Leading With Hope proved an apt name for an Alpha Canada webinar March 17 because it provided some encouraging insights about creative roles for churches and individual believers as we emerge from the pandemic. Many of those insights related to…
Kirk Potter, president of the Fellowship of Christian Camps in BC, offers an overview of Christian camping, followed by descriptions of what several camps will be offering this summer. Camps change lives Christian camps in BC are, for many people,…
One of the major religion-related news headlines today revolves around the decline of Christianity in North America. Western Europe is now considered post-Christian and surveys consistently report declines in religious belief, attendance and self-identification. Yet, over the last century, there…
Lent is a time of waiting. While the church prepares for Easter, we also await decisions from the provincial government about opportunities to meet in person again. Dr. Bonnie Henry offered some hope, but was very cautious, when she spoke…
Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t seem to have heard much about the Vancouver Plan lately. I hadn’t heard a peep about the second stage of the process – ‘Envision the Future’ – which apparently began last October and…
Almost 80 million asylum seekers, refugees and internally displaced people are seeking new homes in our world today, a reality requiring urgent conversation and action. A timely new book is now available to help us reimagine personal, national and international…
Vincent Van Gogh painted his now famous The Starry Night in Saint Rémy de Provence’s psychiatric facility in June 1889 at the height of his prolific output, probably during an experience of mania. Having visited Arles in Southern France, where Van Gogh…