February 2024

Witnessing the Transfiguration in our lives

What is the purpose and work of a congregation?

It seems a basic enough question, and yet, I wonder how often we think about the reasons why we gather. We all have our reasons ...

Understanding our Hymn Preferences

Since the last century there has been an explosion in the evolution of hymn singing. On the traditional end of the spectrum we find medieval ...

Witness and Dialogue: Essential Elements in Christian Ministry Part 1 of 5 — Introduction

For more than fifty years, the worldwide Christian community has been discussing relationships with other faith groups. Sometimes the debates consider formal contacts between institutional ...
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Around the Diocese

The Induction of Rev David Burrows, Kokanee Parish St Saviour’s Pro-Cathedral, Nelson: The induction into New Ministry of the Reverend David Burrows at Kokanee Parish. ...

What Earthly Good is a Mystic?

Spiritual Development Definition of a Mystic: “a person who seeks by contemplation and self-surrender to obtain unity with or absorption into the Deity or the ...
Ecumenical Dialogue

Ecumenical Number Plate

When my wife was attending seminary, she chose the letters “SHADAI” as her car number plate. She liked the name because “El Shaddai” was a ...

Kootenay Diocese and Residential Schools

First Steps Toward Reconciliation, Part 1 of 3 “The preservation of knowledge is fundamentally not about the past but the future.” Dr. Richard Ovendon, OBE, ...

Transfiguration

Servant’s Heart — From the desk of a deacon One of the meanings of transfiguration is a great change of form or appearance. What transfigurations ...

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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