Arise! Shine! Your Light Has Come!

Changing Church – Part 3

The green book, or the BAS, is the second huge change which many of us have lived through. Many grew up with the BCP in ...
Archbishop Lynne supervises as Archbishop David Crawley presents the Canons to Dean David Tiessen

The Induction of The Very Reverend David Tiessen

The induction of the Very Rev. David Tiessen as the Incumbent of St Michael and All Angels, Kelowna and installation as the Dean of the ...

Turning the Calendar

As we flip the calendar from the year that has been to another now beginning, I cannot help but recall just how much that act ...
The Community of Christ Church, Cranbrook BC

Cranbrook & Golden Update

In 2020, the Parish of Christ Church, Cranbrook suffered a double blow: the first was the shutdown that we all experienced in March due to ...

Christmas ends with Epiphany Light

Last month, I wrote about several festivals celebrating the light during this season of winter in the northern hemisphere. Western Christians continue to celebrate the ...

What’s in a Name?

“I have called you by your name, you are mine.” says Isaiah 43:1. Right from the early days of the Bible we are taught that ...

At Sorrento Centre

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 ...

The Flight from Egypt

They left in the dead of night while no one was watching. That’s often how three people, each with their own stories and their own ...
Photos of Elizabeth Lewis

In Memoriam The Rev. Elizabeth Lewis 1942-2021

Elizabeth was born in Cambridge, England, the third of three children, with older brothers John and Richard Morley. She spent her formative years in Great ...

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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