Years of planning, prayer, training, cooperation – and some conflict – will bear fruit this weekend as the Greater Vancouver Festival of Hope comes to Rogers Arena from Friday to Sunday (March 3 – 5). One final pre-Festival prayer gathering…
The next couple of weeks will be a serious test for the Church of Vancouver. When Franklin Graham comes to Vancouver as part of the Greater Vancouver Festival of Hope March 3 – 5, some will be thrilled, others will…
Anglicans – and probably many Christians of all stripes – will participate in the 27th annual Women’s Memorial March next Tuesday (March 14). Writing on the Diocese of New Westminster website, Rev. Laurel Dykstra invited fellow Anglicans to join the…
Surrey-based film critic Peter Chattaway does an amazing job keeping up with the movies in his FilmChat blog, and he has just posted an exclusive interview with The Case for Christ author Lee Strobel “on facts and feelings, and seeing…
Several significant events over the next few weeks will focus on environmental issues. 1. Laudato Si’ +1 Just over a year ago, Pope Francis released his encyclical Laudato Si’: On care for our common home, which focused on the…
Forty years ago I hitchhiked up to a farm west of Lusaka in Zambia. Three months later I left as a born again Christian. The farmers/missionaries introduced me to Christ in their home Bible studies and I made a profession…
The head of the Federation of Independent School Associations (FISA) says private schools – more than half of which are Christian – should not be blamed for funding shortfalls in the public education system. During a May 20 interview on…