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 Supreme Court of Canada heard arguments October 15 on the constitutionality of the assisted suicide prohibition in the case of Lee Carter, et al v. Attorney General of Canada, et al. This challenge of the assisted suicide prohibition was…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Trinity Western University (TWU) president Bob Kuhn says the ongoing opposition by many in the legal community to its planned law school makes him question how much freedom evangelical Christians really have to express their faith in public. Much of…