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Around and About the Diocese April 2024

thehighway — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 08:40:51 +0000

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Return to God with all your heart

Lynne McNaughton — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 09:59:47 +0000

Archbishop Lynne’s Lenten Reflection People have been creating cartoons and jokes because this year, Ash Wednesday falls on February 14, Valentine’s Day. But it does seem appropriate: Lent really is a season of the heart. In Lent, God invites us into the deeper relationship God longs to have with each of us, the union with […]

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Practicing Resurrection

Andrew Stephens-Rennie — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 09:58:16 +0000

Throughout the season of Epiphany, seventy-five people from across the Diocese of Kootenay (and several more from beyond!) joined together to study “When Church Stops Working” by Andrew Root and Blair D. Bertrand. Week after week we gathered together in discussion of a book that reminded us over and over again that God is the […]

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Updates

John Lavender — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 09:57:07 +0000

King James Version vs NRSV and King Charles III In a letter to the editor in December 2023, a reader complained that the translation of the Bible we use is a ‘dumbed’ down version. The writer was referring to the gospel for the Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost: ‘Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s.’?” The […]

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Around the Diocese

thehighway — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 09:48:28 +0000

St Margaret’s, Peachland — Parishioners contribute to Food Bank and OAC The parishioners of St Margaret’s, Peachland, were very pleased to present this year’s contribution to the Peachland Food Bank on December 15, 2023. The congregation was once again so generous with their nutritious food and other necessities, resulting in two Van loads of donations […]

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Getting the Most Out of Your Music Resources

Norene Morrow — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 09:38:43 +0000

The subject of this month’s article is geared toward those who lead or have input into the selection of music for their parish, but all are welcome to read on and learn about what goes on behind the scenes in a music ministry. Having attended a variety of churches in my life and watched worship […]

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A Pagan Anglican

Mark Mealing — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 09:38:22 +0000

At the turn of the 1980s, I was standing on my porch with my best friend Bob Foster. We were talking about the branches of the Anglican Church: High, Low and Broad. My neighbour J. D. Scott arrived, and asked me what kind of Anglican are you, Mark? There are times when the normal brain […]

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Sorrento’s New Mission, Vision & Values

Michael Shapcott — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 09:12:23 +0000

From the desk of a deacon “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.” John 10:10 The Sorrento Centre has adopted a mission, vision and values statement that begins: “The Sorrento Centre exists to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ in […]

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How’s it going Eh! — I mean the Lenten Discipline

Peter O'Flynn — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 09:12:06 +0000

Spiritual Development First published in The HighWay March 2016 Easter is almost here. Is the excitement growing? Has your Lenten discipline helped the love of God wrap you more firmly in these final days before the great Easter festival? Will it seem that the Holy One will be walking with you daily as we celebrate […]

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Kootenay Diocese and Residential Schools 2

Kathryn Lockhart — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 09:11:52 +0000

First Steps Toward Reconciliation, Part 2 of 3 By the late 1980s, many residential school survivors began to come forward with stories of their experiences, including physical and sexual abuse and the impact of their loss of culture. Over the next twenty years, the Anglican Church of Canada would establish The Anglican Council of Indigenous […]

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