Dr. Janet Epp-Buckingham read from her new book Fighting over God: A Legal and Political History of Religious Freedom in Canada (McGill-Queen’s University Press) when she spoke at Trinity Western University last week (March 12). Following is one excerpt. Current…
Sunday, March 9 was a big day for the Punjabi Masihi Church. After almost a decade in the planning and building stages, the 160-member church dedicated its new $2 million church, located on 72nd Avenue, west of Newton Town Centre…
What is the average person in a long-established church to do, when new neighbours come from different parts of the world and different cultures? The folks at Richmond Faith Fellowship Church, assisted by Outreach Canada, hope to provide some answers…
As the Conservative government reviews their options to replace the law struck down by the Supreme Court of Canada governing prostitution-related activities, two polarized views of what Canada’s sex trade industry should look like have emerged. One camp believes that…
Son of God is not exactly a local phenomenon, but it will be opening here this Friday (February 28), at the International Village Cinemas, as it is all over North America. And there actually are some nice local links as…
On February 7, two dozen or so children from Whalley, just up the hill from the Fraser River in Surrey, gathered in the chancel area of a neighbourhood church. There, they spent half an hour with Sidewalk Cellist Clara Chandler…
Several Vancouver-area women made a recent list of 100 fantastic Canadian Christian women leaders. They are Barbara Mutch, professor at Carey Theological College; Shaila Visser, CEO of Alpha Canada; Janis Ryder, executive director of human resources at Trinity Western University;…