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 ...

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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