Filled With The Holy Spirit

Changing Church — Part 8

The Living Vine — Regions & Structure As I write this I have just spent two long days discussing the future shape of the West ...

Rough Healing — Grace In Unexpected Places

Prison Ministry For more than a decade, I was a public servant with BC Corrections. As the chaplain at the province’s maximum-security prison in Victoria, ...

The Church… A Living Community

Earlier this spring, I found myself amongst the trees down the hill from my home in unceded Sinixt territory. I held a rake and a ...
Growing Containers

Are You A Container Of Hope?

Servant’s Heart: From the Desk of a Deacon The four feet by four feet raised garden bed is ready. The wood has been treated with ...

The Bucket List

Spiritual Development What’s on your bucket list? You know what a bucket list is I suppose. It is a list of all those things you ...

A God Who Draws Near

Where is God? It sounds like a child’s question. One of the earliest answers we learned was simple, certain, reliable: God is in heaven, smiling ...
Easter St Saviour's Penticton

Easter St Saviour’s, Penticton BC

Filling the heart with the emotions of Easter: from the somber darkness of dread, distress at an unjust crucifixion, and the joy of the resurrection, ...
Ukrainian Easter Eggs

Egg-cellent Ukrainian Easter

The Cathedral Church of St Michael and All Angels, Kelowna Micheal Kalmuk, of St. Michael and All Angels Cathedral in Kelowna, BC came up with ...

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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