It’s that time of year. When I get up early to go to the gym, and as I drive, I can see the lovely tangerine glow behind Mount Baker in the Cascade Mountains. The sun is starting to come up,…
The Bell: Beholden to the Beholder
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Resource guides for Lent and Easter / Hot Cross Buns (Loren Wilkinson)
Two resource guides featuring poetry, songs, reflections and more have been produced by Regent Exchange for both Lent and Easter. Conor Wilkerson of Regent College’s Alumni Office wrote: As we move through Lent, it once again feels quite poignant to be…
Malcolm Guite recommends five books of poetry from past 50 years
Regent College is offering two opportunities to learn from poet, priest and scholar Malcolm Guite. Over three evenings next week (April 9 – 11), he will be the Laing Lecturer, delivering a series titled Imagining the Kingdom. And from July 29…
Imago Mundi: Loren Wilkinson’s care for creation, expressed in verse
For decades, Loren Wilkinson has been well known as a writer, teacher and pioneer of the Christian environmentalism movement. Loren’s poetry, until now, has been less known. In Imago Mundi, his first published collection, Loren looks deeply into the geography…
Around Town: Modern day slavery, women in China missions, Luci Shaw . . .
UBC law professor Benjamin Perrin will present the main findings from his study on human trafficking in Canada next Wednesday (February 25) as part of the UBC Graduate and Faculty Christian Forum lecture series. Confronting Modern Day Slavery: Human Trafficking…
Jan 13 – 19: Measure for Measure, Jonny Lang or Luci Shaw?, Christian Unity . . .
“It’s not often you’ve got a play that lends itself so well to a mock political protest, but with its harsh imprisonments and corrupt/absent politicians, the Measure for Measure crew couldn’t help but take advantage of the parallels with a…
Vancouver authors: A final look at books for Christmas
Originally I’d intended to devote a couple of short articles to locally-written books, in the hopes that a few of those books would find their way under Vancouver Christmas trees (here are parts one and two). But as I started…