saviour’s, Nelson.

St Saviour’s, Nelson, Receives Funding for Major Heating Upgrade

“The Church mouse was very cold and the boiler was very old! “ So started the campaign kickoff in 2012 to replace the aging boiler ...
A solitary mushroom outside my front door

A Meditation for Advent

One fall day in October I took note of this solitary mushroom outside my front door, growing among the fallen leaves and the detritus that ...

Celebrating the Light

The bright lights come out in December, wonderful cascades of light making neighbourhoods more beautiful. Icicles hang from gutters and brilliant dioramas on lawns give ...

Recharging our Batteries

I am writing this column in mid-October, when the red and golden leaves on the hillsides are so colourful. it is as if they give ...

Deacon in the Narthex

Diakonia – The Greek word diakonia means ‘service among others.’ In the Anglican Church of Canada the Order of Deacon is sometimes a transitional one ...

What is Community?

As we have been walking through the pandemic, we have seen a seismic shift in “the Church”. Those beloved century plus buildings have been empty, ...

Say Yes! to Kids proposals total more than $500,000!

The Anglican Foundation of Canada (AFC) has received an unprecedented wave of applications from across Canada in response to the Say Yes! to Kids Request ...

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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