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As we step into a brand-new year, we invite you to imagine what’s possible—for your life, your relationships, and our wider community—when spiritual practice becomes lived experience. What is Spiritual Living? At the Centre for Spiritual Living Kelowna, we teach and practice a simple, powerful truth: there is a creative intelligence, an infinite wisdom, available to everyone—right here, right now. This wisdom can be consciously engaged to create a healthier, happier, more mea

Our Beloved Volunteers are the foundational hearts and hands of our Beloved Community! On December 4th, we gathered in a beautifully festive Christmas setting to honour the volunteers who create the sacred container for our Centre every Sunday. Volunteering in our Beloved Community is an evolutionary Spiritual practice; it’s about so much more than the tasks at hand. It isn’t just what they do—it’s the love, intention, and grace in how they do it that creates the beautiful at

There’s something beautiful happening at the Centre for Spiritual Living Kelowna—and many of you are already feeling it. For generations, spiritual communities, including ours, were shaped around one central leader. The minister carried the vision, the care, the authority, and often the emotional and spiritual weight of the whole community. That model served an important purpose for its time. But the world has changed. Across countless congregations, one pattern appeared

A Chance to Change a Life — And Let Your Heart Shine It’s that beautiful time of year again when generosity becomes a spiritual practice and love takes form in the most meaningful ways. Beginning Sunday, December 7th , CSL Kelowna once again opens the doors of compassion as we partner with CSL Kenya’s Secret Santa —bringing real, tangible miracles to children and families at Briton Slum School in the Mukuru Kwa Njenga community of Nairobi. Last year, your loving hearts ch

In these times of division and uncertainty, it’s easy to feel that the world is losing its center. Yet, as Bruce Sanguin reminds us in The Emerging Church, lasting change begins not out there—but within each of us. As we’re learning in our Emerging Church class, by practicing a few core spiritual and psychological competencies, we help create what Sanguin calls morphic resonance—a shared field of coherence and compassion that shapes our community’s vibration. It starts with

Let’s take a moment to remember the power we each have to brighten someone’s day. Kindness doesn’t need to be grand or complicated, often it’s the small gestures that ripple out the farthest. Today, (you don’t have to wait for Thursday) we invite you to intentionally practice kindness: Offer a genuine compliment to three people Send a kind text to someone Pay it forward in a line, a café, or a conversation Or make a simple commitment to perform one act of kindness each week

By Rev. John DePalma Today, we pause in sacred remembrance. We remember the countless lives touched by conflict—those who served, those who waited, those who grieved, and those who continue to carry the invisible stories of war in their bodies and hearts. We honour their courage, their sacrifice, and the longing for peace that lived within them. And we also remember something deeper still: that at the heart of humanity is a shared desire to live in safety, dignity, and belon

We’re excited by the great feedback we’ve received about our new newsletter and website. We’ve also learned that some have had difficulty with the way the newsletter interacts with the website. Below you’ll find directions that may help you find what you’re looking for. If you still have difficulty, please feel free to contact me. Your feedback matters because you matter. With deep appreciation, Rev John This blog post is going to talk about how to navigate the new CSL Kelown

As your Spiritual Leader here at CSL Kelowna, kindly consider this message: “Our aim under love is not to be loving to this or that person, or in this or that kind of situation, but to be a person possessed by love as an overall character of life, whatever is or is not going on. I do not come to my enemy and then try to love them. I come to them as a loving person.” - Dallas Willard With deep appreciation, Rev John

Baby Arthur Dempster! At not even a month old, Arthur joined us with his radiant mama Stephanie and loving grandma Alona, quietly stealing everyone’s hearts. Arthur even took the stage at the end of service to share his special blessing (and a few adorable coos). Rev. Corinne got her long-awaited “baby cuddle,” declaring him absolute perfection! The whole family are doing wonderfully, and discovering how big Love can be. Welcome, sweet Arthur—our tiniest member of CSL Kelowna

Did you know that shopping at Nature’s Fare can support your Spiritual Centre of CSL Kelowna? Well, yes it can! We are so grateful for Nature’s Fare Markets and their generous support of our community through their 3% Club! For every receipt we submit, they donate 3% of the total directly to CSL Kelowna. Here’s how you can help: 🛒 Shop at Nature’s Fare and keep your receipt. 💙 Bring your receipts to Sunday service and place it in the Receipt Box on the back table of the

Trish Anderson’s inspiring words captured what so many in our community feel: “This Spiritual (not religious) group is the best thing I do for myself in my life! I’m supported to be as good a human as I possibly am able to be. Friendship, prayers whenever I need support! Encouragement, eye opening stories and true inspiration! This wonderful group of leaders and attendees epitomizes what I’m looking for to develop my inner person! To inspire me to ‘be who I’m supposed to be.’

Everybody’s been asking, and now we have the wonderful news! We are overjoyed to share the happy news of the birth of Arthur Russell...

A huge Thank-you to Tracy Anderson and all our amazing volunteers who stepped up for the BC Thanksgiving Food Drive last week! From...

In a sometimes-divisive world, standing together as Communities of Faith is powerful. “ So powerful is the Light of Unity that it can...

Last Sunday, 62 of us gathered for a tender and joy-filled farewell as we celebrated Rev. Barb Samuel and Neal Klassen in their final...

The September & October editions of Science of Mind Magazine have arrived—and they’re brimming with inspiration! This issue focuses on...

NEW CLASS A 6-week interactive experience where your voice really does matter. The Emerging Church: Dream, Disrupt, and Co-Create the...

I’ve just returned from the CSL 2025 SOAR Summer Retreat in beautiful Banff, where 10 of us from CSL Kelowna joined Religious Scientists from around the world for what was, without question, the most powerful retreat I’ve ever attended.

STUDIO 9 HAS CHANGED ITS NAME TO KELOWNA ARTS ACADEMY What does this mean for you? Nothing! The service time and location is the same...