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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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Culture

Christ and Cascadia Conference kicked off a long-term dialogue

by Flyn Ritchie • October 2, 2014 • 1 Comment

At the Christ & Cascadia Conference (September 25 – 26), 250 Christian leaders and scholars talked about spirituality in the Pacific Northwest, “where people can be more inclined to study yoga, hike a mountain or attend a Seahawks game to…

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Community

Things hoped for . . . things still hoped for

by John G. Stackhouse, Jr. • September 25, 2014 • 0 Comments

I’ve been privileged to serve as a columnist for Faith Today magazine here in Canada for two stints, the second of which continues to the present . . . But I recently happened across the ‘signing off’ column of my previous…

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City, Community

Sept 22 – 28: Voices Together, Festival of Hope?, Casting Crowns, Pray . . .

by Flyn Ritchie • September 25, 2014 • 0 Comments

The Voices Together core team decided Wednesday (September 24) that Voices Together 2015 will take place at the Pacific Coliseum on Canada Day. Some 10,000 people from a wide range of churches joined together for a Voices Together gathering at…

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Justice

Former Downtown Eastsider lives with evicted Cambodian community

by Flyn Ritchie • September 18, 2014 • 0 Comments

As I sat in the back row at Tenth Church, three speakers revealed that their mission field for the next 12 to 15 years was Cambodia. Listening, I heard God speak to me: “This is where the village is, where…

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City, Justice

Oppenheimer Park and Abbotsford tent villages make the housing crisis visible

by Jean Swanson / Dave Diewert • September 18, 2014 • 0 Comments

The homeless are out in the open at the Oppenheimer Park tent city. Many who were hidden in shelters or sleeping in the bushes have occupied the Downtown Eastside park for more than two months now. The same is true…

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