Dear Friends, Coronavirus (COVID-19) has been dominating the news and spreading globally and locally. Just yesterday (March 11th), the WHO declared it a pandemic. We’re sure that before long, the virus will affect people in CBAC churches and neighbourhoods. To...
For those of us on the East Coast, Wet'suwet'en (pronounced wet-SOO-ih-ten) might seem far away. Few of us are familiar with the Land in question, and even fewer know anyone belonging to the Wet'suwet'en nation. The repercussions of the conflict, however, are being...
Here, in its complete form, is the CBAC resolution passed at Oasis 2019, including our apology to our Indigenous neighbours. PREAMBLE In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. . . Then God looked over all he had made, and he saw that it was very good!...
To prepare for Advent and Christmas this year, I looked at the account in the Gospel of Luke of Mary’s encounter with the angel Gabriel. To be honest, I was moved by Mary’s reaction to the heavenly visitation. A careful reading of the New Testament—and perhaps the...