It seems that May has become pro-life month, with the March for Life May 14, the Catholic Church’s National Week for Life and the Family May 11 – 17 and the Focus on Life gala dinner May 25. Here Brian…
A new exhibit at the Vancouver Maritime Museum highlights the heroic efforts of Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara to save the lives of Jewish refugees during the Second World War. Invisible Threads: Life Saving Sugihara Visas and the Journey to Vancouver…
Two conferences bearing on complex and contentious issues related to Israel and Palestine were held in Vancouver last week. I attended both – my first experience with these organizations – and was pleasantly surprised and encouraged to hear dialogue with…
Canada’s Ambassador for Religious Freedom took part in Our Whole Society at UBC Robson Square late last month. Andrew Bennett ably explained his mandate to promote religious freedom in the face of “barbaric persecution” by ISIS/ISIL and in many other…
JustUs is all about justice. Wellspring and The Elevation Project are partnering to offer a JustUs Training Conference for young people who want to engage in justice issues, March 28 at First Christian Reformed Church of Vancouver. Andy Harrington, CEO…
Slavery. Race. Religion. These have been hot button words since very beginnings of the United States and Canada – and they have hardly ever been comfortable dinner table conversation. But those are exactly the subjects that are wrestled with over…
While at the local library with my wife, I ran across Bruce Cockburn’s fascinating new autobiography and spiritual memoir: Rumours of Glory[1]. A true Canadian icon, Cockburn ironically gets more airtime now on US radios than in Canada. Until recently,…
Odeon International Village in Vancouver will feature a documentary film about a Korean pastor devoted to saving the lives of abandoned babies March 4 – 5. Philip Yancey, author of What’s So Amazing About Grace?, said of the film: “Without…
Many people know that William Wilberforce led the fight against slavery in the British Empire two centuries ago. But Paul Chamberlain, who teaches at Trinity Western University and ACTS Seminaries, will highlight some of the lessons he has for our…
Benjamin Perrin has written the book on human trafficking in Canada (Invisible Chains: Canada’s Underground World of Human Trafficking) and still focuses some of his time on the issue as an associate professor of law at UBC. So it is…