When Politics Goes Wrong
August 17, 2018
Convivium publisher Peter Stockland argues recovery of genuine political conversation requires that we start asking the right questions about our political differences.
Articles
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Welcome to Year Zero
August 16, 2018By removing a statue of Sir John A. Macdonald, the City of Victoria has gone down the perilous path of erasing history rather than learning from it, Rev. Dr. Andrew Bennett argues. What next? Renaming Montreal’s Trudeau airport because the former PM formally called for assimilation of Indigenous Canadians?
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Trinity Western Gives Reason To Believe
August 15, 2018TWU’s abandonment of its mandatory Community Covenant following a Supreme Court loss in June is a serious blow – but nowhere close to the end of the battle for religious freedom in Canada, writes Ottawa lawyer Albertos Polizogopoulos.
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The Crash of Sacred Disruption
August 14, 2018Through spiritually enriching re-encounter with Biblical story, Convivium contributor Keith Dow finds an opening to overcome crippling limitations in “hyper-normalizing” narratives about physical disability.
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Canada Loses When Church Going Declines
August 13, 2018Canadians who shrug off the loss of organized religion need to be made aware of the vital role churches and other faith-based institutions play in our national life, writes Convivium contributor John Longhurst.
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Sacred Music In Secular Culture
August 10, 2018Convivium’s Hannah Marazzi talks to musical scholar and choral director Ben Ewert about his new role creating music to remind us that “God requires worship from every part of our being, not just our emotions.”
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Writing With Righteous Wrath
August 9, 2018Convivium’s Editor in Chief, Father Raymond de Souza, reflects on moments when anger is the justified response.
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Pope Francis in Fast Forward
August 8, 2018Filmmaker Wim Wenders’ new documentary is an admiring, albeit necessarily incomplete, portrait of a Pontiff determined to push the Roman Catholic Church away from its past, writes Convivium contributor Daniel Bezalel Richardsen.
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Won't You Be My Neighbour?
August 3, 2018By the end of a new documentary on children’s TV pioneer Fred Rogers, Alison Van Ginkel isn’t sure the film resolves the paradox it creates about the man who was Mister Rogers. What it does reveal to her is a man wholly suffused by faith, hope and love.
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When Diversity Imperils Democracy
August 3, 2018In the second of his two-part Convivium essay, Don Hutchinson details how the recent Supreme Court decision on Trinity Western University puts Canada on an enigmatic path toward an ill-defined ideal of diversity – and puts foundational democratic principles at risk.
