Around and About the Diocese April 2024

Return to God with all your heart

Archbishop Lynne’s Lenten Reflection People have been creating cartoons and jokes because this year, Ash Wednesday falls on February 14, Valentine’s Day. But it does ...

Practicing Resurrection

Throughout the season of Epiphany, seventy-five people from across the Diocese of Kootenay (and several more from beyond!) joined together to study “When Church Stops ...

Updates

King James Version vs NRSV and King Charles III In a letter to the editor in December 2023, a reader complained that the translation of ...
Golder BC

Around the Diocese

St Margaret’s, Peachland — Parishioners contribute to Food Bank and OAC The parishioners of St Margaret’s, Peachland, were very pleased to present this year’s contribution ...

Getting the Most Out of Your Music Resources

The subject of this month’s article is geared toward those who lead or have input into the selection of music for their parish, but all ...

A Pagan Anglican

At the turn of the 1980s, I was standing on my porch with my best friend Bob Foster. We were talking about the branches of ...

Sorrento’s New Mission, Vision & Values

From the desk of a deacon “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may ...

How’s it going Eh! — I mean the Lenten Discipline

Spiritual Development First published in The HighWay March 2016 Easter is almost here. Is the excitement growing? Has your Lenten discipline helped the love of ...

Kootenay Diocese and Residential Schools 2

First Steps Toward Reconciliation, Part 2 of 3 By the late 1980s, many residential school survivors began to come forward with stories of their experiences, ...

Witness and Dialogue: Essential Elements in Christian Ministry Part 2 of 5 — Witnessing

The primary meaning of the English word “witness” indicates a person with first-hand knowledge of a fact or event. Witnesses testify in a court of ...

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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