As our celebrations of the birth of Christ draw near, the stores are filled with toys and books, gadgets and bright lights, ribbons and bows. We are bombarded with messages to ‘buy more’ and ‘buy now’ because we’ve convinced ourselves… Read more →
Eugene Peterson, Anne Lamott, Walter Brueggemann, Tony Campolo and many other notables around the Christian world are admirers of the Christian Seasons Calendar which is produced by Ed Searcy and his church in Vancouver. Peterson, for example, says: “Every day is… Read more →
For the last couple of years, I have been working closely with Mark Burnett (TV producer of The Voice, Survivor, Apprentice, Shark Tank, etc. and his wife Roma Downey (Touched By an Angel) on the TV miniseries The Bible. The… Read more →
C.S. Lewis was eclipsed at the time of his death (November 22, 1963) by the fact that John F. Kennedy and Aldous Huxley died on exactly the same day. However, he has retained a solid perch in the public consciousness,… Read more →
The world is an active place, brimming with almost seven billion people; the population of the Lower Mainland alone is almost 2.5 million. And every person, each one of us, has a unique story that tells who we are, what… Read more →
It sounds like a bad joke: what do you get when a Buddhist, a Christian and a Wiccan sit down for a meal together? Actually, it was one Buddhist, three Christians, one Wiccan and three agnostics and what you got was some… Read more →
More teenagers in Canada now identify as Muslims than Anglicans, Uniteds and Baptists combined. That was just one of the findings put forward at Shifting Stats: Shaking the Church, a series of day-long forums for Christian leaders that attracted an… Read more →
Japanese and Korean churches in the Vancouver area are finding periodic ways to come together for both worship and outreach. And one of those churches has an event set for this Saturday (May 3), called Glimpse of Japan. (More information… Read more →
From the moment I pick up the phone and hear, “Hi, this is Amy Grant,” my nervousness about interviewing this icon of Christian music fades away. Amy’s down-home Southern charm soon makes me feel like I am catching up with… Read more →
This piece is excerpted from Theology in Aisle Seven: The uncommon grace of everyday spirituality. Carolyn Arends will expand on the theme during Conversations About Worship March 1 at Pacific Life Bible College in Surrey. Joining her as speakers will… Read more →
