VST Public Lecture

We’re excited to share that St. Mary’s will be hosting Dr. Jehu J. Hanciles for his lecture Global Migration and Christian Witness on July 8th at 7pm.

Dr. Hanciles intended to come to Vancouver last summer but was forced to reschedule. The Vancouver School of Theology (VST) is honoured that he is this year’s Visiting Distinguished Scholar, and we are all looking forward to learning from him in a few short weeks.

Dr. Jehu Hanciles will share a fascinating look at the spread of Christianity as it became a global religion.

Drawing on his extensive scholarship on the history of Christianity, Dr. Hanciles offers a fresh take on the roles of formal mission and natural human patterns of movement in global exposure to the Christian faith.

After surveying church history from its humble beginnings through 1500 CE, Dr. Hanciles proposes that contrary to popular belief, natural human migration and the sharing of ideas and beliefs that accompanies those movements, more so than institutional missions, is most responsible for Christianity’s blossoming into a global religion.

For more on Dr. Hanciles’ work in this area, you may enjoy Migration and the Making of Global Christianity (2021).

Dr. Jehu J. Hanciles is the D.W. and Ruth Brooks Professor of World Christianity and the Director of the World Christianity Program at the Candler School of Theology. He has lived and worked in Sierra Leone, Scotland, Zimbabwe, and the United States and been a visiting professor around the world. Prior to Candler, Hanciles was associate professor of the history of Christianity and globalization and director of the Center for Missiological Research at Fuller Theological Seminary.

Through this series, we will explore how we can help meet the greatest challenge in human history. Each participant will receive a devotional booklet and access to various other resources on the web. Through exploring these resources, as well as biblical texts, accessible science, and practical wisdom, we will each create a custom-made, solution-oriented action plan for how WE PERSONALLY can participate in the Spirit’s movement for a clean, healthy world. We will meet either in-person or on Zoom to explore that week’s topic and help each other to develop our own plan for “walking the talk”. Come explore how our faith and the world’s great need can come together. Contact Rev. Roberta to learn more. (rfraser@stmaryskerrisdale.ca)

It will continue through to and including April 3rd.

To join the Lent Study online: click on the button below when it's time to join via Zoom or phone this number +1 778 907 2071

Meeting ID: 820 4620 6272
Passcode: Lent

Through this series, we will explore how we can help meet the greatest challenge in human history. Each participant will receive a devotional booklet and access to various other resources on the web. Through exploring these resources, as well as biblical texts, accessible science, and practical wisdom, we will each create a custom-made, solution-oriented action plan for how WE PERSONALLY can participate in the Spirit’s movement for a clean, healthy world. We will meet either in-person or on Zoom to explore that week’s topic and help each other to develop our own plan for “walking the talk”. Come explore how our faith and the world’s great need can come together. Contact Rev. Roberta to learn more. (rfraser@stmaryskerrisdale.ca)

It will continue through to and including April 3rd.

To join the Lent Study online: click on the button below when it's time to join via Zoom or phone this number +1 778 907 2071

Meeting ID: 820 4620 6272
Passcode: Lent

Through this series, we will explore how we can help meet the greatest challenge in human history. Each participant will receive a devotional booklet and access to various other resources on the web. Through exploring these resources, as well as biblical texts, accessible science, and practical wisdom, we will each create a custom-made, solution-oriented action plan for how WE PERSONALLY can participate in the Spirit’s movement for a clean, healthy world. We will meet either in-person or on Zoom to explore that week’s topic and help each other to develop our own plan for “walking the talk”. Come explore how our faith and the world’s great need can come together. Contact Rev. Roberta to learn more. (rfraser@stmaryskerrisdale.ca)

It will continue through to and including April 3rd.

To join the Lent Study online: click on the button below when it's time to join via Zoom or phone this number +1 778 907 2071

Meeting ID: 820 4620 6272
Passcode: Lent

Through this series, we will explore how we can help meet the greatest challenge in human history. Each participant will receive a devotional booklet and access to various other resources on the web. Through exploring these resources, as well as biblical texts, accessible science, and practical wisdom, we will each create a custom-made, solution-oriented action plan for how WE PERSONALLY can participate in the Spirit’s movement for a clean, healthy world. We will meet either in-person or on Zoom to explore that week’s topic and help each other to develop our own plan for “walking the talk”. Come explore how our faith and the world’s great need can come together. Contact Rev. Roberta to learn more. (rfraser@stmaryskerrisdale.ca)

To join the Lent Study online: click on the button below when it's time to join via Zoom or phone this number +1 778 907 2071

Meeting ID: 820 4620 6272
Passcode: Lent

Through this series, we will explore how we can help meet the greatest challenge in human history. Each participant will receive a devotional booklet and access to various other resources on the web. Through exploring these resources, as well as biblical texts, accessible science, and practical wisdom, we will each create a custom-made, solution-oriented action plan for how WE PERSONALLY can participate in the Spirit’s movement for a clean, healthy world. We will meet either in-person or on Zoom to explore that week’s topic and help each other to develop our own plan for “walking the talk”. Come explore how our faith and the world’s great need can come together. Contact Rev. Roberta to learn more. (rfraser@stmaryskerrisdale.ca)

To join the Lent Study online: click on the button below when it's time to join via Zoom or phone this number +1 778 907 2071

Meeting ID: 820 4620 6272
Passcode: Lent

For Christians, Lent offers an opportunity for spiritual renewal. We invite you to start your Lent by attending our Lent Quiet Day. This will be a quiet and meditative time to refresh you in body and spirit. The day will include simple worship, reflection time, a soup lunch, and opportunities to pray, walk the labyrinth, and be creative. The day is free, but we do need you to let us know you are coming so we know how many to prepare for. Contact Rev. Roberta for more info.

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This event will be offered in-person only.

Through this series, we will explore how we can help meet the greatest challenge in human history. Each participant will receive a devotional booklet and access to various other resources on the web. Through exploring these resources, as well as biblical texts, accessible science, and practical wisdom, we will each create a custom-made, solution-oriented action plan for how WE PERSONALLY can participate in the Spirit’s movement for a clean, healthy world. We will meet either in-person or on Zoom to explore that week’s topic and help each other to develop our own plan for “walking the talk”. Come explore how our faith and the world’s great need can come together. Contact Rev. Roberta to learn more. (rfraser@stmaryskerrisdale.ca)

To join the Lent Study online: click on the button below when it's time to join via Zoom or phone this number +1 778 907 2071

Meeting ID: 820 4620 6272
Passcode: Lent