Earlier this year I had the opportunity to visit some friends who live in Bishop Auckland, up in England’s northern counties. Troubled with widespread, endemic poverty now, the area used to be full of thriving mining communities, whose coal powered…
Creating Conversation is a weekly editorial, curated by the Centre for Missional Leadership (CML), which gives opportunity for people to speak about issues they believe are vital for the church in Vancouver. One of the goals of this weekly article is…
Ron Reed has crafted a powerful play focused on the relationship between two of the 20th century’s most influential writers. Tolkien is the play’s name, but it could have been Tolkien-Lewis (apart from awkwardness) because so much of it is based…
Stories of an Everyday Pilgrim contains vignettes, poems and essays about how Esther Hizsa experienced God in her day-to-day life over a 10-year period before launching her blog in 2013. Poet Luci Shaw said this of the collection: In this…