June 20 is World Refugee Day 2025, and local groups are recognizing that fact in several ways. This is a good time to remember the leading role that Christians, churches and their networks have taken in welcoming refugees – both…
Pacific Theatre made a significant announcement June 3 to its “circle of friends, donors, artists, patrons and supporters” – a group which is broad indeed. It began: We write to you today at a crossroads in our company’s history. After…
As I have pointed out earlier in this series, missions and missionaries have not received the amount of attention they warrant. The good news, though, is that many new books are considering the missionary enterprise. Some authors are still writing…
When Mark Glanville introduces his new book at St. Andrew’s-Wesley United Church next week (May 23) he won’t just be using words. Describing the gathering as “an artistic book event,” he says, “Come hear my jazz trio; and learn to…
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 five years ago. The high profile property at the corner of Burrard and Nelson in downtown Vancouver has undergone major…
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…