Bishops Reflection: Waiting!

Editorial

For centuries, Anglicans have taken authority in their church to rest on the “three-legged stool” of Scripture, tradition, and reason, a concept whose origins are ...

St Nicholas

On December 6, we celebrate the feast day of St Nicholas. I have fond memories of celebrating “Sint Nicolaas” or “Sinterklaas” as a young child ...

Richard Wagamese

Spiritual Development Richard Wagamese (1955-2017), a well-known and beloved Canadian First Nations writer and mystic, was an Ojibway abandoned by his parents as a young ...

Rethinking the Traditional Christmas Pageant

Christmas Pageants have been around for a long time. Some credit St. Francis of Assisi with the first pageant when he celebrated the Christmas Eve ...

Okanagan Anglican Camp — Past, Present, & Future

Writing a feature article about where we are since the fire that burned down the Okanagan Anglican Camp seems like gathering pieces together after the ...

Waiting Patiently for the Lord

In my early twenties, I was hired as an outreach worker for an inner-city congregation that had decided, after years of disengagement with the neighbourhood, ...

The Many Faces of Jesus Christ

Over the last two thousand years, many artists have painted what they thought the face of Jesus Christ may have looked like. In our secular ...

Around the Diocese

St Saviour’s, Penticton Parishioners of St Saviour’s, Penticton, donated $1,500 to the ASKWellness Penticton Ambassador program, which provides participants from the two Penticton supportive housing ...

Acts of Kindness

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 ...

Camping 70 Years Ago at OAC

As I recall, the Rev. L A. C. Smith, priest of All Saints Anglican Church in Vernon, and his wife Gwen had a desire to ...

When Women Aren’t Safe

Isaiah 61:1 “The spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me; he has sent me to bring good news ...

Epiphany Reflection: Daring Discipleship

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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, ...

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. ...

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 ...
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