One Regent College professor and two others who often teach and sing there won Word Guild awards at the group’s 31st annual gala June 14 in Hamilton, Ontario. The Regent College winners were: • Academic Books: Bruce Hindmarsh: The Spirit… Read more →
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Renovaré Conference will examine ‘The Listening Life’ with Trevor Hudson
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Trevor Hudson will speak at the Renovaré Conference: The Listening Life at First Baptist Church February 17. Following is an excerpt from his book An Invitation to Transforming Friendship. Loneliness touches each one of us. None of us escapes it completely.… Read more →
Faith, Life and Leadership: Eight Canadian women tell their stories
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Vancouver lawyer and arbitrator Georgialee Lang has edited a book which “brings together eight female Christian leaders from across Canada who share their challenges, setbacks, failures and successes.” Lang is featured – the excerpt below suggests the truly unique and… Read more →
Around Town: Refugee housing needed! Brian McConaghy, Carolyn Arends . . .
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James Grunau sent an email to his partner churches last week regarding the desperate housing situation for many newly arriving refugee claimant families. Grunau runs Journey Home, which works with refugee claimants. He says the church community has already begun… Read more →
Around Town: Numb, Climate Change, Christian Seasons, Roy Salmond . . .
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Regent College grad Jason Goode will celebrate the North American premiere of his Okanagan-shot thriller Numb on the closing night of the 2015 Whistler Film Festival this Sunday (December 6). Numb is billed as a survival thriller: “When a couple… Read more →
Around Town: Carolyn Arends, Conrade Yap, affinity fraud, August events . . .
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NOTE: I will be taking August off; next weekly update September 2. Carolyn Arends announced recently that she will soon take on a new role. This fall she will begin as director of education with Renovaré – the organization Richard Foster… Read more →
Worship con queso: How sensual delights prepare us for the eternal feast
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Musician/author Carolyn Arends will co-lead Theology and Practice of Worship at Canadian Baptist Seminary with Daryl Busby, who is dean of the school. The course, which will take place this weekend (March 13-14) and April 24-25, will address “questions about… Read more →
Christmas season approaches; music, books and drama bear witness
by Flyn Ritchie • • 1 Comment
When to start up with Christmas – the annual dilemma. Big box stores were restocked and ready to go on the very eve of Halloween. Purists won’t allow it to be mentioned until the advent of Advent (November 30), and… Read more →
Around Town: UGM connects, Voices Together, Word Guild winner . . .
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Union Gospel Mission is a particularly busy place these days. At Summer Connect, on Wednesday (June 18), they hosted 40 other agencies offering a variety of free services, and next Wednesday (June 25) they will open their newly renovated building… Read more →
Around Town: Carolyn’s gift, Chinese Mennonites, transgender politics . . .
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It’s Christmas in May for Carolyn Arends, but those bearing gifts will be repaid later this year. The local musician has created lots of music over the years – 10 albums and counting – though she clearly has a particular… Read more →