Bible epics are back, and coming soon to a theatre near you. The genre – which was very popular in the silent era and then, again, during the post-war boom of the 1950s and early 1960s – never went away…
Look for Bible epics in theatres this year
Category: Culture
Vancouver authors: Books for Christmas
Books are always a good bet for Christmas, so I’ll point you to the 2013 releases by Metro Vancouver Christians that I’m aware of. Without looking too hard, I’ve come up with at least 15 good books. Why not encourage…
Young worshippers gather at JO Chapel
Chapel commences 7 pm, Friday (November 29) at John Oliver Secondary School. Hundreds of young people from more than a dozen churches have been flocking to a monthly worship event in South Vancouver. Named ‘Chapel,’ the music-focused time started in…
CityWatch: Remembering Billy Graham, sharing his hope
Our first week back living in Surrey, after 15 years in Ottawa, brought a trip down Billy Graham memory lane. The occasion was a pastors’ luncheon at Cedar Grove Church, during which attenders were given a joint presentation about a…
Chinese human rights writer inspired by ‘heroic Christians’
“Every inch of soil beneath my feet was red, shining under the frail winter sun, as if it had been soaked in blood.” (Liao Yiwu, while trekking a narrow mountain path in Yunnan.) God is Red is a collection of 18 loosely…
Josh Garrels and embodied art
What makes good music? This is a highly subjective question to answer, especially in an age of iTunes, Noisetrade, Songza and countless other avenues we use to indulge our musical tastes. Quantity can definitely overshadow quality; marketability can mean as much or more than…
CBC Searchlight winners Lauren Mann and the Fairly Odd Folk coming to town
They’re the darlings of CBC Radio. Lauren Mann and the Fairly Odd Folk are still celebrating their recent (May 8) win over 4,500 other contestants in CBC Music’s Searchlight competition, and next month they’ll open for the likes of Tegan…
A conversation with Andy Crouch on how to ‘reset our posture toward culture’
Andy Crouch is the author of Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling, which Charlene Kwiatkowski asked him about in the following interview (excerpted from a longer piece in The Regent World) and, more recently, Playing God: Redeeming the Gift of…
A prayer from Psalm 23 for Mental Health Awareness Week
Next week (May 5 – 11) is Mental Health Awareness Week. Working with the Canadian Mental Health Association, Sanctuary Mental Health Ministries is helping Christians become more aware of the importance of mental health in general, and also of the…
Theology as a (positive) guide for the emotions
Ellen T. Charry, the Margaret W. Harmon Professor of Systematic Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary, will deliver a series of three lectures on the topic ‘Christian Theology as a Guide for the Emotions’ on February 19 and 20 at Regent…