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 The good news is that council has seen the error of its ways and rescinded its original motion.…
The inevitable question I’m asked when one knows I’ve been with the Pope is, “And what is he like?” Here are some personal observations from a recent visit. Impressions in the first moments so frame how we see an individual.…
Steve Bell will join Regent prof Bruce Hindmarsh for a free public lecture July 9 on Hymns and the Christian Spirit: A Short History of Song and Devotion. Following are some of his thoughts on psalms, music-making, culture and creativity.…
David Lyon is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada who serves as director of the Surveillance Studies Centre and professor of sociology and of law at Queen’s University in Ontario. He has been extensively involved in debates around…
Our interim pastor recently used the analogy of dance for our relationship with God, and released a flood of stories from the congregation during the response time following the sermon. People expressed the trust, freedom, security and beauty in God…
In this so-called Information Age, we have more access to more data than ever before. Paradoxically, however, in the age of Photoshop and scams and phishing and the lot, we feel less and less able to trust any of that…
During an interview last summer, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby was asked which three people, from all of history, he would most like to sit with for a coffee. One of his choices was James Hudson Taylor: “I’d love to…
WeMakeStuff 02 is a visual delight. Like the first volume, which came out a couple of years ago, this book features 100 artists, musicians, photographers – all kinds of creative types – mainly from Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley, but some from the rest of the…
Bill Wong keeps in close touch with people working in a machine shop, an auto dealership, a testing laboratory, some trucking firms and a farm. A diverse set of clients, he admits, but the work he does in each working cluster…