November 2023

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Bishop’s Letter to the Diocese

Written by

Lynne McNaughton

Discovering Your True Identity: Who are You?

From the Desk of a Deacon “But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people, in order that you may ...

Written by

Richard Simpson

Wholehearted Worship…

Wholehearted Worship Daring Discipleship Right Relationship Thriving Communities In May of this year, at the Diocesan Synod, the people of this diocese adopted a plan ...

Written by

Andrew Stephens-Rennie

Season of Creation — Forest Sunday

Listening to the Forest The forest and the bush are ideal places to feel immersed in the mysteries of creation. On the first Forest Sunday, ...

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thehighway

Sing a New Creation — The New CP Supplement

If new hymn books are published about every 25 years, then “Sing a New Creation” (2022) is right in line with that. Technically, it is ...

Written by

Norene Morrow

“Was CS Lewis a Believing Christian or a Mystical Christian?

Spiritual Development Mystics are often thought of as different from the rest of us, having gone beyond daily, earthly experience into some higher realm of ...

Written by

James Wild

The Role of the Pilgrim

“The role of a pilgrim is to share their experience with their community.” This has been told to me many times in the past year. ...

Written by

Charlotte Hardy

HELP: St Michael & All Angels

“Grant that as your holy angels stand before you in heaven, so at your command they may help and defend us here on earth.” As ...

Written by

David Tiessen

Epiphany Reflection: Daring Discipleship

Written by

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 ...

Written by

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, ...

Written by

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 ...

Written by

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. ...

Written by

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 ...

Written by

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, ...

Written by

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. ...

Written by

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 ...

Written by

David Tiessen

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