Barry and Joan Jung have lived the past 14 years on Cambie Street between Queen Elizabeth Park and the Oakridge Mall. They kindly agreed to share a bit of their journey into community with their neighbours, in the face of… Read more →
City, Community
Around Town: Holy Family as refugees, Walnut Grove sanctuary, Ward Gasque
by Flyn Ritchie • • 0 Comments
Archbishop Michael Miller’s Christmas message to his Roman Catholic flock this year is that “the Holy Family was a refugee family”: Soon after the splendour of that glorious night in Bethlehem, the gospel presents the Holy Family on the sorrowful road of… Read more →
Books
Books: Need to Know, Bare, Suffering With God, Between Pastors . . .
by Flyn Ritchie • • 1 Comment
How to think, how to grieve, how to suffer . . . in this article I will look at several local books that fall, broadly, within the realm of ‘Christian living.’ In part one, I looked at Bible-related books, and… Read more →
City, Community
Tim Dickau: How Grandview Calvary Baptist engages its neighbourhood
by Paul J. Pastor Tim Dickau • • 2 Comments
In 1989, at 26 years of age, Tim Dickau became pastor of Grandview Calvary Baptist Church, just off Commercial Drive, on 1st Avenue in east Vancouver. The church, which had been founded in 1908, was dying. Leadership Journal associate editor Paul J. Pastor spoke with Tim Dickau to find… Read more →
Community, Culture
Around Town: WeMakeStuff 02, Gerard Manley Hopkins, songs of justice . . .
by Flyn Ritchie • • 0 Comments
WeMakeStuff 02 is a visual delight. Like the first volume, which came out a couple of years ago, this book features 100 artists, musicians, photographers – all kinds of creative types – mainly from Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley, but some from the rest of the… Read more →