It is 23 years since Marvin Hunt, then one of the pastors at what is now Bible Fellowship Foursquare Church, was elected to Surrey City Council. At council’s February 3 meeting, Hunt handed in his resignation, informing Mayor Dianne Watts…
Before this situation descends utterly into farce, satirists ought to capitalize on the current controversy over Trinity Western University’s attempt to found a Christian law school. “Thousands of gays who wouldn’t dream of attending an evangelical law school threatened with…
Have you ever had an experience where one bit of information completely changed your life? That is how 2014 began for me. The first week of January we received a cascading amount of bad news in that our doctor had…
Since 2007, Dwayne Buhler has been executive director of Missions Fest Vancouver, the large and popular event that takes place each year ‘under the sails’ at the harbour-side Vancouver Convention Centre. Shortly after the end of this year’s Missions Fest…
Ah, Missions Fest! Always one of my favourite times of year, not far behind Christmas and summer holidays. There are other missions conferences around the world – including several directly modelled on ours – but few if any rival the…
The Saint James Music Academy is a good news story set right in the centre of the Downtown Eastside. Every year its positive influence is recognized, celebrated and supported by musicians; this year Sing It Fwd takes place on Thursday…
It is now 53 years since a movement of western Canadian Chinese Christian students started a winter conference between Christmas and New Year’s. It was an opportunity for fellowship and community, as well as a chance to meet with and…
Ken Shigematsu: God in My Everything When I first wrote about God in My Everything in August, the big news was how well the book was selling. I have no doubt sales are continuing briskly. Not only is this a…
The range of Christmas-related activity is already impressive, this early in December. That is probably just as well, because most of the events will be sold out. There is still a tremendous appetite for seasonal activities. Among the highlights: Christmas…
Eugene Peterson, Anne Lamott, Walter Brueggemann, Tony Campolo and many other notables around the Christian world are admirers of the Christian Seasons Calendar which is produced by Ed Searcy and his church in Vancouver. Peterson, for example, says: “Every day is…