A TWU Christmas More than 10,000 people made their way to the second annual Great West Life Spirit of Christmas Celebration at B.C.’s Trinity Western University this past weekend. One key attraction was a uniquely Canadian ‘Living Nativity.’ Visitors were also treated to a variety of other entertainment, from kids’ singalongs and African drumming to hip hop […]
Militant atheists tackle Extraordinary Claims
Jesus Christ has been many things to multitudes of people for many centuries. But he has never officially been given equal status with leprechauns, mermaids, vampires, the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, witches, wizards, the Boogieman, elves, dragons, gnomes, Thor, Vishnu, fairies, Ogopogo and Zeus. Until now. Christ and the preceding entities — along with […]
The State of the Canadian Church — Part III: Are Christians in danger of becoming a persecuted minority?
This is the third in a series of articles on the Canadian church, drawing on the expertise of a variety of researchers and church leaders. The public square has become a hostile arena for social-conservative Christians because the public square has been co-opted by a militant SecularismSecularism seeks to eliminate our culture’s acknowledgement of the […]
News briefs
Blessings seeks financial restructuring Blessings Christian Marketplace — a chain of 23 bookstores across Canada, with headquarters in Chilliwack, BC — has filed for creditor protection but has not gone bankrupt, according to co-owner Mark Hutchinson. “Blessings is not bankrupt and is not in receivership. The Blessings management team is in full control of the […]
News Roundup
Note: Registration or subscription to the host news sites may be required to read some of the stories linked here. Stories about Christmas: Jewish family pulls boy from schoolA Shawnigan Lake mother has pulled her five-year-old boy from his kindergarten class at Ecole Mill Bay because she says Christmas has gone beyond the annual concert […]
OttawaWatch: Mulroney’s interesting Christmas tale
It’s Christmas time in the city. And in this city — Ottawa — the move is from political strategizing and cross-checking to goodwill and trying to understand the reason for the season. So, in wishing OttawaWatch readers the best at Christmas, I would like, in the best tradition of Charles Dickens, to talk about politics past, […]
Quebec Protestants welcome “secular” society
Quebec Protestants are welcoming the open secularism that has been proposed by the Quebec government, and they are even welcoming a new inter-religious school curriculum that has been opposed by Roman Catholics. In a brief presented to the Taylor-Bouchard commission on the “reasonable accommodation” of minorities November 14, the Protestant Partnership in Education noted that Protestants are the largest […]
Why it is urgent to reach young people with the gospel
I recently spent some time reflecting upon strategic issues related to the church. As I have done a personal and strategic review, I’ve pondered some very important material. Some is information I’ve had for years, and some is new. God’s call In the early 1990s, I received the simple numeric results from a survey conducted […]
The State of the Canadian Church – Part II: Shifting Traditions
One of the problems with the census data is that it is still using categories from a century ago, which do not reflect current categories. In particular, the older categories do not reflect the current divide between evangelical and mainline Protestant churches. Over the past quarter-century, there has been a massive shift within ‘Protestantism.’
News round-up
Note: Registration or subscription to the host news sites may be required to read some of the stories linked here. Stories about The Golden Compass: Kidman the icy queen of evil ‘She loves herself and hates herself at the same time,’ she says of the diabolical Mrs. Coulter CanWest News Service, December 7 Wrong direction This […]
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