Leading With Hope proved an apt name for an Alpha Canada webinar March 17 because it provided some encouraging insights about creative roles for churches and individual believers as we emerge from the pandemic. Many of those insights related to…
Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t seem to have heard much about the Vancouver Plan lately. I hadn’t heard a peep about the second stage of the process – ‘Envision the Future’ – which apparently began last October and…
Last Sunday (February 28) marked the installation of the 10th Diocesan Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of New Westminster. Two live-streamed liturgies took place at Christ Church Cathedral that day. In the morning, Archbishop Skelton preached and presided at the…
The Church Relations team at Union Gospel Mission will post a new edition of InCommon (including this comment) this week; go to the end to sign up for InCommon. We also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering…
Jason Byassee and Ross Lockhart will launch their new book, Better than Brunch, next Wednesday (January 27). In the meantime, Mark Glanville offers these insights. For a while now I have been hunting for a book that displays, thoughtfully, what…
Update: Dr. Bonnie Henry announced about 3:15 pm January 7 that the current restrictions regarding gatherings has been extended until February 5. Will our churches be able to host in-person gatherings and worship services again? We should have the answer…
A virtual gathering on Saturday morning will ask the question, “What if the churches of the Lower Mainland could help to significantly reduce homelessness and provide affordable housing?” TIm Dickau organized The Church and Affordable Housing, November 28, 10 am…
Last spring, we wrote about how Vancouver churches are responding to the physical and spiritual hunger that COVID-19 is highlighting through community food programs, and through growing food. As the infection rate increases, we continue to feverishly figure out how…
Earthkeepers and another network of faith leaders are strongly urging Vancouver City Council to adopt a plan which “focuses on reducing our carbon pollution through 19 proposed actions that focus on how we move around the city, how we build…
What if the churches of the Lower Mainland could help to significantly reduce homelessness and provide affordable housing? That is the question organizations like Co:Here Housing, the Nest and Catalyst have been asking over the past five years. As director…