Climate Inaction

The Communion Forest

Is the Church Killing Clergy?

This question has been haunting me recently. It’s a question that has become ever-more pressing since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, but it was ...

Bones, Bodies, and the Wisdom of the Spirit

We can cage a human body, but we cannot cage the human spirit. According to many spiritual traditions, stilling the body can make way for ...

Servant’s Heart and the Sorrento Center

Listening deeply to our Indigenous neighbours as we seek to walk together in the journey of reconciliation – that is an important part of the ...

Four Sentences Leading To Wisdom

I’m a huge fan of Louise Penny’s novels, which are set in the village of Three Pines in the Eastern Townships of Quebec. Armand Gamache ...
Spiritual Garden

Spirituality in the Garden

We live in an age when everything is analyzed endlessly and measured minutely. But no one can measure the Spirit. At the beginning of the ...
Golder BC

Around the Diocese of Kootenay

Church Yard Flea Market, Nelson BC “Church Yard Flea Market“ The ladies of St. Saviour’s Anglican Pro-Cathedral in Nelson said, “It was fun, relaxed and ...

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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