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Meeting Michael Zehaf-Bibeau: A personal reflection

by Karen Giesbrecht • November 6, 2014 • 3 Comments

I watched the news of the shooting in Canada’s Parliament building with unexpectedly mixed emotions – grief for the families who lost loved ones, woeful curiosity about how this would change my country and disappointment at how the media was…

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Books, Culture

Marja Bergen offers God’s comfort to mental health sufferers

by Frank Stirk • October 30, 2014 • 1 Comment

Burnaby author and photographer Marja Bergen has written a new book that she believes is unique in offering comfort and hope to people – and especially Christians – struggling with mood disorders and other mental health challenges. “You can give…

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City

Baptist Housing celebrates 50 years, in 16 seniors communities around BC

by Lloyd Mackey • October 23, 2014 • 0 Comments

Fifty years ago, J.H. (Jack) Pickford, a key Baptist leader in western Canada, saw the need for retirement housing for overseas missionaries who were returning home after years of service. That vision grew, through the years, into Baptist Housing, a…

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Culture, Justice

Assisted suicide debate: Favour preservation of life over autonomy

by Bruce Clemenger • October 23, 2014 • 0 Comments

The Supreme Court of Canada heard arguments October 15 on the constitutionality of the assisted suicide prohibition in the case of Lee Carter, et al v. Attorney General of Canada, et al. This challenge of the assisted suicide prohibition was…

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Community, Culture

Global Leadership Summit still going strong after 20 years

by Lloyd Mackey • October 16, 2014 • 0 Comments

A Surrey church will be the site, October 23 – 24, for a local staging of the 20th annual Global Leadership Summit. Kevin and Cynthia Cavanaugh, respectively senior pastor of Cedar Grove Baptist Church and speaker/author on leadership issues relating…

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Justice

Job rejection: Bad manners or prohibited discrimination – or both?

by Lloyd Mackey • October 9, 2014 • 2 Comments

It would have been a dream job for Bethany Paquette – adventure guiding in remote regions in Canada, and perhaps overseas. But it was not to be. Bethany is a Trinity Western University (TWU) science grad, who has worked the…

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Culture

Katharine Hayhoe balances faith and science on global warming issue

by Lloyd Mackey • October 2, 2014 • 0 Comments

Katharine Hayhoe, one of TIME Magazine’s 100 most influential people in 2014, will be delivering three lectures relating to her field, climate science, next week, at Trinity Western University. Hayhoe, a Canadian, is a climate science professor at Texas Tech…

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