When I noticed that Brooke Fraser was going to be performing at Venue Night Club this Friday (January 23), I thought, wait, isn’t that the name of the Hillsong woman who wrote ‘Hosanna‘ (“I see the king of glory coming…
“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…
Christians around the world observe the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity each January. This year the Week fell on the 18th to the 25th, and I was delighted to prepare myself for it on the 16th and 17th by…
Belief in the importance of place has been growing over the past years. I have heard it referenced in an increasing number of conversations on both sides of the Atlantic. I have witnessed it at a book table at a recent conference.…
January offers a bonanza of events encouraging local Christians to unite: to learn, worship, pray and undertake mission together. The annual Week of Prayer for Christian Unity (January 18 – 25) sets the tone, and no doubt is the reason for two…
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…
Hundreds of Christians from many denominations gathered at Holy Name of Jesus Roman Catholic Church in central Vancouver December 7 for an Ecumenical Advent Carol Service. Marjeta Bobnar, coordinator for ecumenical and interfaith relations for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vancouver had offered…
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…
Most of us are out and about sharing good food and fellowship with friends and families during this season. But some groups make a particular point of sharing their abundance with the surrounding community. Union Gospel Mission Almost 3,000 people took…