Stuart McLean hosts The Vinyl Cafe on CBC Radio. His latest book – Time Now For the Vinyl Cafe Story Exchange – features his favourite stories from a decade of his show. And one of those stories is by…
This looks like a good week for culture and the arts – and youth. A movie on architecture at the Hollywood; cultural analysis with Iain Provan; a new exhibit at the Lookout Gallery; a new play at Pacific Theatre; and…
Three downtown pastors welcomed their fellow pastor Norm Funk and Westside Church to the neighbourhood this morning, during Westside’s first service at The Centre. Darrell Johnson (First Baptist), Dave Koop (Coastal) and Nelson Boschman (Artisan) were all on hand to…
There is absolutely no point in me trying to identify likely films at the Vancouver International Film Festival (Sept 26 – Oct 11) – not while Ron Reed is alive and kicking. Definitely not a one-trick pony, he manages to…
Any week called Reconciliation Week has got to be a good one. We’ll start with what that’s all about, and then look at some other highlights around town in next few days. Reconciliation Week The historic nature of the week…
Repentance, restoration, deliverance. A community of young adults believes Vancouverites need to pray earnestly together for these things. To that end they will hold a ‘City On Call’ worship event August 31 at the Plaza of Nations. Diana Choi, one of the…
Today, CBC’s The Current replayed an interview between host Anna Maria Tremonti and Vancouver homeless advocate Judy Graves on the day of her retirement, May 29. The interview is moving and informative; you won’t regret spending 23 minutes listening to the…
“I ask the Creator to come down and bless this event.” That was the prayer of Theresa Campbell from Musqueam Nation as she opened a news conference hosted by Mayor Gregor Robertson at Vancouver City Hall July 25. The event…
This weekend Vancouver celebrates Stanley Park’s 125th birthday. Five ‘festival zones’ around the park will host a wide variety of activities, from concerts, historical tours and cricket games to Coast Salish cultural displays and nature walks. It looks like a…
Abbotsford has often been described as the Bible Belt. Novelist Caroline Adderson said in Sitting Practice that there are “more churches per capita” and more people who use the Bible as a weapon to “slam down hard across a child’s knuckles…