“To God be the Glory.” Those words – a version of the Jesuit motto “for the greater glory of God” – were the last ones spoken by MP Mark Warawa after delivering his final speech in the House of Commons…
MP Mark Warawa: ‘a true man of conscience’
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Quebec’s Bill 21 ban on religious symbols overrides religious freedoms
Quebec is a long way from Vancouver, but if we can muster enthusiasm for a basketball team in Toronto then we should be able to take note of serious threats to religious freedom in la belle province. Working throughout the…
Feather Dance: reconciliation through textile arts
Five Indigenous-designed liturgical stoles will be unveiled June 23 as the St. Hildegard’s Sanctuary community celebrates the results of a year-long collaborative arts-based reconciliation project. The Feather Dance Liturgical Textile Arts Project was launched in July 2018 thanks in large…
Around Town: Stone’s Throw, Herbert Tsang, Indigenous Peoples Day . . .
Pacific Theatre keeps busy, even when it’s not actually on stage. The Stone’s Throw Theatre Festival will take place in four parts for the rest of the month and into early July. Here’s a description of how it will work:…
Around Town: Women Deliver, Artisan Fair, HomeStart’s truck . . .
Every three years the massive Women Deliver Conference gathers thousands of participants. This year they are meeting June 3 – 6 in Vancouver under the theme ‘Power.Progress.Change.’ Prime Minister Justin Trudeau addressed the gathering, and there were a number of…
Proposed changes to Bill C-75 could weaken key Criminal Code protections
Everyone agrees that the court process is slower than it should be. The Liberals have proposed a massive piece of legislation (Bill C-75) which is intended to deal with that problem. The bill has passed Third Reading in the House…
Around Town: Connections, Unplanned, Hillsong, Epiphany/Surrey Food Bank …
Many churches are looking for creative ways to get to know their neighbours, but few have done as well as Brentwood Park Alliance Church, which has been running Connections Coffee House in a quiet Brentwood neighbourhood for the past eight years.…
Lessons from Singapore: the long path to discipling the nations
“If the church doesn’t disciple the nations, the nations will disciple the church.” That was a key message delivered by veteran Singaporean church leader ‘Papa Khoo’ (Khoo Oon Theam is in his mid-80s) to a group of pastors last Thursday…
Tim Day on the Church in Canada: ‘We are bigger than we realize’
So what difference will that make for us as churches in Canada? Tim Day, executive director of City Movement, has now completed his tour of 30 Canadian cities – presenting to some 2,000 church leaders along the way. [For a…
Around Town: Unplanned, Women & Families Centre, Baptist Housing . . .
Why isn’t the movie Unplanned being shown in Canada? More than 200,000 people have signed a CitizenGO online petition demanding that Cineplex “Bring Unplanned to Canada and the World.” The petition, sponsored by National Campus Life Network in partnership with…