How do we as a society break free from the devastating practice of demonizing ‘those others’ that we can easily judge as wrong or even evil? Is it even possible to shift our tendency toward binary thinking that identifies people’s…
This is the third in a three-part series on conflict. Kingdom values When I was a senior pastor, I can recall encouraging our church family to have a place to ‘live out’ kingdom values outside of one’s immediate family and…
This is the second of a three part series on conflict. Conflict and Christians What I encountered when I began my work as a mediator was that the Christian community had trouble embracing the idea of positive conflict. This did…
Conflict is one of the most prevalent and destructive realities in Christian communities. Every year relationships are broken, congregations are split and people are damaged – all due to conflict that was handled poorly. Mediator Darrin Hotte will present Blessed are the…
Lawmakers and judges across Canada have fully embraced out-of-court dispute resolution procedures for the simple reason that litigation is emotionally and financially devastating. I often remind clients that the only winners in a courtroom are lawyers, most of whom, having…
Note: This conference has been postponed to November 14. A Pre-Law Student Conference will take place August 28 – 29 in downtown Vancouver and at Trinity Western University (TWU) – at the end of the week in which the BC…
Deans of several law schools across Canada have maintained that Trinity Western University’s faith-based community covenant asking students to commit themselves to certain behavioural standards is discriminatory, particularly toward LGBT people. Janet Epp Buckingham, a lawyer and director of Trinity’s…