‘Canadians consider religions more damaging than beneficial: survey.’ That’s the headline Global News came up with as they reported on a new Angus Reid Institute survey. And that’s not the only bad news. The survey, conducted in partnership with Cardus,…
Several elders from the the Squamish Nation addressed members of their community from the steps of St. Paul’s Squamish Nation Church on the North Shore May 31. They gathered “to honour children and survivors who attended Indian Residential Schools,” following…
Archbishop Michael Miller asked that the following letter – regarding a clergy abuse report due November 22 – be read aloud in all Catholic churches in the Archdiocese of Vancouver last weekend: Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ: Although the…
The Catholic Bishops of BC and the Yukon issued a joint statement November 30 on the issue of legalized marijuana. The pastoral statement distinguishes between using cannabis for health purposes and using it simply for pleasure. While the letter is…
How often do missionaries garner serious press attention these days? Never, unless they are held prisoner for years in some totalitarian nation. Good works and sacrificial living don’t make the front page. But the St. Francis Xavier Relic Pilgrimage is…
Veteran pollster Angus Reid used results of recent research to encourage people of faith to exercise good communication skills, link together across the faith spectrum and exercise leadership rooted in hope, when he delivered the annual Carr Lecture in the…
Alan Twigg is probably best known as publisher of the ubiquitous BC BookWorld, but he also runs BCBookLook, (“dedicated to continuously promoting the literary culture of British Columbia”) and ABCBookWorld (“the Wikipedia of BC Literature”). Though Twigg notes that he…
Vancouver Archbishop J. Michael Miller released a pastoral letter February 16 urging Roman Catholics to look for ways to respond to the region’s drug overdose crisis. Though it was aimed at Catholics, it is also valuable for the whole Christian…
It should have come as no surprise, but tickets for Marilynne Robinson were snapped up as soon as they became available earlier this year. Regent College is hosting her for their annual Laing Lecture Series, February 8 – 10; her…
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4YdRhcvqc0] A Catholic-Evangelical Conversation was held earlier this year, as part of the Vancouver Consultation. Following is the article I posted after the event. ************** Coastal Church hosted a Catholic-Evangelical Conversation March 1, as part of the Vancouver Consultation process.…