Leading With Hope proved an apt name for an Alpha Canada webinar March 17 because it provided some encouraging insights about creative roles for churches and individual believers as we emerge from the pandemic. Many of those insights related to…
Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t seem to have heard much about the Vancouver Plan lately. I hadn’t heard a peep about the second stage of the process – ‘Envision the Future’ – which apparently began last October and…
Dr. Deborah Haarsma will address issues of science and faith during three Regent College talks next week. Dr. David Robinson, Adjunct Professor of Theology and Ethics at Regent, described those talks and her work during an interview about the school’s…
Regent College’s J.I. Packer Professor of Theology Jens Zimmermann is hosting an online public lecture series called Human Flourishing in a Technological Age. This series is being offered in conjunction with Dr. Zimmermann’s winter seminar course and his ongoing Human…
One highlight over the Christmas break was a CBC Radio interview with Carmen Louie, manager and cashier at Donald’s Market on Hastings Street near Nanaimo. Her welcoming, outgoing, no-nonsense, Christian approach to a challenging job was very refreshing. The Current host…
One can never have too many books (ask anyone who knows me), but even I have trouble keeping up with the professors at our local Christian colleges. And many of their books would make great Christmas gifts, especially if purchased…
Regent College will be joined by some top notch scholars and theologians when they host Remembering Dr. J.I. Packer next Wednesday (November 18). Among the guests will be N.T. Wright, David Neff and Alister McGrath. McGrath’s participation is particularly timely.…
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…
“Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.” Psalm 116:15 ESV It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Dr. J.I. Packer, a treasured faculty member, author, churchman, and friend. James Innell…
David Smith will present a course ‘On Christian Teaching: Practicing Faith in the Classroom’ online next week as part of Regent College’s Summer School. And next month he will deliver a livestream lecture on ‘Digital Life Together: How Technology is Changing…