Merry Christmas everyone. Following is the December 25 reading from A Year With C.S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works, which Margaret and I have managed to (almost) complete – with considerable pleasure, albeit also with catch-up sessions. (Is…
In a time when the CBC publishes articles with titles such as ‘9,000 churches and religious spaces will close over next 10 years’ and ‘Majority of Canadians say church to blame for residential school tragedies,’ it can feel like despair…
Four years ago Jonathan Bird and I posted a series on the neighbourhoods of Vancouver. We are offering them again, with demographics from the latest national census and some other updates. Oakridge is a comfortable neighbourhood in south central Vancouver best…
The two churches you can see from the intersection of 41st and Cambie are boarded up and will both soon be gone, each to be replaced by mixed-use six-storey buildings. Another, just a few blocks down Cambie, has begun a…