Missionary George Leslie Mackay may be long since forgotten in his native Canada – but not in Taiwan. And a film being shown as part of the Vancouver Taiwan Film Festival tells the story. Mackay: The Black Bearded Bible Man will…
Margaret Atwood is one of Canada’s best known personages, but Hulu’s recent TV adaptation of her novel The Handmaid’s Tale has heightened her profile even more. Response to the dystopian series – which focuses on a young woman forced to live as a concubine…
What began as a coffee discussion between two pastors – Dean Cooper of Peace Portal Alliance Church and Steve Bains of Gracepoint Community Church – has become much more. Over time, other pastors joined with Cooper and Bains and a…
Pacific Theatre will be creating a little corner of Ireland over the next month, in their production of Outside Mullingar. But it took playwright John Patrick Shanley many decades to warm to such an undertaking. He said in a 2014…
Vancouver is hosting the annual five-day (April 24 – 28) TED Conference (which organizers say is “at the heart of TED”), and so we also hosted Pope Francis earlier this week. Speaking on themes of hope, inclusion and tenderness, his TED Talk…
Surrey-based film critic Peter Chattaway does an amazing job keeping up with the movies in his FilmChat blog, and he has just posted an exclusive interview with The Case for Christ author Lee Strobel “on facts and feelings, and seeing…
Christ Church Cathedral has been nominated for the Vancouver People’s Choice Heritage Awards for 2017. Members of the public can cast votes for their favourite nominations on the Vancouver City website until April 8. The Heritage Awards are held every other year…
Vancouverites will have a couple of chances this weekend to experience a powerful play which premiered at Trinity Western University late last fall. disPLACE: Refugee Stories in Their Own Words features real-life experiences of refugees from a variety of cultures.…
The Festival of Hope is approaching quickly, even as debates over the suitability of Franklin Graham as lead speaker continue in the media and behind closed doors. The event will proceed March 3 – 5 at Rogers Arena. On February…
Journey Home Community has been a leader in welcoming refugees to Metro Vancouver over the past decade or so (see here, here and here). Its commitment has again been made clear in a recent letter of concern to the Liberal…