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Epiphany Reflection: Daring Discipleship

Lynne McNaughton — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 09:55:18 +0000

Following into Risky Obedience Where you lead us, we will follow: He called and said “follow me”. We are his followers, baptized into his company. He called us….to follow him into a world of fear and threat and anger To follow in obedience To follow in gladness To follow in buoyant confidence. We are sometimes […]

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The Beginning

Andrew Stephens-Rennie — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 09:50:34 +0000

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 we were to believe that this is only the beginning? These days it is all too easy to become imprisoned by nostalgia. Nostalgia for a different time, with different markers […]

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Carols into January!

Norene Morrow — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 09:50:29 +0000

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, the Christmas season started the day after Halloween and ended on December 25. Many people took their trees down on Boxing Day and rushed out to scoop up all the […]

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Around and About the Diocese

The HighWay — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 09:30:23 +0000

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 birthday. Betty was married to her late husband, Earl, at St Margaret’s Anglican Church in the early days, and her children were baptised there as well. St. Margaret’s became the […]

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Unfolding the New

David Burrows — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 09:28:28 +0000

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 expectations. Faithful have gathered, welcoming in the observance of the Incarnation. Presents have been given and received, wrappings and decorations have served their purpose. Meals and memories have been shared […]

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In Memoriam

The HighWay — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 09:24:10 +0000

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 they rest in peace and rise in Glory. The Rev Mark Mealing, a contributor to The HighWay, is seen in a photograph from the November, 2012 edition that reflects, in […]

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It’s a Matter of Time

Andrea Brennan — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 09:19:57 +0000

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. It moves too slowly, or it moves too quickly. Our minutes blend into hours, which blend into days, which blend into weeks, etc. and the next thing we know, a […]

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Epiphany 2025: All Through the Year!

Trish McCarthy — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 09:18:35 +0000

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 Epiphany 2025, you are invited to take one or more courses in Theological Studies and to learn how the Church prepares people to be beacons of light and hope in […]

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Milestone Ministries

Patricia Simons — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 09:13:47 +0000

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, I was curious. The following is a synopsis of the workshop: As we move through life, there are special times that warrant celebration. These celebrations are important, not only in […]

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God Bless the Diocese!

Catherine Ripley — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 09:12:05 +0000

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. The turnover from old to new is always a welcome opportunity to reflect on where God has led in the past year and to listen for what might be next. […]

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