The United Church has partnered with the provincial government to create 75 new rental homes for people with low to moderate incomes. The BC government issued a release November 26: “We know people in Coquitlam need more options for quality,…
Well, my intentions were good. I was determined to cover all the new local books as they came out this year, rather than clumping them all together, as I did for 2021 books (60 of them!) at the end of…
Feast and Fallow is a unique venture in a number of ways, not least for the kind of food it offers but also for where it has found a home. The co-hosts of Vegan Twosome (Diana Wu and Amir Aghelnejad)…
The Lord is saying gather, yes gather my people. “For I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it?” – Isaiah 43:19 24-7 Prayer Canada is hosting a National Prayer & Worship…
Two Trinity Western University biology students will be taking part in COP27. They will join some 20,000 people from 195 nations for the annual UN Climate Change Conference at Sharm El Sheik, an Egyptian city in the south of the…
The Canadian Chinese School of Theology Vancouver (CCST Vancouver) welcomed the community to an open house October 15. A steady stream of visitors and friends dropped by to learn more about the school, which is located in a light industrial…
I wrote about the Saint John’s Bible exhibition at the Dal Schindell Gallery on Church for Vancouver last week, and then went to take a look for myself. I was fortunate in my timing, because Daniel Melville Jones gave me…
Metro Vancouver has many good churches and, over the years, many good pastors. But few are as widely known as St. Margaret’s Community Church (now West Coast Christian Fellowship), or its leader for 25 years, Pastor Bob Birch. The church…
Santa Ono will step down as President and Vice Chancellor at the University of British Columbia (UBC) October 13. Following six years at UBC, he will take up his new role as President at the University of Michigan the very…
Frances Ceen-ne Carlick is happy that Pope Francis will be coming to Canada July 24 – 29, but she probably won’t make the trip to Edmonton to greet him. In fact, she has already seen him, at the Vatican. The…