A week from Saturday (May 23), The Inkwell Workshops will offer a rich day, full of opportunities to hone your writing and marketing skills. Workshop leaders include: Dr. Monika Hilder, associate professor of English at TWU and author of Surprised…
Participants from various religious, spiritual and secular backgrounds engaged in conversations in lecture theatres and corridors at UBC Robson Square, over a three-day period earlier this week. They focused on the interests of “bridging the religious-secular divide” and working for…
Organizers of a Vancouver conference set for March 22 – 24 are hoping it will do something significant about reconciling secularism, religion and the common good. The gathering, dubbed Our Whole Society will take place at the downtown Vancouver campus…
“What does it mean to build a ‘whole society?’ What is the purpose of secularism, and what are its limits? How can we re-conceptualize the role of religion in Canadian public life? What is the role of religion and spirituality…
Every year Missions Fest offers pleasant surprises. This year, Sam Rocha was near the top of my list. I’d heard of him – something about a philosopher/Catholic musician/UBC education prof. People I respect seemed to like his music. So, though…
At the Christ & Cascadia Conference (September 25 – 26), 250 Christian leaders and scholars talked about spirituality in the Pacific Northwest, “where people can be more inclined to study yoga, hike a mountain or attend a Seahawks game to…
I’ve been privileged to serve as a columnist for Faith Today magazine here in Canada for two stints, the second of which continues to the present . . . But I recently happened across the ‘signing off’ column of my previous…
In this so-called Information Age, we have more access to more data than ever before. Paradoxically, however, in the age of Photoshop and scams and phishing and the lot, we feel less and less able to trust any of that…
How to think, how to grieve, how to suffer . . . in this article I will look at several local books that fall, broadly, within the realm of ‘Christian living.’ In part one, I looked at Bible-related books, and…
No one can say that Jonathan Chan and his Company of Disciples are afraid of a little controversy. Their “community of business and working professionals” does offer the tried and true – Bible studies, seminars, prayer – but they also…