December 2023 Archives - The HighWay

Bishops Reflection: Waiting!

Lynne McNaughton — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 09:47:26 +0000

As I write this in early November, with winter already here in Winnipeg, I wonder what December and Advent will bring. I walk down to the Red River daily to watch the slow mystery of ice forming. I contemplate this silent eternal beauty of the river, but at the same time, I’m wary of the […]

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Editorial

John Lavender — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 09:46:21 +0000

For centuries, Anglicans have taken authority in their church to rest on the “three-legged stool” of Scripture, tradition, and reason, a concept whose origins are at least partly traceable to 16th-century English theologian Richard Hooker. The structure of The HighWay follows this paradigm. “Scripture” is covered by the monthly readings provided following the Lections from […]

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St Nicholas

Yme Woensdregt — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 09:45:38 +0000

On December 6, we celebrate the feast day of St Nicholas. I have fond memories of celebrating “Sint Nicolaas” or “Sinterklaas” as a young child with other Dutch families in New Westminster. We’d all be together in a large hall, with our hearts in our throats, waiting for Sinterklaas to arrive with his mischievous helper […]

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Richard Wagamese

Suzanne Phillips — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 09:45:11 +0000

Spiritual Development Richard Wagamese (1955-2017), a well-known and beloved Canadian First Nations writer and mystic, was an Ojibway abandoned by his parents as a young boy and placed into foster care with white families and forced to attend public schools. After a difficult life which included drugs and alcohol, he encountered someone who told him: […]

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Rethinking the Traditional Christmas Pageant

Norene Morrow — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 09:43:13 +0000

Christmas Pageants have been around for a long time. Some credit St. Francis of Assisi with the first pageant when he celebrated the Christmas Eve mass in front of a full-sized manger scene with live animals in 1223. Others date it to the medieval mystery plays when the story of Jesus’ birth was included in […]

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Okanagan Anglican Camp — Past, Present, & Future

John Lavender — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 09:42:06 +0000

Writing a feature article about where we are since the fire that burned down the Okanagan Anglican Camp seems like gathering pieces together after the fact. However, there is merit in re-evaluating the situation now that the drama and turmoil have subsided. I first heard about the fires near OAC in an email from Dean […]

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Waiting Patiently for the Lord

Andrew Stephens-Rennie — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 09:41:57 +0000

In my early twenties, I was hired as an outreach worker for an inner-city congregation that had decided, after years of disengagement with the neighbourhood, they should do something. But they didn’t know what to do. That was my job to figure out. One afternoon, I walked in off the street, and through the office, […]

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The Many Faces of Jesus Christ

John Lavender — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 09:40:55 +0000

Over the last two thousand years, many artists have painted what they thought the face of Jesus Christ may have looked like. In our secular culture, portraits of Christ by contemporary artists, such as Andy Warhol, have become iconic. Images of Jesus Christ are Archetypal, and in South America, there are paintings that portray Christ […]

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Around the Diocese

Wendy Stewart — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 09:40:27 +0000

St Saviour’s, Penticton Parishioners of St Saviour’s, Penticton, donated $1,500 to the ASKWellness Penticton Ambassador program, which provides participants from the two Penticton supportive housing sites with employment training and life skills development. Ambassadors clean up litter and sharps around the community. There have been 74 peer ambassadors since the program launched and more than […]

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Acts of Kindness

Michael Shapcott — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 09:37:21 +0000

Deacons are called to a ministry at the intersection of Church and community. In the summer and early fall in the Shuswap, that has meant a focus on wildfire. The Bush Creek East wildfire was started by lightning on the east and west sides of Adams Lake in mid-July. The two separate fires grew over […]

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