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…
If you’re concerned about the Vancouver housing situation – and who isn’t these days? – do check out Reimagining Home, which will take place this Saturday morning (October 21) on the UBC campus. The gathering will feature “conversations and presentations…
In a time when the CBC publishes articles with titles such as ‘9,000 churches and religious spaces will close over next 10 years’ and ‘Majority of Canadians say church to blame for residential school tragedies,’ it can feel like despair…
Ignite Vancouver (November 17) will be an excellent opportunity to connect with fellow Christians and focus together on the welfare of Metro Vancouver. Roger Helland, Prayer Ambassador with the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, sent me this note: On September 20,…
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…
What does it mean to bring our ‘whole selves’ to worship?’ Not just the parts of us that reach our hands out in adoration, but the parts of us that come with open hands, humbly asking, “Where are you, God?…
Dear Pastor, As pastors you and I are Kingdom People. We have a Kingdom message and a Kingdom responsibility to uphold and present the Word of God to this lost and broken world. It is my conviction that we need…
Missions Fest will be back next year! We had been told that the one held earlier this year would be the last, but a newly formed board has announced that Mission Fest Vancouver 2024 will take place January 24 –…
World Christianity is a burgeoning field and it will be well represented in the summer school programs of both Regent College and the Vancouver School of Theology: Dr. Mabiala Kenzo (Regent): Postcolonial Theology (June 26 – 30) Dr. Vince Bantu…
Well, this is awkward – but thank you! (fr) I want to express my appreciation for Flyn Ritchie and to discuss some potential changes upcoming with Church for Vancouver. For 35 years, Flyn has been keeping tabs on the efforts…