This is the kind of week that makes you realize just how deep and wide and vibrant the Church of Vancouver really is. As we survey a number – by no means all – of the events happening around Metro…
Ross Douthat is young (34), influential (a columnist for the New York Times), Roman Catholic and conservative. He should be ideal to deliver Regent College’s 2014 Laing Lectures. “I am an idiosyncratic conservative writing a column for a majority-liberal readership,”…
A Surrey church will be the site, October 23 – 24, for a local staging of the 20th annual Global Leadership Summit. Kevin and Cynthia Cavanaugh, respectively senior pastor of Cedar Grove Baptist Church and speaker/author on leadership issues relating…
It would have been a dream job for Bethany Paquette – adventure guiding in remote regions in Canada, and perhaps overseas. But it was not to be. Bethany is a Trinity Western University (TWU) science grad, who has worked the…
Update (October 10): Good news – as in good media coverage. The Sun, the Courier, News 1130 and 24 Hours all covered the MVA’s Municipal Accountability Assembly. *********** As far as I can see, Metro Vancouver Alliance (MVA) still isn’t…
“We don’t know what will happen, but God does.” So said Fr. Richard Soo at an Ecumenical Prayer Rally for Peace and Human Rights in Hong Kong, in front of the Chinese Consulate last Saturday (October 4). Numbers are down at…
At the Christ & Cascadia Conference (September 25 – 26), 250 Christian leaders and scholars talked about spirituality in the Pacific Northwest, “where people can be more inclined to study yoga, hike a mountain or attend a Seahawks game to…
The Voices Together core team decided Wednesday (September 24) that Voices Together 2015 will take place at the Pacific Coliseum on Canada Day. Some 10,000 people from a wide range of churches joined together for a Voices Together gathering at…
Regent College wants to introduce its community to the work of Richard Tetrault; thus the Lookout Gallery’s From the Urban Landscape show, running from September 10 to October 3 (an opening reception runs from 4:30 – 7:30 pm on the…
Anger and polarization are the words that first come to mind as I think about the Israel-Palestine conflict – and much of the media coverage surrounding it. So it was a breath of fresh air to read St. James Anglican…