March 2024

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Around and About the Diocese April 2024

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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 ...

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Lynne McNaughton

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 ...

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Andrew Stephens-Rennie

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 ...

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John Lavender

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 ...

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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 ...

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Norene Morrow

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 ...

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Mark Mealing

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 ...

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Michael Shapcott

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 ...

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Peter O'Flynn

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, ...

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Kathryn Lockhart

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 ...

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Stuart E Brown

Epiphany Reflection: Daring Discipleship

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Lynne McNaughton

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 ...

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Andrew Stephens-Rennie

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, ...

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Norene Morrow

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 ...

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The HighWay

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 ...

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David Burrows

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 ...

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The HighWay

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. ...

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Andrea Brennan

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 ...

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Trish McCarthy

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, ...

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Patricia Simons

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. ...

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Catherine Ripley

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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David Tiessen

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