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Koffler Centre of the Arts in Toronto fosters inter-cultural dialogue through contemporary art. Read how the Jewish cultural organization sparks public conversation on some of life's most important questions.
“It started with the Koffler Gallery which was part of the Jewish Community Centre at Bathurst and Sheppard, as a way to develop arts education and gallery programs,” says Dargo Caplan ...
Convivium Publisher Peter Stockland examines the link between current U.S. President Donald Trump and WWE.
Trump, whose name could be that of a professional wrestler from any era, began flirting with WWE in the ‘90s but became directly involved when McMahon staged a parody fight mimicking the New York real estate mogul’s feud with Rosie O’Donnell in 2007 Listen to the content, and you can hear the recycl...
If conservatives hope to regain Conservative government, we observe from our neutral corner, the country’s largest gathering spanning the pragmatic centre-right to the distant galaxies of libertarianism must not spend time scowling at each other or, worse, making goo-goo eyes at the past Conservativ...
We need to spend more time and energy in answering that participant’s insightful question and its flipside – how do we protect, nurture, and grow the social fabric of our communities where it already exists? The workshop presenters provided answers to this question in their work: we need spaces desi...
For Bruce Meyers, what might seem a radical career to many is part of a natural progression in a life lived through faith since childhood.
“There was no road to Damascus conversion at all,” Myers said in a recent interview over coffee near the Toronto headquarters of the Anglican Church of Canada “I have been encountering people from my other walks of life before ordination, or just people who have never had anything to do with the chu...
For Conservative MP Harold Albrecht, the language of assumed normalcy that he heard during the committee hearing was “deeply disturbing” because it disregards the profound transformation in the Canadian understanding of the sanctity of human life By no means, executive director Josh Patterson conten...
There is, for instance, a heart-rending quote in Taber’s story from former Conservative cabinet minister Lisa Raitt about juggling childcare, yes, but more broadly about the impossibility of a personal life Washington Post columnist David Brooks has written about the phenomenon whereby those who are...
Convivium Publisher Peter Stockland reports on the demise of the newspaper industry.
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The CEO of Christian Horizons talks about the gifts that people with intellectual disabilities give to the larger society, and what it means to move beyond welcome to genuine belonging.
JN: As an organization, as we’ve grown and matured, we’ve had to have those conversations: how is it that we’re an organization of faith, yet we welcome other people who don’t necessarily share that faith to participate with us? Some of the things that we spend a lot of time on are: What’s our theol...
The hero of 2014's attack on Canada's Parliament, and now our ambassador to Ireland, tells the audience at the launch of our Faith in Canada 150 program how religious belief has shaped his life.
It was the aboriginal people of Burnt Church against white society; and there I was, the only guy allowed on the reserve, and I’m in the car praying And again, I always will remember Father Amru, who had taught them and gone out and learned their language and was very apostolic in teaching them abou...
The floods that plagued Calgary might be a distant memory for some but they remind one Alberta writer about the stark boundary between government and love of neighbour.
And no one went faster than the people of the Hutterite colony near Cayley, just south of High River, where, within minutes of getting the phone call, Henry Walter called in the women to start making sandwiches, rounded up as many of the men as he could and made a beeline for High River And while Mo...
A veteran BBC journalist shares stories of Christian endurance around the world, including in her own profession.
JB: At the moment, something that gives me tremendous hope is that the place where I hear more, if you like, stories of hope and Christian engagement in the world, is actually not Christian media at all; it’s on a program on the BBC World Service, probably the most famous program, called Outlook Obv...
What might the change of government mean for environmental policy when all the parties offer varying shades of green utopianism?
Even if this practice generates a host of environmental problems such as climate change and the ecological question, we dare not reject the double disembedding of the economy because it protects our core systemic values, namely human freedom, independence and mastery To grasp the true character and ...
Looking closely at a Montreal church reveals a beautiful fusion of art and spirit.
Thanks to LeBlond’s efforts, the Gesù has become a sanctuary for what Université de Montréal theology professor Solange Lefebvre calls a community of “fragile Catholics”—a place of worship for those who have distanced themselves from the Church in Quebec but who accept its spiritual teachings Daniel...
Pushing morality aside still leaves critical concerns about the medical complications of abortion.
The fourth section of Complications adopts the growing trend in research to capture first-hand narratives by setting out the results of a survey of over 100 women who have experienced an abortion I hope the book will lead to greater discussion, awareness and research to better understand the complic...