A unique Good Friday art exhibit at St. Catherine’s Anglican Church in North Vancouver will feature the work of Nobel Peace Prize winner Adolfo Pérez Esquivel. The 15 prints covering The Stations of the Cross, were originally created in 1992…
Every Christmas season we are reminded by fellow Christians that Canadians have forgotten that ‘Jesus is the reason for the season.” These concerns are true enough; I’ve felt that way myself. A recent National Post comment – well worth reading…
It is not often that Christians from a really wide range of denominations and persuasions have the opportunity to worship and pray together. So thank you 24-7 Prayer Canada and partners for inviting us to Prayer Gathering, tomorrow night (May…
Vancouver, Burnaby and Surrey joined with Toronto and Ottawa – more than 30 cities across Canada altogether – in proclaiming May 10 a ‘Day of Action Against Anti-Asian Racism.’ The idea began with Burnaby resident Doris Mah and took off…
Poet-priest Malcolm Guite is chaplain and teacher at the University of Cambridge, but also teaches at Regent College. He wrote this piece for his regular Poet’s Corner column in Church Times (October 23). As I walked George and Zara on…
Bowen Island resident Susan Alexander has won a major literary prize. She was awarded the $20,000 Ross and Davis Mitchell Prize for her suite of poems,Vigil. The announcement came October 22, during a celebration at the Aga Kahn Museum in Toronto, with…
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…
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…
Merry Christmas to everyone reading this blog. Thank you for checking in, but hopefully you won’t mind if I take next week off. Enjoy your holiday break; I will send out my next weekly update January 6. In the meantime,…
It was a dark and stormy night (December 12), and I was debating the wisdom of driving from East Van to the depths of Ladner – even for what seemed like a sure thing: Malcolm Guite and Friends. (I had…