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Community, Culture

Guitar virtuoso Trace Bundy’s concert will raise awareness for DuncanAfrica

by Keri Vermeulen • October 27, 2016 • 0 Comments

When the ‘Acoustic Ninja’ comes to town this weekend, he will offer some amazing music, but also an introduction to the DuncanAfrica Society, which fights poverty by creating exquisite guitars by hand in their trade school, located in Uganda. Guitar…

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City, Community

Around Town: Art on Shared Territory, Mark Noll, Suitcase Stories . . .

by Flyn Ritchie • October 27, 2016 • 0 Comments

St. James Anglican Church will take an active role in the 13th Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival by hosting an art show which will reflect this year’s approach: The theme of this year’s festival, Living on Shared Territory,…

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Community, Culture

The pitfalls of endorsing candidates for public office

by Bruce Clemenger • October 27, 2016 • 1 Comment

Evangelical Fellowship of Canada president Bruce Clemenger reflected recently on the difference between calling for justice and remaining non-partisan. This comment is re-posted by permission from the EFC site. The debate over whether evangelical leaders should endorse Donald Trump became…

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Culture, Justice

Buying sex is a crime – though you’d never know it in BC

by Flyn Ritchie • October 21, 2016 • 4 Comments

Two years ago the federal government passed Bill C-36, which made the purchase of sex illegal. So far, however, no one has been arrested in British Columbia. On Tuesday (October 18), a coalition “working to eliminate the exploitation of women,…

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City, Community

Around Town: Queen of Katwe, Worship Central, Converge & Catalyze . . .

by Flyn Ritchie • October 21, 2016 • 0 Comments

Not many movies present Africa in a positive light. Missionaries normally don’t fare well either. But Queen of Katwe casts a positive light on both – and it’s showing in Vancouver right now.   Phiona Mutesi (Madina Nalwanga) was a 10…

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Culture, Justice

Famine or Feast: Imagining the faith community as a ‘food system’

by Matt Humphrey • October 21, 2016 • 0 Comments

This is the second of a two-part series by Matt Humphrey, who is assistant director of the Brooksdale Environmental Centre at A Rocha Canada, based in south Surrey. Matt is involved with an event coming up at Grandview Calvary Baptist…

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Books, Culture

British physicist will address science, religion and wisdom

by Olav Slaymaker • October 21, 2016 • 1 Comment

A prominent British scientist will make a speaking tour of local universities October 31 – November 3. Covering topics from ‘Science, Religion and the Search for Wisdom’ to ‘A Modern Scientist in the Footsteps of Job,’ Dr. Tom McLeish will…

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