Bible epics are back, and coming soon to a theatre near you. The genre – which was very popular in the silent era and then, again, during the post-war boom of the 1950s and early 1960s – never went away…
Look for Bible epics in theatres this year
Chinese Christian Winter Conference still going strong
It is now 53 years since a movement of western Canadian Chinese Christian students started a winter conference between Christmas and New Year’s. It was an opportunity for fellowship and community, as well as a chance to meet with and…
Dec 23 – 29: Merry Christmas!
Most of us will be sticking pretty close to home – or the homes of family and close friends –over the next few days, and the relative lack of public events underlines that reality. Of course, almost every church in…
Dec 16 – 22: Winter Harp, Vigil, Joyful Noise for Haiyan survivors . . .
There are a few churches around Vancouver where you could turn up just about any evening in December and find a Christmas concert underway. St. Andrew’s-Wesley, Christ Church, Ryerson and a handful of others really open their doors for the…
Vancouver authors: A final look at books for Christmas
Originally I’d intended to devote a couple of short articles to locally-written books, in the hopes that a few of those books would find their way under Vancouver Christmas trees (here are parts one and two). But as I started…
Good news for proposed law school at Trinity Western University
Trinity Western University (TWU) received not one but two pieces of good news this week, in its quest to develop a School of Law at the Langley campus. On Monday, December 16, the Federation of Law Societies of Canada (FLSC)…
Advent: The cosmic battle
As you begin this reflection, I invite you to start by reading Revelation 12, the most forgotten Christmas passage in scripture. Mary, Joseph, the shepherds and the magi were not the only ones to witness the newborn king. A dragon also saw…