Let me get this straight. An “over-educated secular liberal” has written a new play in which a university-aged daughter has – to the consternation of a family not so different from his own – announced that she has become a… Read more →
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Around Town: Laing Lecturer Malcolm Guite, PT’s growth, MVA Faith Caucus . . .
by Flyn Ritchie • • 0 Comments
I imagine it was a bittersweet experience for Malcolm Guite when he was asked to deliver Regent College’s Laing Lecture Series this year. Here is why, from Regent College: Last year, Regent College was honoured that Dr. Lamin Sanneh –… Read more →
Around Town: Lion, Witch & Wardrobe, Shift, St. Casimir’s, Himalayan Life
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Pacific Theatre’s founding artistic director Ron Reed clearly has a lot of time for C.S. Lewis. Earlier this year he presented Tolkien, which focused on the relationship between the two great scholar/writers. Freud’s Last Session was a fictionalized encounter between… Read more →
Around Town: Anglican mission, BC Civil Liberties, First Reformed, Tolkien . . .
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Anglicans are often uncomfortable with the word ‘mission.’ That reality was confronted head-on May 26 at Inside Out Church, a mission conference offered by the Diocese of New Westminster, which includes the Metro Vancouver / Fraser Valley area. Keynote speaker… Read more →
Around Town: Tolkien, Flavours of Hope, Pope Francis, Labyrinth, The Sojourners
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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… Read more →
Around Town: South Van Walk, God Loves Vancouver, Tolkien . . .
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Anglicans have played an important role in Metro Vancouver Alliance (MVA), and they were out on the streets April 14 to inspect sidewalk safety as part of the MVA’s South Van Social Inclusion Sidewalk Project. The South Van Intergenerational Neighbourhood Walk was… Read more →
Around Town: Dementia Care, Minoru Chapel, Bar Mitzvah Boy, Art! Vancouver . . .
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Dr. Gemma Jones, a pioneer in dementia care, will be in Vancouver April 3 – 17 for a series of workshops, seminars and information sessions on Alzheimer’s disease and dementia care, with the goal of establishing Alzheimer Cafés in Metro Vancouver and beyond. Dr.… Read more →
Around Town: The Christians, Douglas Todd, Jacob’s Well, Blind Boys . . .
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“We’ve never said we do ‘Christian’ theatre. That word is a bad adjective but a good noun. I readily say I’m a Christian, but we don’t do Christian theatre. We do plays that explore spiritual questions honestly from a Christian… Read more →
Imago Mundi: Loren Wilkinson’s care for creation, expressed in verse
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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… Read more →
Around Town: Festival launched, Mining & Soil, Gruesome Playground Injuries …
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The Greater Vancouver Festival of Hope is under way. Some 350 leaders attended a dinner and another 900 people took part in the public launch event at Broadway Church last Thursday (March 31). The year-long festival journey will culminate with… Read more →