A utility entrance leads to the garage for dumping buckets of earth into a custom trailer. Knowing the correct on/off pattern for a series of 12 switches would trigger a four-inch concrete wall to retract, revealing a subterranean maze of rooms. There’s no furniture, but the main room is spacious, cool and fully lit. If […]
Ultimate warriors grapple with their Christian faith
As far as Hollywood is concerned, this is the new age of the gladiator. With the film starring Russell Crowe winning accolades for its portrayal of ancient blood sport, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that modern warriors are filling arenas from Japan to B.C. as people watch men battle it out in contests known […]
Stained glass artist honored with national award
Russ Goodman’s artwork resides in churches and other buildings in every region of Canada. For 50 years the 75- year-old stained glass artist, who now lives in Kelowna, has cut and assembled glass to tell epic Biblical stories and themes in church windows. This spring he was honored by the Governor General of Canada for his most […]
Government minister settles with pro-lifer
A pro-life group at UBC will be one of the beneficiaries of an out-of-court settlement of $25,000 given this month to John Hof. The Langley pro-life activist took issue with comments made last summer by Joan Smallwood, who was the minister of women’s equality at the time. On July 12, one day after an unknown […]
Crosses send message to freeway travellers
The ‘Cemetary of the Innocent’ is a display that, according to the Abbotsford Right to Life Society, has served its purpose. Residents of Abbotsford and Chilliwack using the Trans Canada highway and the heavily traveled South Parallel Road and Sumas Way in February and March, were likely to witness the 2,051 white crosses that represent […]
God stays, debate goes on
By Jeff Dewsbury and Peter T. Chattaway Theology can make for strange bedfellows. When Burnaby MP Svend Robinson presented the now infamous petition to remove references to God from the Constitution — a petition drafted by Kamloops resident and self-described “aggressive atheist” Ray Blessin — he and the atheists behind the petition were quickly denounced […]