It would have been a dream job for Bethany Paquette – adventure guiding in remote regions in Canada, and perhaps overseas. But it was not to be. Bethany is a Trinity Western University (TWU) science grad, who has worked the…
The new executive director of Trinity Western University’s proposed law school, Earl Phillips, is a well-regarded labour relations lawyer. He is also a long-time advisor to the Vancouver area’s other evangelical university-level school, Regent College. Phillips is a former managing…
David Lyon is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada who serves as director of the Surveillance Studies Centre and professor of sociology and of law at Queen’s University in Ontario. He has been extensively involved in debates around…
Archbishop Michael Miller’s Christmas message to his Roman Catholic flock this year is that “the Holy Family was a refugee family”: Soon after the splendour of that glorious night in Bethlehem, the gospel presents the Holy Family on the sorrowful road of…
Paul Johnson is lead pastor at South Delta Baptist Church in Tsawwassen. Close to two years ago, a family tragedy made headlines in British Columbia media. Recently, in a radio interview with Ben Lowell of Back to the Bible (Canada),…
The Harper government’s new prostitution Bill C-36 (the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act) has polarized stakeholders, as evidenced in the ongoing hearings before the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee. There is no consensus among social service agencies…
We live in the shadow of a colonial era, a time when according to the European Doctrine of Discovery, any lands not occupied by white Christians were free for the taking. The complicity of the church began with the epic…
Trinity Western University has overcome several hurdles on its way to developing a law school, but its most immediate challenge is very close to home, from the Law Society of British Columbia (LSBC), next Tuesday (June 10). Despite the fact…
Archbishop Michael Miller wrote a pastoral letter May 23 to 450,000 Lower Mainland Catholics saying the absence of a law on prostitution is “a serious threat to the moral fabric of Canadian society” and the Catholic community must work to…
Wes Janzen has had a foot in two worlds for many years, shuttling back and forth between Langley and Ukraine. Here he has been a fixture at Trinity Western University for 33 years, as professor of music and director of…