The Intersection of Faith and Culture
Pastor Chris Synesael of West Village Church recently tweeted, “How many pastors get to watch Puss n’ Boots right before their Christmas Eve Service? #ChurchPlanting.” As my family and I entered through the movie theatre doors, we were welcomed into a lobby with West Village Church signs sitting tall among […]
On Friday night, roughly twelve thousand young people gathered at Rogers arena, the closest thing Vancouver has to a communal temple, for a church service/rock concert. This was Passion’s 3rd time to Vancouver, and after the huge turnout, there will undoubtedly be a fourth. Something very meaningful that happens when a […]
With all the events surrounding the charity Invisible Children the past couple weeks, I am beginning to think that all press is not necessarily good press. Sometimes bad press is just bad press. The press, after all, was the horse that Invisible Children gallantly rode on in their quest for […]
Meet serial entrepreneur Dale Partridge, CEO and partner in the start-up company Sevenly. Launching out of a living room on June 13, 2011, it was barely one week later that the Sevenly team had grown to four, five, six, and now seven full-time staff. Partridge, at just 26 years old, […]
Move over Edward; vampires are so yesterday. It’s the zombies who are lumbering their way to the forefront of popular culture now, dragging bloody limbs and collectively moaning their one demand: “Brains!” Well, from the looks of it, they may be after a chance at stardom as well. Who would […]
Rich brats. Visionaries. Dreamers. Radicals. Neo-colonialists. Slacktivists: “Kony2012” was viralized only last week, and already the number and variety of hashtags being applied to the campaign’s founders are greater than your friend count on Facebook. Fortunately for their cause, there’s no such thing as bad press. If you haven’t seen […]