Now is the ideal time for non-religious Canadians to lighten up around discussions of faith, says Cardus Executive Vice-President Ray Pennings, citing polling data showing religious Canadians are happy to debate their beliefs in good humour.
For a time, Gideon Strauss led such a peripatetic existence that he jokingly referred to airline rows and seat numbers as his address. Now home is Canada. And South Africa. And the annual voyage between.
Buying local doesn’t have to be driven by guilt, writes Milton Friesen, Cardus program director for social cities. It can meet the deep human need to actually the people on the other side of an exchange.
Canadian Muslims stood in solidarity last month with Jews shattered by slaughter in a U.S. synagogue. Now, Father Raymond de Souza writes, Islamic Algeria has welcomed beatification of Catholic martyrs killed by murderous fanatics claiming to act for Islam. The past, Father Raymond reminds, does not define the future.
After last month’s mass murder of Jews at worship in the U.S., Toronto Muslims formed Rings of Peace around local synagogues to manifest compassion and solidarity. Today, Farhad Khadim reflects on the power of the gentle gesture as way to stand against bigotry, and touch hearts afflicted by hatred's pain.
On International Human Rights Day, survivors of histories and geographies torn apart by crimes against humanity used a Parliament Hill panel discussion to etch a path of repentance, repair, reconciliation and renewal. Convivium’s Peter Stockland reports.
Today, Peter Stockland writes a letter to his past self, and extends his gratitude to the people whose words lined the library he liked to call home. These minds shaped him, and lead him to keep asking the questions that keep him coming home to wonder.
Promised changes to the embattled summer student employment program won't resolve the deep divide separating Canadians of faith from the Liberal government's “true believers” in radical secular autonomy, Rev. Dr. Andrew Bennett tells Convivium’s Peter Stockland.
The funeral of President George Herbert Walker Bush moves Convivium Editor in Chief Father Raymond de Souza to meditate on the nature of rightful fatherhood.
The gift of art is something that will stay with Krista Ewert forever. In her letter thanking her grandmother for what she gave up to raise her, she sees how, amidst the chaos and brokenness in her life, her grandmother gave her a place to belong.
