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…
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…
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…
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…
Janet Epp Buckingham, author of Fighting Over God: A Legal and Political History of Religious Freedom in Canada, was on CBC’s Sunday Edition in a special public forum to discuss the role of religion in Canadian civic discourse and public policy. Listen here. I was…
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…
Dr. Chung-Yan Joyce Chan (director of the North American Chinese Ministries Program at Carey) launched an exhibition and a book (Rediscover the Fading Memories) about ‘Early Chinese Canadian Christian History’ last fall. The exhibition is showing at Regent College until…
If you want to know anything – and I do mean anything – about Noah (opening this week), go to Peter Chattaway’s FilmChat blog. You’ll discover he has been on the trail for quite some time now. Not only has…
Vancouverites will soon have a unique opportunity to hear a firsthand account of life among Chinese minority groups. Speaker John Allen has lived in China for 10 years and is currently engaged in doctoral research on ethnic and religious identity…
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…