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Proposed Trinity Western law school will highlight mediation and reconciliaton

by Lloyd Mackey • August 8, 2013 • 0 Comments

Deans of several law schools across Canada have maintained that Trinity Western University’s faith-based community covenant asking students to commit themselves to certain behavioural standards is discriminatory, particularly toward LGBT people. Janet Epp Buckingham, a lawyer and director of Trinity’s…

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Books, City, Culture

Telling the story of the Church in Abbotsford

by Jim Coggins • August 4, 2013 • 1 Comment

Abbotsford has often been described as the Bible Belt. Novelist  Caroline Adderson said in Sitting Practice that there are “more churches per capita” and more people who use the Bible as a weapon to “slam down hard across a child’s knuckles…

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Books, Culture, News

HarperCollins would like your personal Footprints stories

by Flyn Ritchie • August 1, 2013 • 0 Comments

Footprints in the Sand (“I love you and will never leave you . . . When you saw only one set of footprints, It was then that I carried you.”) will be 50 years old next fall, and HarperCollinsCanada is on…

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Culture, News

Heavenly days for early music enthusiasts

by Flyn Ritchie • July 30, 2013 • 0 Comments

It doesn’t get any better than this for those who like their music chanted – or at least early. The first week of August will see Gregorian Chant enthusiasts gathering out at UBC, while Early Music Vancouver will be putting…

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Community, News

Chinese churches welcome neighbours

by Flyn Ritchie • July 16, 2013 • 0 Comments

It seems to be a trend – and a welcome one. Three Chinese churches – that I’m aware of, there may well have been more – turned their parking lots over to block parties last weekend. Vancouver Chinese Baptist Church…

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Community, Justice, News

Community is key for ‘new monastics’

by Katherine Ritchie • July 12, 2013 • 0 Comments

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove began his talk about community as he always does – with a couple of traditional black gospel songs. Possibly lacking confidence that his west coast audience (July 10 at Grandview Calvary Baptist Church) would catch on to the beat,…

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Community, News

Donut sales at Superstore fund Cambodia trip

by Flyn Ritchie • July 8, 2013 • 0 Comments

And I thought you couldn’t get Krispy Kreme donuts in Vancouver any more. Well, you can – or at least you could Sunday evening in front of Superstore at Grandview and Rupert.    Pastor Jonathan Jeong and several other members…

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