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Culture, Justice

Social conservatives take a bruising in lead-up to election

by Flyn Ritchie • September 18, 2019 • 0 Comments

I suppose it’s normal for everyone involved in a highly charged political campaign to feel they’re being overlooked, that their unique offerings of wisdom are not being properly appreciated. So, I’m a little hesitant to make the case that social…

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Books

Reformed: Confessions of a Preacher’s Kid

by Flyn Ritchie • September 18, 2019 • 0 Comments

Karl Petersen has managed to find time to write four books between his day job teaching English at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Richmond and creating a home with his wife and two daughters. He will launch Reformed: Confessions of a…

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City, Community

Around Town: St. Joan’s mother, church plants, Human Sexuality, Mission Central

by Flyn Ritchie • September 12, 2019 • 0 Comments

I’ve never been quite sure how Joan of Arc became a saint. Lives of the Saints, for example, includes her life as one of their 365 daily readings, noting that while a young teenager she heard voices from God telling…

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Community, Culture

Why People – like Joshua Harris – Stop Believing

by Flyn Ritchie • September 12, 2019 • 4 Comments

Joshua Harris has gone through some major changes since he arrived in Vancouver a few years ago. He came to study theology at Regent College. While there he made a documentary film which questioned many of the premises underlying I…

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Culture, Justice

Citizens for Public Justice, ARPA Canada and others offer election guidance

by Flyn Ritchie • September 12, 2019 • 0 Comments

Citizens for Public Justice (CPJ) timed the Metro Vancouver portion of their Fall Election Tour well. Executive director Willard Metzger and senior policy analyst Karri Munn-Venn spoke to a receptive audience Tuesday night, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau obligingly called…

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City, Urban Issues

Vancouver neighbourhoods: Sunset

by Jonathan Bird / Flyn Ritchie • September 12, 2019 • 2 Comments

Four years ago Jonathan Bird and I posted a series on the neighbourhoods of Vancouver. We are offering them again, with demographics from the latest national census and some other updates. We begin with a particularly historic area. Sunset is…

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Community, Justice

Interveners in transgender case appeal for prayer, as well as justice

by ARPA Canada • September 4, 2019 • 3 Comments

A case that has received widespread attention well beyond the borders of our province is before the BC Court of Appeal this week. The court is hearing A.B. v. C.D. from September 3 – 5, and provides this description: In…

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