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Adopting the Stranger as Kindred

Investigate how Deuteronomy incorporates vulnerable, displaced people. Deuteronomy addresses social contexts of widespread displacement, an issue affecting 65 million people today. In this book Mark R. Glanville investigates how Deuteronomy fosters…

Better Than Brunch

What could be better than brunch on a Sunday morning? For most people in Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver, the answer of gathering to worship the Triune God and be sent as…

Beyond Snakes and Shamrocks

Somewhere in the mists of time, between history and hagiography, stands the great evangelist and missionary St. Patrick. Raised a “cultural Christian,” Patrick’s encounter with God during captivity in Ireland transformed…

Christian Witness in Cascadian Soil

The Centre for Missional Leadership at St. Andrew’s Hall, Vancouver, has curated a dynamic collection of essays from missional thinkers in church and academy. Together, they explore both the pitfalls and…

Christianity: An Asian Religion in Vancouver

Is God changing the face of the church in North America today? The secularization thesis makes it appear that churches are inevitably declining in membership and influence. Too often, however, this…

Forming Christian Communities in a Secular Age

In this book, Tim Dickau tells three stories: the story of Western society’s move towards secularism and its captivation to distorted powers; the story of Grandview Church’s sustained journey of forming…

Freed to be God’s Family

Family provides community, identity, and shared values. In the book of Exodus, God frees Israel from slavery to Egypt. But they are not left as orphans. Rather, the redeemed are made…

Improvising Church

The post-Christian cultural turn is creating the conditions for a crisis of confidence in the church and in pastoral ministry. While such changes can be disruptive and disconcerting, our new cultural…

Lessons for Laodicea

“I’m rich and I don’t need a thing,” bragged the early Christians in the big city of Laodicea. The Apostle John, however, saw their affluence and arrogance through a theological lens.…

Plunging into the Kingdom Way

What practices might a community of faith take up that will bear witness to the alternative world Jesus envisions and calls us towards? That is the question that Grandview Calvary Baptist…

Preaching in a New Key

An Expository Preaching Guidebook for Post-Christian Communities Preaching must connect with its hearers. As the perception of the pastor has changed in recent years, and as congregations battle with increasing doubt,…

Refuge Reimagined

The global crisis of forced displacement is growing every year. At the same time, Western Christians’ sympathy toward refugees is increasingly overshadowed by concerns about personal and national security, economics, and culture.…

The Continuing Witness of the Missional Church

Now available: The Continuing Witness of the Missional Church, a new book honouring Dr. Darrell Guder, CML Senior Fellow. This festschrift features reflections on his legacy and the future of the missional church movement.

West Coast Mission

Vancouver, British Columbia, now reports “no religion” as its leading religious identity, putting it in the vanguard of a trend happening across North America. What does this mean for the Christian…