C.S. Lewis contended that shame prevents us from doing good – perhaps even more so than vice. Shame causes us to shrink back and go small. Shame can also cause us to try and go big to validate ourselves –…
The Bell: How beauty sets us free
Tag: beauty
The Bell: Beholden to the Beholder
It’s that time of year. When I get up early to go to the gym, and as I drive, I can see the lovely tangerine glow behind Mount Baker in the Cascade Mountains. The sun is starting to come up,…
Wildlife photography offers a respite from the stresses of academic life
Stalking the wild birds near his home provides a chance to focus and be still, writes the President of Vancouver School of Theology. I live on a river delta, where the Fraser River meets the Georgia Strait and the Pacific…
Nothing is as beautiful as a human being
Wesley Hill will address the topic When Christians Disagree during a livestream talk July 29. He is teaching Male and Female in Christ as part of Regent College’s Summer School. Pursuing sexual purity by turning toward the other I remember…
A Rocha co-founder had a ‘tremendous capacity for big-hearted love’
A Rocha Canada and Regent College will celebrate the life of Miranda Harris, co-founder of A Rocha. The memorial at Regent College will be shaped around viewing a recording of the official service taking place at St Aldates in Oxford…
Oxford prof Alister McGrath will open Faith & Science Lecture Series
In anticipation of his lectures next week (September 18 & 19), Dr. Ashley Moyse has asked a few big questions of Dr. Alister McGrath, the first speaker in the Interface: Faith & Science Lecture Series. Read below to find out…