With Mission Fest upon us (February 15 – 17 at Westside Church) I have been posting a series on Christianity as a missionary religion: Introduction 1. History of Missions 2. State of World Christianity 3. Specific Areas: Africa 4. Specific Areas: Asia 5.…
Archbishop Michael Miller returned last week from four weeks in Rome, where he participated in the Synod on Synodality. He had been elected by his fellow Canadian bishops as one of six bishops to represent the Canadian Catholic Church at…
Last week Statistics Canada released a report which points to a decline of the Christian faith in Canada. Europe has gone before us and the United States appears to be following. This week, though, Brian Stiller put the situation in…
Janet Epp Buckingham is Canadian, but the wider world is often on her mind. Last July she became Director of Global Advocacy for the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA). “In my role with the World Evangelical Alliance, we are taking the…
By all accounts, the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference is a massive and overwhelming welter of events. Tens of thousands of people from all corners of the world are gathered (October 31 – November 12) at the massive Scottish Event…
Leaders from around the world have offered tributes since Ecuadorian theologian/pastor René Padilla died last week. Miroslav Volf (founder and director of the Yale Center for Faith & Culture), for example, said, “René Padilla was one of the heroes of…
A Trinity Western University professor has been named director of the North American branch of the International Institute for Religious Freedom (IIRF); the new branch will be based in Vancouver. A recent release from the IIRF tells the story: The…
Thomas Schirrmacher will take over leadership of the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) next March from Bishop Efraim Tendero, who in turn succeeded Geoff Tunnicliffe, who lives in Metro Vancouver. Following is the first part of a November 5 interview from…
Several messages contended for top spot at the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) General Assembly (November 7 – 12 in Jakarta, Indonesia), but the one that stood out for me was the urgent need to engage seriously with the people and…