It wasn’t clear until fairly recently whether Mission Fest would be able to find a home this year. But the leadership prayed and waited – and prayed and waited – and God has provided. Steve Schroeder has been a leading…
Several Twitter reports from Tenth Church in Mount Pleasant yesterday showed long lines of church members buying piles of their pastor Ken Shigematsu’s new book God in My Everything. Ken himself said the line-up lasted more than three hours at the morning…
Andrew Roddan is not a name most Vancouverites could immediately identify. But it should be – and a new book allows us to see how he and other United Church preachers contributed so much to the fabric of Canadian society.…
The congregation of First Baptist Church will finally meet in their own church building again May 4, having moved out more than four years ago. The high profile property at the corner of Burrard and Nelson in downtown Vancouver has…
Susan Martens Kehler is warmly remembered by Taiwanese nurses and professors she trained many decades ago, during her many years at Mennonite Christian Hospital Nursing School in Taiwan. And following her death April 9, a video from them has been…
There is a missing middle-ring of social relationships, the ring of social relationships where we once learned to value one another in our differences. The church can play a role in this middle sphere of relationships. The church can be…
The A Rocha BC Centre “is one of the jewels in the crown of A Rocha.” Ed Walker, who took on the role of Executive Director of A Rocha International in the fall of 2023, said he had heard a…
Nigel Biggar may be Emeritus Regius Professor of Moral Theology at the University of Oxford, but he remains a very active man. He now devotes much of his energy to offering insights into how British culture (Western cultures generally) should…
The Roman Catholic Church is facing a period of transition locally – with Archbishop Michael Miller retiring and Archbishop Richard Smith coming to take his place, probably in late May. The world church is also recognizing that major change is…
Nigel Biggar knows something about being critically received, but he was probably surprised when he learned that his alma mater had cancelled his lecture planned for March 6. Biggar had been scheduled to deliver a talk on ‘Colonialism Revisited: Did…