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Around Town: Carolyn’s gift, Chinese Mennonites, transgender politics . . .

by Flyn Ritchie • May 28, 2014 • 0 Comments

It’s Christmas in May for Carolyn Arends, but those bearing gifts will be repaid later this year. The local musician has created lots of music over the years – 10 albums and counting – though she clearly has a particular…

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Justice

Archbishop wants legal protection for women who are prostituted

by Archbishop Michael Miller • May 27, 2014 • 0 Comments

Archbishop Michael Miller wrote a pastoral letter May 23 to 450,000 Lower Mainland Catholics saying the absence of a law on prostitution is “a serious threat to the moral fabric of Canadian society” and the Catholic community must work to…

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Community

Passing of the baton at Missions Fest

by Lloyd Mackey • May 21, 2014 • 0 Comments

May 20th passed almost unnoticed as a key day in the transition from Dwayne Buhler to John Hall, the former and new executive director, respectively, of Missions Fest Vancouver (MFV). That was the day signing authority on the organization’s bank…

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City, Community

A Neighbourhood Parish Church: An emerging vision

by Artisan Church • May 21, 2014 • 0 Comments

Artisan Church has been praying about what it would mean to be a Neighbourhood Parish Church. Already well established in the Central Branch of the Vancouver Public Library downtown, and planning a second community in East Vancouver, their vision is…

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Books, Community, Culture

Being Chinese, being Canadian and being Christian

by Joyce Chan • April 2, 2014 • 2 Comments

Dr. Chung-Yan Joyce Chan (director of the North American Chinese Ministries Program at Carey) launched an exhibition and a book (Rediscover the Fading Memories) about ‘Early Chinese Canadian Christian History’ last fall. The exhibition is showing at Regent College until…

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City, Community

March 17-23: Metro Vancouver Alliance, Martyn Joseph, Cal Chambers . . .

by Flyn Ritchie • March 20, 2014 • 0 Comments

Unfortunately, this first event is already over – but it does need to be recorded. Wednesday night (March 19) will be remembered as a very significant evening by the hundreds of people in the very diverse crowd that gathered at…

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Community, Justice

NOLA: No One Leaves (prison) Alone

by Marion Van Driel • March 18, 2014 • 0 Comments

“You’re free to go.” Beautiful words to the ears of a prisoner. Or are they? Freedom does, in fact, raise weighty questions for the newly released offender: Where will I go? How will I get money to live? Who will…

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