Four years ago, I was laying on the street in the Downtown Eastside, about to try heroin for the first time. But then, I turned over and saw the UGM sign. If it weren’t for that, I believe I’d be… Read more →
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Feather Dance: reconciliation through textile arts
by Sandra Vander Schaaf • • 1 Comment
Five Indigenous-designed liturgical stoles will be unveiled June 23 as the St. Hildegard’s Sanctuary community celebrates the results of a year-long collaborative arts-based reconciliation project. The Feather Dance Liturgical Textile Arts Project was launched in July 2018 thanks in large… Read more →
Around Town: Children of God, UGM, Canada in Crisis, Christopher Yuan . . .
by Flyn Ritchie • • 0 Comments
The Cultch has a series of plays that will be of interest to many in the Christian community over the next month or two, beginning with Children of God, which runs from February 20 – March 10. Here is a… Read more →
Around Town: Community Day, TWU law school, All My Relations, Mr. Rogers . . .
by Flyn Ritchie • • 0 Comments
Pastor Jonathan Chan and Crucible Church are heavily involved in preparing for Richmond Community Day, July 7 at Richmond Olympic Oval. Graeme Wood wrote about their participation in Richmond News June 8. Here is a portion of the article: “Community days facilitated… Read more →
Small Acts of Love: Inner Hope, one day at a time
by Flyn Ritchie • • 0 Comments
“That’s one thing Inner Hope did for me; on their day off they would drive me to school, and it encouraged me to keep going to school.” Toni “A small thing that Inner Hope has done for me is pay for… Read more →
Around Town: Case for Christ, Honour Drum, MVA, Festival reflections . . .
by Flyn Ritchie • • 0 Comments
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… Read more →
Missions Fest 2017: The way forward is behind us . . .
by Terry LeBlanc • • 1 Comment
Missions Fest Vancouver (January 27 – 29) is upon us, and I’m very much looking forward to hearing many speakers addressing this year’s theme, ‘Justice and the Gospel.’ There is no arena is which that focus is more pressing than… Read more →
Walking from Wrongs to Rights: UN Declaration shows the way
by Laurel Dykstra • • 1 Comment
Three years ago this month, 70,000 Vancouverites took to the streets in the Walk for Reconciliation, committing to a new relationship between settlers and Indigenous peoples. Coming up soon (October 14 – 15), Walking from Wrongs to Rights will help… Read more →
A bridge between the stories of Samson and Unist’ot’en resistance
by Tama Ward Balisky • • 0 Comments
This is the account of a storytelling event that brought together an Eastside Vancouver church and a First Nations community in British Columbia’s central interior. More importantly it’s the account of a 10 year old boy named Graeme who, for… Read more →
The day I stopped driving by
by Mark Buchanan • • 1 Comment
In Allan Twigg’s book Aboriginality, he tells of a meeting between three sovereigns – a king and two queens – that never happened. It was missed by inches. The year was 1939. The place, Vancouver. The occasion, England’s King George VI and Queen Elizabeth’s… Read more →