This comment by Matt Balcarras is particularly timely with the Walk for Reconciliation coming up September 24. Living in Canada in 2017, we have much to be grateful for. We are spared from armed conflicts, famines and so much more that…
Karen Giesbrecht coordinates several community meals at churches around Vancouver. Some of the participants struggle with addictions, and she is concerned with the implications of easier access to marijuana promised by all levels of government. On a recent Monday evening,I…
For a number of years my daily prayer and study time includes reading online national and international news articles, preceded and followed by readings from the Psalms, Gospels and Epistles, and often from the Torah and Prophets as well. Reading…
Did you know that Canada’s Criminal Code (Section 176) prohibits obstructing a “clergyman or minister” from “celebrating divine service or performing any other function in connection with his calling” or disturbing “an assemblage of persons met for religious worship?” That prohibition might…
The New Democratic Party has big plans for the province, now that it is back in power after 16 years of Liberal rule. Educational reform is high on its list of priorities, but fortunately it looks as though the party will not go after independent…
The Human Genome Project contends that the DNA of current humans comes from approximately 1,000 hominins. What does this do to the construct of the ‘historical’ Adam, passed on and used as a foundation in much Christian theology and evangelism?…
Karl Przywala is taking the lead, locally, in celebrating Martin Luther, and the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. The rector of Holy Trinity Anglican Church (at 12th and Hemlock) is hosting several events and also visited Germany recently. As well…
John Stackhouse has written a very useful overview of the history of evangelicalism in Canada for the July/August issue of Faith Today, to mark the nation’s 150th birthday. The rise and fall (and rise?) of evangelicalism offers a six-page ‘quick…
When Joshua Harris was just 21, he wrote I Kissed Dating Goodbye. The book sold more than a million copies and some Christians followed it almost as if it were gospel. A couple of years ago, Harris left the American megachurch…
There have been a couple of interesting connections between National Geographic and Vancouver over the last month or two. Peter Ash: Under the Same Sun The June issue of National Geographic magazine featured The Perils of Pale, which stated: “For them…