Ecclesiastes
Peter Stockland
October 27, 2016
The world as seen from the literal perspective of the holy book.
In Stephen Radford’s photograph of this English church, no breath disturbs the pages of the Bible or its red ribbon page markers ...
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When Four Good is Too Bad
Andrea Mrozek
October 25, 2016
Another point: There is a research consensus that children fare better when raised by their own, biological married parents A valid concern post Bill 28 is that the complexity of four parents will leave kids high and dry in a world where families are already so often far away from the ideal ...
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What to do in Post-Truth Politics?
Ray Pennings
October 24, 2016
And if a candidate who went too far down the post-truth road were to win, and if my vote were to be part of that win, would I not be enabling a willful campaign to make language meaningless and bald-faced lying the new norm for civil discourse? It was captured in a September issue of The Economist, ...
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Edward Byfield
Nigel Hannaford
October 21, 2016
Edward Byfield is an Albertan writer, publisher, and educator well-known for his influence and unique leadership style. Fewer, perhaps, know that he once hid in an air-conditioning duct to uncover a municipal scam.
But what always set Byfield apart whether in a classroom or in the direction of his magazines and encyclopedic histories, was his ability to interpret the zeitgeist of his times from a Christian perspective But what always set Byfield apart whether in a classroom or in the direction of his magazine...
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Curving Highway
Peter Stockland
October 20, 2016
Questions of movement, journey, and destination are all evoked in Alejandro Gonzalez's photograph of a highway curving into the distance.
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'Til Death Do Us Part' Might Delay Death
Peter Stockland
October 14, 2016
29 by Cardus Family must prompt a serious conversation in the medical world, among politicians, and even in schools about the positive health outcomes of long, strong marriages Now we’ve got numbers that we can put to it to change that conversation, to promote healthy marriages and make changes in t...
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Instant of Reflection
Peter Stockland
October 13, 2016
Examine the role of reflection, silence, prayer and place in Joshua Jackson’s photograph of a young man caught at an instant of quiet.
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Protecting Patients in the Shadows of Euthanasia: 3 Recommendations
Faye Sonier
October 12, 2016
This agency could provide a team of expert assessors who would screen patients with a wish for euthanasia or assisted suicide, to offer help for any untreated symptoms and who would address deficits in the social determinants of health such as inadequate support or loneliness Even Justice Lynn Smith...
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Face to Face
Peter Stockland
October 6, 2016
How shall we then see through a glass darkly? Where is the holy in the shadow?
We know him in part, yet all around pools that full light by which we shall know even as we are known ...
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My visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
Nate Leipciger
October 3, 2016
A Holocaust survivor shares tears with Prime Minister Trudeau at the place he came closest to death, and reflects on his past suffering.
On July 10, 2016, I walked with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau through the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau where, at age 15, I confronted death for the first but not for the last time When Prime Minister Trudeau and I shed tears together in Auschwitz-Birkenau, never have I been ...
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Solitude
Peter Stockland
September 29, 2016
Join us in being prompted to a sense of awe in the possibility for intimacy that solitude holds as inspired by David Marcu’s photograph of a single human being atop an outcropping in a Romanian forest.
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Elections are About the Electorate
Peter Stockland
September 28, 2016
The fruits of his approach, Seymour says, were born out two decades after Jackson’s last unsuccessful run for president, when voters in “both the rural south and the urban North help(ed) create the consensus that would…twice elect the country’s first African American president They give us only Dona...
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Special Edition: Universities Canada and Religious Freedom
Michael Van Pelt
September 14, 2016
Universities Canada (UC) is a civil society institution that acts as a gatekeeper for scholarship funding, certification credibility needed for recruitment and graduates, and membership to key organizations including athletic associations Why, then, is UC short-circuiting that legal process behind c...
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Forcing Folks to be Free
Robert Joustra
September 12, 2016
Saunders’ own brand of religious freedom can often run a bit indulgent on curious, personal affectations (you don’t eat pork? whatever) but zero tolerance on public manifestation (marriage between husband and wife? Keep it to yourself) Doug Saunders in the weekend’s Globe and Mail calls for public p...
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A Knock at the Door
Peter Stockland
August 23, 2016
Peter speaks with Rabbi Laura Duhan Kaplan about her spiritual journey. For her, interfaith work means being rooted deeply in your faith, then reaching out.
But Duhan Kaplan says many Christians, and even Western secularists, have no clue how much fear endures among Jews because of historic persecution As would be expected for someone with strong roots in the ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal, Duhan Kaplan is profoundly engaged by both the ideas and id...