November 2024

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 ...

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Andrew Stephens-Rennie

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 ...

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James Wild

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 ...

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Richard Simpson

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 ...

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Kevin Arndt

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 ...

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Norene Morrow

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 ...

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David Burrows

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 ...

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John Lavender

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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Sue Kershaw

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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The HighWay is an online newspaper serving Anglicans in the Diocese of Kootenay, British Columbia. We acknowledge that the land on which we gather is the traditional unceded territory of the Syilx (Okanagan) Peoples, the Ktunaxa and Kinbasket Peoples, the Secwepemc (Shuswap) Peoples, and the Sinixt (Arrow Lakes) Peoples.

November 2024

Colonies of Heaven

Another World Possible

Innocent Wonder

Report on Anglican Deacons Canada Conference 2024

Ode to First Responders

Gordon Light: Inside the Mind of a Songwriter

Saints, Souls, Grief, Joy

The Dancing Saints — St Gregory of Nyssa

40th Anniversary, St John the Evangelist, Salmon Arm

January 2025

Epiphany Reflection: Daring Discipleship

The Beginning

Carols into January!

Around and About the Diocese

Unfolding the New

In Memoriam

It’s a Matter of Time

Epiphany 2025: All Through the Year!

Milestone Ministries

God Bless the Diocese!

Whose Cloud? Which Light?

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