Idelette has posted on her experience last week in Vancouver's downtown east side. So much of British Columbia is heaven. The DTES is our little piece of hell.
The intensity of the streets—death lurking around every corner—makes any ponderings of emergent theology obsolete. The presence of death cuts through to the essence of things. There's no time for four laws or five steps or even wondering what a new kind of Christian would do in these circumstances. Instinctively I knew that if someone could remember even just one thing—Jesus—it would be enough.