Cailey Morgan has just completed a series based on unique church expressions: Dinner Church, Campus and Community, Blended Ecology and Underground Network. Following is her Underground Network article, which features an interview with a well known local leader. I interviewed… Read more →
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.… Read more →
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… Read more →
Andrew Stephens-Rennie presented this paper as part of the Christian Witness in Cascadian Soil conference at St. Andrew’s Hall May 10 – 11. Hosted by Ross Lockhart and the Centre for Missional Leadership, the gathering featured some 20 papers from… Read more →
Barry Jung recently sent this note out to pastors on the West side of Vancouver, but his experiences are valuable for anyone living in Metro Vancouver. Some of you may know of my story of slow transformation through engagement with… Read more →
Every week I hear of new and creative ways in which churches and individual Christians are working for the good of the broader community. And I am sure that I don’t hear about most of them, even though I’m always… Read more →
Living in Vancouver for the past 33 years, I have witnessed a steady shift towards secularism and fragmented approaches to life[i]. While church attendance has decreased during those three decades[ii], the conditions of belief have also changed, as Charles Taylor… Read more →
In May 2017 Peter Biggs embarked on a major survey of Christianity in each of the municipalities from West Vancouver to Chilliwack. These ‘Snapshots of Faith’ were published first in The Light Magazine and have been re-posted on Church for… Read more →
Anika Barlow, hospitality coordinator at Vancouver’s Kinbrace Refugee Community Society, spoke with Peter Stockland of Convivium about the power of faith to bring new arrivals and hosts alike closer to encountering God. Convivium: What is Kinbrace, and how did you… Read more →
Peter Biggs of The Light Magazine is researching one Metro Vancouver / Fraser Valley municipality each month, and producing a focus on each one. The September issue features the first of three ‘snapshots’ devoted to the City of Vancouver. Following is a portion… Read more →
