Tom Monaghan is best known as the founder of Domino’s Pizza and former owner of the Detroit Tigers franchise. But for the past three decades he has been more concerned with fostering Christian character in corporate executives and in underwriting…
Our federal government is poised to legitimize assisted suicide within months. It is good to see evangelical and Catholic leaders responding with a bit of fire in their bellies. First, a letter to supporters (re-posted by permission) from Bruce Clemenger,…
The Vancouver Consultation is a year-long process to engage the diversity of the church in a kind of “spiritual census” of the city – discovering what God is doing around town; documenting best practices and innovative forms of mission; and…
“Alan Roxburgh is a father figure to many of us in the missional movement and like everything he writes, this is a smart book and a wise one.” So says Michael Frost – himself a leading missional figure – about…
Frank Sawatsky is a coordinator with CoSA (Circles of Support and Accountability), which offers support for high risk sex offenders who have served time in prison. Last Friday night at Cedar Park Church (his church) in Delta, he and his…
The Carey Institute has developed a Centre for Healthy Aging Transitions (CHAT), which will be hosting Transitions of Life: Healthy Aging, Retirement & the Spiritual Journey, this Saturday (February 20), and then a three-part Aging Matters Seminar Series (March 5,…
The annual Downtown Eastside Women’s Memorial March takes place this Sunday (February 14) at noon. Some Christians will be there for the march; others will be there in spirit. One encouraging example of that willingness to engage with the situation…
The controversy over Canada’s first private, faith-based law school has been described as the seminal Charter case of our time. Opposition to Trinity Western University (TWU) has been vociferous and forceful, pressuring three provincial law societies to deny approval of…
If Darrell Guder didn’t invent the terms ‘missional’ and ‘missional church,’ he was certainly there when the terms were coined. In 1998, he edited Missional Church, which introduced the terms to the North American church. Now they are omnipresent, claimed…
One of the unique things about Alpha is that it is run in every major denomination. As a result, one privilege of my role with Alpha Canada is that I get quite an objective perspective on all the different ways…