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Is prostitution just a job?

by Georgialee Lang • March 3, 2014 • 1 Comment

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…

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City

Sailors find refuge in a strange land

by Frank Stirk • March 3, 2014 • 0 Comments

The sailors from other lands who show up at the Port of Vancouver’s Flying Angel Club know it as a Christian mission to seafarers. But in the few hours they have ashore, their usual reason for going there is to…

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City, Community

Feb 24 – March 2: Son of God, Women of Substance, Studio Series Part 004 . . .

by Flyn Ritchie • February 27, 2014 • 0 Comments

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…

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City, Community

Around Town: Silver Alert supported, Archbishop objects, Bishop installed

by Flyn Ritchie • February 26, 2014 • 1 Comment

The family of retired Korean pastor Shin Noh, who has been missing since last September, is supporting a private members bill for Silver Alert legislation that would inform authorities promptly about missing seniors. Coquitlam New Democratic Party MLA Selina Robinson…

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City, Community

UrbanPromise runs daily camps in Whalley and East Vancouver

by Lloyd Mackey • February 26, 2014 • 0 Comments

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…

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City, Community

Bernice Gerard, Pentecostal women in ministry and feminist ideologies

by LInda M. Ambrose • February 25, 2014 • 2 Comments

Dr. Linda Ambrose points out that influential Vancouver pastor and politician Bernice Gerard was a convinced feminist. This article is excerpted from her public lecture at Trinity Western University February 17. In the year 2000 The Vancouver Sun named the…

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Books

St. Francis: Proclaiming and living the gospel

by Flyn Ritchie • February 24, 2014 • 0 Comments

“Preach the gospel at all times; use words if necessary.” We hear this gem from St. Francis of Assisi often these days. The phrase is introduced as an encouragement to good works, but also, commonly, to subtly disparage proclamation of…

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