June 2024 Archives - The HighWay

100th Anniversary — St George, Westbank, West Kelowna

Norene Morrow — Fri, 31 May 2024 08:59:12 +0000

April 21/22 marked an important milestone in the life of St. George Anglican Church, Westbank, West Kelowna as they celebrated their 100th anniversary. It began with a high tea on the Saturday where members (past and present) and guests shared memories through conversation, photos and artifacts. Highlights of the day included video greetings from the […]

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Summer Reflection

Lynne McNaughton — Fri, 31 May 2024 08:58:49 +0000

I remember my first week of classes at Vancouver School of Theology. I was so full of joy and excitement, awed by the privilege of entering formal theological education. I was enraptured by Lloyd Gaston, my New Testament professor, perhaps intimidated by his fierce, intense critical intelligence. (He had studied with Karl Barth, famous 20th […]

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Bread, Beer, and Spiritual Formation

Kristy Arndt — Fri, 31 May 2024 08:55:25 +0000

You Are Leaven: Fermenting Cultures of Spiritual Formation” was a conference held in Mississauga this April focused on spiritual formation in local contexts. The conference was sponsored by the Council of General Synod and I was fortunate to participate. People from across the Canadian Anglican church gathered to share experiences of spiritual formation together and […]

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Getting Older

Andrea Brennan — Fri, 31 May 2024 08:50:03 +0000

My dad used to say his favourite time of day was the 20 minutes when he first woke up. He’d lay on his pillow, prop his hands behind his head and make a mental list of all the things he was going to do that day. “In my mind I’m still in my 20’s,” he’d […]

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Telling Our Stories

Andrew Stephens-Rennie — Fri, 31 May 2024 08:48:38 +0000

Over the last few months I’ve found myself visiting a variety of parishes across the diocese. As part of the rollout of the “Thriving Communities” process, I’ve had the opportunity, through the testing of these tools, to meet with congregations, to hear their stories, and to be shown around their communities. I’ve heard of joys and sorrows, […]

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A Liturgical Rumble

Norene Morrow — Fri, 31 May 2024 08:39:43 +0000

Sometimes when I write an article I know exactly what I want to say, and then other times I start out with a plan, but it leads me down a different path. This is one of those times. At first, I was going to write about how our participation in the liturgy is almost robotic. […]

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Where Everybody Knows Your Name

David Burrows — Fri, 31 May 2024 08:39:26 +0000

Holy Week 2002, I invited Ian Dingwall, retired Executive Archdeacon of Niagara to speak to my parish for Holy Week and Easter. Each night he spoke meaningfully to the nature of passion, community, and resurrection. We had 50+ persons present each evening. Both before and after the liturgy, Ian spent time chatting with folks, listening […]

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St Hilda of Whitby

Helen Hall — Fri, 31 May 2024 08:39:25 +0000

Hilda (Hild) of Whitby, also known as “The Abbess of the English People” is one of the most venerated female saints in England. She was born in 614 in the north of what is now known as England, where her parents lived in exile in the small British kingdom of Elmet. Elmet was an independent […]

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Levels of Ministry

Christine Ross — Fri, 31 May 2024 08:35:50 +0000

In April, I wrote an article about serving the “working poor” and about some of the characteristics needed to carry out a servant ministry in general. I want to carry on the idea of that previous article with some comments from Richard Rohr, about three levels of social ministry, that I think applies here. In […]

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Witness and Dialogue Part 5 of 5 — Scholarship

Stuart E Brown — Fri, 31 May 2024 08:30:48 +0000

Finally, we must ask what kind of a relationship is possible between this dialogical witness and academic study. Can believers be fair and accurate observers, of their own faith groups or of their neighbours of other faiths? Can individuals engage in practical intercommunal activities validly claim to analyze these or similar efforts with any degree […]

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