Burnaby author and photographer Marja Bergen has written a new book that she believes is unique in offering comfort and hope to people – and especially Christians – struggling with mood disorders and other mental health challenges. “You can give…
The Supreme Court of Canada heard arguments October 15 on the constitutionality of the assisted suicide prohibition in the case of Lee Carter, et al v. Attorney General of Canada, et al. This challenge of the assisted suicide prohibition was…
A Surrey church will be the site, October 23 – 24, for a local staging of the 20th annual Global Leadership Summit. Kevin and Cynthia Cavanaugh, respectively senior pastor of Cedar Grove Baptist Church and speaker/author on leadership issues relating…
Katharine Hayhoe, one of TIME Magazine’s 100 most influential people in 2014, will be delivering three lectures relating to her field, climate science, next week, at Trinity Western University. Hayhoe, a Canadian, is a climate science professor at Texas Tech…
At the Christ & Cascadia Conference (September 25 – 26), 250 Christian leaders and scholars talked about spirituality in the Pacific Northwest, “where people can be more inclined to study yoga, hike a mountain or attend a Seahawks game to…
Video games matter. They may seem like trifles, or something that only belongs to a weird subculture. Some argue they only matter because they’re a big business. Others argue they matter because they’re a cultural threat. All of these observations…
Alpha is a worldwide phenomenon, but it is clearly based in England; Nicky Gumbel and the core team have always been associated with Holy Trinity Brompton in London. So how did the Alpha Youth Film Series come to be produced…
The new executive director of Trinity Western University’s proposed law school, Earl Phillips, is a well-regarded labour relations lawyer. He is also a long-time advisor to the Vancouver area’s other evangelical university-level school, Regent College. Phillips is a former managing…
Herbert Tsang, president of the non-profit Church Music Ministry of Canada, wants to help churches and church musicians return to where worship used to involve people lifting their voices in harmonious hymns of praise to God. “That seems to be…
A couple of weeks ago, we covered Nanaimo City Council’s unfortunate decision to restrict human rights for certain groups in their city. The good news is that council has seen the error of its ways and rescinded its original motion.…