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A Holy Night

Can you imagine a world with stars brightly shining–a world ready to embrace our dear Saviour’s birth? Can you imagine a world that lays in ...

Watching and Waiting

Happy New Year! — A little premature? For some it is, but not for others. Different peoples celebrate new year at different times. Our society, ...

At Home with the Shenstone’s

As Christina Lake is en route back home, I decided to visit Simon and Juno Shenstone on my return trip from Synod in Kelowna this ...

Parish Development Kokanee Parish

Around and About the Diocese From September 22-24, a team from Kokanee Parish joined with teams from across the Ecclesiastical province of BC and Yukon ...

Spirituality of Art and Place

I recently attended a fabric art workshop at Sorrento Retreat and Conference Centre. It was a beautiful time of year to be there, fall with ...

The Story of Handel’s “Messiah”

For Christians and classical music lovers, the Advent/Christmas season would not be complete without listening to a recording or attending a concert of Handel’s “Messiah.” ...

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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