Just over three years ago I posted an article about a Chapel Movement gathering at John Oliver Secondary School. What had begun as a small worship gathering at a South Vancouver church a couple of years before was now drawing…
Evelyne Reisacher will be a featured speaker at Missions Fest Vancouver (January 27 – 29). A professor at Fuller Seminary and author of Joyful Witness in the Muslim World: Sharing the Gospel in Everyday Encounters, she describes the importance of…
It should have come as no surprise, but tickets for Marilynne Robinson were snapped up as soon as they became available earlier this year. Regent College is hosting her for their annual Laing Lecture Series, February 8 – 10; her…
For the first time in its 34-year history, Missions Fest Vancouver will incorporate several mini-conferences, which organizers describe as “opportunities for you to learn from experts who are collaborating together to help you go deeper into a subject than can…
For decades, Loren Wilkinson has been well known as a writer, teacher and pioneer of the Christian environmentalism movement. Loren’s poetry, until now, has been less known. In Imago Mundi, his first published collection, Loren looks deeply into the geography…
Lorraine Francis of the Mukti Mission in India will be a featured speaker at Missions Fest Vancouver (January 27 – 29). Here she describes Pandita Ramabai, the renowned Indian reformer, and tells some of her own story. Born in 1858,…
This will be my final weekly update for 2016 (Merry Christmas!), and I find myself feeling a little bit guilty for having neglected to keep up with some of the new music and books that have come along this year.…