Over the past month or so, I have written three posts about local books published in 2022. One covered 15 local books, under the broad heading ‘church in culture, living the Christian life,’ the second looked at eight ‘art, fiction and…
For the past 30 years the religious liberty organization Open Doors has published its annual ranking of the 50 countries where Christians face the most extreme persecution. The 2023 World Watch List released January 17 includes several key findings: Persecution…
Aaron Miller, Minister of University Hill (United Church) Congregation, will deliver the sermon during a special service at St. Mark’s Catholic Church January 19. This will be one of several opportunities to worship with Christians of other denominations during the…
Churches have carried on resolutely during the pandemic – but opportunities to work together, or even to imagine in concert how to work together, have been few and far between. Thus the Pastors and Leaders Summit planned for the morning…
Creating Conversation is a weekly editorial, curated by the Centre for Missional Leadership (CML), which gives opportunity for people to speak about issues they believe are vital for the church in Vancouver. One of the goals of this weekly article is…
Samuel Chiu took part in the two major worldwide gatherings focused on climate change late last year – COP27 (UN Framework for the Convention on Climate Change) in Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt and COP15 (UN Convention on Biological Diversity’s 15th COP…
Ever since the first Missions Fest Vancouver gathering in January 1984, the movement has gathered believers from the hundreds of churches in Metro Vancouver, the Fraser Valley and beyond. Their history page states, “Missions Fest conferences . . . are…