I can’t remember anyone ever mentioning Vancouver Day, and I’ve lived here all my life. Proclaimed in 1929, it was at one time celebrated on June 13 – the day Captain George Vancouver sailed into our harbour in 1792, and…
Forge Canada will host A Day With the New Parish Authors next Monday evening (June 2). The following piece is an extract from The New Parish by Paul Sparks, Tim Soerens and Dwight Friesen. For several years the three of…
“As you know, the Catholic Church was rather a latecomer to the restoration of Christian unity.” With these words, Archbishop Michael Miller, CSB, leader of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vancouver, welcomed an ecumenical audience – predominantly Catholic, but with…
Barry and Joan Jung have lived the past 14 years on Cambie Street between Queen Elizabeth Park and the Oakridge Mall. They kindly agreed to share a bit of their journey into community with their neighbours, in the face of…
Archbishop Michael Miller’s Christmas message to his Roman Catholic flock this year is that “the Holy Family was a refugee family”: Soon after the splendour of that glorious night in Bethlehem, the gospel presents the Holy Family on the sorrowful road of…
In 1989, at 26 years of age, Tim Dickau became pastor of Grandview Calvary Baptist Church, just off Commercial Drive, on 1st Avenue in east Vancouver. The church, which had been founded in 1908, was dying. Leadership Journal associate editor Paul J. Pastor spoke with Tim Dickau to find…
WeMakeStuff 02 is a visual delight. Like the first volume, which came out a couple of years ago, this book features 100 artists, musicians, photographers – all kinds of creative types – mainly from Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley, but some from the rest of the…
“In a time of bleak landscapes and quiet hibernation, Brie Neilson and Ian Moar portray flecks of light and colour – glimpses of hope that help us endure the struggle and hardship of a grey winter season.” That’s what Regent…
Her image is iconic, her story dramatic – and she will be in the Vancouver area this weekend to help draw the attention of the local church to the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church (Sunday, November 9).…
Two of the Lower Mainland’s best known denominational ministry and service agencies are moving, in the next few weeks, into new facilities. The Vancouver Catholic Archdiocese and most of its social and faith-based services will move from 150 Robson Street,…