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Around Town: Churches supporting community, charities need a hand

by Flyn Ritchie • April 2, 2020 • 0 Comments

Every night high-rise dwellers in Vancouver’s downtown core raise a cheer for health care and other frontline workers in the COVID-19 pandemic. The outpouring of goodwill is heartwarming, and illustrates just how widespread are the acts of kindness and the…

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Meditation and self-care during COVID-19

by Hillary McBride • April 1, 2020 • 1 Comment

When things feel uncertain, overwhelming or dangerous, it is normal for us to feel stress or fear. Fear is a very good thing that has helped our body before. Think about any time you have darted out of the way of…

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Community, Culture

Coronavirus and the communion of the saints

by Bruce Hindmarsh • April 1, 2020 • 1 Comment

“the pestilence that walketh in darkness” – Psalm 91: 6 At the beginning of June, Carolyn and I were supposed to be leading a travel course for Regent College in Italy, “Martyrs, Monks and Mystics,” but we sent a note…

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City, Community

An urgent call to support Downtown Eastside residents (but not in person)

by Flyn Ritchie • March 26, 2020 • 0 Comments

Jenny Hawkinson is a longtime resident of the Downtown Eastside (DTES) who works for 24-7 Prayer Vancouver and does pastoral street outreach and advocacy in the neighborhood. She sent out an email March 24 under this heading: ‘URGENT! DTES response…

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Community, Culture

Canadian charities need pandemic rescue plan now, Cardus warns

by Cardus • March 26, 2020 • 0 Comments

Think tank outlines $2.5 billion plan for governments, philanthropic foundations and ordinary Canadians. Think tank Cardus has issued a call to action to governments, philanthropic foundations and ordinary Canadians to throw an immediate financial lifeline to Canada’s charitable sector. The federal…

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Wednesday: Day of Prayer and Fasting Across Metro Vancouver

by Flyn Ritchie • March 24, 2020 • 3 Comments

Twenty-seven pastors and network leaders met on a Zoom prayer call March 24 to firm up plans for a Day of Prayer and Fasting Across Metro Vancouver tomorrow (Wednesday, March 25), and for every Wednesday thereafter until further notice. The…

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Books, Culture

COVID-19, science and the nonreligious

by Joel Thiessen / Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme • March 26, 2020 • 0 Comments

In pre-modern days if someone was sick they would commonly pray to the gods or visit a shaman or wisewoman to be healed; perform the correct ritual, take a potion or tonic, and say the right words or prayers. As…

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