Two years ago the Supreme Court of Canada put an end to Trinity Western University’s plans to develop a law school. The ruling was a sobering demonstration of the fact that our legal and political leaders have turned their backs…
Wesley Hill will address the topic When Christians Disagree during a livestream talk July 29. He is teaching Male and Female in Christ as part of Regent College’s Summer School. Pursuing sexual purity by turning toward the other I remember…
“It was a heavy day, my brother, and yet I was buoyed up. because I saw in the hearts and minds and souls, not just of the Floyd family, but of the church, of the music, of the preaching, a…
Church leaders in Metro Vancouver responded immediately and with intensity to the killing of George Floyd and racial profiling / police violence in the United States (and in Canada). Some of the comments are not surprising; a number of the…
To hope there is some sweeping solution at this point is a pipe dream. We should weep, be speechless and empathetic, for once. The collapse of the Kingdom of Judah at the brutal hands of Babylon is honestly footnoted: Surely…
Most church leaders appear to be on board with the provincial government’s agenda as we embark on the second stage of our battle against the COVID-19 pandemic. But not all; some feel importance of attending church has been undervalued and…
Metro Vancouver is very well represented in The Blessing – Canada, our nation’s contribution to an international worship phenomenon. Since ‘The Blessing’ was written in early March, worship leaders in many nations, states and cities have banded together to lift…
BC BookLook has just posted an interview with Lara Campbell about her new book, A Great Revolutionary Wave: Women and the Vote in British Columbia (UBC Press, June 2020). Women gained the right to vote in British Columbia in 1917.…
On May 6, as Premier John Horgan was announcing his government’s plan to reopen the province, he also remarked on the incidents of anti-Asian racism amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. He stated, When I heard about people of Asian descent being…
Jordan Peterson often draws on the Bible and religious themes in his writing, so Ron Dart’s brand new book – Myth and Meaning in Jordan Peterson: A Christian Perspective – is timely. He has edited 10 essays which assess Peterson’s…