This is my fourth round-up of 2023, and there will probably be one more. Clearly the Christian community in Metro Vancouver is home to a good number of talented writers. The first round-up is here and the second here. This…
Around the year 200 AD, a young mother named Perpetua was asked, “Who are you?” She answered, “I am a Christian” and then met martyrdom in the arena. How many people in the world today would answer similarly? This is…
Benjamin Perrin is a particularly busy man these days, between teaching law at UBC, spending time with his young family and promoting his new book, Indictment: The Criminal Justice System on Trial. But he made time last weekend to speak…
Growth in Vancouver’s Asian-Christian communities represents the changing face of Christianity in Canada. This summer my friends and colleagues in ministry Albert Chu and Jason Byassee and I published a book based on interviews with Asian Christian lay people in…
Every Square Inch. It is the name of Jan and Fran Boer’s new book – and a guiding principle throughout their lives. After leafing through several pages of commendations from high-ranking Nigerians, one comes to the quote by Abraham Kuyper,…
Enoch Wong and three colleagues have created a book which will be of particular interest to the Chinese Christian community, but which – along with his other books – is of real value to the whole church, especially in the…
I continue to be impressed by the number and quality of books written by local authors. This is my second round-up of 2023 (on books published late last year and early this year). The first is here. This week I…
I edited a book on Jordan Peterson, published in 2020 as Myth and Meaning in Jordan Peterson: A Christian Perspective. Then, in 2022, I contributed two essays to Jordan Peterson: Critical Responses. Both before and between those books I have…
Demotion. The word sent a chill through me after I blinked away the initial shock. One day I was Marketing Director for a tech start-up valued at $60M and the next I was simply a Project Manager. My emotions churned…
I’ve come to believe fantasy literature is a vital source for spiritual formation. But this belief hasn’t come naturally. I’ve always been a realist, even as a kid, perhaps a hangover from my Depression-era ancestry. My reading list, when I…